It you think hotmail is bad for receiving messages, try sending e-mail to a hotmail box as a small independent mail server or website.

What you will find is that hotmail randomly drops your messages. No bounce message, no error, it's not even put in the freaking junk mail folder, it's just plain gone. Have they even heard of RFC 821?? (And yes, you have jumped through all the hoops: you have proper HELO, rdns, spf...)

Then you try to complain to the standard postmaster account, as is a standard and required practice. OK, haha, you didn't really think that would work, did you? Instead, you have to go through customer service, with support drones who ask more and more information from you FOR WEEKS, and never resolve your issue. Infuriating.

Prices are still high, but not as much as they were at the peak last November. Instead of 80-190% above the pre-flood prices, they are now 60-90% up.

This probably should've been part of the article summary.

I created a HTML5 game using canvas and some other technologies. Naturally it requires a modern browser (meaning, anything but Internet Explorer).

The game is called Cities of Apocalypse and it is a relatively simple game that is somewhere between turn-based and real-time. You can have a look and try it out at http://citiesofap.game-host.org/ (please be gentle with my server :)

I hit a few snags while developing the game, such as Firefox 3.0 not having text rendering for canvas, or Opera having a surprisingly slow javascript engine (don't flame me, route calculations take 5x as long with Opera!). All in all, it was an interesting project that I might get back to someday.

Fonic is a service brand of O2 Germany (owned by Telefonica), offering pay as you go prepaid services, both voice and data. Their data offering is 2.50 Euros per calendar day, for a maximum of 1 GB transfer volume

€2.50 a day for 97 kb/s mobile data isn't bad. Sounds quite reasonable to me. The 97 kb/s is the average speed needed to hit 1 GB in a day.

And while 1 GB/day isn't really enough to spend all day on youtube etc., it should be plenty to keep you up-to-date on news, email (just don't download all attached files) and the like.

Here's another thing people don't stop to think about: In a "multitasking" OS (which the iPhone/iPad OS already is!), or more specifically, when "applications" are allowed to "multitask", such as in the desktop version of OS X, I cannot tell you how many times I have looked at the Dock on people's Macs, only to see virtually EVERY application up and running (but with no open windows). An amusing "cluck-cluck" moment in a desktop OS, but, running on extremely low-end (by today's desktop standards) hardware (like a phone), this "app cruft" would probably slow the response of the UI to an unusable crawl (does the iPhone OS even HAVE "virtual memory"?).

Let me summarize that for you:

I can't be bothered to take responsibility for what I eat, and I want the government to do it for me, and everyone else can go along with it.

If you don't want to eat high salt processed foods, don't. If you don't want to eat a meal at a restaurant with an unknown salt content, don't. But don't presume to dictate other people's diets because you can't be bothered to take responsibility for yours. If you want to avoid a particular ingredient in your food, then you are responsible for reading ingredient lists. You are responsible for your own nutrition, and your desire to delegate that responsibility to a third party does not give you the right to delegate responsibility for everyone else.

There are stories about botnets all the time, but I usually don't see anything about how to remove them. I'm pretty confident in my browsing habits, but the same can't be said for my relatives. What's the easiest way to check a machine for infestation? Do standard virus scanners handle it, or programs like Malewarebytes?

Ok -- there were 2 reports -- Eckert & Mauchly put out a memo describing EDVAC that Goldstine (who coauthored the other report with von Neumann) classified. He then deemed the other report unclassified, and began distributing it to academics around the globe, which popularized the concept. EDSAC was the first completed device, led by Maurice Wilkes, due to the friction between Ecker/Mauchly and Goldstein/von Neumann delaying EDVAC.
Eckert had already designed the memory system and implemented it in his previous work before von Neumann arrived at UPenn. Von Neumann definitely deserves some credit for writing up and distributing the paper but if you read the first report he gives no indication that anyone else designed any portion of the machine, and only cites Mauchly for one idea. Von Neumann's contributions to EDVAC were primarily in the logic areas, especially the design of the instruction set, but the First Draft was at best a glaring omission of the work Ecket, Mauchly, and the many other engineers at the Moore School that built ENIAC and EDVAC.
Source: ENIAC -- The Triumphs and Tragedies of the World's First Computer (which is a great book on the early years of electronic computers--basically convinced me to major in ECE)

... still does the trick. Ugly picture, though.

One remark:

> That includes racist bullshit too. Even if it is directed at the world's favorite US president's wife.

racism is very close to fascism, and that's not an opinion, it's a crime. But it's still not worth censoring the internet, in the opposite: you must be able to see "shit" if you want to fight it. If it's just unnoticed, it's still there. Like that hiding game you play with childs: closing your eyes really does not make yourself disappear - or the bad things existing in our world, for that matter.

Bullshit, I have seen many situations where a white male has not got a job or not been promoted because someone equally or less qualified but who happens to be from a so called minority was available too.

On a related note, haven't we recently seen the pattern of blaming drivers and applications, done by a certain megacorporation, as a way of explaining the failure of a recent operating system? Don't they have a patent or something on doing this?

The unscaled photo is here:

http://insidescience.org/polopoly_fs/1.918!image/671260397.jpg

Some basic functionality form the canvas API (text rendering functions) is still missing. Oh, and it doesn't alpha blend on drawImage, doing alpha testing instead. The result is kind of painful to look at.

The other problem I have with Opera is the slow javascript engine (my webapp does some lifting on the client side, Opera performs it the second slowest, Internet Explorer being the only worse browser in this area.)

Because the rest of the world doesn't want to be nuked.

Parent was moderated insightful, why?