Comment Re:Lets Hope So! (Score 0) 323
14 days does not work for me. I need more time to read a book. And can I give a book to someone like I can a real book?
Comment Re:Sure... (Score 1) 323
And because I am an old fart, I can increase the font size on ebooks so I do not need to use glasses. Can not do that with a regular book. And as I get older the print seems to be getting smaller.
Comment Vote by mail. (Score 0) 93
Want to get turnout up then try vote by mail. Works great in Oregon.
Comment Re:Control (Score 0) 416
How many people are swiming in shark infested water and how many are in a car or in car infested land. I never worry about a shark attack when in a car and never worry about a car accident when swimming in shark infested water...
Comment Re:Favorite Comic (Score 1) 321
XKCD has my vote...
Comment Re:coincidence (Score -1, Redundant) 104
I know it is a joke, but Boeing's customers are other airlines which do treat passengers as sacks of potatoes...
Comment Re:That's nothing (Score 0) 216
>>>Barack Obama is already "punished" the banks who stole your money--with bailouts, jobs in his cabinet, and sweetheart deals that absolve them of mortgage fraud. That'll teach 'em!
Jobs in the cabinet - yes
Bailout - that was Bush
Comment Installed a Safe ROM (Score 1) 249
I have wiped my Android and installed a ROM that is known to be safe.
Yellowstone Supervolcano Larger Than First Thought 451
drewtheman writes "New studies of the plumbing that feeds the Yellowstone supervolcano in Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park shows the plume and the magma chamber under the volcano are larger than first thought and contradicts claims that only shallow hot rock exists. University of Utah research professor of geophysics Robert Smith led four separate studies that verify a plume of hot and molten rock at least 410 miles deep that rises at an angle from the northwest."
Proton Beams Sent Around the LHC 115
feldhaus writes "The BBC reports that the first beams for over one year have been successfully sent around the complete circumference of the Large Hadron Collider. Engineers do not yet have a stable circulating beam but they hope to by 0600 GMT on Saturday."
Reports of IE Hijacking NXDOMAINs, Routing To Bing 230
Jaeden Stormes writes "We just started getting word of a new browser hijack from our sales force. 'Some site called Bing?' they said. Sure enough, since the patches last night, their IE6 and IE7 installations are now routing all NXDOMAINs to Bing. Try it out — put in something like www.DoNotHijackMe.com." We've had mixed results here confirming this: one report that up-to-date IE8 behaves as described. Others tried installing all offered updates to systems running IE6 and IE7 and got no hijacking.
Update: 08/11 23:24 GMT by KD : Readers are reporting that it's not Bing that comes up for a nonexistent domain, it's the user's default search engine (noting that at least one Microsoft update in the past changed the default to Bing). There may be nothing new here.
Update: 08/11 23:24 GMT by KD : Readers are reporting that it's not Bing that comes up for a nonexistent domain, it's the user's default search engine (noting that at least one Microsoft update in the past changed the default to Bing). There may be nothing new here.
Comment Re:Assembler (Score 1) 634
When I was in grad school (many years ago) our research group needed to learn programming for our thesis work (we were biologists). We went to the computer science department and asked the chairman of the department what would be the best computer class to really learn programming. He told us to take assembler. We did, and her was right. Once you know that the rest was easy...
Comment Re:Must be a slow news day.. (Score 1) 376
I mean seriously... why is 1234567890 such a special timestamp?
Where was the article when we crossed 123456789 ?
Because it is also friday the 13th
