Comment Better question (Score 4, Funny) 300
How many browsers?
Comment Re:Is this even a real question? (Score 1) 990
UIDs are now past 2.4 million.
Comment So long, God bless (Score 1) 1521
This place has been very special to me since about December of 1997 after my first install of Linux (RedHat 5.0) and I scoured the net every day (using Netscape Navigator 3.01 & AltaVista) looking for news stories and information about Linux. I eventually registered an account and came back, not every day, but darn near it until now.
There is something that kept me coming back all these years, and I suspect it was something attached to you, Rob. Wish you the best.
Comment Definitive statement (Score 3, Interesting) 585
"But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father alone." -Mat. 24:36
Comment Re:Sorting Out Sorting (Score 1) 118
You reply to the main story, up top. Look for the box that contains "The Fine Print:" and then hit 'reply'.
Comment e ^ i*pi + 1 = 0 (Score 1) 1186
Euler's identity
- The five most important constants
- The three most basic operations
- The single most fundamental relation
Has it all.
Comment There's a science to it (Score 5, Informative) 316
Comment That was actually kind of awesome (Score 1) 183
But does the way Carl Sagan talks remind anybody else of Agent Smith? "That's a billion suns, Mister Anderson."
Comment Can I be the only one? (Score 2, Insightful) 174
Does no one else find the makeipodsafe.com site to be an obvious (and hilarious) parody?
* There are millions of Apple products out there at the customers...
* According to the last ones which already explode and went on fire...
* How to avoid iPhone from exploding
* Lots more...
And this?
C'mon people; that's comedy gold.
* There are millions of Apple products out there at the customers...
* According to the last ones which already explode and went on fire...
* How to avoid iPhone from exploding
* Lots more...
And this?
C'mon people; that's comedy gold.
Google Search Flagging Everything As Potentially Harmful 407
dowlingw writes "It looks like for the moment at least, all Google results are failing the malware checks and being listed with a warning 'This site may harm your computer,' including all pages from Google themselves. Users trying to visit pages at search results will only be able to proceed via manual manipulation of the search result link to remove the Google click-through (which is also broken). Until Google fixes this bug, it looks Google web search is useless." Update: 01/31 at 15:16 GMT by SS: The problem now appears to be fixed.
Update: 01/31 at 22:01 GMT by KD : Google has now posted an explanation, apologizing and taking responsibility for the "human error" that led to the problem.
Update: 01/31 at 22:01 GMT by KD : Google has now posted an explanation, apologizing and taking responsibility for the "human error" that led to the problem.
BotPrize — A Turing Test For Bots 79
Philip Hingston writes "Computers can't play like people — yet. An unusual kind of computer game bot-programming contest has just been held in Perth, Australia, as part of the IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Games. The contest was not about programming the bot that plays the best. The aim was to see if a bot could convince another player that it was actually a human player. Game Development Studio 2K Australia (creator of BioShock) provided $7,000 cash plus a trip to their studio in Canberra for anyone who could create a bot to pass this 'Turing Test for Bots.' People like to play against opponents who are like themselves — opponents with personality, who can surprise, who sometimes make mistakes, yet don't robotically make the same mistakes over and over. Computers are superbly fast and accurate at playing games, but can they be programmed to be more fun to play — to play like you and me?"
Read on for the rest of Philip's thoughts.
Comment it's easy (Score 1) 618
Take a screwdriver and mangle the hell out of the ethernet port(s). Then set up the whole house to use only wireless.
Then, it'll *never* work with Linux. Done!
Then, it'll *never* work with Linux. Done!
Oceans Empty By 2048? 589
F34nor writes to mention a CBS news article about the depopulation of ocean species. According to a study by a scientist in Halifax, Nova Scotia and assisted by research from all around the world, the world's oceans will be emptied of large lifeforms by 2048. From the article: "Already, 29% of edible fish and seafood species have declined by 90% — a drop that means the collapse of these fisheries. But the issue isn't just having seafood on our plates. Ocean species filter toxins from the water. They protect shorelines. And they reduce the risks of algae blooms such as the red tide. 'A large and increasing proportion of our population lives close to the coast; thus the loss of services such as flood control and waste detoxification can have disastrous consequences,' Worm and colleagues say."
Bruce Schneier On Perceived and Real Risks 324
prostoalex writes "Encryption guru Bruce Schneier takes a look at perceived and actual risks with some insightful commentary on how warped the public perception of risks may be: '...we worry more about anthrax (with an annual death toll of roughly zero) than influenza (with an annual death toll of a quarter-million to a half-million people). Influenza is a natural accident, anthrax is an intentional action, and the smallest action captures our attention in a way that the largest accident doesn't. If two airplanes had been hit by lightning and crashed into a New York skyscraper, few of us would be able to name the date on which it happened.'"
Comment odd choice (Score 1) 695
how come English is in quotes in the title rather than webspeak?
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