Comment Get the name right (Score 1) 398
They are the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and are the equivalent of the Federal Investigation Bureau in the U.S.
CyanogenMod 9 Working On the Nexus S 218
MrSeb writes with an article in Extreme Tech about progress toward getting an AOSP build working on the Nexus S. From the article: "Over the past week, ROM Manager extraordinaire Koush has been frantically working on making a working build of CyanogenMod 9 (Ice Cream Sandwich) for the Samsung Nexus S. The custom ROM, which is built purely from the Android Open Source Project, has now reached 'alpha 11.' All major features are present and no significant bugs remain. It's too early to say that the build is ready for prime time or mission-critical work — the final release of CM9 is due in the new year — but it's certainly stable enough for daily use. The most significant feature, if you can call it that, is that Koush's build of ICS is really very smooth — it's as nimble as Gingerbread, if not more so. Unlike the previous, non-CM build that was released last week, this alpha build of CM9 has every feature enabled, including Google Wallet, and setting a mobile data limit. As usual, the custom ROM is pre-rooted, has ROM Manager installed, and absolutely no bloatware. "
Astronaut Sues Dido For Album Cover 264
An anonymous reader writes "Astronaut Bruce McCandless is suing Dido for her album cover that uses a famous NASA photograph of a tiny, tiny, tiny McCandless floating in space. McCandless doesn't own the copyright on the photo, so he's claiming it's a violation of his publicity rights ... except that he's so tiny in the photo, it's not like anyone's going to recognize him."
Comment Light bulbs and batteries (Score 1) 364
Firstly, don't knock light bulbs and batteries as they teach the basic concepts of series, parallel, and series-parallel circuits and digital logic (AND, OR, NOR, etc), secondly for $5 dollars you won't be doing much with modern electronics as they require FPGAs, ASICs, DSPs, etc. A silicon diode has a 1V/degree celsius response and as such makes a handy temperature gauge. I have used this as a college lab where students take a temperature reading, apply heat and then take a reading with the diode thermometer and calculate the change in temperature. This helps the students understand the role of components as well as the effect of temperature on electronic components.
Malcolm Gladwell Challenges the Idea of "Free" 206
An anonymous reader brings us another bump on the bumpy road of Chris Anderson's new book, Free: The Future of a Radical Price, which we discussed a week ago. Now the Times (UK) is reporting on a dustup between Anderson and Malcolm Gladwell, author of The Tipping Point, Blink, and Outliers. Recently Gladwell reviewed, or rather deconstructed, Anderson's book in the New Yorker. Anderson has responded with a blog post that addresses some, but by no means all, of Gladwell's criticisms, and The Times is inclined to award the match to Gladwell on points. Although their reviewer didn't notice that Gladwell, in setting up the idea of "Free" as a straw man, omitted a critical half of Stewart Brand's seminal quote.
Streaming March Madness On Linux? 120
neersign writes "March Madness is here and NCAA.com is streaming all of the games over the internet for free. The downside is they are using Microsoft technologies to do so. The standard player lists Windows XP/Vista, IE6, and WMP 9 as the base requirements. The High Quality Video Player requires Silverlight 2. So my question is: how would a Linux user be able to work around these requirements and watch the games?"
Comment Re:My name is (Score 1) 965
You are forgetting about Jones' stellar performance as the catholic mother. Chapman and Idle played the protestant couple across the street who also had as many children as the number of times they had intercourse.
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