Dan Berte is Bourgeois.

Clueful is not your typical mobile security app. It gives you...

Mon, 28 May 2012 13:28:00 +0300

Clueful is not your typical mobile security app. It gives you clues about your apps on how they access your most private data.

Really know your apps!
Get Clueful now: itunes.apple.com/us/app/clueful/id512467899?mt=8

Clueful is a Bitdefender product. About Bitdefender:
Bitdefender is the creator of one of the world’s fastest and most effective lines of internationally certified internet security software. Since 2001, the company has been an industry pioneer, introducing and developing award-winning protection. Today, Bitdefender technology secures the digital experience of around 400 million home and corporate users across the globe.

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Sat, 19 May 2012 22:53:52 +0300

Numa’ zic.

Sat, 19 May 2012 22:23:44 +0300

Numa’ zic.

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Wed, 16 May 2012 02:23:55 +0300

The Big Bang Theory SE5/EP24 vanity card.

Wed, 16 May 2012 02:13:25 +0300

The Big Bang Theory SE5/EP24 vanity card.

Ca de obicei ce-mi sare în ochi e că Facebook are de două ori mai multi vizitatori decât...

Tue, 01 May 2012 18:34:45 +0300

Ca de obicei ce-mi sare în ochi e că Facebook are de două ori mai multi vizitatori decât Wikipedia.

Afine radioactive din Polonia

Tue, 01 May 2012 18:11:24 +0300

食品小売りの明治屋（東京都中央区）が４月にオーストリアの業者から輸入しようとしたブルーベリージャム３個から、放射性セシウムの新基準値を超える１キログラム当たり１４０～２２０ベクレルが検出され、厚生労働省が荷の積み戻しなどを指示していた。

140 to 220 becquerels/kg of radioactive cesium was detected in the three jars of blueberry jam that food retailer Maiji-ya (Chuo-ku, Tokyo) was about to import from an Austrian distributor in April. The Ministry of Health and Welfare ordered the company to send back the shipment.

　輸入時の検査で判明した。商品は流通していない。輸入食品で新基準値を超えたのは初。

It was revealed by the import inspection, and the products are not sold in the market. This was the first time that imported food exceeded the new safety limit.

　ブルーベリーの原産国はポーランドで、明治屋は輸入する予定だったジャム約１千個全てを返品する。

The blueberries were grown in Poland. Meiji-ya will return all 1,000 jars that it planned to import.

　輸入食品のセシウムの規制値は３月までは同３７０ベクレルで、４月から新基準値の１００ベクレルが適用された。東京電力福島第１原発の事故後、３７０ベクレルを超えた輸入食品はなかった。

The safety limit for radioactive cesium for imported food was 370 becquerels/kg until the end of March, but starting April it is 100 becquerels/kg. Since the Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant accident, there has been no imported food that was found with more than 370 becquerels/kg of radioactive cesium.

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Sun, 29 Apr 2012 00:14:20 +0300

Debris map inside Reactor 4 spent fuel pool, Fukushima Daichi

Wed, 25 Apr 2012 01:55:00 +0300

Hubble turns 22 today.

Wed, 25 Apr 2012 01:52:20 +0300

Hubble turns 22 today.

You get a bracelet, then

Mon, 23 Apr 2012 01:21:00 +0300

Nucular

Sun, 22 Apr 2012 12:03:49 +0300

“We spent ten times more money for PR campaigns than we did for real safety measures. It’s a terrible thing, says Sato”. - http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2012/04/20/fukushima-daiichi/

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Wed, 04 Apr 2012 20:53:00 +0300

Nexus S

iPhone 4S

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have your pick.

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Thu, 29 Mar 2012 00:45:38 +0300

On march 7, Dutch astronaut André Kupiers took this picture...

Tue, 27 Mar 2012 19:42:21 +0300

On march 7, Dutch astronaut André Kupiers took this picture from the ISS, showing the 50 kilometers wide rock formation called Eye of Africa. The structure sits in Mauritania, at the Sahara desert, and can only be seen from space.

Source: NASA, ESA & itsfullofstars

Tokyo Soil Samples Would Be Considered Nuclear Waste In The US

Tue, 27 Mar 2012 01:31:25 +0300

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"Cred că mori atunci când încetezi să mai fii curios."

Sun, 18 Mar 2012 04:41:36 +0200

“Cred că mori atunci când încetezi să mai fii curios.”

Akin's Laws of Spacecraft Design

Sat, 17 Mar 2012 10:06:27 +0200

Engineering is done with numbers. Analysis without numbers is only an opinion.
To design a spacecraft right takes an infinite amount of effort. This is why it’s a good idea to design them to operate when some things are wrong.
Design is an iterative process. The necessary number of iterations is one more than the number you have currently done. This is true at any point in time.
Your best design efforts will inevitably wind up being useless in the final design. Learn to live with the disappointment.
(Miller’s Law) Three points determine a curve.
(Mar’s Law) Everything is linear if plotted log-log with a fat magic marker.
At the start of any design effort, the person who most wants to be team leader is least likely to be capable of it.
n nature, the optimum is almost always in the middle somewhere. Distrust assertions that the optimum is at an extreme point.
Not having all the information you need is never a satisfactory excuse for not starting the analysis.
When in doubt, estimate. In an emergency, guess. But be sure to go back and clean up the mess when the real numbers come along.
Sometimes, the fastest way to get to the end is to throw everything out and start over.
There is never a single right solution. There are always multiple wrong ones, though.
Design is based on requirements. There’s no justification for designing something one bit “better” than the requirements dictate.
(Edison’s Law) “Better” is the enemy of “good”.
(Shea’s Law) The ability to improve a design occurs primarily at the interfaces. This is also the prime location for screwing it up.
The previous people who did a similar analysis did not have a direct pipeline to the wisdom of the ages. There is therefore no reason to believe their analysis over yours. There is especially no reason to present their analysisasyours.
The fact that an analysis appears in print has no relationship to the likelihood of its being correct.
Past experience is excellent for providing a reality check. Too much reality can doom an otherwise worthwhile design, though.
The odds are greatly against you being immensely smarter than everyone else in the field. If your analysis says your terminal velocity is twice the speed of light, you may have invented warp drive, but the chances are a lot better that you’ve screwed up.
A bad design with a good presentation is doomed eventually. A good design with a bad presentation is doomed immediately.
(Larrabee’s Law) Half of everything you hear in a classroom is crap. Education is figuring out which half is which.
When in doubt, document. (Documentation requirements will reach a maximum shortly after the termination of a program.)
The schedule you develop will seem like a complete work of fiction up until the time your customer fires you for not meeting it.
It’s called a “Work Breakdown Structure” because the Work remaining will grow until you have a Breakdown, unless you enforce some Structure on it.
(Bowden’s Law) Following a testing failure, it’s always possible to refine the analysis to show that you really had negative margins all along.
(Montemerlo’s Law) Don’t do nuthin’ dumb.
(Varsi’s Law) Schedules only move in one direction.
(Ranger’s Law) There ain’t no such thing as a free launch.
(von Tiesenhausen’s Law of Program Management) To get an accurate estimate of final program requirements, multiply the initial time estimates by pi, and slide the decimal point on the cost estimates one place to the right.
(von Tiesenhausen’s Law of Engineering Design) If you want to have a maximum effect on the design of a new engineering system, learn to draw. Engineers always wind up designing the vehicle to look like the initial artist’s concept.
(Mo’s Law of Evolutionary Development) You can’t get to the moon by climbing successively taller trees.
(Atkin’s Law of Demonstrations) When the hardware is working perfectly, the really important visitors don’t show up.
(Patton’s Law of Program Planning) A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan next week.
(Roosevelt’s Law of Task Planning) Do what you can, where you are, with what you have.
(de Saint-Exupery’s Law of Design) A designer knows that he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
Any run-of-the-mill engineer can design something which is elegant. A good engineer designs systems to be efficient. Agreatengineer designs them to be effective.
(Henshaw’s Law) One key to success in a mission is establishing clear lines of blame.
Capabilities drive requirements, regardless of what the systems engineering textbooks say.
The three keys to keeping a new manned space program affordable and on schedule:
       1)  No new launch vehicles.
       2)  No new launch vehicles.
       3)  Whatever you do, don’t decide to develop any new launch vehicles
Space is a completely unforgiving environment. If you screw up the engineering, somebody dies (and there’s no partial credit becausemostof the analysis was right…)

N-am încredere într-o aplicație care se laudă cu designul și atenția pentru detalii dar care, pe...

Thu, 15 Mar 2012 12:15:00 +0200

N-am încredere într-o aplicație care se laudă cu designul și atenția pentru detalii dar care, pe App Store, pune așa screenshot-uri de amatori. E vorba de Sparrow.

Piece of shit.

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Fri, 02 Mar 2012 20:26:04 +0200