Comment Attention Young People (Score 1) 783
All of us old farts did your mom in the basement computer lab behind the VAX 11/750 on top of the HP1000. Or was it the Honeywell Bull? Whatever, she was a freak.
Comment Already called out by co-author as hiding results (Score 0) 776
I doubt we'll see the editors report this rebuttal from one of the co-authors and a leading member of his "team"...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2055191/Scientists-said-climate-change-sceptics-proved-wrong-accused-hiding-truth-colleague.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2055191/Scientists-said-climate-change-sceptics-proved-wrong-accused-hiding-truth-colleague.html
Comment Re:and what about xerox's stuff? (Score 1) 988
QUOTE: "Odd coming from someone who stole the GUI and the mouse from Xerox."
Too true. Jobs/Apple became exactly what they supposedly fought against. 1984 commercial? Yeah, look at what their locked ipod/iphone/ipad has become. Whining about Android? nothing here to see....
Too true. Jobs/Apple became exactly what they supposedly fought against. 1984 commercial? Yeah, look at what their locked ipod/iphone/ipad has become. Whining about Android? nothing here to see....
Comment Re:Stop (Score 1) 694
Green energy == flying cars
I want both of them. Not expecting either. Would prefer the government quit burning through cash and let the market decide. The "logic" of the remainder of your post is not Mensa material....
I want both of them. Not expecting either. Would prefer the government quit burning through cash and let the market decide. The "logic" of the remainder of your post is not Mensa material....
Comment Re:Scientific American throws in the towel (Score 1) 471
Yeah, right about the time I cancelled my sub. Haven't missed it a bit.
Comment Re:Should we be happy that it didn't happen? (Score 1) 471
Delicious gem - you get a +1 friend for that one, geek!
Comment Bah humbug freedom! (Score 1) 642
QUOTE: " a little over a quarter goes towards defense and military spending (I'm not sure I'm getting my money's worth on that one),"
Yeah, freedom is WAY overrated. /asshat OP
Yeah, freedom is WAY overrated.
Comment Play the pinball (Score 1) 655
Play the Dr. Who pinball and you'll be set.
http://ipdb.org/machine.cgi?id=738
http://ipdb.org/machine.cgi?id=738
Comment From "the boxes told us" idiots (Score 0) 109
IBM sure did have RFID pegged right...... <smirk>
Comment Re:Atlas Shrugged (Score 0) 346
Atlas Shrugged, indeed.
Comment Re:For being the opposite of Bush (Score 2, Insightful) 1721
QUOTE: "This win was more a rebuke to the conservatives than anything else."
So, in other words, the premise of the '09 award is a sham? The committee has lowered itself to making trivial political statements?
Nevermind, they already trashed their credibility with Arafat and Gore. Give him an Oscar, Emmy, Tony, Grammy, or Razzi for all I care. Do it to spread your political view and you're an imbecile.
So, in other words, the premise of the '09 award is a sham? The committee has lowered itself to making trivial political statements?
Nevermind, they already trashed their credibility with Arafat and Gore. Give him an Oscar, Emmy, Tony, Grammy, or Razzi for all I care. Do it to spread your political view and you're an imbecile.
Viacom Sued Over YouTube Parody Removal 99
A self aware computer input device writes "Just a week after Viacom sued Google over copyrighted material, MoveOn.org Civic Action and Brave New Films LLC have sued Viacom claiming the cable network company improperly asked the video-sharing site YouTube to remove a parody of the network's 'The Colbert Report.' Couple this with the iFilm fiasco reported earlier, and you have to question how a company like Viacom can cry foul when it can't even accurately account for its own copyrighted material."
Astronomers Explode Virtual Supernova 97
DynaSoar writes "Scientists at the University of Chicago's Center for Astrophysical Thermonuclear Flashes have created a simulation of a white dwarf exploding into a type 1a supernova. Using 700 processors and 58,000 hours, they produced a three second movie showing the initial burst that is thought to be the source of much of the iron in the universe. Understanding these supernovas is also important to testing current cosmological theories regarding dark matter and dark energy, as their brightness is used as a measurement of distance, and discrepancies found in the brightness of very distant supernovas consistently seem to indicate a change in the speed of expansion of the universe over time."
RIAA Wins Worst Company In America 2007 306
An anonymous reader writes "After 15 punishing rounds of combat involving 32 of America's most hated companies, 100,000 voters have spoken: More hated than Halliburton, more despised than Walmart, the RIAA has defeated all comers to become the Worst Company in America 2007."
PTO Rejects Instant Live Patent 77
Jivecat writes "Instant Live, a service of the concert promotion company Live Nation, makes recordings of live concerts that are rapidly burned onto CDs to be sold to the audience before they leave the venue. It's a nice service for fans, but Live Nation holds the patent for a technology that places markers between songs so they can be written as separate tracks rather than one big track — in effect giving them a monopoly on in-concert recordings. Now, thanks to the efforts of the EFF and a patent attorney, who found prior work of similar technology, the U.S. Patent Office has revoked Live Nation's patent. This is good news for those who consider Live Nation to be the Evil Empire when it comes to concert promotion."
