Comment Re:Fuck yeah (Score 1) 123
Sadly it is. I'm in the bay area because of my job, and I'd rather be somewhere that had a better ratio of single women to single men.
Comment Re:Shut them down (Score 1) 617
There's no way that a company the size of Microsoft does not have pirated software running somewhere. So pass the law, audit Microsoft, and stop them from selling Windows. The world would be a better place for it.
That sounds a lot like the Senator Hatch incident. See here.
Comment Speed of light fail (Score 1) 448
Unless your computer is within 0.3 millimeters of their server, this isn't going to work. Any talk of latencies of less than a nanosecond is insanity.
Comment Re:I've got a BETTER emergency rule for you... (Score 1) 436
How about we eliminate H1-B and L-1 visas and start hiring Americans again?
Damn straight. Anyone worth a damn can get an O-1 visa. The incompetent people hired on those visas by incompetent HR can quit driving down wages and taking jobs from Americans.
Comment Re:yeah (Score 1) 402
The right wing goes after the stupid voters.
Part of their platform is anti-intellectualism.
Its pretty fucked up.
The left wing goes after poor people's votes by promising them goodies we can no longer afford (if we ever really could.)
So yeah, it's pretty fucked up, but it's a bi-partisan process.
The right-wing goes after well-connected elite's votes by delivering them massive no-bid military contracts that we could never afford in the first place.
Comment Re:Bill's Sponsor Also Ex-Microsoft Employee (Score 1) 406
This kind of corruption is quite common in American politics. For example, Senator Evan Bayh's wife Susan works for the health insurance companies. Quite naturally Evan insisted on a health care bill that was a total giveaway to the health insurance companies. Now that everyone hates his guts for pushing for such a crappy bill, he's taking his ball and going home.
Comment Re:Not exactly. (Score 1) 238
Seeing as this is an extinct subspecies, it shouldn't be a big deal to just take that from another subspecies.
Comment Here's the House vote (Score 1) 143
It passed 317-93, with most of the no votes being liberal Democrats.
Comment Amazing (Score 1, Funny) 133
15=3*5, just like 8 years ago when it was last factored on a quantum computer. Maybe in a few years someone will factor 21. I wonder what its factors are.
Comment wxDev-C++ extended that project (Score 5, Informative) 1055
version 7.0 RC5 came out 2 months ago.
Wiki page with link
Space Shuttle Atlantis Will Carry Basketballs Into Space
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Having figured out everything there is to know about space, and being huge fans of Space Jam, NASA has left some of their sciencey stuff behind and made room for a pair of basketballs on the Space Shuttle Atlantis. One of the balls comes courtesy of The Harlem Globetrotters, and the other is on loan from the University of Chicago. It was used by Edwin Hubble in a 1909 victory against Indiana University. "It is only fitting that the team that has seen more of the world than any other in history would have a presence beyond the stratosphere," Globetrotters chief executive officer Kurt Schneider said in a news release.
First Graphics Game Written On/For a 16-Bit Home PC 159
The GPI writes with a story about Scott's Space Wars, a piece of gaming history:
"This game was written by the famous game author Scott Adams, who founded Adventure International, the first multimillion dollar PC game company. It was founded over 30 years ago and developed for early 8-bit home PCs, i.e. TRS-80, Apple II, Atari. Scott's Space Wars is the first graphics game that was ever written at home, for a 16-bit home computer. The original source code is available as photos of the original 1975 hand-written manuscript. The last purchaser of the manuscript paid $197,500 in 2005. A brief video shows how the game was played."
Comment Re:Administration (Score 2, Informative) 753
Not to mention that the National debt divided by the GDP decreased under both Carter and Clinton.
Now, the last 3 Republicans Presidents have had a serious problem with the national debt.
Comment Re:A perfect subject.. (Score 1) 301
Build in a cost function for the cost to society. For example, when you are trying to find ways to grow the economy, you could have some function that is something like maximize a*GNP + b*jobs + c * median salary - d*greenhouse gases - e* external cost to society, and so on.
Comment Re:Warrant was issued? (Score 1) 1079
And Bush and Obama seem to think getting a warrant is too hard.
