As you may already be aware, recently the Atheist Founation of Australia and the Global Atheist Convention websites were the target of a significant DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attack, which began on Monday 19 October.
This is a call to all non-believers and advocates for freedom of speech to join us in a global co-ordinated [...]
According to a new study, if HDDs continue to progress at their current pace, then in 2020 a two-disk, 2.5-inch disk drive will be capable of storing more than 14 TB and will cost about $40 (today, a typical 500 GB hard drive costs about $100). Although flash memories have also become popular – with [...]
I’d like to rotate my block into her slot…
Well, it’s been a long time coming, but I have FINALLY finished my Tetris dress, and here it is. A Dress A Day: Finally: Tetris Dress!
Fucking anti gun nuts!
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A shop assistant who was told she could not sing while she stacked shelves without a performance licence has been given an apology.
Sandra Burt, 56, who works at A&T Food store in Clackmannanshire, was warned she could be fined for her singing by the Performing Right Society (PRS).
However the organisation that collects royalties on behalf [...]
At the beginning of the month, Stephen Hawking retired from the prestigious position of Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge, after 30 years in the chair once occupied by Sir Isaac Newton. His could scarcely been a harder act to follow, and the person to take on that challenge has now been [...]
A pair of physicists has shown that computers have a speed limit as unbreakable as the speed of light. If processors continue to accelerate as they have in the past, we’ll hit the wall of faster processing in less than a century.
Computers Faster Only for 75 More Years | Research – ISNS
We are proud to announce the second major release of Core, Jane Street’s alternative to OCaml’s standard library. This release also includes Core_extended, which adds new functionality such as subcommand style command line argument handling, a procfs interface, readline support, and more. Core_extended is used heavily at Jane Street, but not systematically code reviewed in [...]
The periodic table has been stamped into the minds of countless generations of schoolchildren. Immediately recognised and universally adopted, it has long since achieved iconic status.
So why change it? According to Mohd Abubakr from Microsoft Research in Hyderabad, the table can be improved by arranging it in circular form. He says this gives a sense [...]
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