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Comment Re:Great job! (Score 0) 52

by stinkfoot (#65241181) Attached to: GIMP 3.0 Released
Are you serious? It's barely even an interface. It's like someone sneezed a bunch of poorly-drawn icons onto a screen and called it a day. There's NOTHING good about the interface. It's an embarrassment. You know who uses graphic design software? GRAPHIC DESIGNERS. So we open the app after holding our nose at the terrible icon and go "holy shit!" and close it immediately. It's like opening a word processor with typos in the menus. If you're so unwilling to pay attention to the details, just quit. There should be a FOSS alternative to the Adobe Industrial Complex, and GIMP ain't it.
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Facebook Photo of Stolen Ring Puts Couple In Jail 143

Posted by samzenpus from the a-picture-is-worth-1,000-days dept.
An anonymous reader writes "A Facebook photo of a stolen 3 carat diamond ring recently helped police solve a jewelry theft. After rings and other items valued at more than $16,000 were taken from a home on Saturday, a friend of the victim's roommate saw one of the items on the social network. 20-year-old Crystal Yamnitzky captioned the photo with the following message: 'Look what Robby gave me I love him so much,' in reference to her 21-year-old boyfriend Robert Driscoll. Yamnitzky's cousin saw the post and told some friends, who alerted police. Both Yamnitzky and Driscoll have been charged in the case."

Submission + - Exploding Lake Provides Electricity for Rwanda (discovery.com)

Submitted by reillymj
reillymj writes: There are three known "exploding lakes" in the world, where volcanic gases build up near the lake bottom until they suddenly fizz over, suffocating people with huge amounts of carbon dioxide. But the lakes also hold methane and one of them, Rwanda's Lake Kivu, is being actively tapped as a source of natural gas to fuel a power plant on the lake's shores. The government hopes that within two years, the plant will be covering a third of the country's needs. By siphoning off the gas, engineers simultaneously defuse a ticking time bomb in the lake and provide power to local communities.
Spam

Submission + - Detroit Spammer Pleads Guilty (czmyt.com)

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Czmyt
Czmyt writes: "Five individuals pleaded guilty today in federal court in Detroit for their roles in a wide-ranging international stock fraud scheme involving the illegal use of bulk commercial e-mails, or "spamming." Alan M. Ralsky, 64, of West Bloomfield, Mich., and Scott K. Bradley, 38, also of West Bloomfield, both pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud, mail fraud and to violate the CAN-SPAM Act. Ralsky and Bradley also pleaded guilty to wire fraud, money laundering, and violating the CAN-SPAM Act. Under the terms of his plea agreement, Ralsky acknowledges he is facing up to 87 months in prison ...."
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Journal Journal: Objective-C 1

Journal by johndiii

For one who is very used to C++, this is an odd-looking language. I've been reading some of the Apple docs, with a view toward writing some programs for my MacBook and my iPhone using Cocoa.
Math

String Theory Predicts Behavior of Superfluids 348

Posted by kdawson from the good-for-something dept.
schrodingers_rabbit writes "Despite formidable odds, condensed matter physicists have made a breakthrough most thought impossible — finding a practical use for string theory. The initial breakthrough was made by physicist and cosmologist Juan Maldacena. His theory states that the known universe is only a 2D construct in anti-de-Sitter space, projected into 3 dimensions. This theory manages to model black holes and quantum theory congruently, a feat that has eluded scientists for decades; but it fails to correspond to the shape of space-time in the known universe. However, it does predict thermodynamic properties of black holes, including higher-dimensional viscosity — the equations for which elegantly and almost exactly calculate the behavior of quark-gluon plasma and other superfluids. According to Jan Zaanen at the University of Leiden, 'The theory is calculating precisely what we are seeing in experiments.' Unfortunately, the correspondence cannot prove or disprove string theory, although it is a positive step." Not an easy path to follow: one condensed matter theorist said, "It took two years and two 1000-page books of dense mathematics, but I learned string theory and got kind of enchanted by it. [When the string-theory related] thing began to... make predictions about high-temperature superconductors, my traditional mainstay, I was one of the few condensed matter physicists with the preparation to take it up."
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Submission + - Homeland Security to scan citizens exiting US (itnews.com.au)

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An anonymous reader writes: The US Department of Homeland Security is set to kickstart a controversial new pilot to scan the fingerprints of travellers departing the United States. From June, US Customs and Border Patrol will take a fingerprint scan of travellers exiting the United States from Detroit, while the US Transport Security Administration will take fingerprint scans of international travellers exiting the United States from Atlanta. The controversial plan to scan outgoing passengers — including US citizens — was allegedly hatched under the Bush Administration. An official has said it will be used in part to crack down on the US population of illegal immigrants.
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Submission + - Google Adds Scripting Capabilities To Google Docs (infoworld.com)

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snydeq
snydeq writes: "Google will add scripting capabilities to Google Docs, allowing organizations to customize its online applications and automate tasks. Google plans to sign up about 1,000 customers over the next few weeks to test the feature, called Google Apps Script. It will be tested initially in Google Spreadsheets and extended to other Google Docs applications over time. The company isn't saying yet when Apps Script — which is based on JavaScript with object-based extensions added by Google — will be widely available. Google Docs users can apply here to try it out."

Comment Briefs and lists of amici on EFF's website... (Score 4, Informative) 12

by stinkfoot (#10768661) Attached to: Court Urged to Hear File-Sharing Case

From http://www.eff.org/IP/P2P/MGM_v_Grokster/

  • EFF's Brief in Opposition [PDF 343k] of Petition for certiorari. November 8, 2004
  • Computer and Communications Industry Association and Internet Archive's Brief in Opposition [PDF 220k] of Petition for certiorari. November 8, 2004

  • Progress & Freedom Foundation's Brief in Support [PDF 137k] of certiorari. November 8, 2004
  • Law Professors' Brief in Support [PDF 219k] of certiorari. November 8, 2004
  • States' Brief in Support [PDF 995k] of certiorari. (Brief includes AL, AK, AR, AZ, CO, DE, FL, GA, HI, ID, IL, IN, KS, KY, LA, MA, MI, MO, MS, MT, NE, NC, NV, NJ, NM, ND, OH, OK, OR, PA, RI, SC, SD, TN, TX, UT, VA, VT, WV, WI, Guam.) November 8, 2004
  • Omnibus Brief in Support [PDF 230k] of certiorari. (Brief includes Office of the Commissioner Of Baseball, National Basketball Association, American Society Of Media Photographers, Professional Photographers Of America, Directors Guild Of America, Writers Guild Of America (West), Screen Actors Guild, Association Of American Publishers, Association Of American University Presses, Producers Guild Of America, Graphic Artists Guild, Entertainment Software Association, Video Software Dealers Association, Interactive Entertainment Merchants Association And Author's Guild Of America.) November 8, 2004
  • NARAS et al's Brief in Support [PDF 787k] of certiorari. (Brief includes National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences, American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, American Federation of Musicians of the United States and Canada, The Country Music Association, Inc., The Gospel Music Association, the Hip-Hop Summit Action Network, Jazz Alliance International, Inc., and the Rhythm & Blues Foundation.) November 8, 2004
  • International Rights Owners Brief in Support [PDF 182k] of certiorari. November 8, 2004
  • Artists' coalition Brief in Support [PDF 309k] of certiorari. (Coalition includes The Eagles, Brooks & Dunn, The Dixie Chicks, Bonnie Raitt, Sheryl Crow, Babyface, The Grateful Dead, Jimmy Buffet, Patti Loveless, Stevie Nicks, Gavin Rossdale.) November 8, 2004
  • ASCAP et al's Brief in Support [PDF 458k] of certiorari (Brief includes ASCAP, BMI, Broadcast Music, Inc., Association of Independent Music Publishers, Church Music Publishers Association, Nashville Songwriters Association International, Songwriters Guild of America.) November 8, 2004
  • MGM et al's Petition for certiorari [PDF 1.07M]. October 8, 2004

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