Comment Re:Take a "peak"? (Score 1) 157
How about others watching hard work's relevance evaporate before new algorithms. Might not they show pique?
I guess the author is too young to have used PEEK and POKE or he'd never made that error.
Submission + - nonpetrol (no local purchase) travel past 12 month
gwgwgw writes: "1) >2000
2) 50 — 2000
3) I swear it'll be more next year
4) I have my reasons for less than 50
5) u sanctimonious ice-hold!"
2) 50 — 2000
3) I swear it'll be more next year
4) I have my reasons for less than 50
5) u sanctimonious ice-hold!"
Woman Wins Libel Suit By Suing Wrong Website 323
An anonymous reader writes "It appears that Cincinnati Bengals cheerleader Sarah Jones and her lawyer were so upset by a comment on the site TheDirty.com that they missed the 'y' at the end of the name. Instead, they sued the owner of TheDirt.com, whose owner didn't respond to the lawsuit. The end result was a judge awarding $11 million, in part because of the failure to respond. Now, both the owners of TheDirty.com and TheDirt.com are complaining that they're being wrongfully written about in the press — one for not having had any content about Sarah Jones but being told it needs to pay $11 million, and the other for having the content and having the press say it lost a lawsuit, even though no lawsuit was ever actually filed against it."
Comment Testing more interesting (Score 1) 396
For me the interest is raised if I write a few high level tests BEFORE doing any coding. Then code.
I suspect the heightened interest is the pleasure of writing to a spec and meeting a goal.
So often (80% of the time?) I then early on save a good bit of rewriting.
Nuclear Energy Now More Expensive Than Solar 635
js_sebastian writes "According to an article on the New York Times, a historical cross-over has occurred because of the declining costs of solar vs. the increasing costs of nuclear energy: solar, hardly the cheapest of renewable technologies, is now cheaper than nuclear, at around 16 cents per kilowatt hour. Furthermore, the NY Times reports that financial markets will not finance the construction of nuclear power plants unless the risk of default (which is historically as high as 50 percent for the nuclear industry) is externalized to someone else through federal loan guarantees or ratepayer funding. The bottom line seems to be that nuclear is simply not competitive, and the push from the US government to subsidize it seems to be forcing the wrong choice on the market."
Stem Cells Curing Burn-Induced Blindness 54
mcgrew writes "The AP (via Yahoo) is reporting that Italian researchers can now cure blindness caused by chemical burns using the patient's own stem cells. 'The treatment worked completely in 82 of 107 eyes and partially in 14 others, with benefits lasting up to a decade so far. One man whose eyes were severely damaged more than 60 years ago now has near-normal vision.' Previously, this kind of injury needed either a corneal transplant or stem cells from someone else, both of which are plagued by problems with tissue rejection. Unfortunately, this only works for damaged corneas — so far."
