Comment Favourite unicode character (Score 3, Interesting) 170
has got to be the Love Hotel.
Does anyone know why this is even there?
US Finally Backs International Space "Code of Conduct" 116
coondoggie writes "Perhaps it was the concern that the nearly 14 ton Russian Mars probe would land smack-dab on the White House or maybe they just came to their senses, but the U.S. State Department today said it would indeed work with the European Union and other countries to develop a formal space code of conduct. Of particular concern is the growing amount of space trash and how the world can go about eliminating or controlling the problem. There is also the desire to keep space free of military weaponry."
Researchers Make Graphene From Girl Scout Cookies 129
An anonymous reader writes "Last year we learned that the miracle material graphene could be made from common table sugar, and now researchers at Rice University have taken the discovery one step further by literally baking it from a box of girl scout cookies. A group of graduate students led by chemist James Tour recently teamed up with Houston Girl Scout troop 25080 to perform the feat using a single box of Trefoil cookies — which could potentially yield $15 billion worth of graphene."
Comment Spammers already using public shortening services (Score 1) 99
Including one that I own and when they're in a good mood, they attempt to make shortened URLs as quickly as our servers can handle them, often many thousands per day.
Thankfully, due to the sterling efforts of many of the URL blacklisting services out there, these are purged on the hour, on the day, on the week and on the month automatically, so often don't last that long.
However, if legitimate people start to use the URL shortening services that the spammers provide, it'll hardly be in their interests to remove the spammy redirects.
Do Developers Really Need a Second Monitor? 1002
jammag writes "It was an agonizing moment: a developer arrived at work to realize his second monitor had been taken (given to the accounting dept., to add insult to injury). Soon, the wailing and the gnashing of teeth began. As this project manager recounts, developers feel strongly — very strongly — about needing a second monitor (maybe a third?) to work effectively. But is this just the posturing of pampered coders, or is this much screen real estate really a requirement for today's developers?"
Comment Really? Everything? (Score 1) 241
Does this mean that the Living Earth Simulator will attempt to simulate itself?
malloc(): error: recursive call
Comment Sometimes I just shake my head and wonder (Score -1, Troll) 698
Even though it's not illegal, it's still not a wise idea to curse at a police officer doing their job.
In a separate case a man was arrested, cited for disorderly conduct and briefly jailed after shouting a double expletive at a policeman who was writing him a parking ticket.
I guess it's my non confrontational manner, but if a cop was writing me a ticket for being illegally parked, I'd offer a quick apology, say it won't happen again, and just pay the fine. The minute you start questioning the cop's authority is when you land in hot water. IMO if you act like a fool over something you did wrong in the first place, maybe you deserved to be hauled off to jail.
Also, if you ever saw "Parking Wars" on A&E, these are the type of people I'm talking about. Unfortunately, the Philly Traffic Authority can't haul you off to jail.
Comment Re:Try Webfaction. Here's why: (Score 1) 456
Continuing on from this, can I just suggest that people do not pay attention to 'Top 10' websites. The majority of these basically place companies with the highest cost per click/monthly revenue in the highest positions, leaving low paying hosting companies down dozens of pages and not getting noticed.
Ask real people (especially the support staff), get involved on hosting forums and take all reviews with a pinch of salt. Don't trust much in the way of second hand research.
I speak from experience running a web hosting company myself.
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Comment Re:A better solution. (Score 1) 192
Also if you are planing on running virtual machines AMD are often a better choice. Intel doesn't support virtualization on a lot of their CPUs while I think AMD does on their AM2 and up CPUs.
Not quite true. Quite a lot of Intel chips, including some Pentium 4 even, do include Vanderpool (or VT-x as it's now called). Wikipedia is your friend - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86_virtualization#Intel_Virtualization_Technology_for_x86_.28Intel_VT-x.29
There are many alternative virtualisation technologies around that don't require CPU support too, such as Xen (paravirtualisation) and VMWare (full emulation).
IBM Creates MRI With 100M Times the Resolution 161
An anonymous reader writes "IBM Research scientists, in collaboration with the Center for Probing the Nanoscale at Stanford University, have demonstrated magnetic resonance imaging with volume resolution 100 million times finer than conventional MRI. This result, published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, signals a significant step forward in tools for molecular biology and nanotechnology by offering the ability to study complex 3D structures at the nanoscale."
Comment That's a 'Marketing' billion (Score 1) 245
They've only shifted 0.931 gibiharddrives.
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