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Re:Bending Over Backwards on Thursday March 10, 2011 @11:54PM (#2312178)
Great, a review of a review.
Re:Two Conspiracy Theories on Friday December 03, 2010 @04:40AM (#1965293)
Government probably thought you were getting too powerful
Re:Artificial life forms evolve basic intelligence on Friday August 06, 2010 @11:54PM (#1583026)
Here comes Skynet
Re:"Login" is not a verb on Thursday June 17, 2010 @10:31PM (#1441134)
If it walks like a duck....
Re:Mercurial (hg) with Dropbox on Wednesday May 12, 2010 @05:45AM (#1340588)
I've been doing this for a while with git as a result of reading this post: http://www.cimgf.com/2008/06/03/version-control-makes-you-a-...

works good..

Re:Fiverr: What Amazon's Mechanical Turk Should Have Been Like on Wednesday April 28, 2010 @09:53AM (#1301532)
'I will send a torrent of undirected twitter/facebook spam on your behalf for $5'
Re:CloudApp is live on Thursday April 01, 2010 @11:39PM (#1235957)
boringgggggg - does anyone get new ideas anymore?
There's a fictional account of this experiment in one of Neal Stephenson's books - Quicksilver I think. It's good.
Re:Let There Be Light on Tuesday November 17, 2009 @02:28PM (#947059)
The chlorophyll in green vegetation reflects shit loads of near infra-red radiation but hardly any red so surfaces with a high infra-red to red reflectance ratio are likely to contain green vegetation. its called NDVI (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normalized_Difference_Vegetatio...) and its a very common way of detecting vegetation on earth from space. Don't know how well it'd work when you're just looking at a tiny planet billions of miles away tho...