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Comment Is anyone ACTUALLY offended? (Score 2) 765

Or are people just hypothesizing that women will be offended? Because I didn't see a single tweet expressing outrage. This strikes me as "brogrammers" trying to pick a fight where there is none. If anyone is actually offended by the comments, they could always fork the project, rewrite the readme, and change the method names to things that are gender-neutral In other words, they could neuter the project.

Comment More competition is always a good thing (Score 4, Interesting) 105

I've been incredibly impressed with what Tesla has done in getting an American public who flat out did not want to give up its gas guzzlers interested in the concept of an electric car. I'll be even more impressed when the Tesla competitors come around, and the question shifts from "Do I want an electric car?" to "Which electric car should I buy?"

Comment And this is why... (Score 2) 96

I realize this isn't the router in question, but I refuse to use my Comcast modem--which has a wireless router built in--as anything but a modem, preferring to run everything through my own hardware. Also disabling that stupid Comcast Hot Spot functionality--like Hell am I paying Comcast for the privilege of hosting a part of their "free wireless" network, whether it affects my own personal bandwidth or not (or whether it leaves a door open to hacking into my own private network).

Comment Desktop + Netbook (Score 1) 385

Especially if she's running simulations or calculations which might run overnight. Get a desktop with tons of CPU, memory and, if you're adventurous, an NVIDIA card or two. Bonus points: spec it out and build it together! Then take the money you saved and buy a cheap netbook (most important factor is ergonomics). Campuses tend to have wireless everywhere, so she can use the netbook to remote in anywhere, any time. And she doesn't have to worry about her web browsing disrupting her computations.

Comment Re: Not sure what they're looking at? (Score 1) 161

The point is that legally DICE can do whatever the fuck they want with this site. There is no law saying that any medium needs to label an advertisement as such. The reason newspapers don't try to pass ads off as legit news* stories is about journalistic ethics, not legal concerns.

*well, this used to be true...

Submission + - Scientists crack viral "enigma code" (huffingtonpost.com)

barlevg writes: A new paper to be published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences claims a breakthrough in our understanding of viral replication and could lead to new to new treatments for polio, HIV and even the common cold. Biologist Peter Stockley, with the help of mathematician Reidun Twarock, has cracked the code for how replicated viral RNA molecules self-assemble, a process Stockley calls a "Harry Potter moment:" the instructions are in plain sight... but only appear once the RNA has been folded.

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