Comment Thanks a bunch (Score 1) 1521
/. has for ten years been my top bookmark.
Comment Damn you... (Score 1) 95
...Howard Wolowitz!
NASA Parodies Reach New Level of Awkwardness 28
MMBK writes "NASA TV recently produced six movie-trailer parodies about current projects for a 'themed exhibit at an international conference.' But for the most part, the attempt remains pretty corny, far, far away from the imaginative, inspiring work of space artists like Bruce McCall."
Comment Wait, doesn't /. qualify (Score 3, Insightful) 270
as social network? You can track friends. There are friends and foes of friends. You can shout your opinion. You can even indicate your Warcraft realm under the general user-info! Is this not a social network as well?
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self reference: i haz it.
Comment Re:Privacy (Score 1) 270
Am I the only one in the world who wants his occasional thoughtless comments forgotten?
done.
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self reference: i haz it.
New Wave of Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria 404
reporter writes "New strains of 'Gram-negative' bacteria have become resistant to all safe antibiotics. Though methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is the best-known antibiotic-resistant germ, the new class of resistant bacteria could be more dangerous still. 'The bacteria, classified as Gram-negative because of their reaction to the so-called Gram stain test, can cause severe pneumonia and infections of the urinary tract, bloodstream, and other parts of the body. Their cell structure makes them more difficult to attack with antibiotics than Gram-positive organisms like MRSA.' The only antibiotics — colistin and polymyxin B — that still have efficacy against Gram-negative bacteria produce dangerous side effects: kidney damage and nerve damage. Patients who are infected with Gram-negative bacteria must make the unsavory choice between life with kidney damage or death with intact kidneys. Recently, some new strains of Gram-negative bacteria have shown resistance against even colistin and polymyxin B. Infection with these new strains typically means death for the patient."
Comment ... but how much of it is still running somewhere? (Score 1) 395
I wrote lots, but i don't think much of it survives 10 years.
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I found an marvelously simple solution to the Riemann hypothesis, but this space is just too small to write it out.
Google Envisions 10 Million Servers 169
miller60 writes "Google never says how many servers are running in its data centers. But a recent presentation by a Google engineer shows that the company is preparing to manage as many as 10 million servers in the future. At this month's ACM conference on large-scale computing, Google's Jeff Dean said he's working on a storage and computation system called Spanner, which will automatically allocate resources across data centers, and be designed for a scale of 1 million to 10 million machines. One goal: to dynamically shift workloads to capture cheaper bandwidth and power. Dean's presentation (PDF) is online."
Comment Smash... (Score 1) 39
OMG... Cheese!
Comment Effort accounting... (Score 2, Funny) 487
Americans pay double; to recover the cost of IE development
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