Comment Seriously (Score 1) 5
I've always heard the complaint that porn would make feel young men inadequate. I was mostly surprised about that. I never felt inadequate.... Guess, I'm very lucky.
Comment Re:I'm cool with it... (Score 1) 5
For all I care, they could limit it to people with Excellent Karma or a certain amount of years active user. I couldn't care, but a beta without feedback is no beta.
Comment I'm cool with it... (Score 1) 5
Except... Well, I have quite some suggestions as there definitely is no feature parity.
Would it be so hard to have a page called "report bugs" where you can, call me crazy... report bugs?
There is simply no clear way to give feedback. At least, I haven't seen it.
Comment Re:So who is left (Score 1) 204
Perhaps we are indeed witnessing the downfall of the PC era.
Submission + - UK reveals footage of 'top secret' drone (bbc.co.uk)
Big Hairy Ian writes: Footage of Britain's new unmanned drone in flight were revealed on Wednesday.
The Taranis uses the latest stealth technology and is capable of launching precision air strikes in hostile territory.
Flying invisible to radar, the Taranis can be operated via satellite link from anywhere the world.
Should take your mind off /.beta
The Taranis uses the latest stealth technology and is capable of launching precision air strikes in hostile territory.
Flying invisible to radar, the Taranis can be operated via satellite link from anywhere the world.
Should take your mind off
Submission + - Restoring HP and other Firmware access through legislation (digitalrighttorepair.org) 3
DRTRLady writes: The Digital Right to Repair Coalition (DRTR) www.digitalrighttorepair.org has been pushing legislation to prevent vendors, such as HP and others, from selling equipment without a clear right to keep using it without paying additional fees. This always includes firmware but also service documentation, schematics, diagnostics, error codes, passwords, and so forth. One way we have approached legislation is for everyone to be able to know what they purchased, and know ahead of time what they must license. See SD SB136 http://legiscan.com/SD/bill/SB... for this approach. We are also working on a more forceful bill modeled after the Automotive Right To Repair Law passed in Massachusetts which deals with the identical problems of repair including firmware. See https://malegislature.gov/Bill... . Which is better? What else can we do?
Submission + - Ask Slashdot: Can some of us get together and rebuild this community? 21
wbr1 writes: It seems abundantly clear now that Dice and the SlashBeta designers do not care one whit about the community here. They do not care about rolling in crapware into sourceforge installers. In short, the only thing that talks to them is money and stupid ideas.
Granted, it takes cash to run sites like these, but they were fine before. The question is, do some of you here want to band together, get whatever is available of slashcode and rebuild this community somewhere else? We can try to make it as it once was, a haven of geeky knowledge and frosty piss, delivered free of charge in a clean community moderated format.
Granted, it takes cash to run sites like these, but they were fine before. The question is, do some of you here want to band together, get whatever is available of slashcode and rebuild this community somewhere else? We can try to make it as it once was, a haven of geeky knowledge and frosty piss, delivered free of charge in a clean community moderated format.
Submission + - Sony selling off VAIO computer business (theverge.com) 1
Kensai7 writes: Confirming reports from earlier in the week, Sony has announced plans to sell off its VAIO computer division to a Japanese investment fund. Japan Industrial Partners (JIP) will take control of the operation for an undisclosed fee, and Sony will "cease planning, design and development of PC products." For a variety of reasons "including the drastic changes in the global PC industry," Sony says "the optimal solution is to concentrate its mobile product lineup on smartphones and tablets and to transfer its PC business to a new company."
Submission + - ReactOS 0.3.16 has been released (reactos.org) 1
jeditobe writes: The ReactOS Project is pleased to announce the release of version 0.3.16. A little under a year has passed since the previous release and a significant amount of progress has been made. Some of the most significant include completion of the CSRSS rewrite and the first stages of a shell32 rewrite. 0.3.16 is in many ways a prelude to several new features that will provide a noticeable enhancement to user visible functionality. A preview can be seen in the form of theme support, which while disabled by default can be turned on to demonstrate the Lautus theme developed by community member Maciej Janiszewki. Another user visible change is a new network card driver for the RTL8139, allowing ReactOS to support newer versions of QEMU out of the box. Release images can be found in the usual spot here.
And for those of you that have not heard of it yet, the project is running a Kickstarter campaign in the form of the Thorium Cloud Desktop. If you want to help the project raise the funds to hire multiple full time developers and bring ReactOS to a state where it can be used for day to day activities, then please spread the word and put up a few bucks to back us.
And for those of you that have not heard of it yet, the project is running a Kickstarter campaign in the form of the Thorium Cloud Desktop. If you want to help the project raise the funds to hire multiple full time developers and bring ReactOS to a state where it can be used for day to day activities, then please spread the word and put up a few bucks to back us.
Submission + - Gates returns to Windows 7 after being unable to install the Windows 8.1 upgrade 3
Artem Tashkinov writes: According to rumors Bill Gate's first day at his office in Redmond turned out to be a complete disaster mixed with ostensibly curse words no one had expected from him. He tried to install the Windows 8.1 upgrade but the updater failed continuously asking to reboot the PC. Microsoft's new C.E.O. Satya Nadella who came to help resolve the situation couldn't sort it out. In the end Gates said he would be returning to Windows 7 for the foreseeable future.
Submission + - Bill Gates Spends First Day Back at MS Failing To Install Windows 8.Reverts to 7 (newyorker.com) 1
JeffClune writes: Bill Gates’s first day at work in the newly created role of technology adviser got off to a rocky start yesterday as the Microsoft founder struggled for hours to install the Windows 8.1 upgrade.
The installation hit a snag early on, sources said, when Mr. Gates repeatedly received an error message informing him that his PC ran into a problem that it could not handle and needed to restart.
After failing to install the upgrade by lunchtime, Mr. Gates summoned the new Microsoft C.E.O. Satya Nadella, who attempted to help him with the installation, but with no success.
While the two men worked behind closed doors, one source described the situation as “tense.”
“Bill is usually a pretty calm guy, so it was weird to hear some of that language coming out of his mouth,” the source said.
A Microsoft spokesman said only that Mr. Gates’s first day in his new job had been “a learning experience” and that, for the immediate future, he would go back to running Windows 7.
The installation hit a snag early on, sources said, when Mr. Gates repeatedly received an error message informing him that his PC ran into a problem that it could not handle and needed to restart.
After failing to install the upgrade by lunchtime, Mr. Gates summoned the new Microsoft C.E.O. Satya Nadella, who attempted to help him with the installation, but with no success.
While the two men worked behind closed doors, one source described the situation as “tense.”
“Bill is usually a pretty calm guy, so it was weird to hear some of that language coming out of his mouth,” the source said.
A Microsoft spokesman said only that Mr. Gates’s first day in his new job had been “a learning experience” and that, for the immediate future, he would go back to running Windows 7.
Comment Re:popcorn at 11 (Score 1) 198
I host my own... Same difference ;-)
Comment Re:popcorn at 11 (Score 1) 198
I have several .lu domains... Nobody ever flinches when I use them. Well some are quite surpised if I dictate my email as firstname@surname.lu but they're never surprised about the .lu part, just that it's actually possible to have such an email.
Country TLDs are quite popular outside of the US.
Country TLDs are quite popular outside of the US.
Comment Re:It'll be fun to watch. (Score 1) 197
Un "merdeux" is pretty much a shithead.
Video CES 2014: Stefan Lindsay Demonstrates the gTar (Video) 104
