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Comment Re:Great Britain =/= England (Score 1) 1027

by bugmonkey on Sunday September 12, 2010 @03:32PM (#33555070) Attached to: Geocentrists Convene To Discuss How Galileo Was Wrong

The USA gained its independence from the United Kingdom of Great Britain - basically a former existence of the current United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. They could have at least found out the answer to their own question before deciding if people were right or wrong.

Submission + - Things not looking for the BBC's iPlayer (binaryfreedom.info)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 14, 2007 @01:12AM

An anonymous reader writes: The future of iPlayer, the BBC's new online on-demand system for delivering content is continuing to look bleaker. With ISPs threatening to throttle the content delivered through the BBC's iPlayer, consumers petitioning the UK government and the BBC to drop the DRM and Microsoft-only technology, and threatened legal action from the OSC, the last thing the BBC wanted today was street protests at their office and at the BBC Media Complex accompanied by a report issued by DefectiveByDesign about their association with Microsoft.

Submission + - Building a (fast) Wikipedia offline reader (softlab.ntua.gr)

Submitted by

ttsiod

on Monday August 13, 2007 @10:45AM

ttsiod writes: "An internet connection is not always at hand... I wanted to install Wikipedia on my laptop to be able to carry it along with me on business trips... After trying and rejecting the normal (MySQL-based) procedure, I quickly hacked a much better one over the weekend, using open source tools. Highlights: (1) Very fast searching (2) Keyword (actually, title words) based searching (3) Search produces multiple possible articles, sorted by probability (you choose amongst them) (4) LaTEX based rendering for Mathematical equations (5) Harddisk usage is minimal: space for the original .bz2 file plus the index built through Xapian (6) Orders of magnitude faster to install (a matter of hours) compared to loading the "dump" into MySQL — which, if you want to enable keyword searching, takes *days*. Enjoy!"

Submission + - Surviving in Space Without a Spacesuit (slate.com) 1

Submitted by

Geoffrey

on Tuesday August 07, 2007 @08:54AM

Geoffrey writes: "The recent movie Sunshine features a scene (echoing the famous scene in 2001: a Space Odyssey) in which two astronauts have to cross from one ship to another without spacesuits. But, can you survive in space without a spacesuit? Morgan Smith, writing in Slate, asks whether this is realistic, and concludes: "Yes, for a very short time.""

Comment Re:Bah. (Score 1) 300

by bugmonkey on Monday February 27, 2006 @12:16PM (#14809549) Attached to: Indestructible Super Mug To Save Humanity

Those who can't teach, teach Geography.

Well, that's what I heard anyway...

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