Comment Re:Think of the children! (Score 1) 493
I spent most of my youth playing in the forest with friends, often miles from the nearest adult. I pity the kids who are afraid of going into dark places alone.
Comment Microsoft? (Score 2) 126
What, exactly, are people *doing* at Microsoft's website that would take 204 Billion minutes?
Comment Fuck everything about this (Score 5, Insightful) 375
"Gavin Russell, prime minister of the student government, gathered scores of signatures on a petition supporting Mr. Christie before two staff members warned him that, if he continued, he could also face punishment."
I am ashamed of my country when I can read that, and it isn't followed by "The staff members were promptly fired". Believe it or not, the Charter of Rights and Freedoms applies even to high school kids, and no, your petty little school rules do not trump those Rights.
Comment You might say... (Score 5, Funny) 149
*puts on sunglasses* ... those cupcakes were dynamite.
Comment New tech? (Score 2) 325
My grandfather was a manager with the utilities department for the city of Oshawa, Ontario. He described using this exact technology 60 years ago- a giant wheel maintaining momentum to keep the output predictable despite unpredictable input. Mind you, I don't think he was working on the 20MW range...
Comment Re:Beats the normal method (Score 1) 42
I don't really know how you can train the sleep apnea out of me, but you're welcome to try.
Comment Beats the normal method (Score 1) 42
Having had to deal with a normal sleep study, where something like 26 electrodes were attached to various portions of my head, chest and legs, this seems like a step in the right direction.
Comment Interesting, sure, but (Score 1) 428
Wake me up when they're delivering drugs via spaceships. Then I will be impressed.
ISP's War On BitTorrent Hits World of Warcraft 252
jfruhlinger writes "Canadian Internet users have the prospect of a metered Internet looming over their head, and now World of Warcraft players who use Rogers Communications as their ISP are encountering serious throttling. The culprit seems to be Rogers' determination to go after BitTorrent. WoW uses BitTorrent as a utility to update game files — something most users probably aren't even aware of."
Comment Re:Here is what I don't get... (Score 2) 140
There is Google Chrome OS, and there is Chromium OS. These are separate things, just as Chromium Browser and Google Chrome Browser are separate things. The Chromiums are open source, and you are free to put them on any hardware you like, as Hexxeh has done. If you want to boot up Chromium OS on your desktop, by all means, give it a shot, and document it well so I can do it too!
Why do this? Because Google doesn't want to put their name to something they don't guarantee to be awesome. They want the less than 10 second boot-up, SSD harddrives, and complete guarantee of hardware, so that they can better maintain their security models of the devices.
Bias: I was an intern on the Google Chrome team over the summer.
Comment Re:Apple-biased much? (Score 1) 187
The Gmail "App" is just an HTML5/CSS3 website that gets returned when your user agent says you're an iPad. It's just clean and slick enough that people seem to assume it's some kind of app.
Change your user agent, and load up gmail, see what happens.
Comment Before everyone says that's idiotic... (Score 3, Interesting) 332
... just keep in mind that with WPA, the initial password is just used for connecting to the network, after which a session password is shared (right? pretty sure I'm right about that). So, technically, it would prevent someone from stealing your interwebs as long as you were already connected.
Now, the guy who got to Starbucks before you and started sniffing before you did, he definitely has your personal information now, and this is a stupid idea.
Comment So go and make your own index (Score 3, Insightful) 378
Google didn't make their index of human knowledge for free you know. If you don't like it, make your own. It will cost you billions of dollars, not just to create, but to keep up to date, up to the second.
Inventor Creates Flotation Device Bazooka 144
Australian inventor Sam Adeloju has won the £20,000 ($32,000) James Dyson Award for inventing the coolest piece of life-saving equipment ever. The Longreach is a modified bazooka which can fire an expanding flotation device up to 150m to a person in distress. From the article: "Mr Adeloju told NEWS.com.au that the Longreach was inspired by a grenade-launch training session with the Army Reserves. Weighing just 3.5kg, it shoots the rescue device 150m in a manner similar to the way the army uses a grenade launcher to deliver flares and aerial observation devices. Hitting the water activates an expanding foam unit in the Longreach rescue unit, which also incorporates LED illumination and a vortex air whistle."
Comment Re:Really? (Score 1) 120
He never even says he knows anything, he just purely speculates. For all he knows, the Google-Verizon deal could be that they share catering for Friday lunch.
