Comment Re:Ken Libbrecht (Score 1) 58

by SteveM on Sunday December 13, 2020 @08:28PM (#60827296) Attached to: Nathan Myhrvold's Dazzling High-Resolution Photographs of Snowflakes

*book not boy.

Comment Ken Libbrecht (Score 1) 58

by SteveM on Sunday December 13, 2020 @08:27PM (#60827294) Attached to: Nathan Myhrvold's Dazzling High-Resolution Photographs of Snowflakes

Ken Libbrecht, a physics professor at Caltech, has been doing this for years. I've a boy of his images copyright 2003. http://snowcrystals.com/ http://www.its.caltech.edu/~at... And he credits Japanese physicist Ukichiro Nakaya who was taking snowflake images in the 1930s.

Comment Re:voicemail intercepted..? (Score 1) 113

by SteveM on Saturday April 16, 2011 @08:41AM (#35838900) Attached to: Murdoch Voicemail Hacking Story 'Ain't Over Yet'

Yes.

Comment Re:Internet promotes Christianity (Score 1) 585

by SteveM on Sunday April 03, 2011 @08:43AM (#35698746) Attached to: Vatican Warns That Internet Promotes Satanism

Sad but true.

Comment Re:Metricate, damnit! (Score 4, Funny) 172

by SteveM on Saturday April 02, 2011 @08:53PM (#35696798) Attached to: Amateurs Spy On US Spy Plane

Actually, that's true for 100% of the world's population.

Denver Airport Overrun by Car-Eating Rabbits 278

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday October 14, 2010 @12:14PM from the night-of-the-lepus dept.

It turns out the soy-based wire covering on cars built after 2002 is irresistible to rodents. Nobody knows this better than those unlucky enough to park at DIA's Pikes Peak lot. The rabbits surrounding the area have been using the lot as an all-you-can-eat wiring buffet. Looks like it's time to break out The Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch.

Comment For Small Values of "Long" (Score 4, Informative) 838

by SteveM on Sunday July 27, 2008 @08:33AM (#24357063) Attached to: FSF's "Defective By Design" Targets Apple Genius Bars

Er, you might want to check that. Darwin hasn't been open source in a long time.

Yeah, not since OS X version 10.5.4 ...

Oh wait, that's the current version.

The source, PPC and Intel (gasp! that's unpossible!) for Darwin can be found at Apple - Darwin - Releases

Perhaps you just need a bit more practice with this new "Google" thing. I'm sure you would have found it on your next search.

SteveM