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+ - Astronomer Clowes discovers a group of quasars 4 billion light years across->

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mal0rd
mal0rd writes "The NewScientist reports "A collection of galaxies that is a whopping four billion light years long is the biggest cosmic structure ever seen. The group is roughly one-twentieth the diameter of the observable universe – big enough to challenge a principle dating back to Einstein, that, on large scales, the universe looks the same in every direction."

For reference, Andromeda is only 2 million light years away."
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Comment: Re:What a stupid time to post this drivel (Score 1) 654

by mal0rd (#40427531) Attached to: Apple Store Employees Soak Up the Atmosphere, But Not Much Cash

There's a lot of value in having an experienced person doing basic tasks, but we've forgotten that. Go to Europe, or Japan, and see what level of service you get there.

I agree with the rest of your comment, but I don't get this part. Service in Europe is horrible; it's one of the few things I miss about the states.

Chrome

+ - Chrome Overtakes Firefox in Browser Market Share->

Submitted by SharkLaser
SharkLaser writes "According to StatCounter, Chrome has now surpassed Firefox in market share and is now the second most used browser. Firefox is currently the only browser losing market share, as even IE's usage has recently grown, despite losing much of its share to Chrome last year. Globally IE now has 40.63 percent market share (50.66% in the US) and both Chrome and Firefox have around 25%. In related news, Firefox prepares to release Firefox 9 and currently Firefox 10 and Firefox 11 are in alpha stage."
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Android

+ - Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime Launched, Tested->

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MojoKid
MojoKid writes "The Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime was officially launched today and some of the first hands-on testing and a preview of the tablet can be seen over at HotHardware. The Prime is based on NVIDIA's new Tegra 3 quad-core ARM9 SoC with an on-board NVIDIA graphics engine. Tegra 3 runs at 1.3GHz in multi-core mode but can boost up to 1.4GHz in single threaded workloads. What's impressive about the Transformer Prime is its 10.1-inch Super IPS+ display that has a native resolution of 1280X800 and puts out 380nits of brightness in standard mode but when in Super IPS+ mode, the panel pushes 600nits of brightness for outdoor settings. The Transformer Prime is fast, thin (.33-inches) and beautiful as you'd expect, and it drops in at about $100 less than a similarly equipped iPad 2."
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NASA

+ - NASA highlights from 2009 slideshow->

Submitted by superapecommando
superapecommando writes "2009 was a critical year for NASA. The space agency saw its very existence reviewed by the United States Human Space Flight Plan Committee and it watched as its venerable space shuttle fleet ticked off five of its remaining 10 missions.
But there were plenty of other projects that took centre stage, such as the development of the next generation heavy lift rocket, Ares, and the extension of the agency's Antarctica's sea ice monitoring program as well as its ongoing Mars operations.
Here we take a look at some of the more interesting projects the space programme took on in 2009."
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Comment: Re:Yay another sequel... (Score 1) 76

by dingen (#31844228) Attached to: <em>Gears of War 3</em> Officially Confirmed For April 2011

No, I don't particularly like the action parts of Mass Effect anyway. For me it's all about the storyline, meeting characters and making though decisions.

I like ME1 a lot, but altough it's story is a bit more epic than it's sequel, the way the story is told in part 2 is a lot more engaging and immerse. The dialog is better and also brought better visually by offering more interesting camera movement.

And even though the universe to explore is smaller in part 2, it's also a lot nicer, offering a few hub worlds instead of just one large Citadel and all of the landing points are actually nicely designed levels instead of generic repetitive generated worlds.

All in all ME2 just feels more refined and realistic, while still offering a great story and interesting charactars and dialog. What's not to like?

Comment: Speed (Score 1) 240

by Vectormatic (#31843996) Attached to: Opera Mini For iPhone Reviewed

One thing many first-day reviews of opera-mini said was that it was much faster then safari, even while on wifi.

I tried it yesterday (on wifi, since i have an ipod, not an iphone), and opera mini took serious time connecting to the opera servers, after which loading was fast. however, the opera-server connection pretty much killed it for me..

Opera mini is a nice try, and some things do improve on safari, but on the whole, what i really want is opera Mobile (and once the app store is open enough, CHROME) for the iphone/ipod

The Media

Wikileaks Releases Video of Journalist Killings 1671

Posted by Soulskill
from the rules-of-engagement dept.
linguizic writes "Today Wikileaks released a video of the US military firing large caliber weapons into a crowd that included a photojournalist and a driver for Reuters, and at a van containing two children who were involved in a rescue. Wikileaks maintains that this video was covered up by the US military when Reuters asked for an official investigation. This is the same video that has supposedly made the editors of Wikileaks a target of the State Department and/or the CIA, as was discussed a couple weeks ago." Needless to say, this video is probably not work safe (language and violence), and not for the faint of heart.

+ - Is there any OSS alternative to Google Earth?-> 1

Submitted by aws910
aws910 writes "Today, I fired up Google Earth to find that the "points of interest" category had been removed, and a single checkbox is in its place. Certain layers are now entirely inaccessible. Google triggered a user revolt, but admitted fault, and promised to restore full functionality someday. In the meantime, I've found a lack of plausible alternatives. Bing seems nice, but Moonlight crashes the browser on any machine I use, and I'd rather use OSS anyway... which made me realize there doesn't seem to be a good open-source alternative to Google Earth. Am I missing something? Maybe a project out there that needs a dev?"
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Comment: Super Flexible File Syncronizer or Unison (Score 1) 305

by mal0rd (#30164572) Attached to: Synchronize Data Between Linux, OS X, and Windows?

Use unison (free) or Super Flexible File Synchronizer (better). Keeping several hosts synchronized is tough because of conflicting changes, temporary files, large stuff you don't want to transfer and moving files. You need a good UI and smart change tracking, which is what these programs provide.

Comment: Re:more languages than programmers (Score 1) 831

by mal0rd (#30057674) Attached to: Go, Google's New Open Source Programming Language

As a developer, and I realize this is a very silly and irrational, I tend to avoid using programs written in languages I don't understand. True, I almost never look at the source for the program. But take Gentoo emerge for example. The fact that it is written in Python instead of C, awk, shell script, Tcl, Lua, or Java is mainly why I don't run Gentoo.

I agree with most of your post, but Python, C, Lua, and Java are so similar, you shouldn't have any trouble reading through python code if you know one of the others. Especially with a searchable manual by your side.

Hacking on emerge would be harder, but all these langs are basically interchangable. If only they shared a reasonable ABI and VM so they could be mixed freely. But we are stuck with bloated crap like Java and Mono.

Comment: Re:Hashing Works (Score 1) 1007

by mal0rd (#30057494) Attached to: Best Tool For Remembering Passwords?

I see a dozen comments applauding your idea, but I think we need some counter arguments. Unless your hashing function is time consuming or you're a robot, it must be simple enough that a few examples and brute forcing would allowing guessing other passwords.

Just use the same set of passwords for all sites - it's simpler and as secure, more or less.

Stay the curse.

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