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  1. Open communication? on New Messenger Has Same Old, Gaping Privacy Holes · · Score: 4, Funny

    I understand the privacy implications, but maybe they could have chosen a better example.

    If your Wife has some huge issue with you talking to your Ex-girlfriend, there are probably other underlying things.

    Communication should be open, like this:
    "Oo, she has a nice ass"
    [girlfriend turns]
    "yeah, you're right"

  2. Re:The Golden Ratio on Tattoos For the Math and Science Geek? · · Score: 1

    I know someone that got the Fibonacci Spiral on her back.

    Then again her dad was a math professor and she just wrapped up her post-doc in Mathematics.

  3. Re:Youtube? on Khan Academy Delivers 100,000 Lectures Daily · · Score: 3, Informative
  4. Re:How is the location data obtained? on Open Source Geographic Tracking? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Exactly, this isn't difficult.
    PseudoSQL:
    select name,longitude,latitude from location order time desc limit 1.

    Google Maps API and that should be it.

    I didn't want to mess with the API and what I was plotting doesn't change quickly, so I just used PHP to create a KML file which I loaded through GoogleMaps/Earth.

    Make it Ajaxy some 'inserts' of the data and ... that should be it. If the SQL database itself works, there is no reason that you need to replace it. It sounds like it's just the interface that is the problem.

  5. Re:Good stuff on Finance, Scientific Users Get ActivePython Updates · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Yes, I am. I know absolutely nothing about Python. I earn my keep with Matlab. I know C (which is quite useful for CANape scripts) and use PHP in my free time.

    I just asked a simple question. Rather than answering, you respond with a jackass comment of "ha, are you serious?". Which now just makes me want to disregard Python and all this crap and I'll just stick with my Matlab and short PHP script for doing repetitive stuff.

    It's a little less forward than RTFM but just as condescending. And you wonder why complete novices throw their hands up at Linux and the such.

  6. Re:Expiration on Experts Say Wiretap Law Needs Digital Era Update · · Score: 3, Insightful

    ALL laws should have an expiration date. If something still makes sense in 5/10/15/20 years, it will get repassed.

    My town still has crap like "You can't walk through any city property with a watermellon and fishing pole" from the 1800s.

  7. Re:Good stuff on Finance, Scientific Users Get ActivePython Updates · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I would be very interested in what matlab is choking on that Python wouldn't. The only data I've had matlab give me errors on is stuff that starts breaking 32-bit memory addressing. (In 32-bit Windows).

    I'm a hardcore matlab user and while there is no chance in hell my company would ever give it up for python, I'd consider it for some of my personal projects.

    And as limited as it is, there is one feature of the Matlab Editor that I don't think my lazy self could live without. Ctrl-A Ctrl-I, select all and auto indent. Everything is properly formatted to the right depth. php_beautifier is close for my php, but I still have to run it on the command line.

    Is there any python IDE with this built in... anything that mimics the 'desktop' of Matlab?

  8. Re:Good News Everyone! on David X. Cohen Talks About Futurama's New Season · · Score: 1

    Part of my SABnzbd scripts:

    In the script that SABnzbd runs directly I have this line: /opt/SABnzbd-Scripts/notify.sh "$3" "$7"

    Then in notify.sh I have this:
    #! /bin/bash
    nzb=$1
    status=$2

    case $status in
            0 )
                    status="OK";;
            1 )
                    status="Failed Veri" ;;
            2 )
                    status="Failed unpack";;
            3 )
                    status="FverAndFunpack";;
    esac
    subject="Download Complete ($status)"
    message="$1"
    wget -q -t 1 -T 5 --delete-after "http://192.168.1.10:8080/xbmcCmds/xbmcHttp?command=ExecBuiltIn(Notification($subject,$message,18000))" > /dev/null 2>&1

    So if I'm watching XBMC I get a note that something is done.

  9. Re:Aliens put it there on IceCube Telescope Takes Shape Below Antarctic Ice · · Score: 2, Funny

    Close, they're just digging for the other Stargate and the chair.

  10. Re:Wow. Just... WOW! on One Step Closer to Star Wars Holograms · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Congratulations. You win the WTF troll award.

    Incidentally the first not racist gay bashing troll award also.

  11. Ajax Libraries on Google Shares Insights On Accelerating Web Sites · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Now if only every website didn't include 300kb of Javascript libraries that I had to download.

  12. Re:Good News Everyone! on David X. Cohen Talks About Futurama's New Season · · Score: 1

    My RSS feeds from That of which we do not talk grabbed it automatically. When I heard it was coming back I added it to the list of TV shows to get and I just got an message from XBMC that it was done.

  13. Re:Good News Everyone! on David X. Cohen Talks About Futurama's New Season · · Score: 1

    SPOILER ALERT. MOD PARENT DOWN.

    Filter error: Don't use so many caps. It's like YELLING.

  14. Re:Too Complicated on Best OSS CFD Package For High School Physics? · · Score: 1

    Well, once you teach them calculus and differential and partial differential equations.

    You can break them in with the Navier-Stokes equation.

    Then break them the news that air foils don't lift because the air on top is "moving faster" but because it has to make minute angular accelerations. Since the air temperature doesn't change, the energy needed for drops out of the pressure. Tada, lift.

    Or something like that.

  15. Re:It's somewhat expected. on Developers Expect iOS and MacOS To Merge · · Score: 3, Informative

    Did you not even read System X's history on their website?

    1) Computer technology improves. I don't think any computer that was in the top 10 in 2006 was in the top 10 in 2010.
    2) When it was "last ranked", in 2006 it was #47. When it was built, in 2003, it was ranked #3. When it was rebuilt in 2004 with the current G5s, it was ranked #7 (which is what the Apple article is about).

  16. Re:More like an option on Developers Expect iOS and MacOS To Merge · · Score: 1

    Sounds like what Ubuntu is trying to make their system.

    Basic controls. A "App Store" where you can just download apps and run them. I can see Apple merging the App store for people who find downloading a DMG and dragging and dropping a .app too difficult. (Say what ever you want, THEY EXIST and HAVE MONEY).

    But hidden beneath that is Terminal and bash and all the other goodies that come with OS X. Just like they exist on the iPhone and iPod Touch.

    From what I've seen, the sue machine that Apple is, really has left the jailbreakers and OSX86 guys alone. They may fix security issues that allow the jailbreaking, but that's it. Pystar got sued because they were trying to capitalize on it.

  17. Re:At Ease on Developers Expect iOS and MacOS To Merge · · Score: 1

    We were home at Christmas, she just grabbed a laptop and asked to check her mail (which she normally just does at work). I do have a guest account now for the same reason.

  18. Re:It's somewhat expected. on Developers Expect iOS and MacOS To Merge · · Score: 4, Informative

    Virginia Tech's System X

    I mean it's not like they broke into the top 10 or anything:
    Ranking seventh in the Top 500 list of the world's most powerful computer systems, System X was built at a fifth of the cost of the second-least expensive system in the top 10.

    Not only that, but every computer that ships with OS X has the ability to become part of an XGrid. All you have to do is enable a checkbox in the Sharing control panel and that's it. XCode will seek out other XGrid computers and use it to compile.

  19. Re:At Ease on Developers Expect iOS and MacOS To Merge · · Score: 1

    Yes! Performa 600 here, everyone in my family but me used it. I gave myself Finder access.

    For those that say to use Simple Finder... some people need something even simpler than that. Something without multitasking (other than say a few background apps). My mom got frustrated as hell when she tried to borrow my or my siblings laptops and we all had different Exposé settings.

  20. Re:So what on What iOS 4 Does (and Doesn't Do) For Business · · Score: 1

    There are a ton of Android phones that are stuck on a bastardized version of 1.5, 1.6, 2.0 etc that their carrier runs that will never be able to be upgraded either.

    And Verizon and AT&T are still selling those phones RIGHT NOW.

  21. Re:Captcha correction? on Google Adds OCR To PDF and Images · · Score: 1

    Well, a captcha service would have corrected "F1r5t p0st". Seems relevant to me.

  22. Captcha correction? on Google Adds OCR To PDF and Images · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Could google provide some sort of opt-in service where our PDFs (one word at a time) could appear as a captcha. More or less what reCaptcha does, except with something a bit newer.

  23. Re:I'm not worried on Groups Urge FCC To Block NBC-Comcast Merger · · Score: 1

    Or the channel for 100% of your Republican Needs.

  24. Re:Programmable Number Plates on California Wants To Put E-Ads On License Plates · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Speed and red light cameras become useless too, I can see a huge underground industry built up around this because there's no way in hell what ever "encryption" they use will last.

    Car in motion > 30 mph = some random number.
    Car stopped and < 30 mph = your 'real' number.

    Then ads for being stopped.

  25. Re:Something seems off on Movie Studio Finally Sees the Light On Rentals · · Score: 5, Interesting

    One of my favorite movies, The Man from Earth cost $200,000.

    It had 0 CGI, no big name actors but a kick ass story from Jerome Bixby.

    Paranormal Activity was made for $15k and grossed $9M the first weekend.