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Comment: Re:nt (Score 0) 128

by stderr_dk (#43677527) Attached to: When Vote Counting Goes Bad

Who the American Idol winner is has no real effect on my life, whereas my local city council does when they decide whether to put money into repairing nearby streets or changing the zoning to accommodate a CVS in my neighborhood.

Your local council decides that? Weird...

When I wanted to have a version control system, I just installed one. I didn't have to get permission from anyone.

Mozilla

Mozilla Named 'Most Trusted Internet Company For Privacy' 70

Posted by Soulskill
from the email-us-your-credit-card-details-if-you-agree dept.
redletterdave writes "Mozilla announced on Tuesday that it has been named the 'Most Trusted Internet Company For Privacy' in 2012, according to a new independent study released by the Ponemon Institute early this morning (PDF). Ponemon Institute surveyed more than 100,000 adult-aged consumers over a 15-week period ending in December 2012; of the 6,704 respondents, representing 25 different industries, Mozilla was ranked the top Internet and social media company. While this is a great achievement for Mozilla, especially considering this was their first year making the list, Mozilla's team took note of the fact that 'Internet and social media' was still the least trustworthy sector out of the 25 total industries listed. 'It means we as an industry all have a lot more work to do,' Mozilla wrote on its blog."

Comment: Re:He has a video up of this exploit.... (Score 1) 106

by stderr_dk (#42070321) Attached to: Researcher Claims To Have Chrome Zero-Day, Google Says "Prove It"

Well, this guy MAY actually have something.

Or maybe the page has a hidden image loaded from a webserver running on localhost. The webserver is configured to start putty when someone connects...

I did something like that 15+ years ago, so it's nothing new at all.

Supercomputing

Cray XK6 Supercomputer Used To Simulate Ice Cream 55

Posted by samzenpus
from the right-tool-for-the-job dept.
An anonymous reader writes "The processing power available inside modern supercomputers isn't just able to help us better understand the universe we live in, develop better medicines, and model complex systems. Apparently it is also helping to make better ice cream. Research has been carried out at the University of Edinburgh to simulate the soft matter that makes up ice cream. More specifically, scientists are trying to understand the complex interactions occurring between the many different ingredients that make up your favorite flavor of the delicious cold stuff."
Earth

Fires Sparked By Utah Target Shooters Prompt Evacuations 709

Posted by timothy
from the dichotomy-not-only-odd-but-false dept.
Hugh Pickens writes "The Salt Lake City Tribune reports that more than 9,000 people have been driven from their homes by a wind-whipped wildfire started by two shooters at landfill popular with target shooters who won't face any charges because they were not breaking any laws. The fire was the 20th this year in Utah sparked by target shooting where low precipitation, dry heat and high winds have hit the West hard, exacerbating the risk that bullets may glance off rocks and create sparks. Despite the increasing problem, local agencies are stuck in a legal quandary — the state's zealous protection of gun rights leaves fire prevention to the discretion of individuals — a freedom that allows for the careless to shoot into dry hills and rocks. When bullets strike rock, heated fragments can break off and if the fragments make contact with dry grass, which can burn at 450 to 500 degrees, the right conditions can lead to wildfires. Utah Gov. Gary Herbert has called on Utahns to use more "common sense" in target shooting urging target shooters to use established indoor and outdoor ranges instead of tinder-dry public lands. "We can do better than that as Utahns," says Herbert, calling on shooters to "self-regulate," since legislation bars sheriff's officials from regulating firearms. "A lot of the problem we have out here is a lack of common sense.""
The Military

Artist's Catcopter Causes a Stir 360

Posted by samzenpus
from the poor-tatse dept.
derekmead writes "I'm not sure that Dutch artist Bart Jansen had political commentary in mind when he created the Orvillecopter — combining a stuffed cat with a quadrotor, and naming it after Orville Wright — but indeed it's art, whose meaning will lie in the eye of the beholder. And for those that say stitching up a dead animal around the guts of a helicopter and flying it around is 'sick,' what of the massive drone industry, which, more than just producing a symbol, actually is creating flying death?"

Comment: Re:How about printing the information on the stick (Score 3, Insightful) 171

by stderr_dk (#40178189) Attached to: Using QR Codes To Save Lives

The patient link is static and can never change, so a QR is appropriate.

Yes, cause there's no such thing as areas without coverage, network errors, database failures, ...
And in case of large scale emergencies, the cellular network would never fail. NEVER!

I'll take plain text, thank you very much!

If you look like your driver's license photo -- see a doctor. If you look like your passport photo -- it's too late for a doctor.

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