Comment meh! (Score 2) 158
Quite a creative reaction to a corporate screwup.
Comment Re:NSA too? (Score 1) 70
The NSA has government-mandated permission so their access doesn't fall under this law.
This is EU law we are talking about. Please substantiate your claim that the EU government has given the NSA permission.
You are absolutely right.
Your parent misses the obvious.
Comment Re:Pffft. (Score 1) 421
Why does everyone nowadays seem to think that WYSIWYG is an improvement over a simple descriptive readable language?
Comment Re:Not sure I see the point of this. (Score 1) 319
But most people in germany (i know from personal experience) ARE idiots. Why should it have been otherwise when Hitler was elected?
Submission + - Cool SciFi no-budget creative commons series (vodo.net)
An anonymous reader writes: A mysterious spaceship has entered Earth's atmosphere. A US Department of Homeland Security investigation has uncovered a live human being in...
Comment Re:Why should Facebook care what app is used? (Score 1) 262
If the user is careless enough to use an app that spams without their permission, they deserve loosing their data and being banned.
Comment Re:I love git!! (Score 1) 177
You forgot one important point: Git is FAST. With larger Projects the other two sometimes take some time to think.
Comment Re:People Entering Politics (Score 1) 74
don't try to be clever, it's corruption all the way up.
Submission + - Marines have an informal agreement with Facebook (google.es)
An anonymous reader writes: Spanish blogger discovered that US Marines have an informal agreement with Facebook to remove any page. In an article entitled " U.S. Marines Creating Island for Network Defense ", in this month issue of a military magazine, Brigadier General Kevin Nally head of Command, Control, Computers and Communications (C4) of the Marine Corps of the United States explains it, the Marines have an informal agreement with Facebook to remove any page that violates OPSEC, to disclose personally identifiable personal information from the Marines or attempts to impersonate officers. Also reports that the public relations office of the Marine Corps monitors Facebook and if you need a direct line to the headquarters of the network to request immediate withdrawal of information.
Submission + - Texas man Gets Full Face Transplant (ibtimes.com)
RedEaredSlider writes: A Texas man recieved the third full face transplant performed in the U.S. yesterday at Brigham and Women's Hospital.
The patient was Dallas Wiens, whose face was burned in a power line accident in 2008. He was left blinded and with little sensation where his face used to be. Wiens lost his lips, eyes, nose and much of the muscle and nerve tissue because the burns he suffered penetrated to the bones.
Dr. Bohdan Pomahac, director of the Burn Center at Brigham and Women's Hospital and leader of the surgical team, said in a press conference that Wiens will not look the way he did before, nor will he look like the person who donated his face. The reason is that Wiens' bone structure is different and the tissues will change shape as they heal.
The patient was Dallas Wiens, whose face was burned in a power line accident in 2008. He was left blinded and with little sensation where his face used to be. Wiens lost his lips, eyes, nose and much of the muscle and nerve tissue because the burns he suffered penetrated to the bones.
Dr. Bohdan Pomahac, director of the Burn Center at Brigham and Women's Hospital and leader of the surgical team, said in a press conference that Wiens will not look the way he did before, nor will he look like the person who donated his face. The reason is that Wiens' bone structure is different and the tissues will change shape as they heal.
Submission + - Was The Early Universe 2 Dimensional Spacetime? (discovery.com)
astroengine writes: "According to two theoretical physicists, our current four-dimensional Universe (3 dimensions of space, 1 dimension of time) is actually an evolution from a lower-dimensional state. The early Universe may have existed with just one spatial dimension (plus one time dimension) up until the Universe cooled below an energy state of 100 TeV. At this point, a transition occurred when the spatial dimension "folded" to create 2 dimensions. At 1 TeV, it folded again to create the Universe we know today: 3 dimensions of space, one of time. This may sound like a purely theoretical study, but there might be evidence of the evolution of universal dimensions in cosmic ray measurements and, potentially, in gravitational wave cut-off frequency."
Comment and slashdot is still ignoring the problem (Score 4, Interesting) 34
Typing https://slashdot.org/ just brings you back to http://slashdot.org./
Is it to hard to do, or does no one care here?
Submission + - Slashdot still vulnerable (slashdot.org)
xophos writes: One by one websites with login functionality use SSL by default.
What's wrong with slashdot?
What's wrong with slashdot?
Submission + - How Xbox Live Enforcement Works (tekgoblin.com)
tekgoblin writes: "The Xbox Live Enforcement team made an appearance at PAX East and showed us how the ban process works on Xbox Live. They use a program called Vulcan which allows the XBL Enforcement team to mark complaints as Accurate, Inaccurate, and Escalate."
Submission + - NASA satellite nails Mercury orbit (networkworld.com)
coondoggie writes: "NASA has sent the very first spacecraft into an orbit around Mercury, the closest planet on our solar system to the Sun. Now that it is there, NASA's satellite MESSENGER (MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging) will orbit Mercury about 730 times in the next 12 months, beaming back pictures and never-before-available pictures and data on the planet."
