Comment Re:Of course I do! (Score 1) 52
I thought d_r a committed atheist. If he believes in himself as an #OccupyResoluteDesk instance, is his head in danger of 'sploding?
Comment Re:Of course I do! (Score 1) 52
The fact that you're trying to deny Her Majesty is a Martian only underscores the truth: Bill is from Mars, and Hillary is from Venus.
Comment Re: And what good would it do? (Score 1) 447
You and siblings missed the gag: capital "F" on fuck was to troll the AC complaining about capitalization, the "American spelling" would be "capitalise," with an "s" in the UK.
Comment Re:Of course I do! (Score 1) 52
You're correct of course. The only reasonable thing to do is vote for Her Majesty, to maintain the bipartisan course of Progressive degradation.
Comment Re:The lack of debate (Score 1) 52
Power. Control. Matthew 4:9. Profit comes much later.
Chrome OS Receives Extreme Makeover With Material Design and Google Now 112
MojoKid writes Late last week, Google quietly began inviting people to opt into the beta channel for ChromeOS to help the company "shape the future" of the OS. Some betas can be riskier than others, but Google says that opting into this one is just a "little risk", one that will pay off handsomely for those who crave new features. New in this version is Chrome Launcher 2.0, which gives you quick access to a number of common features, including the apps you use most often (examples are Hangouts, Calculator, and Files). Some apps have also received a fresh coat of paint, such as the file manager. Google notes that this is just the start, so there will be more updates rolling out to the beta OS as time goes on. Other key features available in this beta include the ability to extract pass protected Zip archives, as well as a perk for travelers. ChromeOS will now automatically detect your new timezone, and then update the time and date accordingly.
Comment I mulled laying off soda before I got fat. (Score 5, Funny) 140
I also mulled laying off gambling before I went broke.
Therefore I am, morally speaking, thin and rich.
Comment Re:Yes. It is called "land subsidence" (Score 2) 442
Which makes sense. Sea level rise in the last 50 years has amounted to about 4 inches, probably not enough to make drains run backwards.
The way sea level rise will make itself known isn't through changes in day to day phenomena, but in exceptional phenomena like storm surge flooding. This is a place where inches may well matter. People plan around concepts like a "ten year flood" or a "hundred year flood", and this creates a sharp line on the map where there is no sharp line in reality. Depending where on the domain of the bell curve their chosen planning horizon is, a few inches could turn a ten year flood into a five year flood, which has immense practical implications.
When people way that there is nothing intrinsically worse about a globe that's four degrees hotter they're right. But *change* that undermines human plans represents a big challenge. Change also represents a big challenge to species populations that can't relocate on the timescale of change.
Comment Re:Echo chamber (Score 0, Troll) 353
Sarah Palin actually held a political office. I'm not sure if Fiorina was even on a student council.
Yes, but I'm pretty sure Carly can read and write.
Comment Re:Echo chamber (Score 5, Informative) 353
She can't hear reality over the roar of the hundred million dollars she was paid for halving the shareholder value of HP. Clearly she isn't deluded; she just lives in an alternate reality from the rest of us.
Comment Re:Not what we need (Score 3, Funny) 353
Another mushy moderate is not what we need. The GOP needs a rock ribbed, conservative bomb thrower. Go Ted Cruz!!!
Not precisely correct from an anatomical standpoint. The rocks in question are superior to the c1 vertebra.
Comment Re:Hardly surprising (Score 1) 49
Maybe you should explain that this isn't a training course.
Material Made From Crustaceans Could Combat Battlefield Blood Loss 76
MTorrice writes: A foam composed of a polymer derived from crustacean shells may prevent more soldiers from falling victim to the most prolific killer on the battlefield: blood loss. Pressure is one of the best tools that medics have to fight bleeding, but they can't use it on severe wounds near organs. Here, compression could do more harm than good. First responders have no way to effectively dam blood flows from these non-compressible injuries, which account for the majority of hemorrhagic deaths. The new foam could help stop bleeding in these types of injuries. It relies on chitosan, a biopolymer that comes from processed crustacean shells. By modifying the chitosan, the developers gave the material the ability to anchor blood cells into gel-like networks, essentially forming blood clots. The researchers dispersed the modified chitosan in water to create a fluid they could spray directly onto noncompressible wounds.
Australian Government Outlines Website-Blocking Scheme 58
angry tapir writes: The Australian government has revealed its (previously mooted) proposed legislation that will allow copyright holders to apply for court orders that will force ISPs to block access to pirate websites. It forms part of a broader Australian crackdown on online copyright infringement, which also includes a warning notice scheme for alleged infringers.
They're not the only ones getting on board with website blocking — a judge in Spain ruled that local ISPs must block access to The Pirate Bay.
Comment Buy three computers for three apps (Score 1) 198
JavaScript lets you run web applications on any platform that supports JavaScript. If developers are forced to make the applications native instead, they are likely to make the applications exclusive to a particular computing platform, which is not necessarily the platform that you happen to run. Does JavaScript use more energy than it costs to manufacture and run three different computers, each for an exclusive app?
Besides, a lot of these "managed" environments provide type safety guarantees. Preventing your data from being lost or disclosed due to a defect in a program can be worth more than the marginal cost of a managed environment.
