Comment: The job with the greatest job satisfaction of all (Score 1) 388
Actuary.
http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/bestjobs/2009/snapshots/52.html
Fold the education degree until it's all corners, and...
Comment: Afraid I believe you may be wrong (Score 1) 80
The Kobo readers natively read the open EPUB format, IIRC. Plus, since it runs Gingerbread, you could run any e-reader app from any market or Android author. Therefore, why do you think Kobo will restrict your content?
Comment: Re:My ISP has this problem too. (Score 1) 118
Many ISPs today are implementing packet shaping in an extremely simplistic way. They simply rate limit everything and then whitelist the most common game servers, such as WoW. The problem comes when Blizzard commission new servers and the addresses change. Then for a few days-weeks, everyone gets extreme lag. If you are not playing an extremely popular game, it may take you months to get your ISP to whitelist the servers. If you are playing a game where anyone can host a server you are totally screwed.
Do you have a source for that? Really would like to know more.
Comment: Re:Virgin Mobile (Score 1) 200
Have one. Live in Portland. Coverage along the coast is feeble. Fuggedaboudit.
"Cookiejacking" Puts 900 Million IE Users At Risk->
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dkd903 writes "An independent Computer security researcher and expert — Rosario Valotta has devised an attack on Microsoft's Internet Explorer (MSIE) which can remotely hijack your browser cookies and potentially cause damage to you by stealing digital credentials of your various user accounts on sites like Facebook, Twitter and more."
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Comment: Pournelle and Niven wrote about this in the 80s (Score 1) 408
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oath_of_Fealty_(novel) included a passage, early in the story, where the protagonist specified how much contrary news he wanted to see. "Think of it as Evolution in Action"
Daily Kos: Rockets to nowhere->
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Phoghat writes "The end of the space shuttle approaches and its primary legacy, the International Space Station, is essentially finished. Soon the new 2010 NASA reauth bill will really kick in, a new era of cost-effective space exploration will dawn and like a zombie that keeps lurching about with arms outstretched no matter how many bullets or kitchen implements are put into its rotten head, the undead "The Spawn Of Ares" rises from the grave to feed on the blood of taxpayers.
More accurately, it's kind of like a rocket-bridge to nowhere. Except it's worse: there are plenty of places for rockets to go, this one included; our vast unexplored solar system beckons! It's just that this one probably won't go to any of them because there's barely a snowball's chance in hell it will ever be completed. And without a prolonged funding commitment, even the early costs could quickly swell up and delay or eliminate rockets that will go somewhere.
Meanwhile, there are smaller, nimble rockets capable of performing the same tasks over multiple missions already in final flight testing that will soon be available at a Meanwhile, there are smaller, nimble rockets capable of performing the same tasks over multiple missions already in final flight testing that will soon be available at a fraction of the cost We have every reason to believe NASA can build revolutionary deep space vehicles in orbit using these smaller ground-to-orbit rockets, because a 500-ton space station has now been assembled in low earth orbit using that very method. And folks, a 500-ton departure stage already in orbit would be a lot of spaceship. Forget about lunar return or a Near Earth Asteroid; in terms of sheer mass, 500 tons parked in low orbit represents enough fuel, supplies, and hardware to damn near fly a crew to Jupiter and back."
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More accurately, it's kind of like a rocket-bridge to nowhere. Except it's worse: there are plenty of places for rockets to go, this one included; our vast unexplored solar system beckons! It's just that this one probably won't go to any of them because there's barely a snowball's chance in hell it will ever be completed. And without a prolonged funding commitment, even the early costs could quickly swell up and delay or eliminate rockets that will go somewhere.
Meanwhile, there are smaller, nimble rockets capable of performing the same tasks over multiple missions already in final flight testing that will soon be available at a Meanwhile, there are smaller, nimble rockets capable of performing the same tasks over multiple missions already in final flight testing that will soon be available at a fraction of the cost We have every reason to believe NASA can build revolutionary deep space vehicles in orbit using these smaller ground-to-orbit rockets, because a 500-ton space station has now been assembled in low earth orbit using that very method. And folks, a 500-ton departure stage already in orbit would be a lot of spaceship. Forget about lunar return or a Near Earth Asteroid; in terms of sheer mass, 500 tons parked in low orbit represents enough fuel, supplies, and hardware to damn near fly a crew to Jupiter and back."
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Monaco's Prince sues US Blogger in French court ->
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An anonymous reader writes "In another case of venue shopping to avoid US Freedoms of Speech, Monaco's Prince, Albert II has successfully sued a US Blogger and author, Robert Eringer in French court. Eringer reports that the French courts did not rule on the truth of the reports, only that they were damaging to the Prince. The blogger, a US citizen posted from the United States. The French court has ordered the blog posts removed immediately, a violation of US law. Eringer, the Prince's former "spymaster" says he was not notified of the lawsuit by the French courts through proper channels until after the order was entered. Prince Albert, absolute sovereign of the tiny state, reportedly held dual US citizenship until 10 years ago and has increasingly sued media outlets reporting on his activities. Monaco currently has no freedom of speech protections for its citizens or the media."
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Is Sugar Toxic?->
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a_hanso writes "From the NY Times: On May 26, 2009, Robert Lustig gave a lecture called “Sugar: The Bitter Truth,” which was posted on YouTube the following July. Since then, it has been viewed well over 800,000 times, gaining new viewers at a rate of about 50,000 per month, fairly remarkable numbers for a 90-minute discussion of the nuances of fructose biochemistry and human physiology."
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Robots enter Fukushima reactor building->
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swandives writes "For the first time, a pair of remote controlled robots have entered a reactor building at the stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.
Plant operator Tokyo Electric Power hopes the iRobot Packbots will be able to provide data on the current condition inside the buildings, although the company hasn't yet released any information on what they found inside."
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Plant operator Tokyo Electric Power hopes the iRobot Packbots will be able to provide data on the current condition inside the buildings, although the company hasn't yet released any information on what they found inside."
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