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Comment Perhaps to clarify... (Score -1) 4

by Obama (#28116265) Attached to: Where to find beautiful code?

Perhaps to clarify, I'd like to get a few pointers on what tarballs to download and study. The Linux kernel? TVTime? Anything audited or written by the OpenBSD team? What is the most beautiful code out there, for a programmer's definition of "beautiful"?

Comment We will never go back to the stone age (Score -1) 313

by Obama (#27365205) Attached to: Data Preservation and How Ancient Egypt Got It Right

With all the advances we've made now, with a doubling of the storage capacity every 18 months, why would we have to worry about what's going to happen to our data? Stop back-projecting our past and trying to make it the albatross of our future. Bits are cheap and plentiful and becoming ever more so. In fifteen years, people are going to carry today's internet around in their back pockets like we have emulators on our mobile phones. As long as mankind matters, they will keep our data. We will effectively live forever.
Biotech

Scientists Map Neanderthal Genome 229

Posted by timothy from the first-draft-means-they-can-still-send-it-back dept.
goran72 writes "In a development which could reveal the links between modern humans and their prehistoric cousins, scientists said they have mapped a first draft of the Neanderthal genome. Researchers used DNA fragments extracted from three Croatian fossils to map out more than 60 percent of the entire Neanderthal genome by sequencing three billion bases of DNA."
Networking

OpenDNS To Block and Monitor Conficker Worm 175

Posted by Soulskill from the no-phone-home dept.
Linker3000 writes "According to The Register, OpenDNS plans to introduce an new service that will prevent PCs infected with the Conficker (aka Downadup) malware from contacting its control servers, and will also make it easy for admins to know if even a single machine under their control has been infected by Conficker: 'Starting Monday, any networks with PCs that try to connect to the Conficker addresses will be flagged on an admin's private statistics page. The service is available for free to both businesses and home users.' With the amount of trouble this worm has caused, perhaps this is a good time to take a look at OpenDNS if you haven't done so already."

Comment Tuples (Score -1) 1397

by Obama (#26701403) Attached to: Why Do We Name Servers the Way We Do?

Planets, elements, football teams, soda brands, countries... anything that's easy to remember. The whole point of naming is to artificially attach meaning to something generic. Btw, my proposal is to name your servers after the Obama administration ;-)

Comment Re:Every one... (Score 0) 906

by Obama (#26581817) Attached to: Obama Sides With Bush In Spy Case

Since I'm Obama, I feel entitled to respond.

I think both of these are easy promises. Yes, there were no attacks on American soil, but at the cost of liberty and convenience. Call me a troll, but the terrorists sort of won there.

Stabilization of Iraq? Since when did that happen? Since all the men of fighting age were either spent or emigrated?

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