Comment Re:It's unrealistic (Score 1) 630
As a male who spent a few years online dating myself, and seeing both sides of the fence.
You don't need a service to date yourself.
Comment 99 cents an album! (Score 0) 240
At 99 cents an album and no DRM, this service is sure to be a success. That price is reflective of the overheads of digital distribution, and makes it competitive with bitorrent.
Comment Still using gasoline? (Score 3, Insightful) 200
I'm a little disappointed that they thing we'd even be using gasoline in that far-flung future. Aren't there a bunch of competing technologies just around the corner, if not ON that corner?
Comment Separate the extra charges (Score 2) 220
Call your phone company and ask them to separate the extra charges from your phone bill. That way, the (perhaps) evil company will have to bill you independently of your phone bill. Often, they won't bother because they now know that you're the kind of person that doesn't mindlessly pay some mystery charge on your phone bill.
I did this when I received a huge and clearly exploitative charge for receiving a collect call. This was several months ago and I have yet to hear back from the company that now has to send me a bill independently of the phone company.
New Rechargeable Battery Uses Water 179
fergus07 writes "Scientists at Stanford have developed a battery that uses nanotechnology to create electricity from the difference in salt content between fresh water and sea water. The researchers hope to use the technology to create power plants where fresh-water rivers flow into the ocean. The new 'mixing entropy' battery alternately immerses its electrodes in river water and sea water to produce the electrical power."
Programmer For Endeavor Now Crew On Final Flight 68
Lucas123 writes "Greg Chamitoff, a computer programmer who wrote software for NASA's Endeavour spacecraft, will be blasting off on shuttle's final 15-day flight as a mission specialist on Friday. Chamitoff, who created software focused on spacecraft analysis and maneuver optimization, will operate the space station's robotic arm, and he'll also take part in two spacewalks."
Pirate Party of Canada Promises VPN For Freedom 98
An anonymous reader writes "The Pirate Party of Canada has announced that it will extend a VPN originally set up to allow people in Tunisia to browse freely while internet censorship was imposed there. Canada may soon be added to that list since the ruling Conservative Party has vowed to introduce a bill that would provide unprecedented systematic interception and monitoring of Canadians' personal communications. So the Pirate Party of Canada has announced it will extend that service to Canadians."
Comment Re:And, yeah? (Score 1) 531
And no, I'm typing this on a Dell.
They're both made by the same ODM, possibly in the same factory. Quanta makes most laptops. It's all the same faulty crap. Designed, manufactured, sold, purchased, and serviced by imbeciles.
Comment Simple. (Score 5, Informative) 263
Couldn't an employee just use their own phone to send private texts?
Tearing Apart a Hard-Sell Anti-Virus Ad 192
climenole writes "I came across an email sent by a security vendor, reminding me, no urging me with the liver-transplant sort of urgency, to renew my subscription to their product, lest my pixels perish. I spent a minute or two staring at the email, thinking about all the poor souls out there who do not have the comfort of being a geek and who may actually take the advertisement seriously." That led to this insightful deconstruction of these over-the-top ads, the kind that make it hard to keep straight the malware makers and the anti-malware makers.
Comment Re:Good thing (Score 1) 949
I want to know how they can get a users name when they only have the IP address. I was assuming that ISPs don't just hand over that info. Am I missing something?
Comment He's paying for it? (Score 1) 139
The designer, Enrico Dini, is even talking with various organizations about making the printer compatible with moon dust, paying the way for an instant moonbase!"
He's paying for it? Is Mr. Dini some sort of James Bond villain? (I think it could of meant paving the way.)
3-D Printer Creates Buildings From Dust and Glue 139
An anonymous reader writes "D-Shape, an innovative new 3-D printer, builds solid structures like sculptures, furniture, even buildings from the ground up. The device relies on sand and magnesium glue to actually build structures layer by layer from solid stone. The designer, Enrico Dini, is even talking with various organizations about making the printer compatible with moon dust, paving the way for an instant moonbase!"
Comment Re:Dvorak isn't better (Score 1) 425
Looking over at my wife's Qwerty, A and S are are close.
Dvorak doesn't stop mistakes like that!
Comment Re:Dvorak isn't better (Score 1) 425
(3) at least one study indicates that placing commonly used keys far apart, as with the QWERTY, actually speeds typing, since you frequently alternate hands[.]
That sounds backwards. A Dvorak has, for example, A and S on opposite sides of the keyboard. In fact, all the vowels are on the left side of the home row. And all of your most popular consonants are the other side.
Looking over at my wife's Qwerty, A and S are are close. So are E and R.
[This is off topic in regards to the above quote] Please realize that there's hardly anyone that just types Dvorak. Those that have two weeks to learn the new layout type both Qwerty and Dvorak! Your Qwerty speed can't go down, unless you neglect Qwerty entirely for years.
