Comment Re:not protects (Score 1) 1066
It happened before last Thursday, so they are equally old.
Comment Two (Score 1) 384
I have two icons.
Recycle bin and
"Unused Desktop Icons"
I do pretty well everything from the Start Menu
Comment What about Child Porn? (Score 2, Interesting) 81
Let us suppose we are an image hosting site, that has in the past been used to host child porn (Think Flickr or ImageHost).
By the same logic, it would then be appropriate for us to maintain copies of child porn in order to filter new uploads against it.
In my opinion, the only organizations that should be allowed to retain copies of c.p. are those government organizations actively involved in policing it -- regardless of motive.
So when our company gets v&, do you think they'll accept our filtering excuse?
Notwithstanding that the IP laws are screwed up, It was still an illegal copy, and I feel the author's case has merit.
Political Affiliation Can Be Differentiated By Appearance 262
quaith writes "It's not the way they dress, but the appearance of their face. A study published in PLoS One by Nicholas O. Rule and Nalini Ambady of Tufts University used closely cropped greyscale photos of people's faces, standardized for size. Undergrads were asked to categorize each person as either a Democrat or Republican. In the first study, students were able to differentiate Republican from Democrat senate candidates. In the second, students were able to differentiate the political affiliation of other college students. Accuracy in both studies was about 60% — not perfect, but way better than chance."
Comment Yes. I should be paid. (Score 1) 735
Now, this is not absolute. If I have to carry the pager once a month and it rarely rings, then I don't really care.
But, my general attitude is: When I leave work, I should be able to drink myself into oblivion while shooting heroin, in a plane over the Pacific. If I can't do that because of work, then you need to pay me for my time.
The Coder Behind the Mortgage Meltdown 379
axjms writes "New York Magazine has a confessional/abdication from the man who wrote the software that turns mortgages into bonds and those nasty little things called CMOs. An interesting first-person account from a coder whose work reached far beyond what he or anyone could have anticipated."
Comment Free Dominion? (Score 1) 358
That's an oxymoron if I've ever seen one.
Comment Re:socks (Score 1) 485
I've actually solved the sock problem.
When I take out a load of laundry and fold it, I put any single socks right back into the dirty laundry queue.
Since I flush the laundry queue at least once a week, eventually the socks will be matched up.
If a sock sticks around in the queue for a few weeks, eventually the pair will be declared corrupted, and I'll throw it in the rag pile, where it can be used as a shoe or silver polisher. I have yet to recover a pair from the rag pile.
Apple Introduces "MacBook Wheel" 268
CommonCents noted an Apple announcement a few hours before the anticipated keynote. He says "Apples' latest must have gadget does away with the keyboard. With the new MacBook Wheel, Apple has replaced the traditional keyboard with a giant wheel."
Buffalo Tech Gets New Trial On Wi-Fi Patent 78
MrLint writes "It's been a long, nearly two years of silence since CSIRO won a patent battle against Buffalo Tech, causing an injunction preventing the Austin company from selling wireless routers. On September 19, 2008, a Federal Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that CSIRO patent claims are invalid and Buffalo is getting a new trial. With any luck, we will be able to get our grubby hands on low-cost Wi-Fi routers again!"
Comment What I want: (Score 1) 244
I want to be able to simply copy my kids' copies of Baby Einstein and Thomas the Tank Engine.
I want to be able to modify the content so that:
Production and Distributor promos are gone.
FBI warning is gone.
Menu is gone.
Essentially, I want my kids to be able to stick the damn thing in the player and have it play and have it stop playing when it is over.
Essentially, I want to turn the DVD into a VHS tape. -- Stick it in and forget about it.
Researchers Play Tune Recorded Before Edison 314
Tree131 writes "The New York Times is reporting that sound recordings pre-dating Edison's made by Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville, a Parisian typesetter and tinkerer, were discovered by American audio historians at the French Academy of Sciences in Paris. The archives are on paper and were meant for recording but not playback. Researchers used a high quality scan of the recording and an electronic needle to play back the sounds recorded 150 years ago. 'For more than a century, since he captured the spoken words "Mary had a little lamb" on a sheet of tinfoil, Thomas Edison has been considered the father of recorded sound. But researchers say they have unearthed a recording of the human voice, made by a little-known Frenchman, that predates Edison's invention of the phonograph by nearly two decades.'"
