No, waving your hands around is how you get an iPHONE to work.

You're not holding it right!

Our notational conventions can be described fairly easily.

Just indicate that no marks is "0", one mark is "1", two marks is "2" .... once you have the integers you can then show notations for basic operators by simple example... any extraterrestrial species capable of reaching or communicating with us would have no problem in working it out.

The site is slashdotted at the moment but here is the video on that page when it finally sort-of loaded.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fk39a22wDL0

What sort of pointless nonsense is this? What actual purpose does this have that any normal RSS reader does not have? All it is, seems to be, sticking a list of RSS links on a "jaunty angle" in 3d and adding an associated image on a spinning cube. It's just... pointless.

It's not even much of a technology demonstration is it, I'm no 3d guy, but I'd have assumed that using OpenGL or something one could knock something like this together in no time flat, probably any time in the last 10 to 15 years!

Refillable cartridges just as you describe are readily available aftermarket items for many printers, just search Ebay

Refilling your own cartridges is super easy if you pick the right printer.

Brother printers particularly are good, the cartridges (at least all the ones I've seen) are just ink receptacles, they have no electronics, just put more ink in job done.

Ink can be purchased on ebay etc in 100ml bottles or more, for a fraction of the cost of buying cartridges.

Even better, it's pretty easy to find good inkjets for a buck or two second hand, I've bought lots of them, most with empty cartridges, often complete with power and USB. Refill the carts, run a few cleaning cycles, and they work really well.

Even the simple task of creating and managing users is much more difficult with MySQL.

GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON database.* TO user@hostname IDENTIFIED BY 'password';

Creates said user connecting from said host with said password and gives it unrestricted access to said database.

Pretty difficult huh.

The Swedes! I always knew it was those guys.

Bork bork bork.

We are a small nation surrounded by a vast expanse of water, we have a number of our own islands or those which we administer, hundreds even thousands of kilometers distant, we have Antarctic claims to the south and regularly need to render assistance to Polynesian islands to the north, and importantly we have economic and environmental interests to police in a large area of ocean.

So yes, we do have a Navy.

It's not a Navy of pure war ships though, you're not going to find a destroyer, a carrier, or a submarine in our fleet. Our ships are by necessity multi role.

Just think about this a moment. NASA took a photo from a satellite, of a probe landing on another planet. And they got telemetry relayed about the landing from ANOTHER satellite.

And it's not just a bright pixel, you can clearly see what it is.

Stunning.

Still very much Nuclear Free here in NZ. It's law, and it's basically political suicide for a politician to try and change it.

Really very strongly supported by the NZ population.

NB: The US Navy is more than welcome to stop by New Zealand with it's conventional powered ships, as long as they confirm that there are no nuclear weapons on board. Unfortunately the US Navy isn't so keen on confirming that.

It does not work. Last I heard the answer was "use VNC" or some such nonsense.

Replacing X is one thing, replacing it with an inferior product however is ludicrous. Ludicrous is unfortunately something that Ubuntu is quite adept at :-(

Yeah!

How's Firefox's Gopher support?

So, like this...

http://filabot.com/
http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:24583

Work in progress obviously, but people are working on it.

Living Cell Technology is basically doing this in a way with the porcine implantations, the piggy cells are encapsulated in a permeable coating that allows them to function but disguises them to the human body.

Also saw mysql go bonkers on two systems, both Ubuntu 12.04, one server, one desktop. Used 100% of a core. Restarting mysql didn't help but rebooting fixed it.

I saw 100% spikes on other servers at the time, but they sorted themselves out.

Apparantly Mozilla saw it also with MySQL and Java.
http://blog.mozilla.org/it/2012/06/30/mysql-and-the-leap-second-high-cpu-and-the-fix/