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Comment Can I play the snotty Linux user? (Score 1) 318

Windows users, what losers. I use Linux and my penguin protects me with secure defaults (Ubuntu of course). He sits on my egg shell to keep me safe and warm from the nasty Internet.

Me Ubuntu Fan.
Hey look, a cool download.

Downloads.

Clicks on it.

Dialog box says, do you want to run it in a terminal or view contents.

Selects run in terminal.

It ask for password, well of course it ask for password. It needs to be protected from modification from the Internet.

Installs to /usr/local/

Sweet, cool naked ladies screensaver. Ubuntu is so awesome! Real easy just like Windows but secure!

Sir, this is Comcast and we have noticed that your computer appears suspicious. Stupid rep, what do they know, I have a penguin.

Submission + - The science of cheap starships, by Roger Christian (shadowlocked.com)

An anonymous reader writes: In an exclusive preview from his forthcoming book 'Cinema Alchemist', Star Wars art director Roger Christian talks about establishing Ridley Scott's vision of the Nostromo interiors for Alien with little money, time...or sleep. "Ridley," says the filmmaker still best known for helming the controversial Battlefield Earth "used to hit his head on the steering wheel of his Rolls Royce to stop him falling asleep and get him home at midnight". In this excerpt, Christian explains the logic and logistics of cutting up WWII bombers into convincing spacecraft interiors, a technique he was forced to invent under the budgetary limitations of Star Wars. "George’s mantra," Christian recalls, "was 'Make it look real' — as if we had just found and rented the ships and the props". When the legendary set-dresser Frank Bruton (2001: A Space Oddyssey, Clockwork Orange) saw truckfuls of plane parts driving onto the Lucas production unit at Elstree, he turned to Christian and said "You know you're mad, don't you?"...

Comment It hasn't been this exciting since Apollo (Score 2, Interesting) 86

Good for China for picking up the slack. As a space addict, I'll get my heroin anywhere I can. It's sad though that we still don't have a true international space agency. I like to fantasize sometimes about all the nations coming together to pool all their resources into a single collective of cooperation. Hmm does that make me a communist.
Privacy

Submission + - Iris Scanning Set To Secure City in Mexico (singularityhub.com) 2

kkleiner writes: The million-plus citizens of Leon, Mexico are set to become the first example of a city secured through the power of biometric identification. Iris and face scanning technologies from Global Rainmakers, Inc. will allow people to use their eyes to prove their identify, withdraw money from an ATM, get help at a hospital, and even ride the bus. Whether you’re jealous or intimidated by Leon’s adoption of widespread eye identification you should pay attention to the project – similar biometric checkpoints are coming to locations near you. Some are already in place.
Idle

Submission + - Cute Italian robot learns like a human! (kormushev.com)

An anonymous reader writes: Robots trained by Italian researchers learn to do cool human-like tasks,
like pancake flipping or playing with bow and arrows.

IMPRESSIVE VIDEOS!

The future is NOW!

Comment Reminds me of a punch card I used to have (Score 1) 149

This reminds me, back in the forties or fifties my grandad obtained an ugly dresser and it came with a punch card taped to the back. The dresser was a real piece of crap but that punch card made it worthwhile. How many people can say they own an honest to god real punch card. Sadly the punch card disappeared and with out it, the ugly dresser had no business being owned by me and so I sold it. Hopefully this lace business sticks around, those old time machines are a real treat to watch as they work.

Comment Re:Why care about being on Wikipedia (Score 1) 7

The more salient point, IMO, is the fact that Wikipedia editors not only are not vetted, but cannot be vetted without violating policy.

That's one reason why Google > Wikipedia, really.

I don't know if Wikipedia uses peer review by other web sites or organizations, but it seems that peer review outside of Wikipedia is needed. Bad editors could be weeded out, maybe some kind of scoring system involving external peer review. Sure, it would be a major slow down. But the gooey mess thats called Wikipedia is probably too large of a mass now to do this in a reasonable manner.

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