Comment Re:Oracle is Evil, C# Java (Score 1) 428
GP: Mono is not portable
P: Yes it is! Here is a link to its license!
Being open source doesn't make something portable.
Comment Re:Limits? (Score 2, Insightful) 178
That people are doing this is a sign of a broken fiancial system (as if fiat currency based on debt didn't already establish that). They are not producing anything. They are buying low and selling high units of wealth that others have produced. They are not creating wealth, they are redistributing it.
The are producing something, liquidity. Liquidity has value. It's like saying cab drivers don't do "real" work, they just redistribute people who do.
Comment Re:got spyware? (Score 1) 761
Monday October 11th.
Here are the most recent 350 examples: http://www.learnaboutguns.com/tag/self-defense-example/
Comment Re:And the US state after the same amount of time? (Score 1) 321
So your defense of the former USSR nations is that they are slightly more enlightened in 2010 than the US was in the 18th century.
Comment Re:or we start treating it like a war (Score 1) 627
What do you suggest we do differently?
Leave. The government of Iraq and Afghanistan have been conquered. Their nations, as one would expect, lie in ruin. Well done, let's go home.
Comment Re:Crossing the line ... (Score 2, Informative) 550
Amusement parks are "entertainment, no more," and they're governed by the ADA as well.
Amusement parks are covered by the ADA because they are commercial facilities.
The ADA specifies 5 covered entities. Tell me which if these is a video game:
* Employment: no
* Public Entity: no
* Public Transportation: no
* Public Accommodation: no
* Commercial Facility: no (virtual doesn't count)
* Telecommunication: That's as close as you're going to get, but I'm going to go with 'no' on this as well.
A video game is not a commercial facility, nor is it employment, public facility, public transportation, or telecommunication.
Submission + - Down on the UTK Body Farm
theodp writes: "Q. Why are there fences around the University of Tennessee Anthropological Research Facility? A. Because people are dying to get in! Newsweek pays a visit to the Facility, an open-air cemetery where corpses are studied to determine what happens to the body after death, which has helped law-enforcement agencies close previously unsolvable murders. Looking for an alternative to the traditional burial route? Fill out an application!"
Submission + - Interview: how Google tweaks rank algorithm (nytimes.com)
nbauman writes: "New York Times interview with Amit Singhal, who is in charge of Google's ranking algorithm. They use 200 "signals" and "classifiers," of which PageRank is only one. "Freshness" defines how many recently changed pages appear in a result. They assumed old pages were better, but when they first introduced Google Finance, the algorithm couldn't find it because it was too new. Some topics are "hot". "When there is a blackout in New York, the first articles appear in 15 minutes; we get queries in two seconds," said Singhal. Classifiers infer information about the type of search, whether it is a product to buy, a place, company or person. One classifier identifies people who aren't famous. Another identifies brand names. A final check encourages "diversity" in the results, for example, a manufacturer's page, a blog review, and a comparision shopping site. If the user has signed in to Google, they can tell whether a search for "dolphins" is by a football fan or marine biologist. Examples of problems that Google identified and tweaked the algorithm to avoid: a search for "french revolution" returned too many results about the French presidential elections. A search for "teak patio palo alto" didn't return a store called the Teak Patio. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/03/business/yourmon ey/03google.html Inside the Black Box By SAUL HANSELL, June 3, 2007"
Submission + - When malware attacks malware
PetManimal writes: "Researchers say that the Storm Trojan/Peacomm worm has been tweaked to spread via IM programs and attack rival malware. Symantec sounded the alarm, and says that the exploit launches in AOL, Google Talk, and Yahoo Messenger windows that are already open, making it appear to be a legitimate message from a known user, according to the article. The worm has modified the code from last year's Nuwar worm, and when activated, enables a distributed denial of service attack against any site, including antispam services and servers supporting rival malware:
"Systems hijacked by Peacomm have also conducted DDoS attacks against at least five domains used by the creators of the noted Warezov (or Stration) worm. After a busy September and October, Warezov was credited by some analysts as the genesis of 2006's massive fourth-quarter spike in spam volume.
Submission + - Stained Glass Case Mod
inetsee writes: "Have way too much time on your hands? How about building yourself a
stained glass case for your computer. No construction details, just three
photos of a beautiful way to wrap your computer."
Submission + - Navy to use dolphins for antiterrorism
FR007 writes: Dozens of dolphins and sea lions trained to detect and apprehend waterborne attackers could be sent to patrol a military base in Washington state, the Navy said Monday. In a notice published in this week's Federal Register, the Navy said it needs to bolster security at Naval Base Kitsap-Bangor, on the Puget Sound close to Seattle.
The base is home to submarines, ships and laboratories and is potentially vulnerable to attack by terrorist swimmers and scuba divers, the notice states.
Several options are under consideration, but the preferred plan would be to send as many as 30 California sea lions and Atlantic Bottlenose dolphins from the Navy's Marine Mammal Program, based in San Diego. Site.
Submission + - US bill to prohibit patenting genetics
An anonymous reader writes: http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/D?d110:3:./t emp/~bd3poG::
Submission + - Eve-Online: Developers cheat in game to win!
An anonymous reader writes: Eve-Online, known as the largest space combat MMOG, finds itself on the verge of imploding due to in game cheating by Eve developers themselves. Recently one of the Eve developers came clean about spawning extremely rare items for the use of himself and his corp. His corporation "Band Of Brothers", has been using these items and exploiting other game bugs to gain a large advantage over paying customers.
Instead of dealing with the problem, CCP the creators of Eve-Online move to sweep all thoughts of wrong doing under the carpet http://myeve.eve-online.com/devblog.asp?a=blog&bid =423 and have been locking all forum posts on the topic and banning the same players that pay their wages.
Where else but in Eve-Online can you pay for the privilege to be censored for reporting cheating by the developers themselves. Hopefully CCP will come to their senses to save a good game before far too many people cancel their accounts.
Comment A little piece of advice (Score 1) 136
You see an Agent, you do what we do. Run.
