Comment More then one NELL (Score -1) 272
They should startup 2 NELL's at exactly the same time and see how the 2 evolve relative from each other. Now THAT would be interesting stuff!
They should have different colors thought. To keep them apart
Comment move all data to (Score -1) 98
/dev/null
'The' Aliens do that too, they told me in a short radio message received through one of seti's dishes.
Comment smarter, dumber (Score -1) 138
Smarter as a whole, dumber as an individual.
Comment FOX (Score -1) 2044
You believe fox. ? That's funny! Fox will never agree with your administration coz it sells.
Comment 2 choices (Score -1) 651
- You don't start helping and let go
or
- you don't stop helping till the end.
Yet you will never know if you took the right choice for the right reasons.
Why Oracle Can't Easily Kill PostgreSQL 279
ruphus13 writes "Claiming that 'PostgreSQL is a FOSS alternative to MySQL and hence Oracle should be allowed to pursue MySQL' is a specious argument, according to Monty Widenius. He fears that Oracle, or someone else, can easily squash PostgreSQL by just 'buying out' the top 20 developers. The Postgre community has fired back, calling that claim ridiculous. According to the article, 'PostgreSQL as a project is pretty healthy, and shows how vulnerable projects like MySQL are to the winds of change. PostgreSQL could die tomorrow, if a huge group of its contributors dropped out for one reason or another and the remainder of the community didn't take up the slack. But that's exceedingly unlikely. The existing model for PostgreSQL development ensures that no single entity can control it, it can't be purchased, and if someone decides to fork the project, the odds are that the remaining community would be strong enough to continue without a serious glitch.'"
Politicians Worldwide Asking Questions About ACTA 101
An anonymous reader writes "Legislators around the world are demanding more information on the secret Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement. US Senator Ron Wyden demanded answers in a letter to the USTR (PDF) this week, ACTA arose in the UK House of Commons yesterday,
and French Deputy Nicolas Dupont-Aignan raised ACTA questions in the National Assembly late last year. All of this comes on top of earlier efforts from Swedish Member of the European Parliament Jens Holm, as well as New Zealand MP Clare Curran, who has repeatedly raised concerns about ACTA, and NDP MP Charlie Angus, who posed questions about ACTA in the Canadian House of Commons late last year."
GameStop Selling Games Played By Employees As New 243
Kotaku reports on a practice by GameStop which allows employees to "check out" new copies of video games, play them, then return them to be sold as new. Quoting:
"When a shipment of video games initially arrives at a store, managers are told to 'gut' several copies of the game, removing the disc or cartridge from the packaging so it can be displayed on the shelf without concern of theft, according to our sources. The games are then placed in protective sleeves or cases under the counter. If a customer asks why the game is not sealed they are typically told the the game is a display copy. The game is still sold as new. When check-out games are returned, we were told, they are placed with the gutted display copies. If a customer asks about these, they are typically told they are display copies, not that they have been played before. Since the copies are often placed with display copies, even managers and employees typically don't know which of these games have been played and which haven't."
Comment It is what it is (Score -1) 852
The story is what it is. Nothing more and nothing less. I'm glad they break the 'circle' concept by not giving the cylons the resurection technology. From that point the end was predictable.
Douglas Adams' "the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy" predicted it all. The answer will remain 42 for a very very long time to come.
Robot Love Goes Bad 101
hundredrabh writes "Ever had a super needy girlfriend that demanded all your love and attention and would freak whenever you would leave her alone? Irritating, right? Now imagine the same situation, only with an asexual third-generation humanoid robot with 100kg arms. Such was the torture subjected upon Japanese researchers recently when their most advanced robot, capable of simulating human emotions, ditched its puppy love programming and switched over into stalker mode. Eventually the researchers had to decommission the robot, with a hope of bringing it back to life again."
Comment Man down (Score -1) 605
It seems to be easy to knock some more on Hans while he is down already. I don't know if he did what they say he did. it seems to be VERY complex (the trial) and... it seems that he was found guilty.
I'm using ReiserFS3 for a _LOT_ of years now and indeed everything is fine until something goes wrong. I had a LVM with Reiser on top and one bad disk. I paid the reiser team â50 to look @ it. They looked and told me step by step what to do. (buy new same disk, DD the disk, ...) I only lost partial data from the disk that was broken. So no complaining about support.
I for one find it a pitty if we'll should never see ReiserFS4 finished. The modular architecture is very nifty.
I'm using ReiserFS3 for a _LOT_ of years now and indeed everything is fine until something goes wrong. I had a LVM with Reiser on top and one bad disk. I paid the reiser team â50 to look @ it. They looked and told me step by step what to do. (buy new same disk, DD the disk,
I for one find it a pitty if we'll should never see ReiserFS4 finished. The modular architecture is very nifty.
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