Comment Re:Look, I love Elon as much as the next sycophant (Score 5, Interesting) 203
Of course it was done for PR-reasons
Yeah. PR as in Puerto Rico >.>
Comment There's got to be a better way! (Score 1) 56
"I can move objects with my mind if I use my hands."
-Demetri Martin
Accused of Underpaying Women, Google Says It's Too Expensive To Get Wage Data (theguardian.com) 431
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: Google argued that it was too financially burdensome and logistically challenging to compile and hand over salary records that the government has requested, sparking a strong rebuke from the U.S. Department of Labor (DoL), which has accused the Silicon Valley firm of underpaying women. Google officials testified in federal court on Friday that it would have to spend up to 500 hours of work and $100,000 to comply with investigators' ongoing demands for wage data that the DoL believes will help explain why the technology corporation appears to be systematically discriminating against women. Noting Google's nearly $28 billion annual income as one of the most profitable companies in the U.S., DoL attorney Ian Eliasoph scoffed at the company's defense, saying, "Google would be able to absorb the cost as easy as a dry kitchen sponge could absorb a single drop of water."
Google's Balloons Connect Flood-hit Peru (bbc.com) 16
An anonymous reader writes: "Tens of thousands" of Peruvians have been getting online using Project Loon, the ambitious connectivity project from Google's parent company, Alphabet. Project Loon uses tennis court-sized balloons carrying a small box of equipment to beam internet access to a wide area below. The team told the BBC they had been testing the system in Peru when serious floods hit in January, and so the technology was opened up to people living in three badly-hit cities. Until now, only small-scale tests of the technology had taken place. Project Loon is in competition with other attempts to provide internet from the skies, including Facebook's Aquila project which is being worked on in the UK. Project Loon recently announced it had figured out how to use artificial intelligence (AI) to "steer" the balloons by raising or lowering them to piggy-back weather streams. It was this discovery that enabled the company to use just a "handful" of balloons to connect people in Lima, Chimbote, and Piura. The balloons were launched from the US territory of Puerto Rico before being guided south.
Comment Like the DS (Score 1) 116
Remember when the DS wasn't replacing the GBA? It was a "third pillar" along side the GCN and GBA... but it actually took off and devs migrated. I can understand that this is a console enough, but being able to take console games on the go makes the 3DS look dusty. Although the game and system cost of the 3DS is still waaay cheaper
Comment Re:More examples of stupid admins in U of C (Score 1) 123
My mom works for U of C too and I wanted to slap those people for their ham fisted communications and messaging about the whole ordeal. I've seen good implementations of O365 and the company I work for now is beginning their implementation too which is likely larger than the U of C by a small margin. I would have thought that other email addresses would be banned for work related purposes as a matter of principle from the get go. The saddest thing overall to me is that the malware ransom didn't come out of the President's salary.
Comment More examples of stupid admins in U of C (Score 5, Informative) 123
So this is the same place that paid $20,000 to decrypt a malware attack that locked down its email and AD infrastructure... http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/university-calgary-ransomware-cyberattack-1.3620979
I doubt they've learned much about how to operate a network at this rate.
Comment Re:Can't wait for the aftermath. (Score 5, Informative) 149
Yeah this is a town of 1200 people and they only got a highway in the 70s. NWT has its own scale of how sparse it is. The largest city, Yellowknife is about 25k people and likely at least a four hour drive from that town. If you think the duopoly everywhere else in North America is bad, try NWT
Comment Re:You don't need a ROM in order to do speedruns.. (Score 4, Insightful) 151
Here's a list of tool assisted speed runs that are actually run on real hardware with a real copy of software : http://tasvideos.org/Movies-Ve...
Getting things to sync to real hardware is amazing that so much effort FROM FANS has gone into preserving these games in emulators that it works outside of those emulators.
Comment Well... (Score 1) 296
Even the user switching menu being permanently on and taking space from my tab bar is enough to have me wanting to switch.
I will say too that it seems like YouTube also has ads when having DNS ad blocking turned on. (http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/zero/) This behaviour is not something I've noticed before a month ish ago. It also seems like background audio on iOS is not possible when using the YouTube webpage. Just more extinguish of the EEE.
Comment Wouldn't apply to Netflix (Score 3, Interesting) 85
Free peering typically means that each carrier sends and receives about the same amount of data - they each benefit equally from the peering. How much data is inbound to Netflix? About 1/10000th what comes out.
That said, why isn't Netflix's traffic upload "paid for" when they pay their data centre ISP? or is that too perfect world?
Comment Re:*beta* program (Score 0) 54
It won't matter anyway because iOS 8 GM introduced bugs that were never in the beta versions anyway. Bluetooth handsfree not working was one of them.
Comment Re:Any actual examples? (Score 1) 598
Also the text auto correction has gotten so bad that I've turned it off when I never have in six years of using an iPhone.
If it thinks "tbag" shouldn't be replaced with "that", I think it can be off.
Comment Re:Any actual examples? (Score 1) 598
I'll add my example.
iOS 8's GM added a bug for bluetooth handsfree to not work when no other beta version had this problem.
What is the point of betas if you go and have a completely different product get released instead of the one that was tested?
A Paper By Maggie Simpson and Edna Krabappel Was Accepted By Two Journals 100
An anonymous reader writes "A scientific study by Maggie Simpson, Edna Krabappel, and Kim Jong Fun has been accepted by two journals. Of course, none of these fictional characters actually wrote the paper, titled "Fuzzy, Homogeneous Configurations." Rather, it's a nonsensical text, submitted by engineer Alex Smolyanitsky in an effort to expose scientific journals — the Journal of Computational Intelligence and Electronic Systems and the Aperito Journal of NanoScience Technology."
