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Comment Went back on his suggestion (Score 3, Interesting) 244

There is an update on MVP Bill Reiss's blog now.

http://www.billreiss.com/follow-up-to-webkit-for-ie-hint-i-was-wrong/

Seems like he changed his mind. He is now against the idea and has instead suggested allow Win mobile devices to be allowed to change their default browser.
Sounds like a good idea, effectively making IE, a tool used by the OS that has browsing functionality.

Effectively what he is saying is that the other browsers, can serve as browsers while IE is now reduced to a tool!

Crime

Submission + - John McAfee accused of murder, wanted by Belize police (thehackernews.com) 1

thn writes: "John McAfee, who started the antivirus software giant named after him, has been accused of murder in Belize and wanted. McAfee had taken to "posting on a drug-focused Russian message board...about his attempts to purify the psychoactive compounds colloquially known as 'bath salts,'" Gizmodo wrote. The scariest aspect of this story may be the fact that an entire lab was constructed for John McAfee’s research purposes. Because of his efforts to extract chemicals from natural chemical plans McAfee was able to justify his experiments in a country that is largely unregulated."
Google

Submission + - Google Launches $199 Acer Chromebook With 320 GB Hard Drive (muktware.com)

sfcrazy writes: Microsoft has never seen this kind of competition before and it's going hurt Microsoft real bad. Google has announced a $199 Acer Chromebook available immediately from various stores. This Chromebook joins the recently launched ARM-powered Samsung Chromebook which was prices at $299.

Google may finally bring the year of Desktop Linux!

Comment Re:no standardization just what we don't need (Score 3, Informative) 197

AFIK, none in production. Many lab environments but REAL 4G does not exist in Commercial Production yet.

LTE is not 4G.
LTE-A is.
IEEE 802.16m/WiMAX 2 is.

4G is standardized and will make things better but differences in Frequency usage across the planet will still cause some roaming issues.
Multi band phones will help but still...

There are still kinks to sort out with 4G..Antenna Tech among others...to get the bandwidth required to meet 4G specs.
Plus, there are no real 4G handsets out as yet either...the LTE handsets are just LTE handsets..not 4G.

Presently, many markets are using LTE just for data.
4G should and will also allow Voice over LTE...then that will be true 4G.

Till then, we stuck on 3.9G !

Comment Re:Happy Friday from the Golden Girls! (Score 1) 62

Agreed, AC has a valid purpose in many cases and yes to the AC who posted earlier about ACs making more useful contributions than I have, both good and BAD. I could say the same for you too. I'm not here to argue and rant off like some others. Its not a pissing contest like some would want it to be.

The intention was not so much to absolutely censor AC, but more to prevent the silly and nonsensical AC posts like First Post silliness.
The ACs are the ones who mostly post the nonsensical/offensive comments. People signed in, generally don't do so. Admittedly, registered users do post nonsense as well, but I'd venture to say less than ACs. I may be wrong.

Anonymity obviously has its benefits, like in the good example you made but it also allows people to use that to do things they normally would not do if they were recognized. I was just trying to suggest a way to reduce nonsense, although I admit that at times nonsense can be fun.

Adding Humor, Satire and intelligent wit is fine....real/proper/fun/witty Trolls.
Nonsensical "Yeah....I got first post" everytime..gets a little silly.

Of course censorship is not generally good...and yes.....I may have not thought of all the reasons AC serves when I made the post. This is /. People are waiting to pounce. ;) Thats fine. Just had good intentions. Wanted /. to be better. Good intentions are not always good enough.

There are pros and cons with everything.
There are Pros like the one you mentioned. ACs do post useful info. I'll give you that.
I guess I will just have to live with the cons of having to deal with silliness, meaningless rants.
Come to think of it...we need to laugh sometimes. ..so yeah...I may have been wrong...in the big scheme of things.
So yeah. Lets the ACs run wild. Let them say what we want. We can mod them the hell down if its crappy content.

Cue next rant/response/pounce/for/against/whatever.

Comment Re:Happy Friday from the Golden Girls! (Score 5, Interesting) 62

Agreed.

Can we get /. to prevent the first, say 5, post replies from AC?
Let the first 5 or so posts be from registered users only. AC cannot reply to the OP until 5 or so replies to OP by registered users have been made.

5 can be tweaked...to an optimized value 3-5 i'd say.

Maybe this will stop the silly 1st post...from AC.....then again..maybe now we will egt
6th Post crap from ACs...but still better than reading a crappy 1st post.

Microsoft

Submission + - Microsoft Passed on iPhone-Like Device in 1991

theodp writes: Microsoft apparently coulda been a contender in the smartphone market, instead of the WP7 bum it is today. Former Microsoft CTO Nathan Myhrvold says he tried to convince Microsoft to make an iPhone-like device more than two decades ago. 'The cost will not be very high,' Myhrvold wrote in 1991. 'It is pretty easy to imagine a $400 to $1,000 retail price.' So is Myhrvold bitter that cost-conscious and risk averse Microsoft opted not to pursue his vision? Nope. 'Hey, it was better than predicting the wrong thing,' Myhrvold explains.
Science

Submission + - Engineered Stem Cells Seek out and Kill HIV in Living Mice (sciencedaily.com)

An anonymous reader writes: Expanding on previous research providing proof-of-principle that human stem cells can be genetically engineered into HIV-fighting cells, a team of UCLA researchers have now demonstrated that these cells can actually attack HIV-infected cells in a living organism.

Submission + - Worker rights in the internet era

An anonymous reader writes: Can an employeer take you off from your cubicle and make you work from inside a closet? certanly not. (right?)
Can the employeer make you operate Windows 7 out of a Pentium 4 with 256 MB of RAM?
Work on a remote environmnet with a very low bandwidth connection that would make you wait between screens more than 30 seconds making something that with a good connection would take 1 sec, and baby sit a process for two hours that could be done in 2 min with the correct connection?
Sixteen years ago, I was punished to work on a 486 while the rest of the team was on pentiums cause of me messing with the boxes. It hurts as hell.
Two years later I was baby sitting remote processes over PCAnywere out of a 28k modem connection. Ouch.
Today I am being asked to work on a remote UNIX server, through a VPN, X forwarding through ssh,...
Can I refuse to work under those conditions? I feel that I would end brain dead working so slow.
Google

Submission + - Little boy lost finds his mother using Google Earth (bbc.co.uk)

alerteye writes: An Indian boy who lost his mother in 1986 has found her 25 years later from his new home in Tasmania — using Google Earth. Saroo was only five years old when he got lost. He was travelling with his older brother, working as a sweeper on India's trains.

Comment Re:Missing option (Score 2) 267

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydraulic_fracturing

Used in oil and gas industry.....to create breaks in the formation down hole. To make extraction/flow of oil/gas better/easier.

I think its not just hydraulic but also using explosives...but not too sure.....or maybe they did a combination of fracking and explosives that led me to believe that they might be the same.

Fracking..can also cause breaks/fractures in areas unintended possibly allowing chemicals using in the process to seep into the water table.

Hence this pole.. IMHO.

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