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Comment Re:Compatibility (Score 1) 320

by hag3r (#55236713) Attached to: Bill Gates Says He's Sorry About Control-Alt-Delete

By the way, why is there no "lock screen" option in Windows 10 "Power" options (lower left when you press Windows button)? One still has to use Ctrl+Alt+Del to lock the screen. Gates admitted it was a silly convention several years ago, so why make it the only obvious choice in 10? (Lock is under the "user" icon, which is not intuitive; it should be with the logout, shutdown, sleep, etc. options)

I agree, there probably should be an option to lock the screen there. However, Win+L is a pretty convenient way to lock the screen, no?

Submission + - Middle-click Paste? Not For Long

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Select to copy and middle-click to paste. That's very convenient usability feature associated with UNIX graphical environments. But it is confusing for new users, so the ability to middle-click paste was briefly removed from GNOME 3.10. It was restored few days later, but with clear message: middle-click paste will be permanently removed from next GNOME version.

Submission + - Terrorist Murder In London Could Revive Snooper's Charter (techweekeurope.co.uk)

Submitted by judgecorp
judgecorp writes: Supporters of the Communications Data Bill (also known as the Snooper's Charter) have lost no time in calling for the Bill to be revived, in response to yesterday's brutal murder of a soldier on the streets of Woolwich, South London. The Bill would have allowed monitoring of all online communications — including who people contact and what websites they visit — but was shelved after Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg opposed it, effectively splitting Britain's coalition government on the issue. Now the fear of new terrorism could rekindle support, based on the argument that even "lone wolf" attackers use the Internet.

Submission + - Julian Assange Closer to Packing His Bags (cnn.com) 1

Submitted by JakartaDean
JakartaDean writes: Julian Assange lost his appeal before Britain's Supreme Court on Wednesday, which takes him another step closer to extradition to Sweden for questioning on sexual abuse accusations filed against him in August 2010.
But the court will allow Assange's attorneys to file a petition for the court to reconsider the ruling, which upheld an extradition order handed down in February 2011.
Hardware

Submission + - Researcher develops world's first integrated chemical chip (gizmag.com)

Submitted by cylonlover
cylonlover writes: While the silicon chips found in the electronic devices that we rely on every day are built around the flow of electrons through circuits, with the development of an “integrated chemical chip,” a doctoral student in Organic Electronics at Sweden’s Linköping University has created the basis for an entirely new circuit technology based on the transmission of ions and molecules. Like silicon-based chips, the integrated chemical chip contains logic gates, such as NAND gates, that form the basis of digital electronics by allowing for the construction of all logical functions.

Comment Re:yay! (Score 5, Informative) 94

by hag3r (#38224744) Attached to: Fate Saves Workprint of <em>Manos: The Hands of Fate</em>

Several people involved with the shoot (including the guy who played Torgo) later committed suicide.

AFAIK, the only one from the cast who committed suicide was John Reynolds (Torgo). It is speculated that the things he wore on his legs permanently injured his knees during the shoot, and that the pain later on drove him to commit suicide.

That anyone else involved in the shoot killed themselves afterwards is most likely just a myth.

Submission + - Dennis Ritchie has passed on (theregister.co.uk)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Dennis Ritchie just passed away. I can think of nothing to say that you don't already know about him, except that once he claimed he'd never been a member of the Demigodic party. He was, of course, quite wrong. I feel like a pillar of the world has just broken.
Unix

Submission + - Dennis Ritchie, 1941-2011 (boingboing.net)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Computer scientist Dennis Ritchie is reported to have died at his home this past weekend, after a long battle against an unspecified illness. No further details are available at the time of this blog post. [...]
The news of Ritchie's death was first made public by way of Rob Pike's Google+.
Programming

Submission + - Dennis Ritchie, co-creator of Unix and C, has died (i-programmer.info) 5

Submitted by mikejuk
mikejuk writes: Dennis Ritchie the designer and original developer of both the C programming language, and co-creator of Unix has died at age 71 after prolonged illness.
It seems incredible from today's perspective that two people, motivated mainly by enthusiasm, should develop both an operating system and a programming language but that's exactly what Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thomson achieved.
Unix and the Unix way of doing things eventually transmuted into Linux and is now the server OS that powers industry and the Internet.
C on the other hand has been the basis for all of the C-like languages we all know and use every day — Java, C# and of course C++. Whenever you write a three-parameter for loop, for(init;test;inc), you owe a debt to C and should think of the fun that Dennis Ritchie had inventing it and making it all work.

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