Comment Look Dangerous (Score 1) 293
Start practicing looking dangerous while you sleep.
Comment Re:Brilliant idea (Score 1) 480
You carry it around everywhere, and it can never be physically taken from you.
Obligatory xkcd refutal.
Comment Alexander the God (Score 1) 206
The first thing that popped into my mind was the short story by Isaac Asimov: Alexander the God.
Comment Ancient Language (Score 1) 412
If you rotate the screen 90 degrees and squint your eyes, you will see that it spells: Cthulhu Fhtagn
Submission + - US Alarmed Over Japan's Nuclear Crisis
Hugh Pickens writes writes: "The Washington Post reports that the US is urging Americans who live within 50 miles of Japan’s earthquake-damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant to evacuate as Gregory Jaczko, chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, said that no water remains in a deep pool used to cool spent fuel at the plant and that radiation levels there are thought to be “extremely high.” Jaczko’s testimony before the House Energy and Commerce Committee suggests that damage to the plant is worse than the Japanese government and the plant’s operator, Tokyo Electric Power Co., has acknowledged. On Tuesday, the company said water levels in the three of the site’s seven fuel pools were dropping, but did not say that the fuel rods themselves had been exposed. Left exposed to the air, the fuel rods will start to decay and release radioactivity into the air and lack of water in at least one spent-fuel pool sparked fears of a worst-case scenario: the fuel could combust. “If there’s no water in there, the spent fuel can start a fire,” says Eric Moore, a consultant to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission on nuclear plant design and safety issues. “Once you have that fire, there’s a high risk of radiation getting out, spewed by the fire.” The power company says a reduced crew of 50 to 70 employees — far fewer than the 1,400 or more at the plant during normal operations — had been working in shifts to keep seawater flowing to the three reactors now in trouble. Their withdrawal on Wednesday temporarily left the plant with nobody to continue cooling operations."
Comment Iram of the Pillars (Score 1) 126
Cthulhu fhtagn!
Comment Kerckhoffs's Principle (Score 1) 239
Kerckhoffs's Principle states:
A cryptosystem should be secure even if everything about the system, except the key, is public knowledge.
I thought this was just common sense.
Comment Scratch (Score 3, Informative) 742
While Scratch is geared towards 6 - 16 year olds, it may be worth a look.
Comment Advanced Technology (Score 1) 642
Carlos Cotta and Álvaro Morales from the University of Malaga in Spain...suggest that using spacecraft that travel at a tenth of the speed of light, the colonization wavefront could take some 50 million years to sweep the galaxy.
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
- Arthur C. Clarke
Comment Re:It's a Job (Score 4, Funny) 254
A year before Bioshock shipped...
This must be some new designation for numbering years that I was not previously aware of.
Submission + - New Algorithm Boosts Network Efficiency (universityofcalifornia.edu)
palegray.net writes: "Researchers at the University of California have developed a new network routing algorithm that has the potential to significantly boost Internet traffic routing efficiency. This new approach focuses on the needs of dynamic networks, where connections are frequently transient. From the article: "What the team did with their new routing algorithm, according to Savage's student Kirill Levchenko, was to reduce the "communication overhead" of route computation — by an order of magnitude." For the technically inclined, the full research publication is available in PDF format."
Blade Runner, The Final Cut 258
Bowman9991 writes "A new promotional website is up and trailers for Blade Runner: The Final Cut have been released. I've been waiting ages for this one. SFFMedia has some details about the Blade Runner Ultimate Collector's Edition on HD-DVD and Blu-ray with new footage. It's slated for a December 18th release. Apparently it's also being released in the cinemas again in the US."
Journal Journal: Second Test Launch of SpaceX Falcon 1
The second test launch of the SpaceX Falcon 1 rocket took place today at 6:10 pm PST. After successfully having completed launch, first stage separation (2m 51s), second stage ignition (2m 55s), fairing separation (3m 16s), and reaching an altitude of 300 km, the vehicle was seen entering what is referred to as roll oscillations (4m 30s). Shortly thereafter, telemetry was lost. The second stage is assum
NFL Caught Abusing the DMCA 357
Implied Oral Consent writes "You know how the NFL puts up those notices before every game saying 'This telecast is copyrighted by the NFL for the private use of our audience, and any other use of this telecast or of any pictures, descriptions or accounts of the game without the NFL's consent is prohibited?' Well, Ars Technica is reporting that Wendy Seltzer thought that that was over-reaching and posted a video of the notice on YouTube. Predictably, the NFL filed a DMCA Take Down notice on the clip. But Ms. Seltzer knows her rights, so she filed a DMCA Counter Notice. This is when the NFL violated the DMCA, by filing another Take Down notice instead of taking the issue to court — their only legitimate option, according to the DMCA. Unfortunately for the NFL, Ms. Seltzer is a law professor, an EFF lawyer, and the founder of Chilling Effects. Oops!"
