Comment 1984? (Score 1) 166
Nah, we're way past that...
Comment Content Policing is Good for Business? (Score 2) 59
Which rule of Acquisition is that?
Comment Nuh-uh (Score 1) 72
I wouldn't even let Amazon park near my house for $10!
And Jeff Bozos does not have enough funds available to buy any physical print of me.
Comment Re:Do I see a renaissance in 24" bike wheels? (Score 1) 708
Also recumbent 4-wheel pedal-powered quadracycles.
Oh, you mean like this one?
Comment Re:That'll be interesting (Score 1) 397
14772 Low enough fer ya?
Comment Re:British bots (Score 1) 342
No, I think it'd have been "delete.. delete..".
Comment Re:Disturbing lack of imagination... (Score 1) 304
I've got a garmin handheld and switched over to openstreetmap maps on it. Works real good for me, both for bicycle and car navigation (different maps, but can be switched on/off).
Comment I'm surprised noone has posted this one yet. (Score 2) 392
Our OS who art in CPU, UNIX be thy name.
Thy programs run, thy syscalls done,
In kernel as it is in user.
Comment Re:Solar Power? (Score 1) 409
From TFA:
"Why does it cost so much? To power an air conditioner at a remote outpost in land-locked Afghanistan, a gallon of fuel has to be shipped into Karachi, Pakistan, then driven 800 miles over 18 days to Afghanistan on roads that are sometimes little more than "improved goat trails," Anderson says."
"Why does it cost so much? To power an air conditioner at a remote outpost in land-locked Afghanistan, a gallon of fuel has to be shipped into Karachi, Pakistan, then driven 800 miles over 18 days to Afghanistan on roads that are sometimes little more than "improved goat trails," Anderson says."
Bringing in solar panels would reduce costs in the long run, but the transport investment would be the same or higher. I agree that there are greener ways to handle this. Personally, I think it's insane they provide air conditioning at all.
Comment Re:Shit, this is what I feared (Score 4, Funny) 159
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Submission + - RIAA lobbyist becomes federal judge, rules on file (arstechnica.com) 1
suraj.sun writes: RIAA lobbyist becomes federal judge, rules on file-sharing cases:
Last week, Washington, DC federal judge Beryl Howell ruled on three mass file-sharing lawsuits. Judges in Texas, West Virginia, and Illinois had all ruled recently that such lawsuits were defective in various ways, but Howell gave her cases the green light; attorneys could use the federal courts to sue thousands of people at once and then issue mass subpoenas to Internet providers.
Beryl Howell isn't the only judge to believe this, but her important ruling is especially interesting because of Howell's previous work: lobbying for the recording industry during the time period when the RIAA was engaged in its own campaign of mass lawsuits against individuals. The news, first reported in a piece at TorrentFreak, nicely illustrates the revolving door between government and industry.
ARS Technica: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/03/riaa-lobbyist-becomes-federal-judge-rules-on-file-sharing-cases.ars
Last week, Washington, DC federal judge Beryl Howell ruled on three mass file-sharing lawsuits. Judges in Texas, West Virginia, and Illinois had all ruled recently that such lawsuits were defective in various ways, but Howell gave her cases the green light; attorneys could use the federal courts to sue thousands of people at once and then issue mass subpoenas to Internet providers.
Beryl Howell isn't the only judge to believe this, but her important ruling is especially interesting because of Howell's previous work: lobbying for the recording industry during the time period when the RIAA was engaged in its own campaign of mass lawsuits against individuals. The news, first reported in a piece at TorrentFreak, nicely illustrates the revolving door between government and industry.
ARS Technica: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/03/riaa-lobbyist-becomes-federal-judge-rules-on-file-sharing-cases.ars
Submission + - Can you really be traced from an IP address? (pcpro.co.uk)
Barence writes: "Identifying individuals using nothing more than their IP address has become a key part of anti-piracy and criminal investigations. But a PC Pro investigation casts serious doubt on the validity of IP-based evidence.
"In general, the accuracy of IP address tracing varies depending on the type of user behind the IP address,” Tom Colvin, chief technology officer with security vendor Conseal told PC Pro. “Whilst big businesses can be traceable right back to their datacenters, standard family broadband connections are often hard to locate, even to county-level accuracy."
"The reason is that there are a number of sources of IP address information, the accuracy of which deteriorates with the number of hops from the backbone.""
"In general, the accuracy of IP address tracing varies depending on the type of user behind the IP address,” Tom Colvin, chief technology officer with security vendor Conseal told PC Pro. “Whilst big businesses can be traceable right back to their datacenters, standard family broadband connections are often hard to locate, even to county-level accuracy."
"The reason is that there are a number of sources of IP address information, the accuracy of which deteriorates with the number of hops from the backbone.""
Submission + - Mobile Phone May Rot Your Bones (thinq.co.uk)
Stoobalou writes: Researchers at the the National University of Cuyo, in Mendoza, Argentina, looked at that strange breed — men who wear mobile phones on their hip. They discovered evidence to suggest that the proximity of the mobile phone caused a reduction in bone mineral content (BMC) and bone mineral density (BMD) in the men who wore the phones over a 12-month period, compared to a control group that didn't.
Submission + - Splinternet, or how we broke the good old Web (stormdriver.com)
StormDriver writes: "I don’t want to be that scruffy guy with “The end is nigh” sign and some really bad dental problems, but most industry analysts already noticed that global Internet is coming apart, changing into a cluster of smaller and more closed webs. They have even created a catchy name for this Web 3.0 – the Splinternet. How is it happening?"
Submission + - NASA star satellite recovers from 144-hour glitch (networkworld.com)
coondoggie writes: "There was likely a pretty big sigh of relief at NASA's Ames Research Center this week as the group' star satellite Kepler, recovered from a glitch that took it offline for 144 hours. According to NASA the glitch happened March 14, right after the spacecraft issued a network interface card (NIC) reset command to implement a computer program update. During the reset, the NIC sent invalid reaction wheel data to the flight software, which caused the spacecraft to enter safe mode, NASA stated."
