Comment: Re:With the judge (Score 1) 475
> I find it unlikely the judge isn't already familiar with it.
In fact, the Judge has already asked Oracle and Google to submit briefs on how they think the EU ruling has bearing on their arguments.
Comment: Re:Why is this moderated down? (Score 1) 707
Except that would be Shinto, not Buddhist.
Comment: Re:Gadhafi's military rank (Score 1) 501
He did. He was only a Captain when he took over the country. He promoted himself to Colonel.
Comment: undo. (Score 4, Interesting) 681
If a 6 year old could do it in Photoshop, then the same 6 year old probably could undo it too. Just run the distortion with opposite paramaters (shrink where you stretched, and stretch where you shrank) and you end up with the original image again.
I seem to recall a few years ago, a police agency cracking a child pr0n case by undoing a distortion made on the perpetrator's face in the images.
Comment: Re:Seriously... (Score 1) 114
This sort of thing usually happens around once per year. Not as odd as you'd think.
NASA Engineers Work On Alternative Moon Rocket 340
Posted
by
timothy
from the doesn't-even-have-a-hybrid-engine dept.
from the doesn't-even-have-a-hybrid-engine dept.
Gibson writes "A team of 57 engineers at NASA's Marshall Spaceflight center feel that the Ares rocket is not the best solution for launching the new CEV. They are currently working on their own time developing an alternative launch system known as Jupiter. The 131 page proposal, along with other information, is available on the project website. Proponents of the project say that it is 'simpler, safer, and sooner' than the Ares project, predicting the ability for a return to the moon in 2017, two years before the current goal. Ares management has so far dismissed the proposal as a 'napkin drawing.'"
Velociraptor Had Feathers 189
Posted
by
CowboyNeal
from the well-and-wings-to-put-them-on dept.
from the well-and-wings-to-put-them-on dept.
Spy der Mann writes "A new look at some old bones have shown that velociraptor, the dinosaur made famous in the movie Jurassic Park, had feathers. A paper describing the discovery, made by paleontologists at the American Museum of Natural History and the Field Museum of Natural History, appears in the Sept. 21 issue of the journal Science."
Comment: Re:Breaking News (Score 1) 688
The USA's own intelligence isn't good enough for it? Or they didn't bother doing their own legwork?
Journal: New Job
Journal
by
cj_goth
Two days ago got the news that I now have a new permie job in London (investment bank, mixture of dev work and financial analysis). Took me a blinding 6 days in total from first application via a headhunter website thru 2 rounds of interviews to job offer. Not unusual from a contract/temp position, extremely unusual for a permie position. Guess I'll be Slashdottin' a whole lot less when I start this.
Comment: Surely ... (Score 1) 521
I can't believe what Google did to Google Groups
I can't believe what Google did to Deja. When I needed web-news access (was without a machine at home), Deja and that old my-deja.com address did me fine for many a month.
I can't believe what Google did to Deja. When I needed web-news access (was without a machine at home), Deja and that old my-deja.com address did me fine for many a month.