Comment Re:I've conducted my own blind tests... (Score 1) 567
That's true for most people, but my ears are better and I can hear the difference.
Comment Now explain triple-slashes (Score 2) 620
like when I open a local file in my browser I get "file:///"
Comment yeah and (Score 1) 620
we still have people right now saying "H-T-T-P colon backslash backslash"
Comment HA! My password is 123456 (Score 4, Funny) 183
With an extra digit for security!
Comment Re:Not Re:Bullshit (Score 1) 380
Ditko is still alive. Not sure about Don Heck's heirs.
Comment Not Re:Bullshit (Score 2, Informative) 380
Kirby was involved in the creation of both Spider-Man and Iron Man. Yes, Steve Ditko redesigned the character that Kirby created and drew the character's first stories. Don Heck drew the first story appearance of Iron Man because Jack couldn't draw everything. Kirby, interestingly enough, drew the covers for both first appearances of Spider-Man and Iron Man.
This is all well documented with citations on wikipedia.
Joe Simon also had a hand in creating Spider-Man. If you want to go back far enough, there's a pulp character called The Spider that one could argue was partial inspiration for Spider-Man.
MIT Project "Gaydar" Shakes Privacy Assumptions 508
theodp writes "At MIT, an experiment that identifies which students are gay is raising new questions about online privacy. Using data from Facebook, two students in an MIT class on ethics and law on the electronic frontier made a striking discovery: just by looking at a person's online friends, they could predict whether the person was gay. The project, given the name 'Gaydar' by the students, is part of the fast-moving field of social network analysis, which examines what the connections between people can tell us, from predicting who might be a terrorist to the likelihood a person is happy, fat, liberal, or conservative." MIT professor Hal Abelson, who co-taught the course, is quoted: "That pulls the rug out from a whole policy and technology perspective that the point is to give you control over your information — because you don't have control over your information."
Comment Re:Pretty easy (Score 1) 633
"Of course, you could use paper
How would non-paper storage of the same data alleviate the need to be read by people?
And don't go replying with "*wooosh*"! I get the joke, but the joke is flawed. If you don't understand the flaw, then *wooosh* back at ya!
Comment Imagine if the iPhone such failure rates (Score 1) 607
We'd never hear the end of it.
Amazon, MS, Google Clouds Flop In Stress Tests 154
Eponymous writes "A seven month study by academics at the University of New South Wales has found that the response times of cloud compute services of Amazon, Google and Microsoft can vary by a factor of twenty depending on the time of day services are accessed. One of the lead researchers behind the stress tests reports that Amazon's EC2, Google's AppLogic and Microsoft's Azure cloud services have limitations in terms of data processing windows, response times and a lack of monitoring and reporting tools."
Comment o.O;; (Score 1) 617
o.O;;
Comment Safari 3.2.1 worked perfectly (Score 1) 321
Got sound and everything in Safari 3.2.1. No sound in Firefox 3.0.13
RadioShack To Rebrand As "The Shack"? 629
Harry writes "Rumor has it that RadioShack is planning to re-brand itself as The Shack later this year, after eighty-eight years under the old name (most of them with a space in between 'Radio' and 'Shack'). I hope it's not true, because I don't think the move would do a thing to make the retailer a better, more successful business." Where will we go to buy soldering irons and those RCA to headphone jack adapters now?
Comment Re:Artists involved... (Score 1) 334
Comment Apple keyboard in photo (Score 1) 8
What about the Mac keyboard in the photo? Is it dishwasher safe as well?
I'm using one just like it as I type this.
