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Comment Re:Piracy is the answer (Score 1) 378

Honest question: Is that illegal? It could be argued that it is a mechanism of time-shifting, but from my past reading, the mechanism of distribution determines legality so downloading content that even you pay for (e.g. HBO Shows) would be illegal because it is a different distribution mechanism. Any thoughts? I'd love to download a show that I forgot to Tivo, but I'm under the impression that it is against current law.
Hardware

Submission + - Linus Gives the Finger. Declares Nvidia "single worst company" to ever work with (phoronix.com)

sl4shd0rk writes: While speaking at the Aalto Center for Entrepreneurship in Otaniemi, Finland, Linus Torvalds, the creator of Linux, declared NVIDIA the "single worst company we have ever dealt with" and finishing up the statement with the middle finger (accompanied by expected related vocalization). Torvalds was apparently fed up with NVIDIA's lack of friendliness towards open-source and the Linux community mentioning he is more than happy to publicly point them out along with their problems.
Linux

Submission + - BTRFS vs EXT3 vs EXT4 vs XFS performance on Fedora 17 (ilsistemista.net)

An anonymous reader writes: Linux filesystems are a moving target: each new kernel release can potentially alter their performance and reliability. So, its interesting to periodically measure filesystems performance. This time, I used the newly-released Fedora 17 (amd64 version, 3.4.x kernel branch). We already know the contenders:

ext3, the classic Linux filesystem
ext4, the natural ext3 successor as default Linux filesystem
xfs, an high performance filesystem designed with scalability in mind
btrfs, the new, actively developed, feature-rich filesystem (which, recently, has been propesed as the new Linux default filesystem)

Comment what was the intent of this poll? (Score 1) 170

I really wish this poll didn't put in "video entertainment" as an option as television is video entertainment. I would have like that in a different poll. I think it skews the result. I wonder what the true intent of the poll was. hulu vs. television, mp3 downloads vs streaming music, etc... My video entertainment is > 95% television but my music entertainment is 100% streaming.
Google

Submission + - Google Maps to charge for usage (bbc.co.uk)

Entropy98 writes: Google is to start charging websites that use the Google Maps API $4 per 1000 pageviews.

With the Google Translate API scheduled to become a paid service in December what other Google APIs might be next?

Google

Submission + - Bob Woodward says: Gulf Oil spill? Call in Google. (techflash.com)

dakotamangus writes: John Cook notes on Tech Flash: "Veteran journalist Bob Woodward — appearing on NBC's 'Meet the Press' this morning — offered a stunning statement about how to address the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. '...Why don't they call in Google?' Woodward asked at one point. 'Why don't they call in some of these people who have these great minds to fix it?' What's interesting about Woodward's remark is it shows just how far Google has come in establishing itself as the place where super smart people hang out. You didn't hear Woodward say: 'Call in Microsoft' or 'Call in Apple.'"

Submission + - Ask Slashdot: Centralized Management of iPads

yubb writes: I work with many school districts where Windows is only server and desktop OS in sight. We build networks this way so we have a centralized place for deploying apps, applying security policies and for ease of management.

With the release of the iPad, everyone suddenly realized that they needed tablets. With this "realization" comes another layer of management. I just lost all of the tools I had previously used to manage the network and its devices. There is LDAP integration for iPad, but it seems limited to mail/contacts. Without LDAP integration I lose the ability to easily give users access to their network shares and other network resources.

Another major hurdle is authenticating the iPad users with our content filter so they get the same policies as they're accustomed to on their desktop. Our content filter utilizes Active Directory and since the iPads don't login to AD, they don't get the right filtering policy.

The administrators in the school districts seem set on the iPad and not really open to any alternatives like the Archos netbook/tablet: http://www.archos.com/products/nb/archos_9/index.html?country=us&lang=en Although they claim that they want to explore the iPad because it will revolutionize education, not being open to other options seems to indicate otherwise. It seems Apple's slick advertising and the public wanting the next new thing is playing a part here as well. But for something to be able to work well for the end user it needs to be easily manageable from the IT staff side, which is why I would prefer a Windows-based tablet (remember, we're an all-Windows network).

Is there anything I can do to alleviate this management nightmare? My belief is that a Windows-based tablet is the best answer; however, I'm not so sure I'll be able to convince the decision-makers of that.
Apple

The Apple Two 643

theodp writes "Over at Slate, Tim Wu argues that the iPad is Steve Jobs' final victory over Steve Wozniak. Apple's origins were pure Woz, but the Mac, the iPod, the iPhone, and the iPad are the products of the company's other Steve. Jobs' ideas have always been in tension with Woz's brand of idealism and openness. Crazy as it seems, Apple Inc. — the creator of the personal computer — is leading the effort to exterminate it. And somewhere, deep inside, Woz must realize what the release of the iPad signifies: The company he once built now, officially, no longer exists."

Comment Re:4G only (Score 0, Redundant) 284

per TFA, ..."swapping between EVDO Rev. A, WiMAX and Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g on demand." and "The Evo 4G will swap between 3G and WiMAX for data depending on what's available" It works just fine on the marketing networks such as 3g and 4g, and on the networks everyone else knows and loves, ev-do rev. A and wimax

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