Comment Article seems completely wrong (Score 0) 64
There is nothing about TED doing this on the USGS website. It's a Twitter alert system, nothing more. Or does anyone see something different?
Comment Re:I'd be one of the first to go (Score 1) 840
Have you never heard of the Fall of Constantinople? Just because it's in some dumb movie doesn't mean you can attribute the Renaissance to bloodshed.
Comment Re:Hotter != more heat (Score 2) 182
If you immediately know the candle light is fire, then the meal was cooked a long time ago...
Submission + - Launch Your Own Nanosat Into Space (wordpress.com) 1
Rozine writes: Ever wanted to launch your own satellite into space? Thanks to a project at the Cornell Space Science Lab, now you can. In the words of the grad student leading the project, Zac Manchester, "What better way of showing off your uber-geek credentials than having your own spacecraft?" Zac hopes that by shrinking the size of each spacecraft and using advancements in computer and solar cell technology, satellites can follow the path of the personal computer revolution, opening up space for the masses. For small donations you will receive mementos, but for $300 and up you will get your very own satellite to be launched into space. Perfect for slashdotters and school projects everywhere!
Comment Re:3.6 Starts pretty damn fast. (Score 1) 537
Mine started instantaneously on a fresh install, but now can take several seconds (!), and nothing's wrong with my SSD. I seem to remember reading about some issue with the awesome bar DB that causes FF to get slower and slower as it goes along...
Comment Re:HTTP/real estate (Score 2) 87
The MTA museum offers these tours occasionally: http://mta.info/mta/museum/index.html. Keep an eye out for it. You can sleep on my couch if you want.
Comment Re:Oh dear... (Score 1) 630
What are you talking about?
1. Mozilla never developed Netscape.
2. Netscape supported videos through the native operating system - a sensible, sane, fast way to play videos. If only WMP hadn't been such a target for malware, and slow to start up, it would have taken off, too.
Comment Re:To me, it's a question of mobility. (Score 1) 572
Huh? Zune - can you even write apps for that? Kin - you can't write apps for that, it's not a smartphone. Windows 7 mobile - since when do you need Microsoft's involvement to release an app for that? I haven't used windows 7, but previous stuff, like windows CE, was an open platform - not FOSS, but you could do whatever you wanted with what you had. Palm too, btw. That's why this new trend emanating from Apple is so devastatingly bad for freedom. Lay off the RDF.
Comment #11 was real! (Score 2, Informative) 56
I still own my foldable keyboard, although I got it wet and haven't gotten around to trying to fix it yet. It was awesome! I keep on wishing I had one for my current Palm TX...
Comment Re:Sounds like a KDE-type cleanup (Score 1) 276
Any application, not just GNOME applications, can use filesystems mounted with GNOME's 'connect to server' feature, for instance. I think it's more desirable to write a FUSE module than a KDE-specific KIOSlave.
You say that, but if you look at the apps on the ground, most, well, don't. For instance, I can mount my network drive using GVFS all I want, but I still can't watch anything on it, since VLC has no clue about it. A nice idea, but it would be preferable if they integrated it into the rest of Linux too. That said, I use Gnome every day.
Comment Re:Other Amendments (Score 1) 490
That is incorrect. The American Civil War was about a century after the Constitution came into effect, minus a couple decades.
Comment Re:You get what you pay for? (Score 4, Informative) 423
I understand your frustration, but you're doing it wrong. If you use the official hardware drivers program in the administration menu, kernel upgrades will not cause this behavior. (This is actually the default behavior on a new install now - it pops up and asks you). And it is supported by Canonical.
Comment Re:"negotiate a buyout with the contractor" (Score 1) 200
Mod parent up. This is actually one of the first posts I've seen on slashdot that's actually gotten the bailouts factually correct.
Comment Re:You always need to be first! (Score 1) 314
Not that I'm defending this idiocy, but...
Two equal camps, check.
Group all "current" scientists together, check.
Appeal to "reasonable folks" who want to find a "middle ground", check.
Can you push any more buttons from the anti-science and anti-evolution camp? This is simple physics - non-ionizing radiation does not cause damage to DNA, period. There is real research on this. What more do you want?
The next time I hear someone appeal to the average man for authority in politics I'm going to go crazy. If I wanted the idiot down the street making decisions for me I would have asked him myself. I want people who have actually spent some time researching this to give me information, thanks.
Best Man Rigs Newlyweds' Bed To Tweet During Sex 272
When an UK man was asked to be the best man at a friend's wedding he agreed that he would not pull any pranks before or during the ceremony. Now the groom wishes he had extended the agreement to after the blessed occasion as well. The best man snuck into the newlyweds' house while they were away on their honeymoon and placed a pressure-sensitive device under their mattress. The device now automatically tweets when the couple have sex. The updates include the length of activity and how vigorous the act was on a scale of 1-10.
