Comment Re:Yes (Score 1) 213
yes, something inconspicuous like "Ford Prefect".
Scientists Discover Tipping Point for the Spread of Ideas
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An anonymous reader writes "Scientists at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have found that when just 10 percent of the population holds an unshakable belief, their belief will always be adopted by the majority of the society. 'When the number of committed opinion holders is below 10 percent, there is no visible progress in the spread of ideas. It would literally take the amount of time comparable to the age of the universe for this size group to reach the majority,' said SCNARC Director Boleslaw Szymanski. 'Once that number grows above 10 percent, the idea spreads like flame.' The findings were published in the July 22, 2011, early online edition of the journal Physical Review E."
Comment Re:RAID is kind of Important (Score 1) 208
he's also neglecting the fact that very few of those drives have anything but a 5400 or even 4200rpm drive in them. at least the 2.5 ones i bought. but since i tend to by 7200 for my laptops anyway, buying an enclosure (discount electronic stores periodically have enclosures on sale for $5-10) and using a drive i had laying around is a lot cheaper, and the drives end up being faster.
Comment Re:Missing from the summary (Score 1) 286
i think maybe it depends on how quickly you drink it. i have a cup before i leave for work, another when i get to work, maybe one more before lunch. usually at least another after i get back from lunch, and sometimes one before i leave work.
Comment Re:Specificity (Score 1) 374
I would actually hope this wouldn't be the case, or there would be some way to be customizable. people who have family in certain area might want to know when grandma is in the path of a tsu-nucle-ricane-flood, and for when you're travelling, maybe to know that you shouldn't have put down fertilizer because of the torrential rainstorm heading your way.
Comment Re:AC/DC (Score 1) 167
for those about to shock, we salute you.
12-Year-Old Rewrites Einstein's Theory of Relativity
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rhathar writes "A 12-year-old boy by the name of Jacob Barnett is a math genius. Mastering many college level astrophysics courses by the age of 8, he now works on his most ambitious project to date: his own 'expanded version of Einstein's theory of relativity.'"
Comment Re:U-Verse - your guess is as good as mine (Score 1) 250
Because U-Verse TV service is IP-delivered, I'd like assurances that they're not including this traffic in any metering - I'm already paying for this content and its delivery on the 'TV' portion of my bill.
Whoa there..if you'll look at your contract, you'll clearly note that you've got unlimited TV content delivery *within reason*. I mean if you're going to have your TV on 24/7, receiving content, that's obviously going to have an impact on the infrastructure. It wouldn't be fair to the other uses of the service if everyone want to just watch as much TV as they can. Maybe we need metered TV...
Sincerely,
AT&T Customer Disservice
Whoa there..if you'll look at your contract, you'll clearly note that you've got unlimited TV content delivery *within reason*. I mean if you're going to have your TV on 24/7, receiving content, that's obviously going to have an impact on the infrastructure. It wouldn't be fair to the other uses of the service if everyone want to just watch as much TV as they can. Maybe we need metered TV...
Sincerely,
AT&T Customer Disservice
Comment Re:$39 BILLION!? (Score 1) 367
they don't own the government, but the officials in charge agreed to avoid AT&T from exposing just what porn sites they were hitting their usage caps from...
Microsoft Vehemently Denies Google's "Bing Sting" 596
eldavojohn writes "In a blog post titled 'Setting the Record Straight,' Microsoft's senior vice president of online services, Yusuf Mehdi, addressed Google's 'Bing Sting' operation saying, 'We do not copy results from any of our competitors. Period. Full stop. We have some of the best minds in the world at work on search quality and relevance, and for a competitor to accuse any one of these people of such activity is just insulting.' Mehdi went on to claim that Google engaged in 'click fraud' in order to rig up their alleged 'experiment.' Mehdi added, 'That's right, the same type of attack employed by spammers on the web to trick consumers and produce bogus search results. What does all this cloak and dagger click fraud prove? Nothing anyone in the industry doesn't already know.' The struggle for Bing to usurp Google as number one in search continues."
Comment very carefully (Score 1) 680
i have four old desktops i came across years ago. all old p3 systems. i threw linux on one, setup gallery, and samba, and stored all our family photos there.
i keep the photos stored as images in the gallery application, and in their original format on a samba share the wife and kids can access.
another box has the same setup, and rsync's anything new nightly. that box sits upstairs, away from the original box, and is inaccessible to anyone else but me.
a third box, again setup the same way, is at a friendly location with a high-speed connection. weekly the second server sends everything up to that third box.
the fourth box is spare parts for the other three.
this is not the best solution, but one i came up with given my budget. after several years of using this, they all now have sata/pci cards, and 500GB-1TB drives.
Unsecured IP Cameras Accessible To Everyone 146
Orome1 writes "In the last couple of decades, we have become so accustomed to the idea that the public portion of our everyday life is watched and recorded — in stores, on the street, in institutions — that we often don't even notice the cameras anymore. Analog surveillance systems were difficult to hack into by people who lacked the adequate knowledge, but IP cameras — having their own IPs — can be quite easily physically located and their stream watched in real-time by anyone who has a modicum of computer knowledge and knows what to search for on Google."
Comment Re:Groking space sex may not be in our interests.. (Score 1) 389
which version? i've just started reading the uncut version.
Comment Re:Wowee (Score 1) 211
even white boys got ta shout..
Comment Re:Another salvo in the war (Score 3, Interesting) 268
Russian Federation suffers worst information harvest in 55 years... Internet access and wireless riots in Poland. Blackwater invades... Cuba and Nicaragua reach registered ISP customer goals of 500,000. El Salvador and Honduras datacenters fall... Greens Party gains control of German Communication Infrastructure. Demands withdrawal of German references from Wikileaks... Mexico plunged into digital revolution... NATO dissolves. United States stands alone.
