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  1. This whole article is premature on Home Office To Ignore Wikipedia Founder's Petition Against O'Dwyer Extradition · · Score: 1
    Jimmy Wales has stated on Twitter 2 hours ago:

    I remain confident that Theresa May will re-open the case in light of the public outcry. Rumors that she has told me no are false.

    https://twitter.com/jimmy_wales/status/220153861007081472

  2. photolibrary on What LAMP-Based Gallery Software Would You Use? · · Score: 1

    photolibrary is an interesting alternative...

  3. Don't use pins, use rectangles. on Using Google Maps With a Photo Album · · Score: 1

    It's only one extra coordinate pair, and they're much more descriptive. You also don't have to store a zoom level, as you can calculate it with getBoundsZoomLevel. As used by wikimapia and photolibrary.

  4. Re:They're different things on Scientists Make Quantum Encryption Breakthrough · · Score: 1

    E.g., come to think of it, a laser kind of device inserted on the line could multiply that original photon thousands of times, all the clones having the exact same phase, polarisation, whatever.
    Sure - you've just blown away decades of research into quantum cryptography with an "of the top of my head". Mod parent as "lazy", and advise him to read a http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_cryptography.
  5. Dupe on The Replacement For the Battery? · · Score: 5, Informative
  6. photolibrary on Flexible Photo Organization Software? · · Score: 5, Informative

    I ran into this problem a few years ago, and so started work on my own project which I now use to keep my collection of 8500+ photos organised. Categories (tags/labels/...) are arranged in a tree, and are assigned to photos.
    So have a look at http://photolibrary.sourceforge.net/ (or http://sourceforge.net/projects/photolibrary)

  7. He's turned down the money on Poincare Conjecture Proof Completed · · Score: 5, Interesting

    According to The Guardian

  8. Re:Whoever posted this didn't RTFA. on Download-only Single Becomes UK Number One · · Score: 2, Informative

    Perhaps you should RTF link which is the words "As predicted", implying that article was published *before* the event happended, which was on Sunday afternoon, when the charts are announced. And for reference the midweek number one is almost always the end of week number one. We're supposed to care because it's a landmark event in the growth of online music sales, albeit a somewhat artificial one caused merely by a change in the rules.

  9. Re:True, but not a big deal - clarification on Printing Wikipedia · · Score: 1
    Now, I can not say for sure how long it had been defaced before I got there,
    Actually you could if you looked at the edit history.

    The vandalism started at "12:22, 31 October 2005 212.85.13.142" and continued until it was reverted "12:34, 31 October 2005 JoanneB", so 12 minutes. (The vandalism continued but was reverted in about a minute each time).

  10. Re:how big are the pixels? on Samsung Unveils 82 Inch LCD · · Score: 2, Informative

    The substrate is much bigger than the screen.

    The screen is 82" on the diagonal =~ 2.08m
    The aspect ratio is 16:9 so
    (16x)^2 + (9x)^2 =~ 2.08^2
    337x^2 =~ 4.34
    x =~ 0.113m

    So it measures about 1.815m x 1.02m. I imagine it has more than 1920x1080 pixels and has image enhancing to scale the image up, but if it were 1920x1080 then the pixels would be 0.094cm square which is about 1/25th of an inch.

  11. Re:I was in the final for the UK version of this. on Geek Olympics Code for Gold · · Score: 1

    Yup, same here. I was an "other finalist" of 2003 http://www.christs.cam.ac.uk/bio/publicity/r2003-1 .html (Ed, Westminster) but they wouldn't let me use QBasic - so I had to do with VBasic (I failed miserably I think). Unfortunately they put us in the skanky Fitzwilliam College. One of the winners of the 2000 comp (Tom Barnet-Lamb, Westminster) that you were in is bloody clever, he's now the main geek at Lionhead studios - oh and he wrote the questions for the 2003 final. See what you could've become if you put your mind to it!

  12. Re:Nitpick alert on BBC Launches Downloaded Music Charts · · Score: 4, Informative

    YRC: Radio 1: 9.73 million Radio 2: 13.43 million Radio 3: 2.02 million Radio 4: 9.51 million Radio Five Live: 6.15 million

  13. The relevant authorities regarding the DDA on Odeon Orders Takedown Of Copycat Site · · Score: 4, Informative
    ...would be the Disability Rights Commission, email: enquiry@drc-gb.org
    The Disability Rights Commission is a national body, which may be able to help you take a case under the Disability Discrimination Act. It may also be able to give advice on the Act to disabled people, employers and service providers.
  14. Re:Am I the only one... on Atlantis: Discovered at Last? · · Score: 0, Redundant

    What are you? blind! They're in the bottom right, there's about seven of them: thin and black......

    wait a minute....

  15. 0.2p / min ??? on In-Flight Wi-Fi Makes its Debut · · Score: 1

    .... which spectacular maths leaves your answer out by the small factor of 100! $10 ~ 5.50, 5.50 / 30mins ~ 18p/min. I think that pretty much answers your question.

  16. Re:What about Hotbits? on Quantum Random Numbers For Download · · Score: 1

    Yeah, Hotbits have been serving up random numbers from a Krypton-85 source for years, also truly random. This is no Big News.

  17. Bit Torrent Download on Mozilla Firebird gets .8 Release, and New Name · · Score: 5, Informative

    A Torrent seeing as they've been slashdotted, which I supposed is a Good Thing for them.

  18. We're not all idiots on Who Needs Case-Sensitivity in Java? · · Score: 1

    Sure case sensitivy does make VariablesEasierToRead, but don't most programmers do that anyway? When was the last time you saw a stuPiDLYcapITAliZeDVariAbLe? It should be up to the programmer to choose his own naming conventions, including the capitalization, instead of assuming they doesn't know how.