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Comment Re:Cool idea, but... (Score 1) 169

by thinduke (#36575162) Attached to: Long Now Clock Advances With Bezos Cash

The roman empire didn't "fall", it lost its western half. The byzantine empire is the roman empire. For more than a century, the scientific and cultural center was already Constantinople, not Rome, and everything was preserved there. Out of the roman realm, western Europe couldn't benefit from well-maintained roman infrastructure and administration, life was much, much harder for a long time, but civilization did not go backward,

Comment Re:It's called circumstantial evidence (Score 1) 307

by thinduke (#33770018) Attached to: Stuxnet Analysis Backs Iran-Israel Connection

Myrtle is also used in the zoroastrian religion, which was the state religion in Iran before islam, and is still very present in today iranian traditions (like Noruz).

If there really is something about this "myrtus", maybe it's more about the target than the origin. As others have noted, it's a bit far-fetched to think that the authors would leave a clue about themselves like Hollywood villains.
Wine

Apps That Officially Support Wine 354

Posted by kdawson from the insert-alcohol-related-line-here dept.
David Gerard writes "Wine (the Windows not-an-emulator for Unix) runs Windows applications more often than not. (Certainly more often than Vista does.) Dan Kegel on the wine-users mailing list/forum has started gathering apps that declare Wine a supported platform. And there's now a Wine Support Honor Roll page on the Wine wiki. We need more apps that work with Wine stating that they consider it a supported platform. If you write Win32 open source or shareware, please open yourself to the wider market!"
The Internet

Nationwide Domain Name/Yard Sign Conspiracy 324

Posted by timothy from the tragically-yes-I'm-single dept.
robertjmoore writes "Everywhere I go lately, I see these lawn signs that say "Single?" and then give a URL with my town's name in it. Being a huge business intelligence geek with too much time on my hands, I decided to track down who was behind them and wound up uncovering ten thousand domain names, a massively coordinated and well-funded guerilla marketing machine, and the $45 Million revenue business hiding behind it all. Hot off the presses, these are my findings."
The Courts

Apple Sues Over iPhone Smartphone Skins 197

Posted by Zonk from the don't-talk-about-that-thing-we-don't-like dept.
ghostcorps writes "Australian Newspaper 'The Age' reports that developers of iPhone skins (skins for smartphones that resemble the iPhone) have been legally attacked by Apple. Beyond that, bloggers who have reported on the skins have been threatened with legal action as well. From the article: 'Ironically, Apple's attempts to have the files removed from the web have only given the skins greater publicity, and they have already begun spreading to other websites. The issue marks a distinct change in tone for many bloggers and journalists, who just last week praised Apple for its 'revolutionary' and 'game-changing' phone despite being unable to conduct a proper hands-on test of the product.'"

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