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Actually, The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy says it in its introduction. "Space," it says, "is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly hugely mindboggingly big it is…

"Method and device to remotely deploy a stack of patent applications to block the passage of moving vehicles at a designated intersection"?

I can't believe UK has only two companies (the Royal Non-Software Company and the Royal Software Company?). Apply for other positions in other software companies. Even non-software…

We could call her Bacteria Zero and build a whole religion around her life and times...

A new attack on Windows machines. In the immortal words of the Slayer, "Dawn is in danger. It must be Tuesday."

It's worth reading the Abstract Heresies' entry that turned my attention to this paper: http://funcall.blogspot.com/2010/05/c-vs-lisp.html (After giving it a thought I posted this …

It reads somewhat like "The Occult for The Arcane", doesn't it?

Am I getting too old and grumpy or are the kids today getting too young and clueless? For the sake of Odin, it's Monday - even the Sumerians had problems with incompatible newline …

There are an infinite set of mathematical tricks available here, some of them so obfuscated that enforcement would probably need a few years to catch up. Not to forget that printin…

Allright. It can run the Control Panel applet. What else? Notepad? At the same time?

I predict you will get a great deal of pythonic fire. Nevertheless, I find it very nice that you plan to deal with the specific libraries you're using in the next posts. The greate…

I think I will need a botnet to fill that form...Anyone renting?

I had two issues, one during the upgrade process, the second with proprietary wireless network drivers. I upgraded a 3-years old HP laptop from Windows XP. My initial plan was to m…

I would tend to believe that some significant portion of CIA tasks would require (or at least largely benefit from) some form of security clearance elsewhere in the world, which in…

Pretty accurate, as far as predictive articles go (even "very near-future predictive articles"). Funnily conservative sometimes - it never sees the "all of them, for free" option a…

Is it only me or the whole article reads, smells and looks like an hoax? Consider the evidence: a) "... are tuning the strength of the laser so that it kills mosquitoes without har…

Oh, my. It is free as in "freedom", you idiot, not free as in "gratis", RMS would tell you. And he would be right. You've debunked only your own misunderstanding of the problem...

The cable nightmare should be enough to open up anyone's eyes. There's a line somewhere that companies should not cross in their willingness to protect their investments.. Apple tr…

Let's just hope something so expensive will at least give our species some control over the world we live in. Oh, wait...