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Comsats are generally in GEO.

I think the Jerk-Aggressive-Dominant team ends up making a big PR goof causing customers to jump ship.

That sounds ridiculously fun. I may have to go do that. I just need a beach...

Supposedly the HIB people voted, and the Red Cross came out slightly ahead. I'm kinda bummed. I might go donate a couple dollars to the EFF anyway.

> Netflix owns nothing.

Except for customers and a well known brand.

Woo! The best kind of license!

Erm. Algorithms aren't necessarily deterministic. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nondeterministic_algorithm

Primality testing is a very good example of a useful algorithm that gives an answer that is probably correct.

Looks awesome! I don't have a use for it at the moment, but I'll keep it in mind for future projects.

Edit: Does anyone have more information on the license? I do plan to build amazing things, but it would be nice to know under what conditions I can release those amazing things to the public. I assume it means no restrictions, but I'd hate to go stepping on someone's toes.

Only for Windows...

Here's one video. http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xkgklr_the-possibility-of-u... It doesn't really explain things thoroughly, but it's the best I can find right now.

Can't use quantum entanglement to transmit information unfortunately... It would be nice though.

Slightly off topic, but I'm a huge fan of your music!

There are very specific things that have to happen at certain points during the countdown. I expect that the plan to have the 10 minute hold was created after the software was configured for all the last minute tests. Reconfiguring all the software would be impossible right before the launch, so instead, they stop the clock. Stopping the clock is not unusual, and all the software that works off the clock is built to deal with a hold.

I find it deeply disturbing that there isn't some simple sanity check that prevents the device from delivering a fatal dose.

I think the key (and I'm saying this as a fulltime programmer), is to learn how to see things as an artist. I had a fantastic art teacher my last year of high school, and for a month or two, I think I understood how to look at things in a different way. I have two drawings and a painting from those few months, and they're some of my favorite possessions.

I've since forgotten how I managed do make them, but I think that's largely from a lack of practice.

I work in the scientific satellite industry, and as far as I know, nothing is encrypted (possibly not true for military satellites). Sounds crazy, but I think people are more worried about reliability than security. Pretty much an accident waiting to happen.

Edit: It's more of a security through obscurity setup. The command codes aren't published (plus, they're protected under ITAR), and probably vary quite a bit per satellite. I think they are just hoping nobody takes the time to figure out what bits to send.

It's nice having official servers to send email from. I had a simple little app a while back that sent email via Python's SMTP module, but most of the emails I was sending were getting caught by Gmail's spam trap. Using Mailgun to send those emails worked just fine, plus their api is nice.

Just to echo the other commenters here, I've only ever heard the series referred to as the "Elder Scrolls" games.

Well, if engineers can 're-tune' the engines mid-flight, then I suspect those systems are critical.

Sure there's value. The biggest obstacle to cranking up clock speed is heat dissipation. If we can get the heat away from the chip faster, we can increase the clock speed.

Oops. I missed the canary part. You're right.

How do you calculate that chance?

Um. Chrome is offered in both .deb and .rpm (each 32bit and 64 bit).

Strongly reminiscent of Chrome, and I don't think that's a bad thing. Chrome's UI was one of the primary reasons I switched from Firefox.

Any idea what the power output of these things is? I didn't see any information in the article. If they can compete with li-ion in Watts/current/whatever, consider me sold.

I can't wait to buy one! The $35 option looks great!

I dunno. "Hardware" patents allow for people to design something that would require millions of dollars of manufacturing equipment, and still get paid. I think the point of hardware patents is to allow the inventor to license that technology out to companies that have the capability to manufacture the hardware.

Software patents don't have anything like that. All it takes for someone to implement a piece of software is a cheap laptop and time. Everyone can write software (or rather, everyone has the financial capability to do so).

"For its part, JSTOR says it worked with Swartz’s lawyers to get the data back[...]"

Interesting way of putting it. I would have said "removing the data from his possession"

To echo DeBuche, yes, it does.

I type "en<tab>" and then enter my query (in Chrome, at least). Doesn't get much better than that.

However, if I didn't have that feature, I'd probably use Google anyway. Tweaking the CSS won't change that. They'd really have to make Wikipedia's search kick ass in some other way.