Comment That explains everything! (Score 1) 272
And here I had been thinking that it was because there are no games, the controls suck and the load times are outrageous.
Comment Am I missing something? (Score 2, Interesting) 129
I don't understand why everybody is so happy when these bills fail to pass.
Let them pass.
And then accuse every member who voted for it of downloading copy righted material. Make sure you accuse some of the aides, secretaries, etc. too. Try your best to make sure every last governmental office is taken off line. Accuse several of the CEOs in the music and film industries too. I see all sorts of potential in this.
50 Years of the Multiverse Interpretation 198
chinmay7 writes "There is an excellent selection of articles (and quite a few related scientific papers) in a special edition of Nature magazine on interpretations of the multiverse theory. 'Fifty years ago this month Hugh Everett III published his paper proposing a "relative-state formulation of quantum mechanics" — the idea subsequently described as the 'many worlds' or 'multiverse' interpretation. Its impact on science and culture continues. In celebration, a science fiction special edition of Nature on 5 July 2007 explores the symbiosis of science and sf, as exemplified by Everett's hypothesis, its birth, evolution, champions and opponents, in biology, physics, literature and beyond.'
Submission + - MediaDefender denies entrapment accusations (arstechnica.com)
Ortega-Starfire writes: On slashdot we saw a previous mention of MediaDefender setting up a site to catch movie pirates. Arstechnica covers the response from MediaDefender, which basically states the entire thing was a mistake and was only an internal site they forgot to password protect, and that they were not using this with the **AA. On a side note, if anyone here still has a copy of the download, the Ars team has expressed an interest in looking at it! Send it to them if you can!
Submission + - DOJ Accidentally Gives Lawyer Wiretap Transcript
good soldier svejk writes:
That is what happened to Washington D.C. attorney Wendell Belew. His lawsuit takes on special significance given today's Sixth Circuit Court ruling that surveillance victims can only sue the DOJ if they can prove they were affected. Also in light of that decision we can safely add Catch-22 to the list of literary references above.It could be a scene from Kafka or Brazil. Imagine a government agency, in a bureaucratic foul-up, accidentally gives you a copy of a document marked "top secret." And it contains a log of some of your private phone calls. You read it and ponder it and wonder what it all means. Then, two months later, the FBI shows up at your door, demands the document back and orders you to forget you ever saw it.
Submission + - Are 80 columns enough? 1
ThinkGeek writes: Dating back to the venerable DEC VT100, the 80 column terminal has served us well for over 25 years. Even now, many open source projects and common conventions require lines of code and documentation to fit on that terminal. I am not alone, judging by code I've seen in and out of the open source world, in finding that number insufficient for coding, much less more verbose writing. Given that modern graphical displays (and all popular editors) are capable of far more, is it time we came up with a new standard-sized terminal? If so, what should the new standard be?
Comment Re:i love my bp6 (Score 2) 40
Actually, FreeBSD has supported more than two CPUs for a while ( somewhere shortly after 3.0 was released according to my frequently-bad memory ).
The reason Linux's SMP code is better than FreeBSDs is that FreeBSD has this thing called the Giant Kernel Lock.
When running SMP, any process that needs to access the kernel employs the GKL, which prevents every other process from accessing any portion of the kernel.
Linux has no such problem. SMP in Linux is likely going to be better for a while - there are a lot of very nasty problems that need to be solved before FreeBSD can remove GKL.
If you really want to know more about this, search the archives for either GKL or Giant Kernel Lock in either the FreeBSD-Current or FreeBSD-SMP mailing lists.
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