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> I remember doing research on FEC codes back in 2003-2004 for developing a protocol for sending large files over satellite links to multicast recipients when I was working for Sma…

This could be demo'd very easily by gluing together: udpcast ( http://www.udpcast.linux.lu/satellite.html ) -> Sends/receives files over UDP. Supports FEC. netcat -> Join file I/O …

> Fourth: Related to point two really: A lot of you seem to have little actual ambition of making things better, I guess that is what happens if you grow up in a bazaar and never e…

How do you find this kind of routine meshes with the sleeping patterns of your social circle? I've always been interested in trying something like this, just to see what it's like.…

I agree. Websites that do this are awful, Google Plus is guilty of this. Re combo-boxing the language list: Wikipedia is the most successful multi-language website by far. Highligh…

Surprised this isn't on the front page. It even has a lead Kickstarter developer behind it.

Though I do agree about BlackBerrys consumer prospects, any business with a few thousand deployments will probably be interested. Python+Qt look like a nice combination for rapid '…

From the Wikipedia article on Leap Seconds: > Because the Earth's rotation speed varies in response to climatic and geological events, UTC leap seconds are irregularly spaced and u…

It seems they are quoting an article from rechargenews.com [1] which erroneously adds this "steam before condensation" stage. Reading the skimpy tech specs of the "WMS1000 Wind Tur…

I enjoy looking at these trends every year, but what a painfully designed website. Does this really need to be an overkill javascript "Web application" for what can easily be rende…

I don't know too much about how the Canonical maintenance process works, but I imagine for all the server packages maintainers have to backport all new security and bug patches tha…

People here may be interested in this. "Creativity in Mathematics, pt. 1 of 3, Inquiry-Based Learning (IBL) and the Moore Method" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLVTV-vXJBg I think…

Fascinating, and interesting similarities. I did not know much about Usenet, so I went to the Wikipedia page and found this: ISP-operated Usenet servers frequently block access to …

equipping China with the skilled professionals it needs to produce the weapons of war to threaten the free world. Do you think they really need technology? They have a population o…

I used to work with someone from China and, like you say above, she viewed the government as the same kind of benevolent infrastructure provider as I do mine. I think its overambit…

> it would be fascinating if someone came up with the analog equivalent to a CLB in an FPGA and an HDL for describing non-linear computation What you have described do indeed exist…