Comment The explanation: (Score 1) 148
somebody at NASA had a fatty burger for lunch
Comment Re:" I say Freedom " (Score 1) 330
The same rule that applies to all things that bring joy and happiness to your life also applies to the internet:
If something sounds too good to be true it usually is.
So say bye-bye freedom now.
Comment Re:Free advertising for the Pirate party. (Score 1) 330
Apparently, some people in the German government haven't realized yet that the Pirate party has made it on the ballots in some places, and that the next election is less than two months away.
Good that the pirate party has already a member in the parliament.. sure he'll have plenty of TV time to comment on this in the next days.
Comment Re:Start a petition to make linking legal again (Score 1) 1870
"There are two ways of submitting a petition:
* by post
* via the online form
Your petition may include attachments, including copies of any supporting documents you may have.
The petition should be sent to:
European Parliament,
The President of the European Parliament,
Rue Wiertz,
B-1047 BRUSSELS"
Maybe I could just link to those documents?
Comment So they found a complicated model (Score 1) 415
.. that might explain a fact that has been too obvious for so long: humans do not act rationally, but are driven by other factors, such as greed, feeling of superiority, fairness, or whatever.
Comment Re:Security and Radioactivity (Score 1) 432
AFAIK that's the only one on Earth where they actually let you see the reactor and the 70's style control room. It's kind of fun to see Soviet technology still working as intended.
In fact, you can book guided tours to the Chernobyl plant. I haven't been there myself but supposedly they show you the reactor.. or what is left of it and not covered by concrete.
Comment Re:Obligatory (Score 1) 267
Strange.. I thought I posted the quote first but now it appears to be a few minutes late and earned me a "0, redundant".
Well, I guess there are just too many trekkies on ./
Submission + - Nuclear subs 'collide in ocean' (bbc.co.uk)
Jantastic writes: "BBC reports: A Royal Navy nuclear submarine was involved in a collision with a French nuclear sub in the middle of the Atlantic. It is understood HMS Vanguard and Le Triomphant were badly damaged in the crash earlier this month. Despite being equipped with sonar, it seems neither vessel spotted the other, the BBC's Caroline Wyatt said."
Comment Re:You know... (Score 0, Redundant) 267
On behalf of all trekkies from Boomer to Gen X, it's about damn time.
"It's life, Jim, but not as we know it."
Earth May Harbor a Shadow Biosphere of Alien Life 267
An anonymous reader sends us to Cosmos Magazine for a speculative article arguing that a 'shadow biosphere' may exist on Earth, unrelated to life as we know it. If such non-carbon-based life were found here at home, it would alter the odds for how common life is elsewhere in the universe, astrobiologists say. "The tools and experiments researchers use to look for new forms of life — such as those on missions to Mars — would not detect biochemistries different from our own, making it easy for scientists to miss alien life, even if [it] was under their noses. ... Scientists are looking in places where life isn't expected — for example, in areas of extreme heat, cold, salt, radiation, dryness, or contaminated streams and rivers. [One researcher] is particularly interested in places that are heavily contaminated with arsenic, which, he suggests, might support forms of life that use arsenic the way life as we know it uses phosphorus."
Comment Re:25 things was extremely wide-spread. (Score 1) 219
A nice demonstration for the Small World hypothesis.
Maybe you just have friends who click on all the "your friend XXX has just added the YYY application, if you want to see how your ZZZ compares to his, click here". To see anything similar to a "small world" you would need a small diameter, yet a large clustering coefficient. Something like "Mark Zuckerberg is a friend of my friend's friend" and 80% of my friends are friends as well.
Submission + - Google buys paper mill
raffnix writes: Today, Finland-based paper group Stora Enso has announced that Google is buying the buildings and most of the Summa Mill site, where production of paper was ceased last month in January 2008, for approximately 40 million euros ($51.7 million) (full story here). Obviously the space is most likely going to serve as a data center, which has now also been confirmed by
Reuters
.
Submission + - Brave New World of Open-source Game Design
Greg Chudecke writes: "The New York Times recently ran an article on game companies that get input design input from gamers. The Article is Branded as "The Brave New World of Open-source Game Design". The title may be a little misleading as it isn't exactly like the game design is open source for editing, however it is interesting that gamers are getting an opportunity to shape the games they play.
Here is the link to the story:
http://www.nytimes.com/external/gigaom/2009/02/07/07gigaom-the-brave-new-world-of-open-source-game-design-37415.html"
Comment Re:1984? (Score 1) 513
Wikipedia + Google = WorldDomination
Comment Re:very informative! (Score 1) 156
The actual source of the heise.de article seems to be an article on the website of the German magazine "Der Spiegel" which can be found here:
http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/tech/0,1518,606096,00.html
It seems that those guys are actually mostly graduates from Bundeswehr universities meaning the "recruiting hackers" theme is not really correct. (remarking this as a native German speaker). The rest of the article is rather uniformative though..
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