Comment Re:It's what you do in a foxhole (Score 1) 828
Actually his "I have a dream" speech was largely improvised.
Comment Re:ruined (Score 4, Insightful) 112
Not really. If journalists don't even bother to look the topic up on Google and find this story, it proves the point.
Comment The Last Question (Score 1) 763
How about Multivac?
Comment Re:I for one.... (Score 1) 120
Don't praise the machine!
Comment Disco record sales (Score 4, Insightful) 431
Did you know that disco record sales were up 400% for the year ending 1976? If these trends continues... Aaay!
Comment Re:reverse plagiarism (Score 1) 170
When I was a student, we had to sign away the rights to anything we wrote to the college, so I'd imagine you'd have to get permission from the college to submit it to Wikipedia in the first place.
Comment Nothing wrong with it? (Score 1, Redundant) 364
And if there was nothing wrong with it, why does the school say it won't start using the snooping feature again without "express written notification to all students and families"?
Umm, because there was a national scandal regarding it and the school is desperately trying to cover its ass on all sides?
Comment Oh joy... (Score -1, Troll) 110
Now I just have to wait for my office to upgrade, and I'll get to spend another six months in Dependency Hell!
Comment Re:who is (Score 2, Interesting) 860
When I was a kid I had a promotional poster for Star Trek Voyager. The focus of the poster was a big picture of the starship, and there were headshots and names of the characters along the bottom. The EMH's name was given as "Dr. Zimmerman".
The Real Risks of Obama's BlackBerry 273
An anonymous reader writes "When the mainstream media first announced Barack Obama's 'victory' in keeping his BlackBerry, the focus was on the security of the device, and keeping the US president's e-mail communications private from spies and hackers. The news coverage and analysis by armchair security experts thus far has failed to focus on the real threat: attacks against President Obama's location privacy, and the potential physical security risks that come with someone knowing the president's real-time physical location. In this article, a CNET blogger digs into the real risks associated with the President carrying around a tracking device at all times."
Iowa Seeks To Remove Electoral College 1088
Zebano writes "Since changing the US constitution is too much work, the Iowa senate is considering a bill that would send all 7 of Iowa's electoral votes to the winner of the national popular vote in a presidential election. This would only go into affect after enough states totaling 270 electoral votes (enough to elect a president) adopted similar resolutions."
Comment Re:Not enough (Score 4, Insightful) 134
Calling it a "scare tactic" is a bit harsh. I'd say its more the police wanting something to point to when their bosses ask what they've done to "make Mumbai safe from this happening again".
Comment Re:Oh, the potential (Score 4, Funny) 396
I would have enjoyed the movie if it wasn't for long minutes of 'nothing' repeated time and time again.
Um, you have read LoTR right? Quite frankly I was impressed by the sheer quantity "nothing happening" that Jackson managed to cut out.
Rosetta Disk Designed For 2,000 Years Archive 659
Hugh Pickens writes "Kevin Kelly has an interesting post about an archive designed with an estimated lifespan of 2,000 -10,000 years to serve future generations as a modern Rosetta Stone. The Rosetta disk contains analog 'human-readable' scans of scripts, text, and diagrams using nickel deposited on an etched silicon disk and includes 15,000 microetched pages of language documentation in 1,500 different languages, including versions of Genesis 1-3, a universal list of the words common for each language, and pronunciation guides. Produced by the Long Now Foundation, the plan is to replicate the disk promiscuously and distribute them around the world in nondescript locations so at least one will survive their 2,000-year lifespan. 'This is one of the most fascinating objects on earth,' says Oliver Wilke. 'If we found one of these things 2,000 years ago, with all the languages of the time, it would be among our most priceless artifacts. I feel a high responsibility for preserving it for future generations.'"
Nanotubes Form The Darkest Material Yet Created 324
toxcspdrmn writes "Bad news for Spinal Tap fans. The BBC reports that researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York, have produced the darkest known material by manufacturing "forests" of carbon nanotubes. This forms a surface that absorbs or scatters 99.9% of all incidental light."
