Comment Why not Gnome on Ubuntu? (Score 1) 258
The only gnome comparison is on Fedora. Why not compare with Gnome 2 on Natty? All it takes is a different selection on GDM. For that matter why not Gnome 3 from a PPA on Natty?
Comment Re:Tea? More Fluids in General? (Score 1) 286
As caffeine is a diuretic, coffee does not help with hydration.
Comment Re:Plants are your friend (Score 1) 286
No, not everything is good: http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/play/snake-oil-supplements/
Comment Re:Quick! Someone tell the Daily Mail! (Score 1) 286
They've been told in 2009.... http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1235310/Men-wake-drink-coffee.html
Comment Neat idea but... (Score 4, Interesting) 352
I'd love one of these if it had networking as well. It would be a great thing to have a portable computer that could fill in for a emergency terminal, not just a dedicated machine with no connectivity, I guess I could carry a hub and such too but then the usefulness of having it on my keychain is gone.
Comment Sony finally learned from thier error! (Score 1) 157
They learned from their break-in. Now, Sony gets 10% of any revenue gained from the stealing of identities from their service. The finance team wouldn't let them lose this opportunity.
Comment Re:If he can do it, why can't ISPs? (Score 1) 208
Then they go beyond "Common Carrier" status and become responsible for the traffic on their network. That would include all the illegal software/media/etc. downloaded through that.
They'd rather die that have to police your downloads, so they let you have your viruses.
Submission + - Decommissioning Damaged Reactors Won't Be Easy (ibtimes.com)
RedEaredSlider writes: Even as Tokyo Electric Power Company acknowledged that it will decommission four of the six nuclear reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, there is still the problem of a massive cleanup, as well as billions in decommissioning costs.
Submission + - Convicted Terrorist Relied on Single Letter Cipher
Hugh Pickens writes writes: "The Register reports that the majority of the communications between convicted terrorist Rajib Karim and Bangladeshi Islamic activists were encrypted with a system which used Excel transposition tables which they invented themselves that used a single-letter substitution cipher invented by the ancient Greeks that had been used and described by Julius Caesar in 55BC. Despite urging by the Yemen-based al Qaida leader Anwar Al Anlaki, Karim rejected the use of a sophisticated code program called "Mujhaddin Secrets" which implements all the AES candidate cyphers, "because 'kaffirs', or non-believers, know about it so it must be less secure." "Tough communication interception laws [RIPA] were passed in the UK 10 years ago on the basis that they were needed to fight terrorism," says Duncan Campbell, who acted as an expert witness for the defense during the trial. "The level of cryptography they used was not even up to the standards of cryptology and cryptography in the Middle Ages, although they made it look pretty using Excel.""
My $200 Laptop Can Beat Your $500 Tablet 789
Roblimo writes "Yes, we know tablets like the iPad are the wave of the future and that PCs and laptops are dead. But some of us see tablets as laptops with their keyboards missing and a few hundred bucks tacked onto the price."
Comment Re:Diesel?!? (Score 1) 1148
It also went up as many states use taxes on diesel to tax truck drivers who ship through their states without paying local taxes.
Comment I know! (Score 5, Funny) 239
A repository of knock spells? Sure to be a winner!
Comment Re:Open Platform? (Score 5, Funny) 459
How's them sour grapes tasting?
Comment It was okay (Score 1) 412
The film was Tron merged with a Vin Diesel movie. And while some of it was good, and keeping Flynn having 80's exclamations as he's been isolated so long was a nice touch. Unfortunately the plot and writing hadn't evolved past the 80's like the graphics had.
Overall, I enjoyed it and the sneaked in references to 80's movies but I think they could have done better.
Comment Do error pages count? (Score 1) 549
Does that include the Database Error Page I'm getting constantly? Cuz I've seen that a dozen times
