Comment Re:Perfect Place to Post This (Score 1) 406
Bullshit buddy, I live in Illinois. Chicago may have a city test, but its not statewide.
Brain of Patient H.M. Being Sliced, Streamed Live 199
buswolley writes "The slicing of the brain of the famous amnesic patient H.M. into giant histological sections is now in full swing, and is being streamed live. The brain specimen is frozen and sectioned whole during one continuous session that is expected to last approximately 30 hours."
Comment Mythbuntu plus (Score 1) 536
I run mythbuntu with a boxee launch item in the main menu. Mythbuntu works flawlessly for capturing media and playing it back, boxee does everything else flawlessly. FTW!
SarBox Lawsuit Could Rewrite IT Compliance Rules 124
dasButcher notes that the Supreme Court will hear arguments next week brought by a Nevada accounting firm that asserts the oversight board for the Sarbanes-Oxley Act is unconstitutional. If the plaintiffs are successful, it could force Congress to rewrite or abandon the law used by many companies to validate tech investments for security and compliance. "Many auditing firms have used [Sarbanes-Oxley Section] 404 as a lever for imposing stringent security technology requirements on publicly traded companies regulated by SOX and their business partners. SOX security compliance has proven effective for vendors and solution providers, as it forces regulated enterprises to spend billions of dollars on technology that, many times, doesn’t prevent security incidents but does make them compliant with the law."
Comment Re:Perfect Place to Post This (Score 2, Interesting) 406
I know I shouldn't, but:
The condo stuff you mention is because you didn't read the contract you were signing. I own my home and the ground its on so I can do what I damn well please. Pet regulations aren't just for rabies, they are humanitarian so we don't have streets teeming with unvaccinated starving wild dogs and feral cats like Calcutta. Car insurance is so you don't get hit by a deadbeat who won't pay to fix your car, and is a common protection. Emissions tests are really only in California so you give yourself away as being against liberalism simply to be contrary since you have the choice to live where you will, but then you wouldn't have anything to bitch about, no? Your tax info is just wrong. You have to file one return for State (that includes your whole family), one for Federal, and possibly a local/COUNTY (not country you stupid non-english speaking copypasta) return. Airline security is theater to make sure people don't stop (as I have) using the air transit system since there is little to no REAL security involved in the system. Helmet/seatbelt laws are mainly there to stem the tide of braindead (literally) idiots who we pay to keep housed and fed since they turned themselves into drooling idiots and the government is left with their care when their broke white-trash families can't afford to pay after paying for all the chrome and noise. Mind you I ride, I ride safely, and I wouldn't think about getting onto a road with a bunch of cagers without a lid on.
Are Ad Servers Bogging Down the Web? 387
blackbearnh writes "The work of making high-volume web sites perform well is an ongoing challenge, and one that continues to evolve as the nature of web content changes. According to Google Performance Guru Steve Souders, fat JavaScript libraries and rich content are creating new problems for web site tuning, but one of the biggest problems lies outside the control of web site administrators — ad servers. In an interview previewing the upcoming Velocity Online conference run by O'Reilly, Souders talks at length about the real causes of poor web performance today, and in particular, the effect that poorly performing ad servers are creating. 'We adopted a framework of inserting ads, of creating ads, that's pretty simple. And because it's pretty simple, it's not highly tuned. That's one reason why we shouldn't be too surprised that we see performance issues in third party ads. The other reason is that ad services are not focused on technology. Certainly companies like Yahoo and Google and Microsoft, we're technology companies. We focus on technology. So it's not surprising that our web developers are on the leading edge of adopting these performance best practices. And it's also not surprising that ad services might lag two, three or four years behind where these web technology companies are.'"
Comment Re:I Had to Read This 5 Times... (Score 1) 293
No, he'd never be done compiling before the convention folds (ducks)
Comment Re:Isn't bread and circuses (Score 0, Flamebait) 340
Oh just go buy your own island you fuckwit, you're too antisocial to have most of us even want your redneck mountain man ass around.
Comment Re:Isn't bread and circuses (Score 4, Insightful) 340
And you don't get ANYTHING in return for it, right? Oh, what, you want your trash picked up? You want sewers built to your property? You want roads to drive on? You want fire protection? You want the police to arrest those naughty black people who keep making you scared and nervous? You want an army to protect your property claims against foreign and domestic threats? You want clean water running out of the tap?
Tell you what, you keep your extra $35 one year, but stop using ALL of the above services and see how you feel at the end of the year? Or pay someone to perform all of those services out of your own pocket and see how much you have left.
Comment Re:I see what they did there... (Score 1) 340
Let me repeat this since conservative douchebags never seem to grasp it:
Unemployment INSURANCE is in NO WAY welfare. You pay every penny of that insurance out of your paycheck and it is administered through the state. Its as much welfare as your comprehensive auto insurance. Grow a clue.
Comment Re:Even if in the agreement. (Score 1) 1078
Except in Indiana. Seriously. Its. Stupid.
Comment Re:Hmm.. (Score 1) 664
Fail: "All your base are belong to us"
Please hand in your geek card at the next turnstile.
Comment Re:What is F Spot? (Score 1) 900
Yeah, that's because its meant to be your photo workflow manager not just an edit one image program. When you use it to import your photos from the beginning it actually fills the role quite nicely.
Comment Re:Labelling. (Score 2, Interesting) 423
+1, I'm to used to dealing with integrators as my customers that I forget the end user view of it sometimes.
Comment Re:Labelling. (Score 1) 423
And to add to my previous reply, this stymies adoption rates. I know when choosing between vendors, if I can trust their release numbers and labelling, it makes MY life a lot easier and goes in the MAJOR plus column in the cost/benefit ratio. If I can trust you, I don't have to test as thoroughly when you hand me something stable. If I can't, I have to scrutinize every little point release and go to fine grained detail to avoid breakage.
