Comment: Furloughed workers (Score 1, Funny) 346
Funny that a Republican would be pointing that out :P
Comment: Wish to see? (Score 2, Interesting) 197
1. The electron beam scanning in a CRT.
2. Inside a cylinder of an internal combustion engine.
3. A lightning strike (too difficult maybe)
+ - Petition to pardon computer pioneer Alan Turing->
Submitted
by
unixcrab
unixcrab (1080985) writes "An online petition calling for the government to posthumously pardon Alan Turing and quash his conviction for gross indecency has been launched.
The gay computer pioneer was convicted of the offence in 1952, when homosexuality was illegal in the UK.
Two years later, he died from cyanide poisoning, which an inquest ruled was suicide.
The e-petition said his treatment and death "remains a shame on the UK government and UK history"."
Link to Original Source
The gay computer pioneer was convicted of the offence in 1952, when homosexuality was illegal in the UK.
Two years later, he died from cyanide poisoning, which an inquest ruled was suicide.
The e-petition said his treatment and death "remains a shame on the UK government and UK history"."
Link to Original Source
+ - Windows 8 an "irrelevance" for PC users->
Submitted
by
Barence
Barence writes "High-profile analyst firm IDC has labelled Windows 8 an "rrelevance" for PC users. As part of its predictions for 2012, IDC claims: "Windows 8 will be largely irrelevant to the users of traditional PCs. We expect effectively no upgrade activity from Windows 7 to Windows 8 in that form factor."
The scathing assessment will put further pressure on Microsoft to drop the Metro interface for users of traditional PCs. At the unveiling of Windows 8 earlier this year, Microsoft's director of Windows Experience, Jensen Harris, gave an indication of the company's attitude to the traditional PC desktop, stating that "every screen needs to be touch. A monitor without touch feels dead.”"
Link to Original Source
The scathing assessment will put further pressure on Microsoft to drop the Metro interface for users of traditional PCs. At the unveiling of Windows 8 earlier this year, Microsoft's director of Windows Experience, Jensen Harris, gave an indication of the company's attitude to the traditional PC desktop, stating that "every screen needs to be touch. A monitor without touch feels dead.”"
Link to Original Source
Comment: Barbara Streisand (Score 1) 292
She has arisen.
+ - Georgian Pensioner Disconnects Armenian Internet->
Submitted
by
unixcrab
unixcrab (1080985) writes "An elderly woman in Georgia is facing a prison sentence after reportedly causing internet services in neighbouring Armenia to crash.
The country found itself offline for hours on 28 March after cables linking Georgia to Armenia were damaged.
A Georgian interior ministry spokesman said a 75-year-old woman had admitted damaging fibre-optic cables while scavenging for copper."
Link to Original Source
The country found itself offline for hours on 28 March after cables linking Georgia to Armenia were damaged.
A Georgian interior ministry spokesman said a 75-year-old woman had admitted damaging fibre-optic cables while scavenging for copper."
Link to Original Source
Comment: Re:1st Amendment? (Score 0) 348
Fee speech for all of course, but when Apple simply ignores that and bans apps because of their content, the fanbois become conspicuously silent.
Comment: Re:No boobs (Score 1, Insightful) 348
Nice rant, but you have it ass-backwards. The DUI app should not be removed/banned (free speech blah blah blah), but at the same time Apple should not be excluding apps that are subject to the same arguments about freedom of speech. Yet they do and their morality, if that is indeed the basis of their decision to not allow soft porn, comes across as more than a bit bent.
Comment: No boobs (Score 3, Insightful) 348
Apple's puritanical censors don't allow boobs in the app store but have no problem with apps like this?
Someone's moral compass is a bit wonky...
Comment: No science? (Score 1) 542
Interesting the lack of scientific subjects amongst his claims. Yes, he mentions psychology but I'm talking about things like physics and mathematics which are not that easy to plagiarise or regurgitate from other sources without justification.
Comment: Immaculate Conception != virgin birth (Score 1) 478
Whilst both absurd concepts, they are not the same thing.
The immaculate conception was something invented by the catholic church to plug a loophole in the story about a mere human giving birth to a god.
+ - Time travel discovery claimed->
Submitted
by
unixcrab
unixcrab (1080985) writes "A Belfast film-maker has posted a video on the internet showing what he says could be evidence of time travelling.
George Clarke from east Belfast has been puzzled for more than a year by a scene in a film which appears to show a woman talking on a mobile phone.
The unusual thing is that the movie was made by Charlie Chaplin in 1928 — long before mobile phones were invented.
The video is here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DF8WF3vGUn8 and the interesting stuff starts at 2:40"
Link to Original Source
George Clarke from east Belfast has been puzzled for more than a year by a scene in a film which appears to show a woman talking on a mobile phone.
The unusual thing is that the movie was made by Charlie Chaplin in 1928 — long before mobile phones were invented.
The video is here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DF8WF3vGUn8 and the interesting stuff starts at 2:40"
Link to Original Source
Comment: It's about time (Score 5, Interesting) 548
It seems like any kind of Linux usage statistics you see these days are just a load of hot air. Hopefully this will provide some solid data and hopefully Canonical will make it public.
I for one will happily enable it.
Comment: Re:Update... (Score 2, Insightful) 299
They stopped updating it when it was very convincingly proven in the bible that pi is exactly equal to 3.