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Submission + - White House Announces Vivek Kundra As CIO

Submitted by

tickticker

on Thursday March 05, 2009 @03:22PM

tickticker writes: "The White House announced this morning that Vivek Kundra will be the administration's Chief Information Officer. Kundra served as the Chief Technology Officer for the Government of the District of Columbia and was voted the 2008 IT Executive of the Year. Kundra will direct technology ventures for US agencies and will "play a key role in making sure our government is running in the most secure, open, and efficient way possible," according to a statement from the President."

Comment Re:Rachel smokes and only lasts four years. (Score 1) 237

by tickticker on Wednesday August 13, 2008 @05:22PM (#24590361) Attached to: Favorite Robot Corporation

I can handle 4 years of second hand smoke if they included your basic pleasure model like Pris.

Comment Re:troll? really? mod up again! (Score 4, Insightful) 298

by asmussen on Friday August 01, 2008 @01:35PM (#24436783) Attached to: PCMark Memory Benchmark Favors GenuineIntel

The problem with this argument is that with open source software, you don't just have to trust a single random guy for your information. When the source is open, it is often the case that MANY people in the online community will examine the code, and through discussion there emerges a consensus which is far more reliable than the opinion of just one random guy. That isn't to say that the community as a whole is never wrong, but it's vastly more trustworthy and reliable than just some $randomInternetDude.

Journal Journal: Installing new user machines

Journal by Christopher_Blanc on Wednesday July 25, 2007 @02:54PM

Although people know me as a writer of fiction in my personal life, my day job is fixing computers, so when someone I know needs work done, I often get the call. Recently someone I used to work with as a computer consultant called me up to help install a home PC for a sibling in town. Because I'm nice and/or stupid, I did it.

MST3K is Back, Sort Of 264

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Wednesday July 25, 2007 @01:57PM from the that's-no-asteroid-that's-a-battlestation dept.

Polar Star writes "Retrocrush reports that Mike Nelson, Kevin Murphy, and Bill Corbett are back making fun of crappy movies again in a new incarnation called The Film Crew. In the first of many new DVDs to be released, they take on a 1969 abomination called Hollywood After Dark which features a still-not-very-young Rue McClanahan as a down-on-her-luck actress who becomes a stripper. Needless to say, it's one of the scariest movies you'll ever see. There's plenty of funny jokes throughout, and they definitely prove themselves worthy of carrying on the MST3K tradition." Update 1925 GMT by SM: Corrected a few oversights and pointed to The Film Crew's actual website.

Submission + - The Best MMO You're Not Playing: City of Heroes (cityofheroes.com)

Submitted by Bonker on Wednesday July 25, 2007 @10:59AM

Bonker writes: While Blizzard is certainly king of the MMO empire at the moment, it worth noting that Cryptic Studios has released the tenth free expansion to its popular comic-book themed MMO, 'City Of Heroes/City of Villains'. 'Issue 10: Invasion' sees Heroes and Villains alike defending their cities against attack from the alien Rikti. The expansion has a lot of new content, including a revamped co-op zone for Heroic and Villainous players to take the fight to the aliens. It also includes large-scale city-wide air-raids in which players can fight against spaceship bombers and teleporting alien invaders. Despite the 'large-scale' nature of the event, it's been coded so that it scales with the players attending. Solo-players can fight against the aliens just as well as team-oriented players. If you're not playing 'City Of' right now, you're really missing out on one of the most fun, most dynamic MMO gameplay experiences around.

Steve Jobs Hates Buttons 713

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday July 25, 2007 @10:47AM from the also-buffy-hates-vampires dept.

ElvaWSJ writes "While many technology companies load their products up with buttons, Steve Jobs treats them as blemishes that add complexity and hinder their clean aesthetics. The iPhone is Steve Jobs's attempt to crack a juicy new market for Apple Inc. But it's also part of a decades-long campaign by Mr. Jobs against a much broader target: buttons. The new Apple cellphone famously does without the keypads that adorn its rivals. Instead, it offers a touch-sensing screen for making phone calls and tapping out emails. The resulting look is one of the sparest ever for Apple, a company known for minimalist gadgets. "

Submission + - Three Cheap Ways to Boost Security

Submitted by narramissic on Wednesday April 18, 2007 @04:01PM

narramissic writes: In a recent article, security consultant Brent Huston offers three quick, inexpensive tips for small businesses that are looking to increase the overall security of their networks. His first tip, not too surprisingly, is to migrate users away from Internet Explorer. Inexpensive? Yes. Quick? I'm not so sure. Trying to change users' habits isn't generally an easy proposition.

Submission + - BBC opens archive for trial, making a Mac iPlayer

Submitted by

endofcell

on Wednesday April 18, 2007 @03:50PM

endofcell writes: "The BBC are finally moving forward by opening up their archive in a trial. "The BBC is to open up its vast archive of video and audio in an on-demand trial involving more than 20,000 people in the UK. Full-length programmes, as well as scripts and notes, will be available for download from the BBC's website ... The BBC's proposed iPlayer service, offering catch-up TV via the web and cable TV, would be re-engineered to work with Apple Macs and would eventually roll out to digital terrestrial TV (DTT) and set-top boxes.""

Submission + - GameLife Host Arrested for Massacre Threats

Submitted by AbsoluteXyro on Wednesday April 18, 2007 @03:49PM

AbsoluteXyro writes: Kotaku reports that Andrew Rosenblum, the founder and co-host of GameLife, has been arrested for allegedly threatening to go on a Virginia Tech-like shooting spree at a Boston-area college. Rosenblum, who was taking classes at the Boston University, instant messaged his ex-girlfriend shortly after 32 people were killed at Virginia Tech, saying he was going to kill her, according to the Boston Herald. "(I)'m gonna (expletive) bring a gun to your school and kill you and K (another female student) and everybody you love. It's gonna be VT all over again," 20-year-old Andrew Rosenblum allegedly wrote in an e-mail to the victim just hours after 32 people were gunned at Virginia Tech.

Submission + - Microsoft Settles with Iowa

Submitted by

dringess

on Wednesday April 18, 2007 @03:48PM

dringess writes: "As reported on Yahoo, Microsoft has settled the suit brought by the State of Iowa. Individuals can collect $16 for each copy of MS-DOS or Windows purchased from 1994-2006, while Office nets $29. No proof of purchase required! Now I can finally get some money from Microsoft!"

Submission + - Technology Becomes a Coping Mechanism

Submitted by AntzInternet on Wednesday April 18, 2007 @03:46PM

AntzInternet writes: Horrible, real-world happenings are unfolding almost simultaneously in the virtual world, as Virginia Tech students and people from all over the world gather online to grieve and vent. From blogging to cell phone video, technology has forever changed the way we process and communicate about tragedy — in good ways, and perhaps bad.

Submission + - BlackBerry Service Being Restored

Submitted by StrawBerry on Wednesday April 18, 2007 @03:41PM

StrawBerry writes: BlackBerry service was being restored Wednesday morning after an overnight outage that left millions of users without mobile access to their e-mail on the popular device. Research in Motion Ltd., the Canadian company that provides the devices and e-mail service, said the service interruption began Tuesday night, affecting users in North America.

Submission + - DirectX 10 for XP

Submitted by on Wednesday April 18, 2007 @03:38PM

An anonymous reader writes: In a blog post earlier today, Faling Leaf Systems released a prerelease of their DirectX 10 compatibility libraries for Windows XP. They're available here and includes a readme on how to install it and get the examples from the MS DirectX SDK. Looks like a sign of good things to come and it's finally likely that we won't have to upgrade to Vista just to play DX10 games when they start coming out.

Submission + - BBC Opens up Archive, extends iPlayer to Mac's

Submitted by

RotateLeftByte

on Wednesday April 18, 2007 @03:29PM

RotateLeftByte writes: "THe BBC is reporting that they are going to trial opening up their vast archives to 20,000 lucky users.

They will be able to access a huge range of content for download.
Also planned in the future is the ability to access this archive via Digital Terrestrial TV

This is plan is slightly ironic in a week when we have seen the end in sight for US Internet Radio, we have a major world broadcaster opening up their archives for download.
One objective of the trial is to determine which parts of the archive should be "free" and which should be operated under commercial terms.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6568163.stm"

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