Comment Re:Old Saying. (Score 1) 438
Two wrongs don't make a right.
But three lefts do make a right!
Comment Re:Aggression in practice, right? (Score 1) 478
Can someone convince me that in the absence of a specific invitation by the legitimate Syrian government, which is the case this time, this [US] action cannot be defined as aggression?
Simple. There isn't a legitimate Syrian government currently.
Comment If Steve Jobs were alive he would have said (Score 3, Funny) 425
You're looking at it wrong!
Comment Re:Everything old is new again (Score 1) 491
Battery technology is far from being advanced enough to make trolleybuses obsolete. 30 miles may be enough to most commuter, but not for buses which should be running non-stop during peak hours. New trolleybuses route have been created, for example the Silver Line in Boston.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S...
Comment Re:emargo on java? (Score 2, Funny) 254
wtf is the point?
Improved security?
Comment That's not really prediction (Score 1) 177
You can only predict things that have not yet happened. I'll be much more impressed If they publish their predictions to future decisions and these turn out to be 70% correct.
Comment Even MS Offic isn't 100% compatible with itself (Score 3, Informative) 192
Anyone who tried to move files between different versions, system with different system languages or, if you are really daring, different platforms knows this.
Comment Re:Bullsh*t (Score 1) 129
Fighting a patent troll in court is much like standing up to a bully. It might hurt you in the short term, but in the long term others will leave you alone because they know you will stand your ground.
Comment Re:9.1 (Score 1) 1009
Windows 2003/2008/2012 are basically the server versions of Windows XP/Vista/7.
Comment Quod licet Iovi, non licet bovi (Score 1) 181
How is that news? This is known for thousands of years.
Comment Re:Illegal behavior (Score 3, Informative) 181
It would have been better to contact FBI and report this fraud. Whoever the hell runs fwdsnp.com needs to spend some time in jail.
This isn't just plain fraud, it's wire fraud. The penalty for it is up to 20 years in prison.
Comment Re:Whatever happened to (Score 1) 240
The laws of physics, namely quantum mechanics, do include randomness in them. Everything is probabilistic in principle. Usually, this randomness isn't manifested at large scales, but under certain circumstances it can be. That's how you build a hardware RNG.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardware_random_number_generator
Comment Artificial intelligence (Score 2) 125
is no match for natural stupidity.
Comment Re:Google has an API to their data (Score 1) 39
The problem is that without (b), there is no way to maintain a comprehensive and up to date database.
Comment Google has an API to their data (Score 1) 39
Which is used by Chrome and Firefox to provide w3C geolocation support. You can call like the following example:
> curl "https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/browserlocation/json?browser=firefox&sensor=true&wifi=mac:00-14-bf-28-80-69|ssid:10160|ss:-26&wifi=mac:00-26-50-38-ca-11|ssid:2WIRE084|ss:-69"
{
"accuracy" : 27.0,
"location" : {
"lat" : 37.32097479999999,
"lng" : -122.0276630
},
"status" : "OK"
}
> curl "https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/browserlocation/json?browser=firefox&sensor=true&wifi=mac:00-14-bf-28-80-69|ssid:10160|ss:-26&wifi=mac:00-26-50-38-ca-11|ssid:2WIRE084|ss:-69"
{
"accuracy" : 27.0,
"location" : {
"lat" : 37.32097479999999,
"lng" : -122.0276630
},
"status" : "OK"
}
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