Comment Extreme Cable Management? (Score 4, Funny) 242
Worst X-games event ever.
Comment Re:Must past this test (Score 4, Funny) 508
"upset at my wife" AND "in a hurry to get home"????
This just proves how unreasonable human drivers can be.
Submission + - 1940 Census Data Swamps Servers (informationweek.com)
CowboyRobot writes: ""A trove of census data from 1940 released Monday includes the individual records of millions of U.S. citizens. Privacy watchdogs have warned that public release of the records could lead to identify theft or other misuse.... Shortly after it went live, Archives officials Tweeted that they had received about 22.5 million hits from 1.9 users and they were working with host Amazon Web Services to bring up additional servers""
Comment Re:Citizenship (Score 4, Informative) 714
Some clarification from http://www.uwec.edu/career/online_library/illegal_ques.htm :
"May ask about legal authorization to work in the specific position if all applicants are asked."
So if you must legally be a US citizen for the job and everyone is asked, it's OK.
Comment Re:I have a portion of the gene (Score 1) 265
If you let pain bother you so much it will invade all aspects of your life. Before you know it, you'll be using different injury types for login names. Oh... nevermind.
Comment Re:Then let's test these next (Score 5, Funny) 284
I'd like to see them test the ripping out a man's heart one, though I'm not sure PETA will appreciate them testing on live animals.
Simple, use politicians and lawyers. I think to be certain we need to try it on at least 10 thousand.
Your subjects are flawed... one needs a heart in the first place to have it ripped out.
Comment Re:the flipside of reliability (Score 1) 151
Just because they erred on the side of a good result doesn't mean the estimates are better. It means their methodology is HEAVILY padded
Under promise, over deliver. I wish more organizations/projects had this "flaw".
Comment More invites? (Score 1) 1223
Would appreciate it if you still have one to spare. At gmail, user name is joeylrios. TIA.
Comment Probably this same old stickler (Score 1) 40
Must be this guy screwing with the launch times again. Jerk.
Comment Re:Why you want to reconfigure on the fly. (Score 1) 108
Is it a huge hassle to offload video rendering to your graphics card?
Comment Amazing use of factors (Score 4, Funny) 108
For those of you who missed TFA, here is a juicy tidbit:
Teig estimates that the footprint of a Tabula chip is less than a third of an equivalent FPGA, making it five times cheaper to make, while providing more than double the density of logic and roughly four times the performance.
That is 6X more impressive than any other use of factors in a sentence... ever.
Comment Sounds short (Score 1) 997
Complaining about 10 or 11 hours? My work day is 1000 hours, like most peoples'. I guess there really are only 10 kinds of people: those that complain about work hours and those that don't.
Comment Literature search (Score 4, Insightful) 279
If this is true:
I've no experience on [research papers], not even read a complete one
Then you will likely have a hard time writing a legitimate paper. A key aspect of most papers is a comparison of your work to work previously published. You need to establish how yours is novel. Without ever reading any other articles, I doubt you'll be able to do that successfully. Of course you'd need to do this to get a patent as well if you go the route others seem to be suggesting.
Comment Re:Don't you love weasel language (Score 1) 124
Carnival Rube: Hey honey, let's see how good this guy is. What'd I win?
Navin: Uh, anything in this general area right in here. Anything below the stereo and on this side of the bicentennial glasses. Anything between the ashtrays and the thimble. Anything in this three inches right in here in this area. That includes the Chiclets, but not the erasers.
Comment Re:One in twenty? (Score 1) 884
Yes, those odds seem inconceivably low. If an unguided rock can hit a plane with that frequency (1 in 20 times), you'd think we'd be able to develop an anti-ballistic missile system that worked.
They said there was a 1 in 20 chance that some plane in the last 20 years could have been taken down with a meteor. Not that 1 in 20 meteors takes down a plane.
