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Comment Re:Election Year Bullshit.. (Score 1) 585

by kylog on Friday June 15, 2012 @05:58PM (#40339893) Attached to: Sen. Rand Paul Introduces TSA Reform Legislation

This is his son, Rand Paul.

Comment Re:Election Year Bullshit.. (Score 1) 585

by kylog on Friday June 15, 2012 @05:57PM (#40339875) Attached to: Sen. Rand Paul Introduces TSA Reform Legislation

Rand Paul's term runs through 2016, so I don't believe he's in an election this year.

Comment Re:No direct links in the TFA (Score 1) 78

by kylog on Friday April 20, 2012 @11:01AM (#39745881) Attached to: Alan Turing Papers On Code Breaking Released By GCHQ

Why didn't you order the digital, downloadable option? I did, and they estimate came back to 0 (i.e. free).

That said, I still don't have a link for the download.

Odd. I requested digital, downloadable versions of both docs yesterday, and today received an estimate of 25.20 pounds for one doc and 126.20 pounds for the other. Which I'm certainly not going to pay. I assume they'll just put it online at some point.

Windows XP SP2 Support Ends Tomorrow 251

Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday July 12, 2010 @09:37AM from the better-get-patching dept.

Vectormatic writes "As can be seen on the product page for Windows XP, support for SP2 ends tomorrow, while the majority of Windows XP users still haven't upgraded to SP3. This could open up millions of users/businesses to exploitation, since security updates for SP2 will stop coming in while security fixes to SP3 may clue hackers in to vulnerabilities."

First Self-Replicating Creature Spawned In Conway's Game of Life 241

Posted by Soulskill on Thursday June 17, 2010 @12:27PM from the emergent-gameplay dept.

Calopteryx writes "New Scientist has a story on a self-replicating entity which inhabits the mathematical universe known as the Game of Life. 'Dubbed Gemini, [Andrew Wade's] creature is made of two sets of identical structures, which sit at either end of the instruction tape. Each is a fraction of the size of the tape's length but, made up of two constructor arms and one "destructor," play a key role. Gemini's initial state contains three of these structures, plus a fourth that is incomplete. As the simulation progresses the incomplete structure begins to grow, while the structure at the start of the tape is demolished. The original Gemini continues to disassemble as the new one emerges, until after nearly 34 million generations, new life is born.'"

New Estimate Suggests 5.5M Species On Earth, Not 30-100M 256

Posted by timothy on Wednesday June 02, 2010 @11:28AM from the depends-how-you-count dept.

An anonymous reader writes "How many species share our planet? According to a recalculation by an international research team, the number is significantly lower than we thought — only around 5.5 million."

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