It is a well-known fact that the adverse health effects of radioactivity were not well-known until the 1930’s, which led to the deaths of a number of scientists who pioneered radiation research. However, I did not realize that in the 1920’s radiation was actually considered good for your health. It seems incredible, from the modern […]
Due to my impending loss of broadband, moved the site from my own machine to a unixshell# virtual server. Kids, I have one thing to say: unixshell# is good. If you want a server with root access, you won’t find better prices. Plus, it’s fast — faster than the 667 MHz machine I was using […]
These are tentacles.
This totally sucks. The ol’ nvidia card is stable as a rock for a year, and then suddenly — well, read the thread for yourself.
These are damn good prices (that’s root access you are looking at).
These are very good developments — arch + git = dooom of bitkeeper.
It’s official: if you are a Democrat-supporting scientist, you are not fit to represent American science abroad.
I have no words.
OK, I have some words. The last time American citizens were banned from scientific bodies for their political party affiliation was during the McCarthy witch hunts of the 1950’s. However, McCarthy at least had a […]
Verity Stob could have been writing about some of the machines in my life… Although I disagree with her in one thing: even after years of use, Linux installs tend to be more-or-less cruft-free.
The internets make us stupid. Looks like /. is not without a sense of irony…
Sen. Santorum is clearly aiming to have an […]
In Ichi the Killer, there is a disturbing scene (one of the many, many disturbing scenes in the movie) where a yakuza is tortured by his rivals by being suspended with fishing hooks passed through the skin on his back. It looked fairly painful; so I was surprised to learn that there are people who […]
Found a fascinating account (via a /. comment) of doctored police video evidence used in the trials of those arrested during the Republican National Convention in New York. Basically, an innocent man gets caught up in the demonstration. He asks a cop for a way out of the riot zone — and the cop arrests […]
The MPAA anti-piracy goons are thoroughly incompetent (and lying bastards, and not above abusing an academic network for non-academic packet sniffing) — but we knew that already, right? Perhaps the **AA’s deserve to have a slime-mold beetle or two named in their honor: Cornell researchers have already named a few species after the crew of […]