Comment Do they do this every February? (Score 1) 81
I'm not sure why this is news, according to this article They have done it before. Was that discovered to be a lie? So little info.
Comment Bad (Score 1) 105
"I have bad feeling about this..."
Comment Klingon Bird-of-Prey (Score 4, Funny) 209
That wasn't a comet it was Kirk and company in a Klingon Bird-of-Prey trying to get back to the 23rd century.
Submission + - Dead People Scientists Keep Messing With (discovermagazine.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Some historical figures are just too interesting to leave alone, even when they're supposed to be moldering in the grave. That's why medical researchers dug up Tycho Brahe, bombarded Napoleon's hair with neutrons in a nuclear reactor, and did everything they could think of to King Tut. Discover Magazine has 8 stories of delayed diagnoses and extreme postmortems.
Submission + - Wall Street Hedge Fund Smashes Hard Drive Evidence (wsj.com)
An anonymous reader writes: We all know Slashdotters love debating the best way to wipe a hard drive clean. Looks like tech-savvy Wall Street Hedge Fund managers also know the best way to do it. From the WSJ article:
"F—in' pulled the external drives apart," Mr. Longueuil told Mr. Freeman during their meeting, according to the criminal complaint. "Put 'em into four separate little baggies, and then at 2 a.m. 2 a.m. on a Friday night, I put this stuff inside my black North Face jacket, and leave the apartment and I go on like a twenty block walk around the city and try to find a, a garbage truck and threw the s—t in the back of like random garbage trucks, different garbage trucks four different garbage trucks."
"F—in' pulled the external drives apart," Mr. Longueuil told Mr. Freeman during their meeting, according to the criminal complaint. "Put 'em into four separate little baggies, and then at 2 a.m. 2 a.m. on a Friday night, I put this stuff inside my black North Face jacket, and leave the apartment and I go on like a twenty block walk around the city and try to find a, a garbage truck and threw the s—t in the back of like random garbage trucks, different garbage trucks four different garbage trucks."
Comment Re:Pot calling kettle black (Score 1) 596
Bad Bad analogy.
This isn't about borrowing data this is about Bing stealing results to pretend it is just as good as Google at aggregating data.
This is more akin to someone saying they came up with the dewey decimal system and renaming it the bjourne decimal system and when caught, you say that Melvil Dewey is a hypocrite because he was borrowing all those books in the library.
Comment Re:I don't get why the other companies aren't.. (Score 1) 164
The Adam tablet by notion ink will have the option for the Pixel-Qi display and it looks like that it will be released for Xmas or early January.
Comment Re:at least try to get it right (Score 1) 1193
I don't understand why you think this.
A company sells a product for as much profit as it can. If a company makes $1Billion a year on its products and pays 10% taxes they make 900 million.
If you drop the tax to 0% then they make $1Billion.
They do not reduce the cost of their goods by 10% so that they only make $900 million and they do not pay their employees more.
Trickle down economics is a myth.
If that is not the point you were trying to make please explain what these hidden taxes are
Comment Re:Rotate (Score 0, Troll) 1140
I have two monitors on my work computer. One is 1680X1050 and is Standard Landscape the other is 1024X1280 ie a "regular" Monitor turned 90. This isn't a difficult concept to grasp unless you are a complete moron.
At home I currently only have one monitor but if am reading a document or digital comic I turn the monitor sideways.
The first thing you need to do to become more productive is to pull your head out of your ass.
Comment Re: spelling (Score 1) 183
Extended ASCII
alt+0231 ç
alt+0232 è
and so on.
Comment Re:Exaggerate much? (Score 1) 560
From the Edmonton sun December 15, 2009
Edmonton was the coldest place in North America yesterday morning and the second chilliest in the world. The Edmonton International Airport saw a record low of -46.1 C and -58.4 C with the windchill, outfreezing even the Arctic.
http://www.edmontonsun.com/news/edmonton/2009/12/13/12141366.html
Yes I was exaggerating slightly I should have said -30C.
Comment Re:5.5? Feh! (Score 5, Insightful) 560
Yeah, and if the temperature in southern California dropped to -40C and dumped 2 feet of snow, California would be shut down for a week and the national guard would be called in.
Where as in Edmonton, Alberta that's a regular Tuesday (in January).
It's all a matter of perspective.
If your on a ocean going vessel and your hit by a 30m rouge wave that's a minor incident.
If on the other hand your riding your bike through the park and get hit by a 30m rouge wave You may drown and the event is going to make headlines the world over.
Alberta Scientists Discover Largest-Ever Cache of Dinosaur Bones 154
Cryolithic writes "The largest cache of dinosaur bones ever found has been unearthed in Alberta. From the article: '... officials at the Royal Tyrrell Museum say the Hilda site provides the first solid evidence that some horned dinosaur herds were much larger than previously thought, with numbers comfortably in the high hundreds to low thousands. ... Rather than picturing the animals as drowning while crossing a river, a classic scenario that has been used to explain bonebed occurrences at many sites in Alberta, the research team interpreted the vast coastal landscape as being submerged during tropical storms or hurricanes. With no high ground to escape to, most of the members of the herd drowned in the rising coastal waters. Carcasses were deposited in clumps across kilometers of ancient landscape as floodwaters receded.'"
Comment Re:Apple. (Score 1) 539
We have tried all sorts of systems like Anarchy, Capitalism, Communism, Democracy, Dictatorship, Fascism, Feudalism, Monarchy, Theocracy, and Tyranny
Why not try something else like a Demarchy.
At the least it would make it harder for people to bitch about decisions made because it just might be them making the next big decision.
Comment Re:Missing option (Score 1) 594
In Canada the debit card is king. Every store from Walmart to the smallest convience store takes interact and has since 1993.
The only time I used to use cash was for pizza delivery but now with the wireless machines I don't even need that. Pennies are no longer needed as far as I am concerned in fact any cash is the exception as opposed to the rule.
Exception is vending machines why can't I use debit card at vending machines?
