richardwigley

6 ms·

1.
by richardwigley 11y ago
>> Warners was expecting to have "Happy Birthday" under copyright until 2030. At which time Disney would have extended copyright another 30 years.
2.
by richardwigley 11y ago
The Microcorruption folks are in beta for 'Jailbreak' along the security angle again. They are also doing Stockfigher a trading simulator. https://www.stockfighter.io
3.
by richardwigley 11y ago
Odd and interesting to read. I would have guessed a larger percentage of Russians got their views online. I would also think that most online news written in Russian would be under control of state media. In which case, if they did start to
4.
by richardwigley 11y ago
It's real and in 'development' http://www.imdb.com/news/ni56219676/
5.
by richardwigley 11y ago
14 year old boy is going to meet POTUS and he can bring his cool clock. https://twitter.com/POTUS/status/644193755814342656
6.
by richardwigley 11y ago
>> Disclosure: Jeff Bezos is an investor in Business Insider through his personal investment company Bezos Expeditions. Meh.
7.
by richardwigley 11y ago
Agreed, it would make more sense to use the EU apparatus. The change org was promoted through German pirate party (according to link I followed from here https://juliareda.eu/2015/06/who-is-behind-the-attack-on-fre
8.
by richardwigley 11y ago
There is a petition against it on Change.org .. currently 192,000 signatures.... Now 193.... https://www.change.org/p/european-parliament-save-the-freedo...
9.
by richardwigley 11y ago
>> This thoughtless behaviour reminds me of the thousands of websites which include a "(c) YYYY" copyright notice in their footers, despite this being completely irrelevant in modern copyright law. I'll bite :-) Are yo
10.
by richardwigley 11y ago
Your value to a company is not only what you can do now, but what you can do in the future - If you get acute back ache, burn out and RSI in both paws - you'll be taken out back, like old yeller, and shot. You and your company, need yo
11.
by richardwigley 11y ago
>> "When the data speeds in both directions — downloading and uploading — were the same, there was a lot of electrical interference that slowed data traffic to a crawl. >> ... such meddlesome interference — known as electri
12.
by richardwigley 11y ago
So the op has stopped drinking coffee and was clear of headaches which he thinks is due to Dandy Blend. However, he is still getting a considerable fraction of the caffeine he got previously, but now from tea. If he is still taking the acti
13.
by richardwigley 11y ago
Avoiding processed food should be what Cartman would call 'hippy nonsense'. Unfortunately, many food processors are interested in removing, expensive, nutritious food and replacing them with things that make us 'enjoy food&#x
14.
by richardwigley 11y ago
Authoritative source of information, thanks ;-) I will evaluate it on my next project.
15.
by richardwigley 11y ago
Is Rethink going to stay in the community? Or is there a chance that it could be bought out? I don't want to spend time learning something and have it go private like FoundationDB. I'm assuming GNU and Apache is a good thing? How
16.
by richardwigley 11y ago
As of last year about 12,000 mines - they are trying to close smaller mines which are often illegal and have high death rates. However, they are still expanding capacity [2] - so the closure of mines isn't a good proxy to production of
17.
by richardwigley 12y ago
So, taking the office of national (UK) statistics - in 2013 the growth rate of the population is 0.6%, on 64 million. Giving you 384,000 extra per year - about half of the growth is (births - deaths) and the other half is net migration [1].
18.
by richardwigley 12y ago
The article summaries as 'we eat too much sugar', 'here's some science that suggests it can be bad in rodents', and finally 'maybe you should swear off sugar'. I agree, we eat too much sugar. However, it i
19.
by richardwigley 12y ago
I saw Mail Chimp at $200 a month for 10,000 and thought.. really? However, when I look at Mail Chimp it seems to be $75. So: 10K subscribers, Monthly charge, Unlimited sendlimit Mail Chimp - $75 - http://mailchimp.com/pr
20.
by richardwigley 12y ago
It's a move that makes sense - his business of allowing you to share and download files puts him at odds with authorities. Given this nature of this business his clients would motivated to use secure communications. He will be able to
21.
by richardwigley 12y ago
Evergreen, now there's a euphemism. :-) I appreciate, in the end you have to do what gets you the most views, however, from my perspective missing out the date means you prefer to waste my time as I have to scan the article until I get
22.
by richardwigley 12y ago
His work was ignored, ironically, through a lack of scientific reasoning - by which the critics meant there was no theoretical basis for his evidence. It was taken seriously when Pasteur provided the theory, however, the failure to recognis
23.
by richardwigley 12y ago
From Doc linked from the page: "Dr. Czeisler received royalties from McGraw Hill, Penguin Press/Houghton" [1] It's shaming of the BBC not to have dealt with the findings more critically, rather than regurgitation of the
24.
by richardwigley 12y ago
A major problem for the military is the availability of guns (and people who are effective at firing them). In the UK we used to kill ourselves with gas from the stove (it had carbon monoxide in it) - when gas stopped having carbon monoxide
25.
HIV evolving 'into milder form'(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by richardwigley 12y ago|0 comments
26.
by richardwigley 12y ago
German military texts enciphered on the Enigma machine were first broken by the Polish Cipher Bureau, beginning in December 1932. This success was a result of efforts by three Polish cryptologists, Marian Rejewski, Jerzy Różycki and Henryk
27.
Two Armed Drone Turns Wheel Valve(sciencespacerobots.com)
2 points by richardwigley 12y ago|0 comments
28.
Ebola outbreak: UN calls for $1bn to fight virus(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by richardwigley 12y ago|0 comments
29.
by richardwigley 12y ago
Mealy - I didn't know there was a word for that taste - http://www.thekitchn.com/food-science-what-makes-apples-9570...
30.
by richardwigley 12y ago
"Right now, there are about 1,800 survivors of the current West African outbreak, all of whom are now immune, of course. But there may be many thousands more." Well, that's conjecture, oddly enough, reinfecting people with a

More ›