Comment Streisand Effect? (Score 1) 418
Is it just me, or does anyone else with Comcast now have the strong desire to start using Tor?
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Comment Top Secret! (Score 1) 58
Doctor Flamond: You see, a year ago, I was close to perfecting the first magnetic desalinization process so revolutionary, it was capable of removing the salt from over 500 million gallons of seawater a day. Do you realize what that could mean to the starving nations of the earth?
Nick Rivers: Wow. They'd have enough salt to last forever.
Comment Misnomer (Score 1) 58
At best it's AmeriCorps for geeks. Peace Corps is a much different level of commitment. There are geeks in the Peace Corps, so really, Peace Corps is already "Peace Corps for geeks".
Comment Dang it, Capitalism (Score 1, Offtopic) 81
Of course Mars supported life... until capitalism killed it.
Comment Extreme Cable Management? (Score 4, Funny) 242
Worst X-games event ever.
Comment Re:Must past this test (Score 4, Funny) 508
"upset at my wife" AND "in a hurry to get home"????
This just proves how unreasonable human drivers can be.
Submission + - 1940 Census Data Swamps Servers (informationweek.com)
CowboyRobot writes: ""A trove of census data from 1940 released Monday includes the individual records of millions of U.S. citizens. Privacy watchdogs have warned that public release of the records could lead to identify theft or other misuse.... Shortly after it went live, Archives officials Tweeted that they had received about 22.5 million hits from 1.9 users and they were working with host Amazon Web Services to bring up additional servers""
Comment Re:Citizenship (Score 4, Informative) 714
Some clarification from http://www.uwec.edu/career/online_library/illegal_ques.htm :
"May ask about legal authorization to work in the specific position if all applicants are asked."
So if you must legally be a US citizen for the job and everyone is asked, it's OK.
Comment Re:I have a portion of the gene (Score 1) 265
If you let pain bother you so much it will invade all aspects of your life. Before you know it, you'll be using different injury types for login names. Oh... nevermind.
Comment Re:Then let's test these next (Score 5, Funny) 284
I'd like to see them test the ripping out a man's heart one, though I'm not sure PETA will appreciate them testing on live animals.
Simple, use politicians and lawyers. I think to be certain we need to try it on at least 10 thousand.
Your subjects are flawed... one needs a heart in the first place to have it ripped out.
Comment Re:the flipside of reliability (Score 1) 151
Just because they erred on the side of a good result doesn't mean the estimates are better. It means their methodology is HEAVILY padded
Under promise, over deliver. I wish more organizations/projects had this "flaw".
Comment More invites? (Score 1) 1223
Would appreciate it if you still have one to spare. At gmail, user name is joeylrios. TIA.
The Frankentablet: Windows and Android Mashup 121
GMGruman writes "What happens if you take a netbook, remove its keyboard, put Windows 7 in one partition, a custom version of Android 2.2 in another, throw in a Linux bootloader, and physical buttons that match none of these? You get the ViewSonic ViewPad 10, a Frankenstein creation of technology body parts that just don't fit together. As this InfoWorld review shows, it's definitely a 'were they even thinking?' class of product."
Comment Probably this same old stickler (Score 1) 40
Must be this guy screwing with the launch times again. Jerk.
Comment Re:Why you want to reconfigure on the fly. (Score 1) 108
Is it a huge hassle to offload video rendering to your graphics card?
