Comment Re:Prior art (Score 5, Funny) 181
Yeah, and people seem to be forgetting that the book was supposed to be a warning, not an instruction manual.
Comment A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter Miller Jr. (Score 1) 1365
Mankind is too stupid to learn from its own mistakes.
Comment Some more important questions (Score 3, Insightful) 198
We all know that people tend to choose weak passwords, this is not really newsworthy. Ever since the database was leaked, many people, including professionals, have performed various analyses of cracked passwords. This is fine, but I think there are more important things we need to know right now:
1) When exactly was the database leaked? It seems that it's been floating around the internet for some time before it hit the news last week.
2) What the attack vector was?
3) What security measures have been taken by LinkedIn to ensure this will not happen again?
And perhaps one more: is there a relation between LinkedIn, eHarmony and last.fm database leaks? Did the same person/group do this?
Submission + - Dysfunction in Modern Science? (asm.org)
eldavojohn writes: The editors of Infection and Immunity are sending a warning signal about modern science. Two editorials (1 and 2) published in the journal have given other biomedical researchers pause to ask if modern science is dysfunctional. Readers familiar with the state of academia may not be surprised but the claims have been presented today to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) that level the following allegations: "Incentives have evolved over the decades to encourage some behaviors that are detrimental to good science" and "The surest ticket to getting a grant or job is getting published in a high profile journal, this is an unhealthy belief that can lead a scientist to engage in sensationalism and sometimes even dishonest behavior to salvage their career." The data to back up such slanderous claims? "In the past decade the number of retraction notices for scientific journals has increased more than 10-fold while the number of journals articles published has only increased by 44%." At least a few of such retractions have been covered here.
Comment Re:Thank you, Poland! (Score 2) 139
And after you finish "Fiasco" give "The Invincible" a try. It's Lem's best vision of extraterrestial contact. IMHO of course.
Comment Re:FUD (Score 1) 273
Modded you down by mistake, posting to undo... Sorry.
Comment Re:melting permafrost (Score 1) 106
I suppose weather conditions in Iceland are not favorable. The climate is said to be very erratic. Astronomical observatory built in such place may experience extended periods of downtime due to bad weather.
Comment Re:dupes? (Score 2) 179
Apparently the number 20 was assigned earlier, when the larger outer planets were discovered in this system.
Comment Wouldn't be the first time... (Score 2) 441
As someone else already pointed out, DMZ is an extremely volatile place. This is not the first time when a tree is a source of tension. See the "axe murder incident": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axe_murder_incident
Comment Re:Supernovas (Score 5, Informative) 442
Simply put, the neutrino emission starts before the emission of light. This article has details: http://library.lanl.gov/cgi-bin/getfile?25-14.pdf
Comment Re:QT 3.x still required? (Score 1) 161
As far as I remember, port to Qt4 is planned for the future. You might want to check the project's roadmap, once the wesite becomes more responsive: http://www.trinitydesktop.org/wiki/bin/view/Developers/RoadMap
Comment Re:Hot Jupiters? (Score 4, Informative) 91
RTFA (A=abstract, since the article is behind a paywall)
Never fear, arXiv delivers: http://arxiv.org/abs/1010.1489
Comment Not discoverd by Kepler (Score 4, Informative) 207
TFA is wrong, the planet was discovered from a ground-based observatory back in 2006: http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0609335
Comment Re:Stupid (Score 0) 413
Is there anybody who's really that excited about fancy graphical window effects, except as a curiosity?
Open source developers want to experiment, and they implement pseudo-features that most regular users neither want or need. For this reason, the latest versions of major desktop environments (Gnome 3 / KDE 4) are fundamentally broken. Wayland simply follows the same trend.
Comment Thank you, LulzSec (Score 2) 53
Thanks for releasing stolen passwords for 62000 email accounts. Spammers must be very happy now.
