Comment Hell no (Score 1) 561
I will spend another year with my iphone 6
Comment world hunger (Score 1) 216
I am sure that if all nations work together we could end war and world hunger
Comment Only in America ... (Score 1) 299
oh no wait, also in China and most Middle Eastern countries.
Comment Sinfest deserves your recognition (Score 1) 321
Comics I follow are
http://www.sinfest.com/ (hands down the best)
http://www.dilbert.com/ (still going strong and providing daily comfort)
http://wumocomicstrip.com/ (funny)
http://www.joyoftech.com/joyoftech/index.html (mostly pro mac)
http://www.xkcd.com/ (the tool that belongs in every geeks toolbox)
Comment Metric, stop living in the past (Score 1) 304
same town, but since I live in Seoul
Comment Cowboy Neal for president (Score 1) 707
I would move to the US if he would win.
Comment Seoul (Score 2) 140
In the subway of Seoul wifi has been available to passengers for years. Three public companies (olleh, offer wifi in the subway and many other public places for a price as low as 8000 krw (about 8 USD) per month.
Comment Just don't loose it (Score 1) 191
What is important for me is that my data stays available to me.
If it also becomes available to other
Since I don't back up at all locally, I keep all my data on one raid-5 configuration, the way google/dropbox/apple store my data is probably a lot better.
Comment Re:The guy who invented the wheel (Score 1) 542
He (or maybe a she) also forgot to patent it
Another anonymous great inventor; the person who learned how to control fire.
Comment Cloud Atlas (Score 1) 647
One of the potentially great scifi movies of 2012. Read the book by David Mitchell before the movie is out.
Comment NASA Space Center (Score 1) 363
NASA Space Center in Houston. See a Saturn V rocket and Mission control and several other marvels of wonders.
Comment Re:doodle (Score 1) 241
absolutely, I found that since I use a keyboard all the time I stopped doodling.
Doodling gets my creative juices flowing, so now I have a pen and paper at hand just to doodle.
Submission + - Supercomputers Crack Sixty-Trillionth Binary Digit (energy.gov) 1
Dr.Who writes: According to http://blog.energy.gov/blog/2011/04/28/supercomputers-crack-sixty-trillionth-binary-digit-pi-squared, "a value of Pi to 40 digits would be more than enough to compute the circumference of the Milky Way galaxy to an error less than the size of a proton." The article goes on to cite use of computationally complex algorithms to detect errors in computer hardware.
The article references a blog http://experimentalmath.info/blog/2011/03/Pi-goes-on-forever/ which has more background.
Disclaimers: I attended graduate school at U.C. Berkley. I am presently employed by a software company that sells an infrastructure product named PI.
The article references a blog http://experimentalmath.info/blog/2011/03/Pi-goes-on-forever/ which has more background.
Disclaimers: I attended graduate school at U.C. Berkley. I am presently employed by a software company that sells an infrastructure product named PI.
Rupert Murdoch Publishes North Korean Flash Games 186
eldavojohn writes "You might recall back in June when it was noted that North Korea was developing and exporting flash games. Now, the isolated nation state is apparently home to some game developers that are being published by a subsidiary of News Corp. (The games include Big Lebowski Bowling and Men In Black). Nosotek Joint Venture Company is treading on thin ice in the eyes of a few academics and specialists that claim the Fox News owner is 'working against US policy.' Concerns grow over the potential influx of cash, creating better programmers that are then leveraged into cyberwarfare capabilities. Nosotek said that 'training them to do games can't bring any harm.' The company asserts its innocence, though details on how much of the games were developed in North Korea are sparse. While one of the poorest nations in the world could clearly use the money, it remains to be seen if hardliner opponents like the United States will treat Nosotek (and parent company News Corp.) as if they're fostering the development of computer programmers inside the DPRK. The United Nations only stipulates that cash exchanged with companies in the DPRK cannot go to companies and businesses associated with military weaponry or the arms trade. Would you feel differently about Big Lebowski Bowling if you knew it was created in North Korea?"
Woman's Nude Pics End Up Online After Call To Tech Support 197
Tara Fitzgerald couldn't find the nude pictures she planned on sending to her boyfriend, but instead of just taking more, she decided to see if a Dell tech support call could fix her problem. Apparently the tech support guy found them. Unfortunately, he then put them up on a site called "bitchtara."
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