Comment Re:I don't get it (Score 1) 306
Also, how about the patent office doing its job and determining whether something is patent-worthy or not, rather than passing the responsibility to the courts?
Comment Mark Durmul (Score 1) 90
Am I the only one who read that as Darth Marmul or am I dyslexic?
Comment Re:He is absolutely right (Score 1) 707
Introduce nuclear armed non-state actors into the mix and MAD fails. Introduce covert nuclear strikes that cannot be tracked back to origin and MAD fails. Otherwise you are quite correct.
Comment Re:I tried this on a micro-scale once... (Score 1) 707
A funny but slightly flawed analogy. Guns generally do not assure mutual destruction.
Most people who shoot first, do so with the (correct) belief that if they hit the other guy, his ability to retaliate effectively will be close to zero. This is not the case with nuclear armed states. At least in the case of the USA and Russia, nuclear facilities seem to be built with the express purpose of retaliation, not first strike.
Comment Re:Software Patents (Score 1) 119
Could you cite a few historians? I too was under the same impression as the grandparent poster.
Comment Re:They've been trying this for years (Score 4, Funny) 214
Faraday cage. Check mate.
Comment Tau Boo (Score 1) 28
Scientists not only learned just how massive Tau Boo is -- roughly six times the size of Jupiter
There are two other planets in this system, it seems: Mu Boo and Na Boo.
Comment Re:Voyager (Score 1) 634
Didn't you like Relativity and In the Blink of an Eye? I think they were season 5 or 6 episodes.
Also, this scifi.stackexchange.com recommendation attempts to justify why Voyager should be the first choice.. Also, do ignore the fact that the linked answer is a recommendation for an 8-year-old girl
Comment Re:I blame yo-yo dieting myself (Score 1, Redundant) 155
I'm waiting for the creationists to seize on this to claim that maybe dinosaurs aren't as real as previously believed.
Comment Re:Matter of chance (Score 4, Funny) 186
Stiiiinging in the raiiiin, I'm Stiiiinnning in the raiiiin...
Submission + - Amazon Kindle is trying to rip me off on my eBook 3
Orion Blastar writes: "I wrote an ebook back in March 2012 on Kindle. It is original and I started writing it in 2003. It is not the best writing and got a bad review.
But recently Amazon Kindle emailed me and said my ebook was not original and was available for free on the Internet. I published it to Kindle, Nook, and Lulu. It is original writing and a short story and not available for free on the Internet and nobody can lay claim to it but me. But why has Kindle targeted my ebook?
I heard other indie authors get targeted as well. America The Enslaved: The Neurochip is my original writing and the protagonist Orion Blastar I have written about since at least 2003. I had hoped to write a series of ebooks, but if Amazon Kindle deletes it, what can I do? My only crime is that I am not a very good writer, but this takes away my only source of income I can earn as I am disabled.
Any other Kindle book writers having this problem and what can be done for it?"
But recently Amazon Kindle emailed me and said my ebook was not original and was available for free on the Internet. I published it to Kindle, Nook, and Lulu. It is original writing and a short story and not available for free on the Internet and nobody can lay claim to it but me. But why has Kindle targeted my ebook?
I heard other indie authors get targeted as well. America The Enslaved: The Neurochip is my original writing and the protagonist Orion Blastar I have written about since at least 2003. I had hoped to write a series of ebooks, but if Amazon Kindle deletes it, what can I do? My only crime is that I am not a very good writer, but this takes away my only source of income I can earn as I am disabled.
Any other Kindle book writers having this problem and what can be done for it?"
Submission + - ARM expects 20-nanometer processors by late 2013 (cio.com.au) 2
angry tapir writes: "ARM chips made with an advanced, 20-nanometer manufacturing process could appear in smartphones and tablets by as soon as the end of next year, the head of ARM's processor division said Monday. The more advanced chips should allow device makers to improve the performance of their products without reducing battery life, or offer the same performance with longer battery life."
Submission + - Open source project to translate SWF to html5 (github.com) 1
An anonymous reader writes: Mozilla currently has an experimental project on github called shumway to try to interpret SWF (aka Flash files) using browser-standard technologies like html5 and javascript. All I can say is please and thank you!
Shumway is an HTML5 technology experiment that explores building a faithful and efficient renderer for the SWF file format without native code assistance. Shumway is community-driven and supported by Mozilla. Our goal is to create a general-purpose, web standards-based platform for parsing and rendering SWFs. Integration with Firefox is a possibility if the experiment proves successful.
Comment Re:That is cool, but... (Score 1) 194
Whoa, take it easy there tiger. No product is best for everyone. She's seen all of Google's typical offerings and she chose only GMail because of its simplicity and speed (our connections aren't always the fastest). And I myself am not a indiscriminate Google/Linux/Android fan. I love Google Chrome, Docs and Maps but hate Google Reader, Plus and iGoogle, which is horrid. Google Calendar - dislike, Google Translate - like, Google News - good enough, but could be better. But that's just based on my own use cases. My wife's differ, and so would most other people's.
The problem, I think, is not any company/technology stack being bad or good. It's about people not knowing how to choose the most appropriate tool or technology for the task at hand, regardless of where it comes from. Next, one has to try something out before passing it over. I tried Yahoo and it did not work for me. I tried Windows 7 and Ubuntu and the former worked for me. But I might take another look at Linux Mint. I tried Android and iOS and they both work for me, but Android phones are more reasonably priced. So there.
Comment Re:That is cool, but... (Score 1) 194
I agree. My wife does the exact same thing. I use Google News to stay up to date but it's like drinking from a fire hose. She always seem to get to the most relevant stories first via Yahoo. However I *have* managed to get her to switch over to GMail.
