Comment Re:In related news NSA builds data center in San F (Score 1) 168
"The issue's not whether you're paranoid, Lenny. I mean, look at this shit. The issue is whether you're paranoid enough." -Strange Days (1995)
Comment More details (Score 1) 294
The Non-caloric Artificial Sweeteners (NAS) evaluated in the study were:
Sucrazit (5% saccharin, 95% glucose), Sucralite (5% Sucralose), Sweet’n Low Gold (4% Aspartame).
and:
As saccharin exerted the most pronounced effect, we further studied its role as a prototypical artificial sweetener.
I wonder how stevia or erythritol compare.
Comment Better article, paper and pictures (Score 4, Informative) 25
Here's a better article from ESA which also links to the arXiv copy of the paper and an actual image of the galaxy (full size JPEG). (The image at the beginning of TFA is just an illustration, by the way.)
Submission + - Rosetta arrives
schwit1 writes: Rosetta has successfully achieved orbit around Comet 67P/C-G and has transmitted its first close up images. More information here and here about the rendezvous and what science the mission scientists plan to do as they orbit the comet.
Feed Google News Sci Tech: Comet Joined by Space Probe After 10-Year Pursuit - ABC News (google.com)
Financial Express
Comet Joined by Space Probe After 10-Year Pursuit
ABC News
Turning what seemed like a science fiction tale into reality, an unmanned probe swung alongside a comet on Wednesday after a 4-billion mile (6.4-billion kilometer) chase through outer space over the course of a decade. Europe's Rosetta probe will orbit and...
Spacecraft Rosetta catches up to comet after 10-year chaseReuters
Comet chaser: Rosetta spacecraft runs down comet after 10-year pursuitChristian Science Monitor
Europe's Rosetta probe goes into orbit around comet 67PBBC News
PC Magazine-The New Yorker-TVNZ
all 628 news articles
ABC News
Turning what seemed like a science fiction tale into reality, an unmanned probe swung alongside a comet on Wednesday after a 4-billion mile (6.4-billion kilometer) chase through outer space over the course of a decade. Europe's Rosetta probe will orbit and...
Spacecraft Rosetta catches up to comet after 10-year chaseReuters
Comet chaser: Rosetta spacecraft runs down comet after 10-year pursuitChristian Science Monitor
Europe's Rosetta probe goes into orbit around comet 67PBBC News
PC Magazine-The New Yorker-TVNZ
all 628 news articles
Comment Re:These are not HACKABLE, these are INSECURE (Score 1) 53
I guess we will have to find ourselves another term to replace "hack", like we did for the MiB. And we will cringe every time we read it.
Comment Re:Car analogy? (Score 1) 142
You just replaced the word "transistor" with "car".
Your post still doesn't explain why the only way to progress is fitting more and more cars into a parking lot...
Your post still doesn't explain why the only way to progress is fitting more and more cars into a parking lot...
Comment Solution (Score 1) 302
Comment Windows 98 (Score 1) 533
Windows 98 idle loop didn't use HALT, small "cooling" apps were written on purpose to implement it. Does this bring back the "os idle loop" as a candidate for the most run piece of code?
Comment Re:Modern journalism (Score 1) 239
True.
But the point here is not what an average person thinking about himself would do. The point is what a non-ordinary person caring about society can do.
Whether you want our times to be told by the former or the latter, it remains your choice.
What the definition of 'journalist' should be, this is the matter of discussion.
Comment Solution (Score 2) 115
Comment ). There. (Score 3, Funny) 159
Comment TFB is going down... (Score 1) 42
Product link here. Nothing of value was lost...
http://www.variscite.com/products/system-on-module-som/cortex-a9/dart-4460-cpu-ti-omap-4-omap4460
Comment Be pragmatic... (Score 1) 487
1. Geolocate the IP, show the local time and mark it with a timezone identifier/city
2. If geolocation data is not available for IP, show UTC time celarly marking it as such
3. Put a button on the side of the clock to acquire the user's coordinates if a GPS is available, mark the timezone as GPS-determined
4. If GPS is not available and user pushes button, use the JS new Date().getTimezoneOffset(), mark the timezone as OS-determined
There are corner cases where this will not work, but this is good enough for 99% of the users.
The user is behind VPN/Proxy? If he cares about the correct local time, he'll push the button.
The user has no GPS and wrong OS timezone? Too bad.
Comment Chess, anyone? (Score 2) 130
Came here for the "chess world record" mentioned in TFT and didn't find a single word about it, neither in TFS nor in TFCs... Did anyone realize how this article is actually about a bunch of guys parallelizing the eight queens puzzle, running it first on anything from browsers to Blackberrys, then porting it to Hadoop, and on the way to break the world record computing the number of solutions for a chess board of 27x27 tiles?
TFA mentions the word "bitcoin" in the last 2 paragraphs out of 23, and everybody goes crazy about it. Welcome to Slashdot 2013.
