Comment There's only one solutions (Score 1) 3
Take it to the supreme court.
Comment Re:Hahaha (Score 1) 315
I was coming in here to say that. LOL
Comment Finally! (Score 3, Funny) 326
I can put away that cup of really hot tea.
Comment Wood gas (Score 1) 3
Why not use a gasoline generator using Wood gas (http://woodgas.net/) as the fuel source. Which would be more efficient?
Was the iPod Accessory Port Inspired By a 40-Year-Old Camera? 263
An anonymous reader writes "While Samsung has been accused of repeatedly borrowing everything from Apple's hardware, to packaging and accessories, it appears that all current iDevices share a port which is very similar to one found on a forty-year-old Polaroid camera. It gets more interesting when you realize that camera was the 'supreme achievement' of a man Steve Jobs idolized. Edwin Land was the creator of the Polaroid camera and, if Steve Jobs obsessed over Land's devices the way many do with iPhones, etc. today, there's a chance this similarity is not a coincidence."
Comment Re:This is a moment in history. (Score 1) 1613
actually, I fucked that up...
"Call me a romantic if you want. But this, for nerds, the nerdiest of the nerds, the graybeards that remember 'back in the day', guys that's "been there, done that", the guys that still are or have been part of the the in of in crowds, this is like John F Kennedy dying."
Comment This is a moment in history. (Score 1) 1613
Call me a romantic if you want. But this, for nerds, the nerdiest of the nerds, the graybeards that remember 'back in the day', guys that's "been there, done that", the guys that still are or have been part of the this is like John F Kennedy dying.
Comment Any DART jobs listed yet? (Score 3, Funny) 250
10+ years experience needed, of course.
Comment Re:got it fixed? (Score 1) 372
They fixed her shit, they got paid. Expecting all that other crap without explicitly asking for it would be like expecting a mechanic to steam clean your upholstery after fixing a fucking alternator.
Comment Re:end this kind of crap now that bin laden is dea (Score 1) 570
The people in the United States are free. As long as they do exactly as they are told.
Comment open source software isn't banned (Score 5, Informative) 246
On the open source topic see another discussion here http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2226260 and this quote by SimonPStevens
They aren't prohibiting "Free Software", they are prohibiting software that is under a license that requires the distributor to pass certain rights along to the recipient. Hence GPL like licenses that require distribution of source code, and that you grant redistribution rights to everyone you distribute it to are being explicitly prohibited. (And in fairness I can see why those licenses would cause problems for Microsoft as distributors) On the other hand BSD like licenses that allow you to repackage and distribute without source and without passing rights forward are acceptable.
Comment Re:News For Nerds (Score 1) 479
It's been a steady spiral into what would be common denominator areas for quite a few years. But, then again, you'd have to define what 'news for nerds' is. Some nerds care about this kind of stuff.
Comment Re:What if were were near the "edge"? (Score 1) 506
The hell of it is that not only are we in the middle of the universe, we are also at the edge of the universe.
Comment Re:This is why I refuse to buy apple products. (Score 5, Insightful) 754
You talk as if you own the hardware or something.
Comment Re:I've seen stuff coming from MSN for quite somet (Score 2) 330
I doubt they check the scripts before they are put up for rotation, and this is their chance to find a scapegoat. As long as they get paid, I doubt they care to check.
