Comment What a Strangelove (Score 1) 179
Mr. President, we must not allow... a mutant soldier gap!
Comment Re:KSP FTW (Score 1) 64
I've been playing KSP for a while too and it's a fantastic game. The reason you can't do Lagrange points is that it uses patched conics which does "spheres of influence" around planetary bodies and doesn't do gravity interpolation. That being said, the math was good enough to get us to the moon, so for a game as fun as KSP I'm not too upset.
Comment Re:All covered at that site. (Score 2) 409
In the book series The Night's Dawn Trilogy space combat was between manned ships which launched weapons drones. They were nothing more than a navigational computer strapped to an engine with lots of sub-munitions(nukes, kinetic projectiles, bomb pumped lasers, and ECM pods). They'd fly around with pretty realistic physics and launch swarms of the drones at each other, along the most probable paths the other ship would take, and then the drones would just fly in and shotgun all their munitions in the hopes of saturating the area enough so that one or two would hit even with the other ship firing countermeasures and maneuvering. It was pretty much all a game of probabilities.
Comment Re:Ban is dumb (Score 1) 1080
When they banned large capacity toilets in 1992(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_Policy_Act_of_1992), people were actually smuggling them into the US from Canada and Mexico because they worked better than the water efficient ones mandated by law.
Comment Re:Not an assault rifle (Score 1) 666
Hunting with a rifle in most states here, regardless of if the rifle is bolt action, lever action, or semi-auto, is limited to 5 rounds.
Man Orders TV On Amazon, Gets Shipped Assault Rifle 666
First time accepted submitter InfernoApple writes "Seth Horvitz, a Northeast D.C. resident, thought he had ordered a new high-definition television a few days ago through Amazon.com from a third-party merchant. When the package arrived yesterday, however, Horvitz opened the oddly shaped box to find something completely different. Instead of the flat-panel TV he had bought to enjoy with his wife, who is pregnant, Horvitz opened the long packaging to discover a Sig Sauer SIG716, a high-caliber, semi-automatic assault rifle capable of mowing down, well, just about anything."
Comment Re:Cool, but... (Score 1) 218
Is geonames.org of comparable quality for you?
Comment Re:lol (Score 0) 218
It is no longer CC-BY-SA, but rather ODbL. See http://www.osmfoundation.org/wiki/License/We_Are_Changing_The_License
Moglen: Facebook Is a Man-In-The-Middle Attack 376
jfruh writes "In an email exchange with privacy blogger Dan Tynan, Columbia law professor Eben Moglen referred to Facebook as a 'man in the middle attack' — that is, a service that intercepts communication between two parties and uses it for its own nefarious purposes. He said, 'The point is that by sharing with our actual friends through a web intermediary who can store and mine everything, we harm people by destroying their privacy for them. It's not the sharing that's bad, it's the technological design of giving it all to someone in the middle. That is at once outstandingly stupid and overwhelmingly dangerous.' Tynan is a critic of Facebook, but he thinks Moglen is overstating the case."
Comment Re:this, and then that other thing... (Score 2) 178
Note –Steve Coast now works for a competitor of Google (Maps).
Comment Re:I can't wait (Score 2) 231
To see all the domain names Penn State is going to have to buy.
They won't have to buy a single one, they'll just have to report any pennstate* website to the FBI's child abuse division.
Comment Re:Bla Bla Bla (Score 1) 420
I had a nuclear engineer describe it to me this way. Nuclear power stations for the grid's base load, step it up a few extra levels and use the extra power to crack hydrogen. Use that hydrogen to run turbines for the grid's variable load and produce enough of an excess to be able to sell it to fuel cars. It will require a lot of nuclear reactors, but completely replaces our dependence on fuels which may run out at some point and if the ecomentalists ever get over their fear of nuclear power, will solve what they see as the poisoning of the atmosphere. Except for the fissionable materials, the entire process is renewable and leaves no pollution, and if those fastbreed(I think) reactors which can run on spent fuel rods work as designed, we wouldn't have much of a containment issue either.
SlideShare Ditches Flash, Rebuilds Site In HTML5 154
Frankie70 writes "SlideShare has ditched Adobe Flash technology entirely, and rebuilt its website using the HTML5 markup language. This means that SlideShare is now viewable on every kind of mobile device, from iPads to iPhones to Android devices and beyond."
Comment Re:Cripe people, wake up and stand against this cr (Score 1) 189
There is a reason I got a CCW and carry in Atlanta.
