Comment Re:Beware of dynamic languages for large projects. (Score 1) 530
Pretty funny that you would bring up twitter, since they migrated from ruby to scala because of the very same issues brought up in this thread.
Comment that's how it starts (Score 1) 148
Submission + - US Senate Declares War On Citizens (newsvoice.se) 4
iONiUM writes: "In a stunning move, the US senate passed a bill that effectively ends the Bill of Rights in America. From the article, "This bill, passed late last night in a 93-7 vote, declares the entire USA to be a ”battleground” upon which U.S. military forces can operate with impunity, overriding Posse Comitatus and granting the military the unchecked power to arrest, detain, interrogate and even assassinate U.S. citizens with impunity."
Wired magazine is also reporting this story, with similar disgust: "Here’s the best thing that can be said about the new detention powers the Senate has tucked into next year’s defense bill: They don’t force the military to detain American citizens indefinitely without a trial. They just let the military do that."
Good luck Americans. You're gonna need it."
Wired magazine is also reporting this story, with similar disgust: "Here’s the best thing that can be said about the new detention powers the Senate has tucked into next year’s defense bill: They don’t force the military to detain American citizens indefinitely without a trial. They just let the military do that."
Good luck Americans. You're gonna need it."
Comment Re:Available since 2003 (Score 1) 96
The Darwinia and Multiwinia code has also been available (for a price): http://store.introversion.co.uk/product_info.php?products_id=66 ,
but this is the first I'm aware of the DEFCON code being released.
Comment Re:The License (Score 5, Informative) 96
License linked from humble bundle: http://www.introversion.co.uk/uplink/developer/license.html
Comment Re:"only" 2.9GHz? (Score 1) 184
See here
Comment Re:What format is the PDF in? Kindle? (Score 1) 167
Actually you're not supposed to copy and paste the code. That would definitely not be the hard way. You are supposed to retype the examples yourself, just like back when books were print only.
Comment smbc (Score 1) 316
Reminds me of this short
Comment Re:Regret is a standard term in economics (Score 0) 145
Right, economics lives in a world of games with artificial rules. Great for finding a strategy for a game with two colors of counters moving from column to column. Applying it to anything resembling real life is negligent at best.
Comment Re:1st and I hope last time on gizmodo (Score 1) 203
I think gp is refering to the nasa pix. A lot of the cloud formations in those pictures look doubled up.
AMD Demos Llano Fusion APU, Radeon 6800 Series 116
MojoKid writes "At a press event for the impending launch of AMD's new Radeon HD 6870 and HD 6850 series graphics cards, the company took the opportunity to provide an early look at the first, fully functional samples of their upcoming 'Llano' processor, or APU (Applications Processer Unit). For those unfamiliar with Llano, it's 32nm 'Fusion' product that integrates CPU, GPU, and Northbridge functions on a single die. The chip is a low-power derivative of the company's current Phenom II architecture fused with a GPU that will target a wide range of operating environments at speeds of 3GHz or higher. Test systems showed the integrated GPU had no trouble running Alien vs. Predator at a moderate resolution with DirectX 11 features enabled. In terms of the Radeon 6800 series, board shots have been unveiled today, as well as scenes from AMD's upcoming tech demo, Mecha Warrior, showcasing the new graphics technology and advanced effects from the open source Bullet Physics library."
Comment xkcd (Score 1, Funny) 118
obligatory xkcd
Submission + - reCAPTCHA.net has been officially solved. (n3on.org)
n3ond4x writes: reCAPTCHA.net algorithms have been developed to solve the current CAPTCHA at an efficacy of 30%. The algorithms were disclosed at DEFCON 18 over the weekend and have since been made available online. Also available is a video demonstration of random reCAPTCHA.net CAPTCHAs being subjected to the algorithms.
Comment Re:Analog special effects are cool, but... (Score 1) 196
You might be surprised how many mundane scenes are actually CGI:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clnozSXyF4k
Comment Re:Wait. (Score 1) 155
According to TFA, it is already used in Ethiopia to denote sarcasm, and can be distinguished from the Spanish usage of the same character by its location at the end of a sentence rather than the beginning.
