Comment Presumably? (Score 3, Insightful) 111
Comment On the surface... (Score 2) 538
Comment I say, blame the NSA... (Score 0) 232
Comment Re:Good (Score 1) 491
Well, it wasn't a quote, and it is an old lesson. But still, Luke won by refusing to fight his father.
You must have seen a different movie than I did. He didn't refuse to fight his father, he refused to expediently KILL his father. Even though he did fight his father, even delivering a dismembering blow, he was able to transcend his paralyzing fears of both giving into the dark-side and not protecting the people he cared about. Free from his fear, he became free to simply turn-down Palapatine's command to execute Darth Wheezer. Fortunately, his transcendence unlocked the better part of Anakin's nature, which came flooding out when the emperor brought out his force-Tesla-taze, resulting in the overthrow of the emperor, wheezer, and the armada of lawn darts.
Comment Re:Uh, no. (Score 4, Informative) 496
Comment Relief interviewer..... (Score 3, Interesting) 259
Comment I should know better... (Score 1) 222
Submission + - New BBC Sports Website uses "Semantic Web Technolo (bbc.co.uk)
The innovative content management system extends the already available dynamic semantic publishing, which enables their journalists "to spend more time creating great content and less time managing that content".
The blog post covers some of the technical and lots of the HCI / UI design decisions and is accompanied by a non-technical overview of the re-design.
Submission + - NASA Studying Solar-electric Propulsion for "Space (gizmag.com)
Submission + - Japan plans to merge major science bodies (nature.com)
Plans approved by the government's cabinet on 20 January would consolidate the RIKEN network of basic-research laboratories with the National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), the National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention (NIED) and the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) — the national funding body.
But with few details about the timing, potential cost savings or full implications of the change, many researchers are concerned that it could be a recipe for harsh funding cuts and even greater bureaucracy.
Submission + - ITC throws out B&N antitrust claims against MS (blogspot.com)
Prior to the ALJ, the ITC staff — or more precisely, the Office of Unfair Import Investigations (OUII), which participates in many investigations as a third party representing the public interest — already supported Microsoft's motion all the way. The OUII basically concluded that even if all of what Barnes & Noble said about Microsoft's use of patents against Android was accurate, it would fall far short of the legal requirements for a patent misuse defense.
Submission + - Pirate Bay appeal refused by Swedish Supreme Court (computerworlduk.com)
Over a year ago, the Court of Appeals sentenced Fredrik Neij, Peter Sunde, and Carl Lundström to 10 months, eight months and four months of jail time, respectively. The court also said they must collectively pay a 46 million kronor (£4.3 million) fine.