Comment Coriolis Effect (Score 1) 195
Which way do your toilets flush down there? Clockwise or anti-clockwise?
Comment Not Really HTML5... (Score 5, Informative) 177
So far as I can tell this is mostly just html4.1 plus some web-fonts thrown in (which is properly css3), and a bunch of mostly browser-specific css. Not really html5. They mention canvas in their introduction, but I haven't come across an example.
Certainly looks better than the flash, but take a look at the source code and it'll make your eyes bleed. So much for semantic code - there are spans and divs up the wazoo.
Comment 15 minutes or 15 seconds? (Score 3, Interesting) 163
The CNN article states that the fireball was visible for about 15 minutes. That seems awfully long for a meteor.
Comment Re:Wrong way round, Lovey (Score 1) 865
You're jumping the gun there.
We could argue over defintions (since what you're describing there I would never consider as 'communism') but let me just say this: I'm against capitalism because it places control of economic (and, to a great degree, political) life in the hands of a small economic elite. Why would I think that placing the control of both economic and political life into the hands of a political elite would be any better?
Comment Wrong way round, Lovey (Score 4, Insightful) 865
I'm pretty sure it's actually the lack of democracy (for lack of a better word) coupled with the dynamics of capitalism that have us in this hole.
Comment I RTFA... (Score 4, Informative) 279
...and this isn't the conclusion that I immediately jumped to - the discovery of dark matter. It's merely the discovery of the visible matter that they though should always be there.
90% of the Universe Found Hiding In Plain View 279
The Bad Astronomer writes "As much as 90% of previously hidden galaxies in the distant Universe have been found by astronomers using the Very Large Telescope in Chile. Previous surveys had looked for distant (10 billion light years away) galaxies by searching in a wavelength of ultraviolet light emitted by hydrogen atoms — distant young galaxies should be blasting out this light, but very few were detected. The problem is that the ultraviolet light never gets out of the galaxies, so we never see them. In this new study, astronomers searched a different wavelength emitted by hydrogen, and voila, ten times as many galaxies could be seen, meaning 90% of them had been missed before."
Comment Re:Sub-Orbital == Final Frontier? (Score 1) 190
Actually, I'm pretty sure it's still just a money pit. Except now the money going into the pit is coming from a bunch of rich pricks as opposed the State.
Nothing of actual value is being produced except for, well, the profit Virgin is making from its pit. Seems somehow circular to me.
Comment Is this coming to Linux? (Score 1) 631
A little off-topic, but I was wondering if anyone knows if a GrandCentral clone may be coming to Linux?
I know FreeBSD has integrated libdispatch into their kernel, but due to licensing issues this can't be done with the Linux kernel.
Nearby Star Forecast To Skirt Solar System 135
PipianJ writes "A recent preprint posted on arXiv by Vadim Bobylev presents some startling new numbers about a future close pass of one of our stellar neighbors. Based on studies of the Hipparcos catalog, Bobylev suggests that the nearby orange dwarf Gliese 710 has an 86% chance of skirting the outer bounds of the Solar System and the hypothesized Oort Cloud in the next 1.5 million years. As the Oort Cloud is thought to be the source of many long-period comets, the gravitational effects of Gliese's passing could send a shower of comets into the inner Solar System, threatening Earth. This news about Gliese 710 isn't exactly new, but it's one of the first times the probability of this near-miss has been quantified."
Comment Re:Um why (Score 1) 221
I suspect it is because the government has $1.5 billion awaiting to be awarded to an ISP or ISPs to implement a next generation broadband network across the country. They're all biting at the bit to be awarded part of the contract, and I suspect that they think complying with a voluntary filter will increase their chances.
More a case of the carrot than the stick, and politics carries on as usual.
Comment Re:SFTP improvements (Score 2, Funny) 127
- Implement tab-completion of commands, local and remote filenames
Well thank frak.
How To Replace FileVault With EncFS 65
agoston.horvath writes "I've written a HOWTO on replacing Mac OS X's built-in encryption (FileVault) with the well-known FUSE-based EncFS. It worked well for me, and most importantly: it is a lot handier than what Apple has put together. This is especially useful if you are using a backup solution like Time Machine. Includes Whys, Why Nots, and step-by-step instructions."
Pluto — a Complex and Changing World 191
astroengine writes "After 4 years of processing the highest resolution photographs the Hubble Space Telescope could muster, we now have the highest resolution view of Pluto's surface ever produced. Most excitingly, these new observations show an active world with seasonal changes altering the dwarf planet's surface. It turns out that this far-flung world has more in common with Earth than we would have ever imagined."
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