Comment Re:Hmmm .... (Score 1) 858
There's no reason for us to demonstrate our well-known SLBM capabilities to our own country's most populated county.
Who is "us"? The media certainly has a reason to attract attention.
Comment Re:Social games (Score 1) 344
You're blaming the game for your lack of self-control? Go to bed, and stop whining....
Comment Re:I'm going to bet they'll reverse the ban (Score 2, Funny) 227
It's strange seeing this on Slashdot: deprivation of Fox considered suffering.
Comment Re:Serious question here ... (Score 1) 351
I think they should shoot dozens of probes away from the sun in different directions just to see what happens.
Comment not meant to last (Score 1) 300
I usually unfriend for reasons like those in the article. I rationalize it like this: yes, it's great reconnecting with friends from highschool or college, but if it was so important to remain friends, why did we not communicate for the last 10 years? We've grown apart, or really we weren't friends in the first place. Oh, you'd like us to pray to Jesus for.... right, the LORD Jesus.... yeah, okay the LORD OUR SAVOIR JESUS....
Some things aren't meant to last. Have a nice life, byebye....
Paper-Thin Batteries Provide Bendable Power 102
SkinnyGuy writes "New carbon nanotube-based technology could literally allow companies to paint layers of electricity-holding lithium-ion on standard pieces of paper. The possibilities are endless." You can also read the actual paper.
Introducing the Invulnerable Evercookie 332
An anonymous reader writes "Using eight different techniques and locations, a 'security' guy has developed a cookie that is very, very hard to delete. If just one copy of the cookie remains, the other locations are rebuilt. My favorite storage location is in 'RGB values of auto-generated, force-cached PNGs using HTML5 Canvas tag to read pixels (cookies) back out' — awesome."
Comment what I find disturbing about this article... (Score 1) 96
....is that the books are out of order. Why does volume IX come after volume XII?
Comment Re:Some notes From The Creator (Score 1) 154
Point a camera at the sky, get 2-D images at certain moments in time, and somehow dots on the images can be distinguished from dots discovered decades ago. It's amazing how they can all be kept track of.
Comment Re:That's not the professional term (Score 1) 487
If Cantonese is a "main" dialect of Chinese, then Wu (Shanghainese) is too?
Comment Re:Easy golf: round one (Score 1) 84
If "use IO::Socket" counts as one line, just make a module "Foursquare::Mayor" whose import does what you did. Voila, one line! (Or, since we ignored the shebang line (which merely invokes megabytes of interpreter), why not make an executable which....)
Comment Re:600 million dollars (Score 1) 795
Not to mention the game publishers, like Hollywood, hide their revenue in shell companies.
Comment Re:Gluten free fad (Score 1) 177
Another part is that it's difficult to not be munching down on what everyone around you is buying and eating.
That's maybe the worst part of gluten intolerance. People come around giving out cookies at work - after a while you kind of give up and, instead of looking carefully at every little snack, just politely refuse anything that looks remotely like it might have flour in it. And feel bad when friends realize they've just offered you something with wheat in it (or people who don't know you as well are puzzled by your grumpy refusal). Or go out for pizza to celebrate something, and get used to looking for the salad section on the menu. "Is there anything you can eat?" "No, but don't worry about it. REALLY." Hey, let's go get a beer after work! Okay, but I'll be having a snobby wine instead, thanks...
Comment Re:Here's hoping they can track down peanut allerg (Score 1) 177
I'm living in Amsterdam and gluten intolerant, and I have to say that (the prevalent grocery store chain) 'Albert Heijn' has excellent labelling. With almost every product, there is a section on the label containing allergy information, and I can just glance at the back of everything to see if it has a "glutenvrij" (gluten free) symbol. (Another common symbol is "melkvrij", for those who are lactose intolerant.) And the store I go to added a gluten-free section recently with bread and cereal, so I'm happy about that; before I had to make a separate trip to "Biomarkt", which also has a gluten-free section.
Before working here, I'd never met anyone else with wheat intolerance, but at my company there are 3 others, and the company provides gluten-free bread for lunch.
Comment Re:Not just Google (Score 1) 543
Do you think that most kids have ever known a lot of the low-level details of how things work? "Their depth of knowledge is often severely lacking" like most kids any time throughout history!
