Comment: Re:Wow (Score 4, Informative) 108
rpm -V httpd ?
Not that difficult to put in a cron job.
Comment: Re:Cart Before The Horse (Score 2) 115
The desert was hostile too.
So was the arctic.
And the ocean.
And beneath it.
And atmosphere above 15k feet.
They are all still very hostile to humans. None of those places support permanent human life. We can survice there, but only for a little while. You always need a vast influx of energy/materials from the outside. And that is very expensive on the moon.
Comment: Re:What's the clear advantage of LLVM? (Score 5, Informative) 360
The reason FreeBSD switches to clang/LLVM is the license: BSD instead of GPLv3.
You should give clang a try. The LLVM has a much cleaner api then gcc and the error message's are also more readeable. In terms of speed, the difference is shrinking with each release.
Comment: Re:some sense at last (Score 1) 439
Euthanasia is already legal in The Nederlands and Belgium since 2002. The law there has simular requirements as this proposal. There is even discussion to extend the law to the case of alzheimer patients and under age patients.
+ - Ecuador grants asylum to Julian Assange-> 1
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jampola writes "Reuters UK has reported:
"Ecuador has granted political asylum to WikiLeaks' founder Julian Assange, Foreign Minister Ricardo Patino said on Thursday, a day after the British government threatened to storm the Ecuadorean embassy in London to arrest Assange."
Assange and the Ecuadorian Embassy are still unsure if the UK Police will make good on it's previous threat to forcefully remove Assange."
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"Ecuador has granted political asylum to WikiLeaks' founder Julian Assange, Foreign Minister Ricardo Patino said on Thursday, a day after the British government threatened to storm the Ecuadorean embassy in London to arrest Assange."
Assange and the Ecuadorian Embassy are still unsure if the UK Police will make good on it's previous threat to forcefully remove Assange."
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+ - Higgs Boson Discovery: The Full CERN Statement-> 1
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asavin writes "The latest results from CERN experiments observed a particle consistent with long-sought Higgs Boson.
"We observe in our data clear signs of a new particle, at the level of 5 sigma, in the mass region around 126 GeV. The outstanding performance of the LHC and ATLAS and the huge efforts of many people have brought us to this exciting stage," said ATLAS experiment spokesperson Fabiola Gianotti, "but a little more time is needed to prepare these results for publication.""
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"We observe in our data clear signs of a new particle, at the level of 5 sigma, in the mass region around 126 GeV. The outstanding performance of the LHC and ATLAS and the huge efforts of many people have brought us to this exciting stage," said ATLAS experiment spokesperson Fabiola Gianotti, "but a little more time is needed to prepare these results for publication.""
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Comment: Re:establish the facts of your standing (Score 4, Interesting) 491
Seriously dude, the name Greenland has nothing to do with the actual climate. There are serveral theories about the name but none are that it was a green place a 1000 years ago.
Of course, when you tell someone that they will be travelling with you to a place that is barren, cold and inhospitable you may have trouble convincing even a Viking to come with you. So instead, Erik (according to popular legend) called the island Greenland and instead painted the island as being a wonderful place to settle.
Source: http://ancientstandard.com/2010/12/17/how-greenland-got-its-name/
Comment: Chrome? (Score 0) 282
Why is mozilla so desperately trying to clone Chrome? The UI is fine as it is on the desktop, not to big, not to small.
Comment: Dupe (Score 5, Informative) 224
Seriously, one the same day: http://games.slashdot.org/story/12/04/25/1241241/phoronix-confirms-gnulinux-steam-and-source-engine-clients
Comment: data (Score 4, Interesting) 151
With 1B inhabitants, that's a hell of a lot of data to store. Privacy issue aside, I really wonder if there're not drowning themselfs in data...
+ - new internet censorship ACTA treaty to be signed->
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An anonymous reader writes "ACTA treaty is a new treaty to be signed that allows ISP to be shutdown. In the US the senate needs to ratify it still so please sign the petition here https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitions#!/petition/end-acta-and-protect-our-right-privacy-internet/MwfSVNBK"
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+ - Sandia Labs touts DNSSEC tool->
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alphadogg writes "Sandia National Laboratories is touting a free Web-based visualization tool called DNSViz to help domain name registrars, government organizations and others rolling out DNS Security to better manage the technology that federal entities have been mandated to employ. DNSSEC for the .com domain was also enabled last year, with big registrars like GoDaddy.com jumping on board."
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+ - New Tech Startup Hacks Capitalism?->
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jamesmagno writes "If this thing works, it might actually make a difference. Right now, we kinda need a solution. Quote from the website:
"Empower United will be one large corporation, effectively 100% owned and controlled by its Individual Members, the American people.
Gives everybody the opportunity to immediately become entrepreneurs, capitalists and partners with each other.
Aims to completely fund an average person’s basic living expenses such as food, housing, healthcare, childcare, education, retirement, etc. ""
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"Empower United will be one large corporation, effectively 100% owned and controlled by its Individual Members, the American people.
Gives everybody the opportunity to immediately become entrepreneurs, capitalists and partners with each other.
Aims to completely fund an average person’s basic living expenses such as food, housing, healthcare, childcare, education, retirement, etc. ""
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Comment: Re:"Observed"? (Score 3, Informative) 164
You look at the decay modes. The know what the put in and they see the end result of the decay. With energy, mass, momentum conversation, they can reconstruct the decay. And if you find enough statistical evidence to support your claim, they you have found a 'new' particle.