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Comment: Re:Dear Evangelicals, (Score 1) 1014

by Wubby on Tuesday August 23 2011, @09:18AM (#37178122) Attached to: Evangelical Scientists Debate Creation Story

And the fundamentalists are enraged that all the liberal Christians are diluting the word of God by accepting things that are clearly not biblical, like treating women as equals, using science to understand things, and not spreading the faith through any means necessary (including lies and war).

Comment: Dear Evangelicals, (Score 4, Insightful) 1014

by Wubby on Tuesday August 23 2011, @07:37AM (#37176816) Attached to: Evangelical Scientists Debate Creation Story

Welcome to the 19th Century.

Sincerely,
Science

Comment: Desktop wars - The users are the casualty (Score 1) 542

by Wubby on Monday June 22 2009, @09:11AM (#28421517) Attached to: Does the Linux Desktop Innovate Too Much?

I have been a user of KDE since 2.0 running it on Solaris. Every release got better, giving user more tools, better control and an easier experience. When Gnome was dumbing down their interface, KDE stuck to the idea that users wanted control and I was one of those users.

Now we have 4.x. Major features are gone/not implemented, control is lost/not implemented and the tools are so different to the point that they can hardly be called the same app. (Konsole for one).

Innovation is important and it's the one thing that Desktop OSS is known for, but the stigma of making software that isn't really usable or having a development cycle that isn't reliable is well deserved. KDE is pulling a "Vista" with 4.X, but buggier and an even bigger difference between versions. Hell, it an entire philosophical shift.

I guess I don't share it. It's too bad, because I don't honestly expect KDE to survive it either.

Comment: Review or Advert? (Score -1, Flamebait) 395

by Wubby on Monday January 26 2009, @02:13PM (#26610743) Attached to: Daemon

I thought the "Books" section was for reviews. This "review" seems cut and pasted from some marketing copy. Either that, or has a hard-on for the author.

Microsoft slapped with $1.52 billion payout in MP3

Submitted by

Ice.Saoshyant

on Friday February 23 2007, @08:24AM

Ice.Saoshyant writes "Those federal juries in San Diego do seem to frown on MP3 patent infringement. They just ordered Microsoft to fork over $1.52 billion (yes, with a "b") to Alcatel-Lucent for infringing on two MP3 audio patents with its Windows Media Player, the largest patent ruling in history. Naturally, Alcatel-Lucent seems to like this turn of events.

I guess that's what they get for not using non-proprietary patent-free formats like Vorbis and FLAC. Software patents are a nightmare."

Rocket creates 1000 new pieces of space junk

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MattSparkes

on Friday February 23 2007, @05:24AM

MattSparkes writes "A Russian rocket exploded in orbit on monday, creating 1000 new pieces of space junk. It is one of the worst space debris events ever recorded, the amount created being roughly on par with China's recent test. Researchers are not yet certain what may have caused it to explode; It could have been hit by a micrometeoroid, or corrosion or mechanical failure of the rocket body could have caused the fuel and oxidiser to come into contact, leading to an explosion. 2006 was an especially bad year in terms of satellite break-ups, with eight objects breaking up in orbit."

NASA to Launch Magentic Storm Probes

Submitted by

eldavojohn

on Wednesday January 24 2007, @03:09PM

eldavojohn writes "The aurora borealis (also known as the Northern Lights) has long been known to be an effect resulting from the Sun's solar wind pushing particles into the earth's magnetic field and atmosphere. In light of the possible danger that these substorms could pose to astronauts & equipment, NASA is now planning a mission to track down these magnetic storms and disturbances. The program's not so catchy name of Time History of Events and Macroscale Interaction during Substorms has a slightly catchier acronym of THEMIS. From the article, "In order to scan the Earth's magnetic field and pinpoint the origin of substorms, THEMIS researchers plan to stagger their spacecraft in different orbits that range in altitude from 10 to 30 times the radius of the Earth (the planet's radius is about 3,962 miles, or 6,378 kilometers).""

Conn. Teacher "spyware" case in-depth comm

Submitted by

boyko.at.netqos

on Wednesday January 24 2007, @02:52PM

boyko.at.netqos writes "Network Performance Daily has two interviews dealing with the case of Julie Amero, the Connecticut schoolteacher convicted of harming minors from porn pop-up ads that the defense contends was the result of a spyware infection. The first is from defense witness Mr. Herb Horner, the second from prosecution witness Detective Mark Lounsbury."

Microsoft pegs 1/2 million false pirates

Submitted by

arhhook

on Wednesday January 24 2007, @02:20PM

arhhook writes "Microsoft's anti-piracy tool has marked more than one in every five copies of Windows as bogus, the Redmond, Wash., developer said Tuesday, while more than half a million users may have been mistakenly pegged as pirates. WGA has been criticized by users and some analysts for frequently getting the real versus counterfeit question wrong, mistakenly identifying valid copies as illegitimate. Lazar acknowledged that this "false positive" rate was a burden to users and Microsoft."

The worst sounds in the world: official

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 24 2007, @01:31PM

An anonymous reader writes "Over 1.1 million votes have been counted and the results are in. But the worst sound is not fingernails on a blackboard (16th), or babies crying (3rd). The number one is truly sickening . . . vomiting."