Comment Re:Good (Score 1) 125
For me it was the requirement to have a PayPal account. I would have given them money almost any other way but I will never go back to PayPal.
Comment Summary comes to serisouly flawsed conclusion (Score 1) 275
I am surprised that the summary goes anywhere near laying this at Snowden's feet. Even if it was his intention to give Russia the ammo it wants to help push for a Un takeover of the Internet, the _USA_ did the spying in the first place. Lay blame where it is due people.
Comment Re:Invest in shaving soap instead (Score 1) 240
Brilliant, I haven't laughed that hard early in the morning in a long time. If only I had mod points...
Comment Re:Why support proprietary systems? (Score 1) 81
The Nexus 10 is larger, higher-res and better specced at $85 more (comparing ad-free).
I'll willing spend that much to vote with my wallet for an open, customizable device; not for one which is laden with commercials, locked to a single provider and essentially wants you to consume content only. I certainly don't want it to become like a portable TV, for viewing certain sanctioned content only.
You have an interesting definition of open...
Comment Re:No Good (Score 1) 553
You must be new here...
Comment Thanks for all the fish (Score 1) 339
I never though I'd see the day when MBA's started to run /.
Thanks for the good times, but I came here for the "News for Nerds, Stuff that Matters" not the buzzword-flinging, know-nothings that slide out of business school.
Thanks for the good times, but I came here for the "News for Nerds, Stuff that Matters" not the buzzword-flinging, know-nothings that slide out of business school.
Submission + - RIM co-CEO cries "No Fair" on security question (bbc.co.uk)
bulled writes: When asked about letting governments in Asia and the Middle East into the "secure" message service used by their Blackberry devices, Mike Lazaridis, the co-chief executive or RIM, walks out on the interview and says "We've dealt with this, the question is no fair." By dealt with, we can only assume he meant "been paid handsomely to let governments read what they wish."
Comment Funny coming from Mr. Patent Troll Himself (Score 1) 249
Pot this is kettle...
Comment Re:GPL is the problem (Score 1) 1075
The BSD license is more concerned with "your" freedom while the GPL is more concerned with "mine". The GPL guarantees that everyone involved with a particular piece of GPL'd code will all have the same rights as the first user/distributor did. No one can take rights present for that particular code away.
The BSD license makes no such promise, I can take some or all of your project, redistribute without source, and keep all modifications. Now the user of this derivative project doesn't have the same rights as the distributor of said project did. This situation is not possible with the GPL.
Use whatever license you want, neither is _more_ free as they both remove rights (the GPL from the distributor and the BSD from the user).
Comment Re: iTunes (another option) (Score 1) 361
Except that Apple doesn't seem to believe in people holding media on a network mountable device and not local so any time I start iTunes it hangs the process for days doing the Gapless analysis on my mp3 library. iTunes is garbage for anything but the most simple configuration.
Comment $10mil is a drop in the bucket (Score 1) 263
It is likely an order of magnitude or 2 less than the value of the business earned by this bribe. So what IBM has learned here is that SEC fines are simply another cost of doing business with PRC and South Korea.
Submission + - Apple Snow Leopard Kernel defaults to 32 bit (cnet.com)
bulled writes: CNET reports that OSX 10.6 will boot into a 32 bit kernel by default unless the user holds the '6' and '4' keys down during startup. The same report notes that machines with a 32 bit EFI chipset will be prevented from booting the 64 bit kernel. No reason was given for the latter decision.
Submission + - Yahoo revives pay-per-email, with charitable twist
holy_calamity writes: "Yahoo research have started a private beta of a scheme that resurrects the idea of charging people to send email to cut spam. Centmail users pay $0.01 for each message they send, with the money going to a charity of their choice. The hope is that the feel good effect of donating to charity will reduce the perceived cost of paying for mail and encourage mass adoption, making it possible for mail filters to build in recognition of Centmail stamps."
Submission + - Ice-Core Researchers Need to Chill Out
Hugh Pickens writes: "Ice cores, containing tiny bubbles of trapped air allowing scientists to measure the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere from hundreds of thousands of years ago, are one of the most useful research tools for studying climatic parameters such as air temperature, precipitation rate, and solar radiation so that scientists can identify the natural cycles in global warming and cooling. Now Nature reports that the cores, drilled at multi-million-dollar expense from polar and glacial ice, are in danger of losing some of their value because of a lack of proper storage facilities. Oxygen in the cores is gradually lost when cores are stored at -20 to -30 degrees C, the standard temperature of current cold-storage facilities in the United States and Europe resulting in higher ratios of nitrogen to oxygen that can distort the conclusions scientists draw from them. In 2005, Japanese researchers showed that colder storage temperatures could mitigate this gas loss and the ice-core storage facility at the National Institute of Polar Research in Tokyo was subsequently upgraded with technology used to maintain cold stores for high-grade tuna at -50 degrees C. Now US researchers are seeking roughly $5 million to rebuild cold-storage facilities at the US Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory in Hanover, New Hampshire, which would also have its storage capacity increased by about 25%. In the interim, Jeffrey Severinghaus, an IPICS steering-committee member from the Scripps Institute of Oceanography says some institutions like his are building smaller units to keep parts of cores at -50 degrees C. These units can be created for about $15,000, but the necessary freezer adaptations void warranties and there are concerns that keeping sections of ice cores in many different locations may hamper researchers' access."
Submission + - Software suggestions for coprorate lobby LCD? 5
xjohnx writes: I have been tasked with configuring a flat screen in our corporate lobby. The business wants this screen to display things like a news ticker along the bottom, local weather, our current stock price, etc. Simply put, a dashboard of information dynamically updated and populated primarily by RSS feeds, and a couple of user updated or static fields. Think something along the lines of what you see every day in banks, malls, etc. There does not need to be any viewer interaction with the device.
I thought there would be a number of open source solutions to do just this, however my research thus far has only revealed commercial solutions, most of which are sold as an appliance and bundled with a hosting service.
Ideally, I would like to be able to run this on our own hardware and handle all hosting and configuration internally. Does anyone have experience with any open source or software only solutions?
I thought there would be a number of open source solutions to do just this, however my research thus far has only revealed commercial solutions, most of which are sold as an appliance and bundled with a hosting service.
Ideally, I would like to be able to run this on our own hardware and handle all hosting and configuration internally. Does anyone have experience with any open source or software only solutions?
