Comment Re:Could've called it the Royal Space Agency (Score 1) 125
Should've called it British Experimental Rocket Group...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Quatermass [p
Breaking the Squid Barrier 126
An anonymous reader writes "Dr. Steve O'Shea of Auckland, New Zealand is attempting to break the record for keeping deep sea squid alive in captivity, with the goal of being able to raise a giant squid one day. Right now, he's raising the broad squid, sepioteuthis australis, from egg masses found in seaweed. This is a lot harder than it sounds, because the squid he's studying grow rapidly and eat only live prey, making it hard for them to keep the squid from becoming prey themselves. If his research works out, you might one day be able to visit an aquarium and see giant squid."
Comment Re:If the link worked... (Score 1) 174
Actually "Free as in Freedom" is a very Prisoner-esque concept...
Comment Re:This news is from the 16th (Score 1) 382
Offtopic, British lords are so hilarious. There's a secretary of transport called Lord Adonis. Had to chuckle at that.
Adonis is his real name (formerly Andrew Adonis, he's of Greek descent) and has the ironic nickname "Muscles". In fairness however he's doing a great job (unlike Mandy aka The Sinister Minister). The really rubbish thing is that both Adonis and Mandleson are key government ministers and neither are elected. The pretense of democracy is looking pretty thin now...
Comment Re:What about time? (Score 1) 1137
"Private companies are always better"??? The private sector only works effectively when there's competition which rarely exists in infrastructure-type services. So you end up with a contrived competition mechanism and the lowest bidder. For major infrastructure services the government can't afford for the companies to go bust so often ends up subsidising them in some way. And if the contract needs renegotiating in the future due to changes in circumstances not allowed for originally the company is under no obligation to provide any change in service typically requiring renegotiation with extraordinary increases in cost. Is this really better than having a (well run) public body that is accountable directly to the government and the public?
Submission + - Talking to Torvalds (bcs.org)
leonstr writes: "He hates cell phones, but thinks that acceptance of the open source concept
is now taken for granted — in a good way. BCS managing editor Brian Runciman
interviewed Linus Torvalds after he received the BCS Lovelace Medal."
Comment Re:Not true! NeoOffice! (Score 1) 171
I thought I'd add a voice that has only good experiences with NeoOffice. On my Intel Mac it starts fast enough, it's locked up once in 6 months. The UI's fine and I do all my course work on it.
I'm surprised to see so many bad experiences with it...
