Comment morning? (Score 2) 202
Events taking place on the surface of the sun should not be described as "morning." It's always noon on the sun. Duh.
Comment Immaculate Conception? (Score 5, Informative) 478
This is not what Immaculate Conception means. The Immaculate Conception is the conception of Mary, not of Jesus, with the idea being that Mary is conceived without original sin so as to make her a proper vessel for Jesus.
Then again, since snakes don't have original sin, maybe every snake conception is immaculate.
Comment MSPaint scales selection differently (Score 1) 368
Taking the Dalai Lama picture, I get two different results from MSPaint. If I paste the image into a new file, deselect, and then scale the entire image by 50% (in each direction so to 1/4 size), I get the gray box. However, if I select all, and then scale by 50%, I get an odd magenta Dalai Lama.
Any insights as to why this might be?
Comment So THAT'S why... (Score 1) 590
My favorite part is the suggestion that the elderly are under-represented, and that under-represented groups will fall behind in interest in technology. In other words, the reason grandma still has AOL is because she can't find enough video game characters she identifies with. Fantastic.
Accused Rogue Admin Terry Childs Makes His Case 397
angry tapir writes "He's been in jail for seven months now, but former San Francisco network administrator Terry Childs says he's going to keep fighting to prove he's innocent of computer crime charges. Childs was arrested on July 12, charged with disrupting the City of San Francisco's Wide Area Network during a tense standoff with management. Infoworld has also conducted an interview with Childs."
Demo of Spatially Aware Blocks 109
Chris Anderson writes "This 5-min demo just posted from last week's TED — got a big crowd reaction. It's a new technology coming out of MIT, about to be commercialized. Siftables have been seen before, but not like this. They're toy blocks/tiles that are spatially aware and interact with each other in very cool ways. Initial use may be as toys, but there's big potential for new paradigm of spatially-aware physical mini computers."
Comment Easy (Score 1) 743
Goal: No one should be killed or injured in a Volvo car
Solution: Do not put doors on Volvos.
That took about five minutes. If anyone needs me, I'll be on break until 2020.
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