Comment Re:I need new glasses. (Score 1) 214
Not sure about sub-Saharan Africa, but North Africa produces a lot of cheese.
Comment Re:Fahrenheit? (Score 1) 230
How is Celsius worse than Fahrenheit in this situation?
Comment Re:Downside? Sounds like a perfect weapon system (Score 2) 235
Excellent! Now can get the military to spend money on researching FTL.
Comment Re:Favorite Treat... (Score 1) 267
In the regular world, Halloween is when children dress up in costumes and beg for candy. In Girl World, Halloween is the one night a year when a girl can dress like a total slut and no other girls can say anything about it.
Cady, Mean Girls.
Comment Music Video (Score 5, Funny) 242
Now she can re-shoot "I Lost my Heart to a Starship Trooper" .... in space!
Comment Re:SHIT GOLD BRICKS (Score 2) 180
In other news, bacteria to be renamed after Tywin Lannister.
Is It Time To End Our Love Affair With the QWERTY Keyboard? 557
Master Moose writes "Brisbane-based entrepreneur John Lambie currently has in beta an alternative to what he calls the 'dysfunctional' QWERTY keyboard. Given the way the world is abandoning their keyboards for smartphones he sees now as the perfect time to introduce a new layout. He calls his new keyboard Dextr and believes it is the natural progression from using a number pad to enter text — This is especially so in developing countries where users have not grown up with QWERTYs on thier phones. While he is not the first to ever propose an alternate or alphabetical keyboard — Are we locked into QWERTY for familiarity's sake, or as we shift to smaller, more mobile and new devices, is Mr. Lambie's project coming at the right time?"
Comment Re:Standard Scientology practice (Score 1) 628
I'm not sure how you got psychopathic from my statement. I'm an atheist and as such I see that the core belief tenants of Scientology are no less ridiculous than those of other religions. Scientology is to Judeo-Christianity is as pulp scifi is to fantasy, stylistically different but equally unlikely.
So some governments have classified them as a cult. So what? Christianity was classified as a cult once upon a time as well. All religions that I'm aware of start off as small cults. True, the leadership of Scientology have done some very detestable things, but what religion isn't guilty of this at some point of its history?
Comment Re:Standard Scientology practice (Score 2) 628
I would argue that many religions scam their followers in one way or another. Religions have been monetized before and used as tools to promote politics.
The fact remains that (despite the intentions of the leadership), avid followers of Scientology don't think that they are scammed, and truly believe in what they are told, just like other avid believers of other religions.
The fact remains that (despite the intentions of the leadership), avid followers of Scientology don't think that they are scammed, and truly believe in what they are told, just like other avid believers of other religions.
Comment Re:Standard Scientology practice (Score 5, Insightful) 628
Why? They are both based on belief of the metaphysical and the scientifically un-provable.
Submission + - Unity 3D Game Engine Adds Linux Support (ubuntuvibes.com)
dartttt writes: After more than 14,000 votes by Linux users and efforts by Brian Fargo, Unity 3D has added Linux support to their popular game engine. Starting with Unity 4.0, Linux will be supported as a publishing platform allowing Unity games to be played natively on Linux. Only standalone desktop games will be supported initially. There is no word on Linux support for game editor and web player.
Comment Re:A Microsoft story? (Score 1) 228
To be honest, I'm seeing as much Apple bashing as I see Microsoft bashing here in /.
Now Google on the other hand can't seem to do any wrong.
Now Google on the other hand can't seem to do any wrong.
Submission + - Microsoft Relents On Metro-Only VS Express (infoworld.com)
snydeq writes: "After hearing objections from developers, Microsoft will offer a version of its Visual Studio Express 2012 package for desktop application development after all. The company had previously announced that Express 2012 editions, which are free, platform-specific versions of the Visual Studio 2012 IDE, would be limited to Windows 8 Metro-style development as well as development for the Windows Azure cloud platform, Windows Phone, and Web applications. 'We heard from our community that developers want to have for Windows desktop development the same great experience and access to the latest Visual Studio 2012 features at the Express level. ... And it will enable developers working on open source applications to target existing and previous versions of Windows.'"
Submission + - Flame uses a yet unknown MD5 chosen-prefix collision attack (arstechnica.com)
SpanglerIsAGod writes: We have confirmed that Flame uses a yet unknown MD5 chosen-prefix collision attack," Marc Stevens and B.M.M. de Weger wrote in an e-mail posted to a cryptography discussion group earlier this week. "The collision attack itself is very interesting from a scientific viewpoint, and there are already some practical implications.
Comment Re:WTF? (Score 3, Informative) 251
BYOD = Bring Your Own Device, i.e. devices that are owned by employees and brought with them to work.
