Comment Re:TANSTAAFL (Score 1) 373
Where do we get the free ponies?
Comment Re:Dear India... (Score 1) 168
Well obviously you have some tolerance for humans to kill others, as you believe they should be killed, but not only killed but tortured first.
Earthscraper Takes Sustainable Design Underground 269
Hugh Pickens writes"The 'Earthscraper,' a 65-story, 82,000-square-foot inverted pyramid beneath Mexico City takes a new approach to escalating megacity problems like population growth, urban sprawl, preserving open space, and conserving energy and water, promising to turn the modern high-rise, quite literally, on its head. The proposed building will be located at the Zocalo, Mexico City's major public plaza one of the few sizable open spaces left in the city of 9 million. 'It's a massive empty plot, which makes it the ideal site for our program,' says architect Esteban Suarez. The Earthscraper concept begins with a glass roof replacing the opaque stone surface of the Zocalo preserving the open space and civic uses of the Zocalo, while allowing natural lighting to flow downward into all floors of the tapering structure through clear or translucent core walls. The first 10 stories would hold a museum dedicated to the city's history and its artifacts. 'We'd almost certainly find plenty of interesting relics during the dig — dating right back to the Aztecs who built their own pyramids here,' says Suarez adding that the design incorporates a system of gardens occurring roughly every 10 stories, to help generate fresh air. One thing working in Earthscraper's favor is there are strict laws that prevent building upwards in this part of Mexico City, but no laws for building down. 'They will have to develop new laws to stop this from happening,' says Chief Design Officer Emilio Barja. 'I hope they don't [find the] time to do that.'"
Comment Re:And yet... (Score 1) 196
So the solution is to start a company and only pay for sex with an adult who is comfortable with you filming it?
Comment Re:Seriously? (Score 1) 118
Well except for the fact they aren't charging you for the tool, a third party is. So I doubt they'd care if someone else makes an alternative free program.
Comment Re:Oblig (Score 1) 243
The LoC has no mass? No wonder they can store everything!
Bug Opens Chrome to Easy Remote Code Execution 61
Orome1 writes "ACROS Security notified Google about a peculiar behavior of the Chrome browser that can be exploited for execution of remote code outside Chrome sandbox under specific conditions. It is another case of file planting, where an application loads a data file (as opposed to binary file, leading to binary planting) from the current working directory. Google decided that this was not a vulnerability, but rather a 'strange behavior that [they] should consider changing.' The reason they provided was that 'the social engineering level involved here is significantly higher than "Your computer is infected with a virus, download this free anti-virus software and run the exe file to fix it."'"
Comment Re:Easy (Score 1) 904
I think he meant larger families as in more people alive. So instead of maybe your grandparents being at the family reunion you'll also have your great, and great-great grandparents there!
Comment Re:Not cybercrime (Score 2) 122
I know reading the article means I'm new and all, but it was based on both meatspace and cyber.
"Armed with unauthorized access to FISâ(TM)s card platform, the crooks were able to reload the cards remotely when the cash withdrawals brought their balances close to zero."
This was coordinated between people at the ATM and to someone on the FIS network reloading the cards.
"Armed with unauthorized access to FISâ(TM)s card platform, the crooks were able to reload the cards remotely when the cash withdrawals brought their balances close to zero."
This was coordinated between people at the ATM and to someone on the FIS network reloading the cards.
Comment Re:No store displays, no commercials (Score 1) 432
If you are the person who wants to install a different distribution, I'm pretty sure you'd use a search engine to find a tablet that lets you do that.
Comment Licensing (Score 1) 406
So they have no licensing deals, but its still US only?
If they are basically following the strategy that it is easier to ask for forgiveness then permission, why not do it the world over?
Comment Re:iThink iKnow what they're doing! (Score 1) 99
Pizza Pizza in Canada lets you schedule a delivery for a later time, don't know how far in advance you can do it as I've never used that option :)
Comment Re:sigh. (Score 1) 150
Well to be fair the PLATO system didn't modify their logo, they just added a "heart" to the top of the screen.
Google actually makes custom logos.
A better example of prior art would be Blue's News
http://www.bluesnews.com/cgi-bin/logos.pl
As you we can see the first christmas logo was for 2000, a few months before google submitted their application.
A better example of prior art would be Blue's News
http://www.bluesnews.com/cgi-bin/logos.pl
As you we can see the first christmas logo was for 2000, a few months before google submitted their application.
Comment Re:Why? Visit our App store! (Score 1) 200
I'm confused, is Ubuntu like WalMart, Amazon or the guy down the road?
Comment Re:Baen Books (Score 1) 304
How many people download mediocre top 40 music? A lot of people. Just because some cover band doesn't get downloaded doesn't mean people don't download thousands of albums just because.
I have a friend who has terabytes of music, do you honestly want to tell me he listens to all of it? I don't think he has enough years left in his life ;)
I have a friend who has terabytes of music, do you honestly want to tell me he listens to all of it? I don't think he has enough years left in his life
