Comment no way. (Score -1) 46
this review is idiotic.
Richard Stallman: Cell Phones Are 'Stalin's Dream' 792
jbrodkin writes "Cell phones are 'Stalin's dream,' says free software pioneer Richard Stallman, who refuses to own one. 'Cell phones are tools of Big Brother. I'm not going to carry a tracking device that records where I go all the time, and I'm not going to carry a surveillance device that can be turned on to eavesdrop.' Even the open source Android is dangerous because devices ship with proprietary executables, Stallman says in a wide-ranging interview on the state of the free software movement. Despite some progress, Stallman is still dismayed by 'The existence and use of non-free software [which] is a social problem. It's an evil. And our aim is a world without that problem.'"
Comment if only... (Score -1) 100
btw, title is incomplete: CIA also loves to sell^H^H^Hhow some more modern warfare to the public...
So, I'd say, what about taking the CIA executives (and staff) and sending them back to the shithole superstitious fucktards also name the Promised Land.
Comment great. (Score -1) 164
so, does that mean that
Comment that new look makes /. uglier th/ lemonparty.org (Score -1) 142
fuck you you stupid moron, I hope you choke on a pretzel then drown in your own redbull/mcdo flavoured shit
China Building City For Cloud Computing 142
CWmike writes "First it was China's 'big hole' sighting that brought us the supercomputing race. Now China is building a city-sized cloud computing and office complex that will include a mega data center, one of the projects fueling that country's double-digit growth in IT spending. The entire complex will cover some 6.2 million square feet, with the initial data center space accounting for approximately 646,000 square feet, says IBM, which is collaborating with a Chinese company to build it. A Sputnik moment? Patrick Thibodeau reports that these big projects, whether supercomputers or sprawling software development office parks, can garner a lot of attention. But China's overall level of IT spending, while growing rapidly, is only one-fifth that of the US."
Behind-The-Scenes Superbowl Tech 154
jfruhlinger writes "You might be a hardcore sports fan or might think of jocks with disdain, but if you're a geek you'll probably be intrigued by the tech behind the brand-new stadium where this weekend's Superbowl will be played. 84 Cisco access points, 70 wiring closets, 40,000 wired ports, 8 million feet of Ethernet cabling, 260 miles of fiber, 100 TB of storage — all on a single network."
Comment learning... and consumming... (Score -1) 208
a publicist's wet dream, then.
Comment meat in lab, like in "enlarge your ..."?$ (Score -1) 376
nt
London Stock Exchange Was 'Under Major Cyberattack' During Linux Switch 98
An anonymous reader writes with this excerpt from Computerworld UK:
"The London Stock Exchange's new open source trading system may have been hacked last year, according to a report. The alleged attack came as the LSE began the switch over to the Linux-based systems, according to the dates referred to in the Times newspaper. The continued threat of cyber attack has resulted in the LSE keeping a close dialogue with British security services, which this year branded cyber attacks as one of the biggest threats to the country. There were major problems on the exchange on 24 August, when stock prices of five large companies collapsed."
Comment Re:Swiss Francs baby (Score -1) 868
This doesn't count, given the poll title: my paycheck is already in my beloved CHF
Nobel Prize Winner Says DNA Performs Quantum Teleportation 347
HJED writes "TechWorld is reporting that the joint winner of the Nobel Prize for medicine in 2008, Luc Montagnier, is claiming that DNA can send 'electromagnetic imprints' of itself into distant cells and fluids which can then be used by enzymes to create copies of the original DNA. This would be equivalent to quantum teleportation. You can read the original paper here [PDF]."
Comment yes (Score -1) 804
it has statistically been proven that people remember better what they read on paper than on a screen.
Skype Outage Hits Users Worldwide 167
Hugh Pickens writes "The LA Times reports that millions of Skype phone users worldwide couldn't make calls or were dropped in mid-conversation because of a network connection failure that began about 9 AM Wednesday PST. 'For a communications system this large to go down, it's almost unheard of,' says Charles S. Golvin, a Forrester Research analyst. 'Usually when phone lines are disrupted, the blackout is confined to a specific geographical area. This is worldwide.' In theory, Skype, which is based on peer-to-peer networking technology, shouldn't see an outage, but that is not really the case — the company has a massive infrastructure that it uses for purposes such as authentication and linking to the traditional phone networks. 'The outage comes at a time when Skype is starting to ask larger corporations for their business,' writes Om Malik. 'If I am a big business, I would be extremely cautious about adopting Skype for business, especially in the light of this current outage.'"
Comment Re:Someday (Score 2, Insightful) 223
Do you mean continent?
BTW, that's what you get when you let fucking sodas define your personality: very little of these bottles are drunk by thirsty people.
