Comment Happy Ending is but an illusion (Score 0) 299
i misread that statement and i thought Pi finally have an ending to its story! Guess not.
Comment Re:From Specifics Upwards (Score 0) 180
Isn't passing a law that makes something originally outside the law to remain outside the law rather oxymoronic?
Hmm, is it? I vaguely recall a set of laws that certain things shall remain outside the law to be rather highly thought of somewhere...
"Congress shall make no law" sound familiar?
"Congress shall make no law" is too vague. explain more what you mean by that..?
Copernicus Reburied As Hero 369
CasualFriday writes "Mikolaj Kopernik, a.k.a. Nicolaus Copernicus, the 16th-century astronomer whose findings were condemned by the Roman Catholic Church as heretical, was reburied by Polish priests as a hero on Saturday, nearly 500 years after he was laid to rest in an unmarked grave. On Saturday, his remains were blessed with holy water by some of Poland's highest-ranking clerics before an honor guard ceremoniously carried his coffin through the imposing red brick cathedral and lowered it back into the same spot where part of his skull and other bones were found in 2005."
Comment Re:Google is interested in the technology (Score 0) 101
brillant statement of the day.
Comment Re:With SSDs, who needs it? (Score 0) 329
Why do people always say desk space is the most important thing? Can you really not get a bigger desk? Mine's not even that freaking big but it's got a nice little shelf on top which is PLENTY big enough for my 19" CRT.
If desk space is the ONLY thing marrying everyone to LCDs, then you really need to rethink things.
I don't want CRT because of my eyes and low chance of getting killed by laser in accidental situation. SO in order to maximizing my chance of survival I will rather go with LCD.
Comment Mose? hello Mose? (Score 0) 3
Mose cannot be reached for the comment.
FBI Nabs Chicago Transit Authority Radio Hacker 177
Wh15per writes "The Chicago FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force arrested an individual for misusing Chicago Transit Authority radio systems. Marcel Carter, 20, is charged with violating a US code that forbids interference with transportation operators. A federal complaint alleges he began using a radio to transmit on CTA frequencies in June 2008, often interjecting comments during communications between the agency's control center and train operators. The CTA claims Carter's radio communications were never followed, and passengers were never in danger."
FBI Files a "Secret Justification" For Gag Order 167
An anonymous reader notes a story up at Ars on the FBI's continuing penchant for secrecy. "Clearly, the FBI isn't ready to give up its Bush-era secrecy addition just yet. ...in the case of Doe v. Holder, the FBI is carrying out a secret investigation using secret guidelines on what is and is not constitutional, and as part of that investigation they've compelled the secrecy of a service provider and are using a secret justification to argue that nobody's First Amendment rights are being violated."
Comment I wonder.... (Score 0) 74
Which baby will hold the world record by post the extraordinary first word:
"slashdot!"
That would rocks the world.
"slashdot!"
That would rocks the world.
Pirate Party Banned From Social Networking Site 354
An anonymous reader writes to tell us that as the European Parliament elections loom, StudiVZ, Germany's largest social networking site, has opened up to political parties for election campaigning. That is, if you aren't the Pirate Party. "The other political parties were allowed to have a special account to show they are an organization and not an individual. The Pirate Party, however, was not allowed to have one and instead operated on a standard user account registered by an individual. StudiVZ noticed that the Pirate Party account was not a "real person" and despite it having a thriving network with hundreds of followers, it was summarily deleted. This means that it is impossible for the Pirate Party to have a presence at all on the largest social networking site in Germany."
Update: 05/02 19:17 GMT by T : Reader riot notes: "FYI: I just translated the press release to English."
Comment Re:Rough (Score 0) 443
I don't understand what you just said on the first sentence. mhmm.
Happy 40th Birthday, Internet RFCs 58
WayHomer was one of several readers to point out the 40th birthday of an important tool in the formation of the Internet, and a look back at it by the author of the first of many. "Stephen Crocker in the New York Times writes, 'Today is an important date in the history of the Internet: the 40th anniversary of what is known as the Request for Comments (RFC).' 'RFC1 — Host Software' was published 40 years ago today, establishing a framework for documenting how networking technologies and the Internet itself work. Distribution of this memo is unlimited."
Beware the Perils of Caffeine Withdrawal 700
palegray.net writes "CNN is running an article on the notorious effects of caffeine withdrawal, a problem that seems to be affecting an increasing number of people. Citing numerous reasons why people might need to cut back on their caffeine intake (pregnancy, pre-surgery requirements, etc), the story notes a significant number of people who are simply unable to quit. I drink around eight cups of coffee a day, along with a soda or two, and I definitely suffer from nasty withdrawal symptoms without my fix."
Comment Hey Thai Gov't (Score 5, Funny) 329
A brave american from here in US want to say,
Thai King, you suck.
(ok i am coward hiding in US somewhere, anyway.)
Thai King, you suck.
(ok i am coward hiding in US somewhere, anyway.)
Submission + - New Book Exposes Old Command (shlomifish.org)
Yosef writes: Many would find the proposition of a book about an old unix command boring. Indeed, could a tool produced in the tradition of small one-trick ponies warrant a whole book? One author disagrees:
Shlomi Fish: Hell no! Mastering cat is not easy at all. In fact, mastering cat is almost as difficult as herding cats.
For example, one case where I found that people truly underestimate the power of cat is in the prefixing a line example. You can do that with:
echo "This would be the first line" | cat — myfile.txt > myfile.txt.new
mv -f myfile.txt.new myfile.txt
But people do not realize that and instead opted to use sed, awk, or even perl (!). It can be taken further, of course. If the prefix is already in its own file, you can simply use
cat prefix.txt myfile.txt
The book discusses history, different implementations, and lots of other goodies.
