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cybrpnk2 writes: Today Virgin Media launched a new app on TiVo to allow easy access to episodes of Star Trek : The Original Series. Too bad the product launch will go down in infamy as an epic fail: their promotional photo contains a bit of a non-trivia(l) error...
"If we don't export food, mostly grains, the world starves."
Maybe back in the 1960s and 1970s, but this is a myth or urban legend in the 21st Century. See for example this. If anything, we are taking corn OUT of the export market and driving up world food prices with our insane tax subsidies on corn to produce fuel ethanol.
Helium has gained a lot of traction in recent years as the suicide vehicle of choice. It has progressively become more central in every update of Final Exit.
A self-inflicted 22LR to the head killed my mother in 1979. A friend of mine had a daughter that used a.38 on herself and is a vegetable in a nursing home. You never know.
cybrpnk2 writes: In this Arxiv paper, three German students present a novel, highly critical attack that allows unprompted installation of arbitrary applications from the Android Market. Their attack is based on a single malicious application, which, in contrast to previously known attacks, does not require the user to grant it any permissions.
VB6 is an American classic just like a 64 Mustang. Forget OOP and just git er done. Its back to the future and I couldn't be happier. Welcome back old friend!
cybrpnk2 writes: From Tech Review's arXiv Blog: "Dimitar Ouzounov at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Centre in Maryland and a few buddies present the data from the Great Tohoku earthquake which devastated Japan on 11 March. Their results, although preliminary, are eye-opening. They say that before the M9 earthquake, the total electron content of the ionosphere increased dramatically over the epicentre, reaching a maximum three days before the quake struck. At the same time, satellite observations showed a big increase in infrared emissions from above the epicentre, which peaked in the hours before the quake. In other words, the atmosphere was heating up."
cybrpnk2 writes: The job machine called American Business has not only destroyed millions of existing jobs to create the highest sustained unemployment rate in decades, it has also mysteriously failed to produce 15 million jobs once projected for the first decade of the 21st Century. Now US businesses are sitting on close to $2 trillion in cash with no apparent intent to invest it in American jobs. Why should they — Apple, for example, doubled their profits on iPhone by assembling it with Asian workers and letting it be a $2 billion burden on the US trade deficit.
Funny thing, I was reading an article on this just the other day, talking about how object oriented programming in general and Java in particular lacked the clarity ond straightforwardness of declarative languages like my all time favorite, Visual Basic 6. Laugh if you want, I don't care, with VB6 I understood what was going on and could Get Things Done.
Google "criticism object oriented programming" and dig in on the real problem.