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Comment Re:2 Pines Mall/Lone Pine Mall (Score 1) 454

by Chris Brewer (#34019640) Attached to: The Time Travel Paradoxes of Back To the Future

It's quite funny how many paradoxes there are in BTTF, and still they managed to put in some truly obscure consistency: http://www.thevrabec.com/2010/07/12/back-to-the-future-you-certainly-havent-noticed-this/

I remember seeing that the first time I saw BTTF during it's first theatrical run in New Zealand. I'm surprised that people are surprised about this.

Comment Re:Not sure about the hype (Score 1) 495

by Chris Brewer (#31820232) Attached to: Do You Have a Secret Immunity To 3D Movies?

What type of 3D projector also determines your experience. Because you watched in IMAX 3D, there was more 'popping-out' because that's what IMAX 3D is all about. I saw Avatar in Dolby 3D and everything stayed within the screen (or at the very least didn't pop-out into the audience).

Before the screening they showed the trailer for Alice in 3D and I was going "oh, is that it? Why does everything look flat?" Didn't realise until the other day that the reason was because it was done in post, not in camera, which explains a lot. Does this mean we have to wait another ten years for the second proper 3D movie?

Comment Re:Using older versions of IE? (Score 1) 409

by Chris Brewer (#27766737) Attached to: IE8 Released As Critical Update For XP

Probably not as down the page it says:

Multiple IE is no longer maintained and there are no plans to continue maintaining it! Thanks and good luck!

Never mind, you could always just have an XP VM with the IE8 blocker installed, running IE7 plus MultipleIE. That way you won't need to worry about having that extra cruft on your host.
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Submission + - Register.com experiencing DNS issues (theinquirer.net) 1

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howardd21 writes: "Register.com, the giant domain registrar has been experiencing DNS issues since last night. Various blogs and twitter traffic have been reporting issues where domains were unreachable. Register.com help desk employees have denied any problems, in spite of the reported issues from various sources. What may be as interesting as the problems Register is appearing to have, is the observation that Twitter is being used as an originating news source where others have missed this. I can also report that our clients pointed at Registrar.com are now having issues, and Registrar employees re now confirming issues."
Media (Apple)

Apple DMCAs iPodHash Project 453

Posted by timothy from the if-google-is-a-verb dept.
TRS-80 writes "Apple has sent a DMCA takedown notice to the IpodHash project, claiming it circumvents their FairPlay DRM scheme. Some background: Apple first added a hash to the iTunesDB file in 6th-gen iPods, but it was quickly reverse-engineered. They changed it with the release of iPhone 2.0 and a project was started to reverse the new hash, but wasn't successful yet. My guess is Apple used the same algorithm as FairPlay for the new hash, so Apple could use the DMCA to prevent competing apps like Songbird and Banshee from talking to iPods/iPhones. BTW, don't tell Apple, but the project uses a wiki, so the old page versions from before the takedown are still there."
Medicine

Drugs In Our Drinking Water 483

Posted by kdawson from the you-want-water-with-that dept.
MikeURL alerts to a AP story just published after a months-long investigation on the vast array of pharmaceuticals present in US drinking water. These include antibiotics, anti-convulsants, mood stabilizers, and sex hormones, as well as over-the-counter drugs. Quoting: "To be sure, the concentrations of these pharmaceuticals are tiny, measured in quantities of parts per billion or trillion, far below the levels of a medical dose. Also, utilities insist their water is safe. But the presence of so many prescription drugs — and over-the-counter medicines like acetaminophen and ibuprofen — in so much of our drinking water is heightening worries among scientists of long-term consequences to human health."
Media

Two US States Restrict Used CD Sales 500

Posted by kdawson from the papers-please dept.
DrBenway sends us to Ars Technica for a report that Florida and Utah have placed draconian restrictions on the sale of used music CDs; Wisconsin and Rhode Island may soon follow suit. In Florida, stores have to hold on to CDs for 30 days before they can sell them — for store credit only, not cash. Quoting: "No, you won't spend any time in jail, but you'll certainly feel like a criminal once the local record shop makes copies of all of your identifying information and even collects your fingerprints. Such is the state of affairs in Florida, which now has the dubious distinction of being so anal about the sale of used music CDs that record shops there are starting to get out of the business of dealing with used content because they don't want to pay a $10,000 bond for the 'right' to treat their customers like criminals."
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Submission + - John W. Backus, developer of Fortran, dies

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PCOL
PCOL writes: "The New York Times reports that John W. Backus, who assembled and led the I.B.M. team that created Fortran, the first widely used programming language, died at his home at 82. Fortran, released in 1957, was "the turning point" in computer software, much as the microprocessor was a giant step forward in hardware, according to J. A. N. Lee, a leading computer historian. Ken Thompson observed that "95 percent of the people who programmed in the early years would never have done it without Fortran," adding that "It was a massive step." Though debatably not the first high-level programming language, it was the first to achieve wide use. Backus' other accomplishments included inventing the Backus-Naur form (BNF, the almost universally used notation to define formal language syntax), and also the concept of Function-level programming."

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