aweinert - Slashdot User

Comment Not Really (Score 1) 158

by aweinert on Sunday December 23, 2007 @04:55PM (#21800174) Attached to: 44 Conjectures of Stephen Wolfram Disproved

All the author does is show that 44 of the boolean equations [out the 256 3 input equations in 1-D cellular autmata] Wolfram provides are not minimal.
The author also shows that 8 of these are not minimal by inspection, since the maximum size of the minimal equations over this basis is 5.

Senators Call for Universal Internet Filtering 628

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday July 25, 2007 @09:23PM from the welcome-to-your-new-child-friendly-web dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes "US senators today made a bipartisan call for the universal implementation of filtering and monitoring technologies on the Internet in order to protect children. Their statement came at the end of a Senate hearing in which civil liberties groups were not invited."

Pluto Decision Meets with Frustration 464

Posted by Zonk on Friday August 25, 2006 @06:31PM from the tiny-grey-different dept.

fuzzybunny writes "The BBC reports that the IAU's controversial Prague vote on demoting Pluto from planet status was irregular. 'There were 2,700 astronomers in Prague during that 10-day period. But only 10% of them voted this afternoon.'" On a less serious note, lx writes "Nonplussed by Pluto's recent downgrade from Planet Status, Fox News's own John Gibson does an incredible Stephen Colbert impersonation to correct the 'revisionist history' of the IAU's decision. Exemplifying 'truthiness,' from the article: 'Long ago I learned it was a planet and I see no reason to unlearn it. Why should I?' "

Largest Object in the Universe Discovered 274

Posted by CowboyNeal on Saturday July 29, 2006 @10:57AM from the that's-a-big-twinkie dept.

prostoalex writes "Quick, think of the largest object you can imagine. Whatever your imagination delivered it probably wasn't an 'enormous amoeba-like structure 200 light-years wide and made up of galaxies and large bubbles of gas,' a newly found object, as USA Today reports."

GPL Causing Problems for Derivative Linux Distros 386

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Tuesday June 27, 2006 @06:19PM from the rules-just-make-everything-harder dept.

NewsForge (Also owned by VA) is reporting on a recent discovery by Warren Woodford about how the GPL could affect derivative Linux distributions. This could make life difficult for those small distros that are being maintained by one or two people in their spare time due to the high amount of work it creates. From the article: "Woodford does supply the source code for MEPIS' reconfigured kernel in a Debian source-package. His mistake seems to have been the assumption that, so long as the source code was available somewhere, he did not have to provide it himself if he hadn't modified it. While he has not contacted any other distributions, he suspects that he is far from the only one to make this assumption. 'We, like 10,000 other people, probably, believed we were covered by the safe harbor of having an upstream distribution available online,' Woodford says. 'I think, of the 500 distributions tracked by DistroWatch, probably 450 of them are in trouble right now per this position.'"

Spacecraft Crashes Into Satellite 343

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday May 18, 2006 @12:25AM from the coming-or-going dept.

Juha-Matti Laurio writes "A robotic NASA spacecraft designed to rendezvous with an orbiting satellite instead crashed into its target. Unbeknownst to engineers at the time, DART's main sensor mistakenly believed it was flying away from the satellite when it was actually moving 5 feet per second toward it, investigators found."

Slashdot Top Deals