Comment If you pay people not to work (Score 1) 1022
they won't.
Comment failsafe (Score 1) 250
failsafe: I don't think that means what you think it means.
Comment Oh, there's a big surprise! (Score 1) 189
Obligatory Aladdin reference.
Submission + - Sarah Brightman Outbid NASA? 1
RocketAcademy writes: "ABC News is reporting that Phantom of the Opera singer/actress Sarah Brightman outbid NASA for a seat on a Soyuz flight to the International Space Station. Brightman reportedly paid more than $51 million.
If that story is true, there may be some interesting bidding wars in the future."
If that story is true, there may be some interesting bidding wars in the future."
Submission + - Shakedowns to Fix Negative Online Reviews (ksl.com)
unjedai writes: A company is putting horrible reviews of small business online, and then offering to improve the company's reputation and take the reviews off for a fraction of the cost that a real reputation improvement company would charge. Sierra West received a call from a "reputation improvement company" telling them they had a negative review online and that the company would take the review offline if Sierra West paid $500. "Of course when someone is offering $500 the day (the bad review) goes up seemed not legitimate."
Submission + - Exoplanets form never-seen-before celestial alignment (newscientist.com)
CelestialScience writes: The heavens have aligned in a way never seen before, with two exoplanets overlapping as they cross their star. Teruyuki Hirano of the University of Tokyo, Japan, and colleagues used data from the Kepler space telescope to probe KOI-94, a star seemingly orbited by four planets. It seems that one planet candidate, KOI-94.03, passed in front of the star and then the innermost candidate, KOI-94.01, passed between the two. The phenomenon is so new it doesn't yet have a name though suggestions include "planet-planet eclipse", "double transit", "syzygy" and "exosyzygy".
Submission + - IETF starts work on next-generation HTTP standard (networkworld.com)
alphadogg writes: With an eye towards updating the Web to better accommodate complex and bandwidth-hungry applications, the Internet Engineering Task Force has started work on the next generation of HTTP, the underlying protocol for the Web. "It's official: We're working on HTTP/2.0," wrote IETF Hypertext Transfer Protocol working group chair Mark Nottingham, in a Twitter message late Tuesday. The group will use the IETF standard SPDY protocol as the basis for the updated protocol. Engineers at Google developed SPDY as a way to hasten the delivery of Web content over the Internet.
Comment Re:Seriously? (Score 2) 424
Yes, anyone here actually believed this. I guess in your hurry to post, you misread the double-negative in the summary...
turns out there is a not insignificant difference
That's why I don't not dislike double negatives.
Comment Re:Translation? (Score 1) 148
No kidding. What is this "exercise" thingy?
Comment Re:Water is not consumed (Score 1) 379
I don't consume any water either - I just use it and return it to the eco system (minus my small but ever increasing weight gain).
Comment Re:In perspective (Score 1) 380
There's no such thing as an accident
ac ci dent
Noun:
An unfortunate incident that happens unexpectedly and unintentionally, typically resulting in damage or injury.
There are such things as accidents. You're just misunderstanding the definition.
Comment Re:U.S. law is the new international law (Score 1) 1005
Looks like justice.gov is overwhelmed (I'd say slashdotted but this goes beyond slashdot).
Comment Re:I'll stand up and say it: (Score 1) 340
I'll stand up and say that you're wrong - or, since you're judging art, at least in the small minority. That story you linked to praises the movie and gives several reasons why it's in Roger Ebert's list of "Great Movies". You gave no reasons why you think it's horrible. The movie has a very high 8.7 out of 10 stars at IMDB.com based on over 100,000 user ratings. It was nominated for 5 Oscars the year it came out and, although it didn't win any, it has won other awards. Perhaps being in the public domain has helped the movie - but that's not the only reason it's remembered.
Submission + - Moon Dust Back In NASA's Hands (ibtimes.com)
gabbo529 writes: "It's only a speck but some moon dust from the original Apollo 11 mission is back in NASA's hands. The speck of moon dust was only one-eighth of an inch (3 millimeters) wide and was attached to a transparent piece of tape. To an auction house in St. Louis it was worth between $1,000 and $1,500. However, NASA got wind of the dust and was able to get it back."
Submission + - Near-earth asteroid, Monday June 27 (skyandtelescope.com)
TigerNut writes: Asteroid 2011 MD was discovered on June 22 by LINEAR, and its flight path will take it within 8000 miles (12000 km) of Earth. Orbital predictions indicate that its flight path will be significantly altered by this close approach.
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