Comment Re:Big geek was he? (Score 2) 910
Espousing the value of holding up scientifically verifiable data over ancient superstitions is something of interest to many geeks/nerds.
Comment Re:Why should Europe or Asia follow the US? (Score 1) 119
The one you're looking for is probably Gibbons, the family of Lesser Apes... though it could be the Bonobo, the other species in the Pan genus with Chimps which most people don't know exists.
Comment Re:Comparisons (Score 1) 421
Wait... are you trying to tell me Bat Boy isn't real?!
Next thing you'll be trying to claim that the World's Fattest Cat doesn't actually save babies from burning buildings! Get out of here, you terrorist-heathen-commie!
Comment Re:Cue Top Gun Theme (Score 1) 119
Somehow you got the right words in there, but not the right idea:
Cue Macross Plus, Information High.
Comment Re:lolwut? (Score 4, Insightful) 370
Developers, developers, developers, developers!
Comment I must not be cut out for archeology... (Score 3, Funny) 126
From the "confirmation photo" in TFA, all I was able to confirm is that... yes, there are rocks in Saudi Arabia.
Comment Re:Apophis? (Score 2) 122
Asteroid Bob Ross? I can see it now... what a happy little impact crater!
Comment Re:Standard for astronomy. (Score 0) 225
Wow, actually... no. I suppose the difference between tropical storm and hurricane is arbitrary, but it is in no way vague. The definition is based upon the maximum sustained windspeeds. If the windspeeds are at or above 74MPH, it's a hurricane. That's pretty straightforward.
Floridian in the hoooouse!~
Obama Nominates RIAA Lawyer For Solicitor General 463
Xiph1980 writes "President Barack Obama on Monday nominated former Recording Industry Association of America lawyer Donald Verrilli Jr. to serve as the nation's solicitor general. The solicitor general is charged with defending the government before the Supreme Court, and files friend-of-the court briefs in cases in which the government believes there is a significant legal issue. The office also determines which cases it would bring to the Supreme Court for review. Verrilli is best known for leading the recording industry's legal charge against music- and movie-sharing site Grokster. That 2003 case ultimately led to Grokster's demise when the US Supreme Court sided with the RIAA's verdict."
'Universal' Memory Aims To Replace Flash/DRAM 125
siliconbits writes "A single 'universal' memory technology that combines the speed of DRAM with the non-volatility and density of flash memory was recently invented at North Carolina State University, according to researchers. The new memory technology, which uses a double floating-gate field-effect-transistor, should enable computers to power down memories not currently being accessed, drastically cutting the energy consumed by computers of all types, from mobile and desktop computers to server farms and data centers, the researchers say."
Submission + - The Continued Censorship of Huckleberry Finn (salon.com) 2
eldavojohn writes: Over a hundred years after the death of its author, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn will be released in a censored format removing two derogatory racial slurs: "injun" and "nigger." The former appears some 219 times in the original novel but both will be replaced by the word "slave." An Alabama publisher named NewSouth Books will be editing and censoring the book so that schools and parents might provide their children the ability to study the classic without fear of properly addressing the torturous history of racism and slavery in The United States of America. The Forbes Blog speculates that e-readers could provide us this service automatically. Salon admirably provides point versus counterpoint while the internet at large is in an uproar over this seemingly large acceptance of censorship as necessary even on books a hundred years old. The legendary Samuel Langhorne Clemens himself once wrote "the difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter" and now his own writing shall test the truth in that today.
Submission + - 10 Most Influential Tech Advances Of The Decade 2
adeelarshad82 writes: We've come a long way in just 10 years. Over the past decade we've experienced the birth of social networking, the slow death of wires, and the growth of both entertainment and business technology to the point that the gadgets, computers, and instruments we use today in both work and play look far, far different than those we used back in 2000. Our televisions are thinner, but their screens display several times more detail. Our storage devices are smaller, but they hold massive amounts of data. Based on the biggest and most influential changes seen in consumer electronics over the past ten years, PCMag counts down top ten technological advancements of the last decade.
