Comment Re:noshit (Score 1) 133
Yup but that guy lost his job, been replaced by Facebook and Twitter
Comment Vital functions (Score 1) 133
So should I focus on making sure my heart is beating, breathing regularly, or digest food?
Comment Re:It's the ISP's fault (Score 1) 99
You mean everyone should get an Internet User License and an Insurance policy against Uninsured Users? :-)
Comment Re:Short Answer (Score 3, Insightful) 221
Not yet all of them, but soon: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/03/ff_nsadatacenter/
Comment Re:dead link (Score 3, Informative) 167
Note that you can readily buy your own USB or PCI quantum number generator generator:
http://www.idquantique.com/true-random-number-generator/products-overview.html
Comment Re:*cough* Megaupload *cough* (Score 5, Informative) 386
Read this article and you'll know why government, private companies, and individuals may not want their data in the "cloud", particularly when you know half of the Internet traffic likely transits through US soil:
The NSA Is Building the Country’s Biggest Spy Center (Watch What You Say)
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/03/ff_nsadatacenter/
Comment Re:Everyone ignores Commodore (Score 1) 301
Actually, NeXT should have won,.Problem is that the cube was just 15 years ahead of its time. It eventually did win as a chunk of MacOS X.
Submission + - Hexagon declassified. (yahoo.com) 1
kulnor writes: Hexagon, a cold war secret project around spy satellites to monitor USSR was declassified last Septembre. "For more than a decade they toiled in the strange, boxy-looking building on the hill above the municipal airport, the building with no windows (except in the cafeteria), the building filled with secrets.They wore protective white jumpsuits, and had to walk through air-shower chambers before entering the sanitized "cleanroom" where the equipment was stored. They spoke in code."
As more and more WWII and cold war secrets are declassified, we learn about amazing technological feats involving hundreds of people working in secrecy. I was awestruck a while ago by the Bletchley Park story around cryptography (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bletchley_Park), including Alan Turing's involvement. I wonder what will emerge in a few decades around modern IT, the Internet, hacks, and the likes. Or will they leak before their time?
As more and more WWII and cold war secrets are declassified, we learn about amazing technological feats involving hundreds of people working in secrecy. I was awestruck a while ago by the Bletchley Park story around cryptography (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bletchley_Park), including Alan Turing's involvement. I wonder what will emerge in a few decades around modern IT, the Internet, hacks, and the likes. Or will they leak before their time?
Comment Re:what a shame (Score 1) 303
Obviously all these tunneling neutrinos are the cause for earthquakes.... turning the planet into a superposition of Swiss cheese or Pamesan
Comment Re:Open ISO.... (Score 1) 90
You're right, thanks for the clarification. But isn't then WIkiPedia doing exactly that? Republishing without licensing? What about all the other web pages listing ISO classifications?
Comment Open ISO.... (Score 3, Interesting) 90
A good place to start would be with ISO. Few know that most ISO standards are licensed products:
http://www.iso.org/iso/licence_agreement
Yes, you technically need to pay if you want to use standard country codes....
*K
Comment Re:C++ version (Score 2) 624
I would rather go with a classic here:
The C Programming Language Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_C_Programming_Language
*K
Comment Re:haha not a chance. (Score 1) 173
Maybe it's time to fork Java, and then go to court....
Comment Re:I for one (Score 1) 280
Can't wait for the mutants to emerge! Godzilla will have some serious contenders to play with.
Comment Re:Cooling canvas tents? (Score 1) 409
So we saved $184B! Nice!
