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Distributed.net Finds Optimal 25-Mark Golomb Ruler 265

Posted by timothy on Saturday October 25, 2008 @09:32PM from the unique-and-in-duplicate dept.

kpearson writes "Distributed.net's 8-year-old OGR-25 distributed computing project has just proven conclusively that the predicted shortest 25-mark Golomb ruler is optimal. 'The total length of the ruler is 480, with marks at positions: 0 12 29 39 72 91 146 157 160 161 166 191 207 214 258 290 316 354 372 394 396 431 459 467 480. (This ruler may alternatively be expressed in terms of the distance between those positions, which is how dnetc displays them: 12-17-10-33-19-...).' 124,387 people participated in the project and two people found the shortest ruler, one on October 10, 2007 and the other on March 24, 2008."

Permanent Links For US Legislation Documents 42

Posted by timothy on Thursday October 09, 2008 @07:46PM from the get-crackin'-blue-book-kids dept.

dizzymslizzy writes "With prompting from the Sunlight Foundation's Open House Project, the US Library of Congress announced today that its online database THOMAS will now generate persistent URLs, known as legislative handles, for legislation documents. As Free Government Info says, 'it is certainly nice to be able to link to legislation with a persistent link! But it would be much better if one could click to create a link rather than following a 600-word description of how to link on another page.' Still, this is a definite step forward for the Library of Congress and for government transparency. From THOMAS: 'Legislative Handles are a new persistent URL service for creating links to legislative documents from the THOMAS web site (http://thomas.loc.gov). With a simple syntax, Legislative Handles make it easy to type in legislative links to bibliographies, reference guides, emails, blogs, or web pages. Legislative Handles, for instance, http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.uscongress/legislation.110hconres196, are a convenient way to cite legislation.'

XKCD Improving the Internet ... Yet Again 204

Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday October 09, 2008 @12:25PM from the oh-oh-monroe dept.

netbuzz writes "Comic creator Randall Monroe suggested in a recent xkcd strip that YouTube comments would be better — or, more precisely, less idiotic — if only those posting them were forced to hear their words read aloud first. Well, YouTube has gone and made this "audio preview" a reality, albeit an optional one. And, it's not the first time that xkcd has contributed to the betterment of the Internet, as those who are familiar with last year's "Internet census" and its use of a Hilbert curve may remember."

Comment Re:Never mind (Score 1) 854

by Major_Small on Saturday April 01, 2006 @03:02AM (#15040548) Attached to: Slashdot Design Changes for Wider Appeal

don't you guys think the aprilfools tag would kinda give it away? I think you should keep this as a chooseable skin... I'm not gay, but hell, I'd keep it around for a few days, just because it's nice to see a change every once in a while...

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