Comment Bad cops bad cops whatcha gonna do (Score 1) 112
whatcha gonna do when they pirate YOU.
Submission + - Biggest Changes in C++11 and Why You Should Care) (softwarequalityconnection.com) 1
Esther Schindler writes: "It’s been 13 years since the first iteration of the C++ language. Danny Kalev, a former member of the C++ standards committee, explains how the programming language has been improved and how it can help you write better code."
Comment Re:A lesson to learn (Score 1) 149
I'm sure they valued the software highly enough. What they failed to value were the developers. Ironically, this was Sun's failure also.
Comment Ockham's Razor (Score 1) 240
Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity. Much more likely that they're so enthralled by their discovery that they can't help boasting.
Comment Obligatory Geoff (Score 1) 92
Balls!
Comment Re:TFA isn't the full story. (Score 2) 113
Read the Hugh Grant story. The Prime Minister himself is implicated. A significant number of police are implicated. Murdocracy has corrupted politics itself in the UK. I'm not amazed the government has done nothing, I'm amazed they're allowing the story to build up steam.
Comment No no no no (Score 2) 585
I'm certain that the Elders of the Internet would never allow Satanism to flourish. Unless it hadn't been properly demagnetized...
Submission + - New quantum record: 14 bits! (nanowerk.com)
Tx-0 writes: Quantum physicists from the University of Innsbruck have set another world record: They have achieved controlled entanglement of 14 quantum bits (qubits) and, thus, realized the largest quantum register that has ever been produced. With this experiment the scientists have not only come closer to the realization of a quantum computer but they also show surprising results for the quantum mechanical phenomenon of entanglement.
By now the Innsbruck experimental physicists have succeeded in confining up to 64 particles in an ion trap. "We are not able to entangle this high number of ions yet," says Thomas Monz. "However, our current findings provide us with a better understanding about the behavior of many entangled particles." And this knowledge may soon enable them to entangle even more atoms.
By now the Innsbruck experimental physicists have succeeded in confining up to 64 particles in an ion trap. "We are not able to entangle this high number of ions yet," says Thomas Monz. "However, our current findings provide us with a better understanding about the behavior of many entangled particles." And this knowledge may soon enable them to entangle even more atoms.
Comment Re:Reasonable Choices. (Score 4, Informative) 105
In every debate using the worm here (Oz), at least one media organization always accuses the others of manipulating theirs, regardless of the result. So if you weren't already influenced then you had to ignore the deliberate media muddling of the issues. On top of the normal deliberate media muddling of course. But it doesn't stop commentators twittering them as a spectator sport anyway. This may be why we had a record 1.6% deliberate donkey vote in our last federal election.
Submission + - NYT Paywall Cost $40million (harvard.edu)
An anonymous reader writes: Aside from wondering who will pay more than the cost of a Wall Street Journal subscription in order to subscribe to the New York Times, my biggest question right now is how the NY Times spent a reported $40-50 million writing the code (Bloomberg; other sources are consistent). Google was financed with $25 million. The New York Times already had a credit card processing system for selling home delivery. It already had a database management system for keeping track of Web site registrants. What did they spend the $40-50 million on?
Comment IOW obscurity=security fails again (Score 1) 492
The groundwork they did will be most sought-after.
Why Do Videogames Struggle With Sex? 465
brumgrunt writes "Why do videogames still treat sex in such a two dimensional way? Why do they snigger at it, or treat it as a reward? Den Of Geek has been taking a look." I always figured it was some combination of games being made by our inner adolescent, marketed to the outer ones, and getting banned whenever they take sex seriously.
Submission + - Getting Computers to Recognize Facial Expressions (gizmag.com)
Zothecula writes: Binghamton University computer scientist Lijun Yin thinks that using a computer should be a comfortable and intuitive experience, like talking to a friend. As anyone who has ever yelled "Why did you go and do that?" at their PC or Mac will know, however, using a computer is currently sometimes more like talking to an overly-literal government bureaucrat who just doesn't get you. Thanks to Yin's work with things like emotion recognition, however, that might be on its way to becoming a thing of the past.
Comment Teddy Ticklebum, bad ass bear (Score 1) 112
Uh Oh!
Comment Re:Facebook is pretty much an abusive platform (Score 2) 130
Yep, its all in the textbook.
The good thing about this is that companies with this mindset from the beginning need a rock solid market opportunity to get too big to ignore. Yes, Facebook is in a good position now, but its really only at the whim of favoritism. Missteps expose their complete sociopathy, and I don't think Facebook is so central to the industry that anyone cares if they fall.
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