Bacon - Nuff' Said...

New Relic moves into real user monitoring

Tue, 17 May 2011 07:25:00 -0700

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If there are any explorers who truly deserve a holiday (sorry, Columbus), it's Armstrong, Aldrin, and Collins.

Tue, 12 Oct 2010 21:40:52 -0700

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star-d on Green Party Candidate for US Senate in MD killed while riding her bicycle, hit by an SUV.

2010-09-22T17:46:01.207279-07:00-0700

"Shipley said investigators are trying to determine whether Pettigrew had reflective clothing on or had operating lights during her pre-dawn ride, but it was not obvious at the scene that she did." Wake-up, cyclists! If you're riding in the dark, you better have lights on your bike, and reflective clothing is even better. And riders who don't have lights on when required by law for motor vehicles ought to be cited.

star-d on Please don't use floating-point types for currency values

2010-09-20T21:45:12.632478-07:00-0700

Intel inside.

star-d on Big Alcohol Donates Money To Fight Legalization Of Pot. When will Big Pizza step up?

2010-09-18T11:35:03.637684-07:00-0700

That's what big petrol did to squelch production and use of ethanol in automobiles, by pushing the US Government to enact prohibition. http://www.stargatezero.com/forum/index.php?topic=2359.0;wap2

Evolving Rails: Retaining Backward Compatibility

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 13:35:32 -0700

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How we can develop clean, renewable, and reliable energy: space based solar power systems.

Sat, 11 Jul 2009 19:02:01 -0700

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star-d on When the people who use tasers on grandmas or illegally wiretap innocent people from the NSA look themselves in the mirror, the person staring back at them is Adolf Hitler. That must be a tough pill to swallow for so many 'Americans' willing to participate in evil... seeing Hitler in themselves.

2009-07-11T12:47:43.921276-07:00-0700

Godwin's law, as explained in The Economist magazine: "A good rule in most discussions is that the first person to call the other a Nazi automatically loses the argument."

star-d on Why not Pyth-on-Rails?

2009-07-10T23:44:47.448146-07:00-0700

Yehuda makes an excellent case for the syntactic elegance of Ruby with respect to metaprogramming. Many features of Rails take advantage of this to add dynamic behavior to classes. While I'm sure that Rails could be implemented in its entirety in Python, I doubt it could be done with the same level of conciseness.

Another software patent struck is struck down by a federal judge, citing Bilski case. This could spell the end of software patents altogether.

Fri, 10 Jul 2009 08:17:33 -0700

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star-d on Where is my Tesla Reddit Alien!?

2009-07-10T08:13:22.153044-07:00-0700

Overlooked? The unit of magnetic flux density (tesla) is named after him. He joins the ranks of Faraday, Ohm, Volta, Ampère, Watt, Newton, Joule, Curie, Kelvin, and Coulomb by being one of the very few scientists that have a unit of measure named in their honor.

star-d on Morpheus before escaping The Matrix.

2009-07-09T07:42:03.837699-07:00-0700

Rubens' exposing himself in an XXX theatre hardly qualifies for "sex offender" status.

A knob floating between a window and the dashboard of Space Shuttle Atlantis got wedged into place after landing. The resulting damage requires repairs so extensive that NASA may scrap Atlantis altogether.

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:13:26 -0700

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star-d on iCrack: The iPhone Is An Accident Magnet

2009-06-23T13:25:30.564371-07:00-0700

Neoprene protection cases are a must. Gelaskins also work without adding the bulk.

Steal from the poor, give to the rich: Fed gives billions of bailouts to banks while stiffing public transit agencies strapped for cash.

Tue, 23 Jun 2009 13:20:55 -0700

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Minnesota Supreme Court clears the way for city of Monticello to build a municipal broadband network

Mon, 22 Jun 2009 14:59:58 -0700

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star-d on The Hut - Pizza Hut's new branding strategy

2009-06-19T15:48:20.230759-07:00-0700

reminds me of Jabba the Hut for some reason...

star-d on Tether any computer (PC or Mac) to an iPhone with 3.0 OS in minutes

2009-06-18T11:17:39.957471-07:00-0700

Works great on 2nd generation iPhones, but it doesn't work at all on the 1st generation model.

star-d on It's the law and it's official. Vancouver, site of the 2010 Winter Olympics, has forbidden police to seize cameras unless part of an arrest, or a warrant has been issued.

2009-06-18T10:47:13.185171-07:00-0700

What about the town of Whistler, where the skiing events will take place?

star-d on Blue Cross of California Accused Of Praising Employees Who Dropped Sick Policyholders

2009-06-17T09:57:39.768298-07:00-0700

"Agreed, but the vast majority of USA voters want it optional and affordable, which of course is impossible." I don't buy that. The only demographic that seems against the idea of mandatory or universal health care is young healthy people (a key Reddit demographic for sure). A CBS/NYT poll two years ago reported 64% of respondents agreed that the US Government should guarantee health care for all: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/03/01/opinion/polls/main2528357.shtml

star-d on Blue Cross of California Accused Of Praising Employees Who Dropped Sick Policyholders

2009-06-17T07:20:33.915017-07:00-0700

Health insurance should be mandatory and affordable. There's already precedence for mandatory insurance. Many states require registered autos to be insured. Many mortgage lenders demand homeowners to carry insurance as well (and in some cases, mortgage insurance as well).

star-d on Senators wonder aloud if only AT&T should be able to sell the iPhone

2009-06-17T07:16:58.538951-07:00-0700

I'm left breathless from the extent the breakup of the AT&T monopoly has been undone. The seven Baby Bells are now merged into three, with AT&T being one of them (recall that the '84 decree severed the parent company from all of the regionals). Long distance as a business has given way to cellular, with AT&T being one of the major players. And regulation has hardly kept up, leaving the Death Star with even more control than it had 25 years ago. That said, hardware manufacturers should be free to make deals with companies as they wish. If Apple wishes to limit its share of the cell market by locking out other US carriers, so be it.

The War on Drugs reaches its 40th anniversary, and the drugs have won.

Tue, 16 Jun 2009 23:56:32 -0700

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star-d on Blue Cross of California Accused Of Praising Employees Who Dropped Sick Policyholders

2009-06-16T23:20:24.005163-07:00-0700

At the very least, we need to outlaw the practice of insurance companies denying coverage on the basis of preexisting conditions and chronic illness.

star-d on While newspapers suffer from falling revenues, Craigslist expects to earn a record $100 million this year

2009-06-11T15:38:34.148695-07:00-0700

Yup, in the same manner Apple's iTunes did with the recording companies.