Comment Re:Missing option: (Score 1) 219
Just use the built in Linux 'ddate' command in a terminal to find the current discordian date from the system time. see 'man ddate' for more information.
FCC To Propose Net Neutrality Rules 110
wiredog writes "From The Washington Post comes news that the FCC is preparing to propose net neutrality rules on Monday. Quoting: '[FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski] will discuss the rules Monday during a keynote speech at The Brookings Institute. He isn't expected to drill into many details, but the proposal will specifically be for an additional guideline on how operators like AT&T, Verizon, and Comcast can control what goes on their networks. That additional guideline would prevent the operators from discriminating, or act as gatekeepers, of Web content and services. ... The agency is expected to review what traffic management is reasonable and what practices are discriminatory. The guidelines are known as "principals" at the agency, which some public interest groups have sought to codify so that they would clearly be enforceable.'"
Comment Re:Hmm (Score 1) 85
RTFA? I had fun finding the pictures that looked like paper tape and hollerith punch cards... then I ran across the one that looked like a program board for an IBM 557 and gave up.
Comment Re:What's the basis of the count? (Score 1) 408
That depends on the airport, and the gates. I flew through Kansas City once (never again) and every gate had TSA probes. Every other airport where I have had to transfer, I was lucy enough to be in the same area as the arriving flight.
Can I change my vote? I was counting round trips with transfers as ONE. Silly me.
Comment EDLIN (Score 1) 437
I would rather use console switches in binary, but I used a early line editor (years ago) to write my own editor. Besides, rumor has it, EDLIN was the only program actually written by Bill Gates.
Comment Re:Run a productive Meeting (Score 1) 161
4. No meeting, class, or gathering should last more than a micro-century. Do the math; 365.2425 x 100 = days in century x 1440 = minutes in a century / 1M = Maximum meeting time. Minimum 0, so 40 minutes does fall within the law.
Comment Spam is a good thing (Score 1) 176
Kill all your spam filters, then print it out and use it to heat your house when it gets cold. Problem solved, especially if you use green paper and ink.
Comment Re:So half the time they are better? (Score 1) 532
Cool... how do you use Google Reader to access /. ? Is that an IE only thing? I use Linux and FireFox. Will it work with that? If it does, can I migrate to GR for all my on-line applications?
Comment Re:Work is the amount of energy (Score 1) 252
I'm retired so I don't get paid as such. I get up in the morning with nothing to do, and go to bed at night with only half of it done. I like to ride my bicycle almost every day, so expending energy to move my jewels/mASS has to count for some definition of work.
Comment Re:My Network (Score 1) 1397
What about wireless network names? Drive around sometime with wifi-radar or one of the other hotspot scanners and you may discover My Network: NoNetHere or NoneThere, depending on how you parse. One of my machines is NowHere or is it NoWhere? No particular theme, just what pops out while setting a machine up. So I end up with names like M00, P00, anonxmous, y0da, etla (Extended or Enhanced or Expanded Three Letter Acronym), etcetera.
Comment Re:Slashdot, I'm in shock! (Score 1) 429
I worked in upstate NY, and retired from there and moved to Florida... it is the law! Have not had a hurricane since I got an emergency generator. As far as losing internet connectivity, I have wireless, you insensitive clod.
Comment Re:IP and Hardware addresses (Score 1) 516
Not invalid, but different than what you expect. A leading zero in an ip address implies octal rather than decimal number base. An ip of 216.34.181.45 is not the same as 216.034.181.045, one gets you nowhere and the other gets you spam, or vice versa.
Journal Journal: Surgery without stitches
A new way to heal wounds has been developed that eliminates scarring from sutures by sealing surgical incisions with a laser:
A thin polymer bio-film that seals surgical wounds could make sutures a relic of medical history. Measuring just 50 microns thick, the film is placed on a surgical wound and exposed to an infrared laser, which heats the film just enough to meld it and the tissue, thus perfectly sealing the wound. Known as Surgilux, the device's raw material is extracted from crab shells
Technobabble at it's Finest 2
samzenpus writes "I'm not sure how he learned his lines but this actor deserves an Academy Award for memory. I give you Rockwell Automations Retroencabulator."
FBI Bullet Analysis Technique Invalidated With Science
Hugh Pickens writes "The Washington Post reports that the FBI has abandoned comparative bullet-lead analysis, the technique using chemistry to link crime-scene bullets to ones possessed by suspects. The comparison was made on the theory that each batch of lead had a unique elemental makeup. The National Academy of Sciences has revealed that decades of FBI statements to jurors linking a particular bullet to those found in a suspect's gun or cartridge box were so overstated that such testimony should be considered 'misleading under federal rules of evidence.' NAS says that the flaw is in using a statistical method called chaining (pdf). Analysts sequentially compared crime scene bullets to a set of reference bullets ... which can lead to the formation of artificially large sets of matching bullets. The government has fought releasing the list of the estimated 2,500 cases over three decades in which the FBI performed the flawed analysis."
