Comment Re:Result (Score 1) 809
Atleast he got to fly first class the remaining time of the trip?
Comment Re:How can that be? (Score 2, Informative) 978
I was grossly overweight to the point that the doctor was worried so I said to myself that this cannot go on. I changed the amount of food I ate from large dishes to normal dishes and skipped any evening meals except vegetables. I also picked up daily one hour walks or swimming. During 4 months I lost somewhere close to 100 pounds and felt great.
Comment Re:First priority. (Score 3, Funny) 244
They could call it a brown hole?
Comment Re:National Security? (Score 4, Funny) 150
You have to accept the EULA first. Then you can read it.
Comment Re:Who watches the... (Score 1) 250
Thats why Windows never even got a chance to start on my netbook, installed Fedora right away. Now I have a useless sticker at the bottom that says I'm a proud Windows license owner...
Comment Google services (Score 1) 195
Well, they were beta anyway so...
Comment Re:The solution is easy (Score 1) 449
Start with the politicians internet, let them do for example banking the old way.
Submission + - Climate change to trigger earthquakes?
OriginalArlen writes: LiveScience reports that Bill McGuire of UCL's Hazard Research Centre has warned that climate change is likely to cause an increase in major seismic events, including earthquakes, volcanos, tsunamis and landslides. The original piece is in the Guardian, and there's an accompanying podcast.
Submission + - Algorithm Rates Trustworthiness of Wikipedia Pages
paleshadows writes: Researchers at UCSC developed a tool that measures the trustworthiness of each wikipedia page. Roughly speaking, the algorithm analyzes the entire 7-year user-editing-history and utilzes the longevity of the content to learn which contributors are the most reliable: If your contribution lasts, you gain "reputation", whereas if it's edited out, your reputation falls. The trustworthiness of a newly inserted text is a function of the reputation of all its authors, a heuristic that turned out to be successful in identifying poor content. The interested reader can take a look at this demo (random page with white/orange background marking trusted/untrusted text, respectively; note "random page" link at the left for more demo pages), this
presentation (pdf), and this paper (pdf).
Submission + - Artificial life likely in 3 to 10 years... (cnn.com)
teambpsi writes: "Around the world, a handful of scientists are trying to create life from scratch and they're getting closer.
Experts expect an announcement within three to 10 years from someone in the now little-known field of "wet artificial life."
"When these things are created, they're going to be so weak, it'll be a huge achievement if you can keep them alive for an hour in the lab," Mark Badau said. "But them getting out and taking over, never in our imagination could this happen."
Never in our imagination? Clearly this guy doesn't get enough sci-fi in his diet :)"
Experts expect an announcement within three to 10 years from someone in the now little-known field of "wet artificial life."
"When these things are created, they're going to be so weak, it'll be a huge achievement if you can keep them alive for an hour in the lab," Mark Badau said. "But them getting out and taking over, never in our imagination could this happen."
Never in our imagination? Clearly this guy doesn't get enough sci-fi in his diet
Submission + - DIY Linux Live CD -- the Really Easy Way!
__aajbyc7391 writes: A new release candidate of Custom NimbleX 2 became available this week. This lesser known Slackware-derived project offers a Web-based tool that lets users concoct, and then download, their own customized live CD Linux images — in minutes! NimbleX is a small-footprint distribution based on Slackware Linux, with the addition of "linux-live" scripts. It can boot from business-card CDs, USB thumb drives, MP3 players, or from over a network, and it appears to run entirely from RAM. One especially interesting feature of the NimbleX live CD is that it allows access to the hard drive on the system on which it boots — making it a useful system troubleshooting tool, but also potentially dangerous.
Submission + - Army Requests Ray Gun for Use in Iraq (blogspot.com)
Mike Kuykendall writes: "If you can believe it, the Army has a new, non-lethal ray gun that is currently being requested by commanders in Iraq."
Submission + - Best & Worst Sci-Fi TV Series Openings Ever (blogspot.com) 1
kbarrett23 writes: Check out these awesome clips. Great list.
Submission + - Contest gets SysAdmins to sing their own praises (networkworld.com)
bednarz writes: "To the musically inclined, here's a contest for you. It's part of the annual SysAdmin of the Year award and asks entrants to put the daily duties of systems administrators to music. Here's a sample, credited to Eric "Maverick" Garner: "I download all the patches and fixes/ and countless system updates/ I push 'em out to all the servers/ So nobody escalates."
The chorus goes even further to sing the praises of the system administrator: "SysAdmin Rockstar, I'm your IT go-to guy/ SysAdmin Rockstar, I'll make it work do or die."
First prize gets a $500 Amazon.com gift certificate. Network World has the story. http://www.networkworld.com/news/2007/083007-sysad mins-singing-contest.html"
Submission + - Simplify your kernel extensions with AIX 6 (ibm.com)
BlueVoodoo writes: "Discover why you need to change your applications and build environments that supply 32-bit-only kernel extensions to accommodate IBM AIX Version 6. In this article, apply two easy solutions to help you make the transition and start reaping the benefits of the simplified kernel environment."
