Comment Wrong Headline (Score 3, Informative) 192
That's not a huge physics prize, it's the biggest physics prize.
Comment srm (Score 1) 547
Use srm (secure remove). It will do 35 passes writing random data after deleting your files. It can take a while to run if you have lot of large files to delete.
Comment Careful Announcement (Score 4, Insightful) 396
I am glad they are being careful with their announcement and not jumping on it to claim 'I have found the Higgs Boson. Take that Tevatron!'
Comment Not the First Time (Score 3, Informative) 84
During World War II, Americans were very keen and excited to get their hands on scientific data from the Japanese after nuking them, especially all the data from human experiments which were not feasible in US. When they got the data, they realized most of it was non-sense. They had been randomly doing experiments on humans without any clear hypothesis or theory and most of the data did not make much sense.
Submission + - Generator Failures Caused Amazon Cloud Outage (datacenterknowledge.com)
1sockchuck writes: Last week's major outage for Amazon's cloud computing service was triggered by multiple generator failures at a single facility in the eastern US, the company said. The downtime knocked many sites offline, despite the fact that only 7 percent of instances in a single Amazon availability zone were affected. The impact of the power problems were magnified by a bug in Amazon's load balancing system, which prevented some customers from shifting workloads to other availability zones and regions. The company apologizes and outlines its plans to address the issues in a lengthy incident report.
Submission + - The year of Gingerbread continues: ICS penetration crosses 10% (bgr.com)
zacharye writes: Google debuted its brand new Android 4.1 Jelly Bean operating system last week during the annual Google I/O developer conference in San Francisco. The latest Android build touts a number of exciting new features but if history has taught us anything, most users won’t be able to begin enjoying those features until some time in late 2013 or early 2014...
Comment Does this affect desktop distros? (Score 0) 284
Will this affect desktop distros such as Ubuntu? Seems like a few Debian based servers have crashed.
http://serverfault.com/questions/403732/anyone-else-experiencing-high-rates-of-linux-server-crashes-today
Comment It's Still Available, should I buy it? (Score 1) 696
I was thinking of buying Google Nexus phone this weekend. Woke up this morning to read this terribly sad news. It's still available on Google Play site. Is it advisable to still buy it while it is available (probably for a few hours)?
Comment Re:Uh Oh. (Score 1) 72
And here we go again. Someone seizes the very first opportunity to disparage the entire geek community. Speak for yourself pal.
Submission + - Violence Significantly Alters Children's DNA, Causes Premature Aging (medicaldaily.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Early exposure to violence may alter children’s DNA to produce cellular changes equivalent to seven to ten years of premature aging, according to a new study. While scientists have previously found associations between childhood stress and later disease risk and health problems, the latest study is the first to link stress to accelerated biological aging in childhood.
Submission + - The Best Earthday Bargain Ever! (myearthfriendlyuniverse.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Details regarding availability of the new L-Prize LED bulbs in local stores at bargain prices.
Submission + - Firefox 12 released, introduces silent, Chrome-like updater (extremetech.com)
MrSeb writes: "Firefox 12 has been officially released, with only one major new feature: A silent, background updater. Now you will have to approve the Firefox Software Updater when you first install Firefox, but after that the browser will update silently — just like Chrome. In other news, the Find feature now reliably centers the page on any matches — hooray!"
Comment They are too big (Score 1) 408
They have gotten too big. They could stand to lose a few pounds, I mean money.
Comment Near Space Corporation? (Score 1) 54
Near Space Corporation? That's a terrible name for a company. Though it may be apt for what they do and their honesty is commendable but it also gives away what they cannot do - "Oh we actually wanna be Space Corporation but we have neither the money/technology nor balls to do it, so we're just gonna be content with Near Earth Corporation"
Comment Ask Canonical (Score 2, Insightful) 202
Ask Canonical. If they can't give a good solution, they deserve to fail.
