Comment Re:Only a few billion years? (Score 1) 421
Wait 'til the mid-life crisis starts. It won't be pretty.
Comment Re:Seriously? (Score 4, Insightful) 421
Nope. This kind of discovery, pushing the frontiers of knowledge, is the only thing we as a species do that's of any value. Spending all of our effort trying to "fix[...] the current issues of the world" would just drag us down to the lowest common denominator.
Let the current issues of the world fix themselves or die trying.
Comment Re:no. you say goodbye. (Score 1) 1271
You've posted this several times. What's it like not to know the difference between correlation and causation?
Comment Re:Still a better prognosis? (Score 1) 521
You cure the cancer with HIV, cure the HIV with Ebola and then cure the Ebola with decapitation. It's easy!
Comment Re:so (Score 1) 408
I've got it. Thank you.
Comment Re:so (Score 1) 408
I'd appreciate an invite if I'm not too late. eric.bamberg at gmail
Homebrew Cray-1 140
egil writes "Chris Fenton built his own fully functional 1/10 scale Cray-1 supercomputer. True to the original, it includes the couch-seat, but is also binary compatible with the original. Instead of the power-hungry ECL technology, however, the scale model is built around a Xilinx Spartan-3E 1600 development board. All software is available if you want to build one for your own living room. The largest obstacle in the project is to find original software."
Comment Re:NaCl, we don't need no stinkin' NaCl (Score 1) 131
Build us a reservoir, a dam and t'other side of dam, a clutch of pelton wheels.
With the weight of the world's oceans pressing on those pelton wheels, I fail to see why there would be insufficient energy to pump said 'salty brine' back from whence it came, minus the desert greening ingredient.
Comment Re:No shock there... (Score 1) 206
The biggest technical merit of the Nexus One over the Droid Incredible is the likelihood of continued updates to the android OS.
There's a huge hacker community right now that owns the Nexus One hardware. It's likely that we'll see continued support for a long time on this phone.
Comment Re:Why is this a surprise? (Score 1) 147
Well if they'd been looking kilometres in the wrong direction, it implies that there wasn't a precise record of its position!
On the contrary, it was very precise. Inaccurate as hell, but very precise!
They should have just stuck a GPS receiver and a cell phone on it...
Comment Immigration (Score 2, Insightful) 206
Switching to a different country is far more difficult than switching to a different U.S. wireless carrier.
Comment Turnabout is fair play (Score 4, Funny) 1204
Comment Re:A big flop (Score 1) 206
Verizon wants no part of [service plan discounts for bringing your own phone]. I can understand why consumers are upset. But let consumers vote with their wallets rather that over-regulate with Congress.
Congress is already regulating by allocating spectrum through the FCC.
Comment Re:Quote the Governator (Score 1) 278
In the USA film ratings are self-regulated just like videogame ratings. If a kid can't get into an R-rated film it is because the theater is enforcing the policy.
Comment Re:Definately an (Score 1) 212
I succumbed and installed MSE a little while ago after hearing good things about it... it found one virus in a zip file (which I knew was dodgy, and had never run), then proceeded to hose my system on reboot. Repeated BSOD reboot, Vista64. It's the only OS crash I've ever had since running Vista (apart from during installation). I had to do a system restore from a few days prior - worked better than I expected, tbh. I'm not going to touch consumer antivirus ever again on my system.
