Comment Re:Mohole and Kola (Score 1) 267
It was also twice deeper.
Comment Re:OOH! SCARY STORY! (Score 5, Funny) 528
I would rather not have to carry a suitcase full of money through the airport.
Rich people with their problems.
Comment Re:"does some spying and reporting on you" (Score 1) 635
Why do you assume that the watermark is stored as text. It would be more logical if it was a (compressed) image containing the company's logo along with non-commercial use notice.
Comment Re:Wishfull thinking (Score 2) 209
There, in fact, is a very good reason for that. The very fundamental architectural decision (although very common in those ancient times) of spawning one thread/process per client connection has to be changed first, before Apache can take on Nginx. That means complete rewrite; and result will not be Apache anymore.
Comment Re:claiming "multiplatform" but no installers (Score 1) 87
Looks like it's just* a Django application.
* Really big one.
* Really big one.
Comment Re:I'm not sure what the big deal is. (Score 2) 239
Not only that. You just don't know where they are going to stop. Placing cameras on every intersection will be analogous to placing GPS tracker on every vehicle.
Comment Re:Good grief. Religious zealots really annoy me. (Score 1) 356
You have it all inside out. You can't have your mass converted into energy and still have your mass. Maybe it's not very obvious in case of the whole planet, but take this elementary example. Annihilation of electron and positron creates pair of gamma photons. That is electron and positron disappear and two gamma photons with total energy equal to mass equivalent of the original electron/positron pair appear. As you probably know, photons have mass 0. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electron%E2%80%93positron_annihilation
Comment Re:not to mention getting run over by SUVs (Score 1) 222
Also, yes, I acknowledge that some families require larger vehicles to haul around hockey gear and three kids and whatnot.
Those buy minivans, not SUVs.
Comment Re:Do no evil indeed (Score 1) 383
Not a guess. The originating network, however is located in Kenia.
]$ geoiplookup 41.203.221.138
GeoIP Country Edition: KE, Kenya
]$ geoiplookup 41.203.221.138
GeoIP Country Edition: KE, Kenya
Comment Re:Why so angry? (Score 4, Informative) 119
Found it here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_program#Budget
The actual total cost of the shuttle program through 2011, adjusted for inflation, is $196 billion.[5] The exact breakdown into non-recurring and recurring costs is not available, but, according to NASA, the average cost to launch a Space Shuttle as of 2011 is about $450 million per mission.
And here: http://www.nasa.gov/centers/kennedy/about/information/shuttle_faq.html#10
Q. How much does it cost to launch a Space Shuttle? A. The average cost to launch a Space Shuttle is about $450 million per mission.
In other words this five year agreement costs about as much as three Shuttle launches.
Comment Re:Why so angry? (Score 1) 119
Do you by any chance also know how much they've spent in the last five years to do it themselves? Not rolling, just curious.
Comment Re:That was a terrible article (Score 1) 326
That's because you are not concentrating in important things. They use laser! Anything done with a laser has to be awesome. And combine that with diamonds... Lasers and diamonds!! But that's not all. There is also "laser light that emerge from this mysterious transformation". Lasers, diamonds and mystery. What not to like?
Comment Re:Several thoughts on this rather positive trend (Score 1) 201
GPL, BSD, Apache are all Copyleft licenses.
Comment Re:Awesome! (Score 2) 282
You should sell it while it's high.
Comment Re:This does work and isn't an illusion. (Score 1) 251
If you want to learn more the key terms to search for is image deblurring with deconvolution.
There is a detailed explanation along with practical application I came across long time ago: http://www.fmwconcepts.com/imagemagick/fourier_transforms/fourier.html#motion_blur
