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Comment Re:pay them!! (Score 2) 265

by UnknownSoldier (#48145171) Attached to: Confidence Shaken In Open Source Security Idealism

100% agree!

If businesses were smart they all would chip in $10 say towards LibreOffice, Inkscape, Krita, FreeNAS, GimpShop, etc.

They could be free of the tyranny of proprietary vendor-lock file formats for once and for all. But yet they would rather pay to suffer ! **shrugs**

Could you image how much development could get done if open source alternatives to X could get funding!? Not say money is a silver bullet TM but it certainly would go a long way!

Comment Re:Open Source in commercial products (Score 1) 265

by UnknownSoldier (#48145091) Attached to: Confidence Shaken In Open Source Security Idealism

> was visible in source code for 20 years and until now nobody found it. This includes the black-hats. Not sure what this means...

As opposed to close source? That doesn't change the reality that ...

ALL software has bugs.

Now at a pragmatic level at least the open source ones are _eventually_ found -- we have no idea, or guarantee, when or If the closed source ones will ever be found !

Comment Re:Where is this "disdain" coming from? (Score 2) 239

by UnknownSoldier (#48144997) Attached to: How Women Became Gamers Through D&D

> The ratios are close to even in social games (including MMOs), not so much for shooter/wargames.

Can you blame them? Hell, I don't either want to listen to some 14 year old f-bomb this, f-bomb that, trash talk and whine about everything and not learn a dam thing about _teamwork_.

Thank God for private servers, and SourceMod to freeze / slay / ban the little shits.

Comment Re:I don't buy it (Score 4, Informative) 265

by UnknownSoldier (#48144949) Attached to: Confidence Shaken In Open Source Security Idealism

> http://www.phoronix.com/

Please don't link to Phoronix garbage -- all they care about is linking to themselves instead of actually linking to the source
i.e.

* https://lkml.org/lkml/2010/9/1... Linux 2.6.36-rc4
* https://lkml.org/lkml/2010/9/2... Linux 2.6.36-rc5 <-- alpha: fix a 14 years old bug in sigreturn tracing

Submission + - Legal Tax Loophole "Double Irish" Used by US Companies to Be Closed

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: The Irish Finance Minister announced on Tuesday that Ireland will no longer allow companies to register in Ireland unless the companies are also tax resident. This will effectively close off the corporate tax evation scheme known as the "Double Irish" used by the likes of Google, Apple, and Facebook to route their earnings through their Irish holdings in order to garner an effect tax rate of, for instance in Google's case in 2013, 0.16%. Ireland's new policy will take effect in 2015 for new companies. "For existing companies, there will be provision for a transition period until the end of 2020."

Submission + - Supposed Battery Breakthrough. 70% charge in 2mins, 20yr life. (ntu.edu.sg)

Submitted by chaosdivine69
chaosdivine69 writes: According to Scientists at Nanyang Technology University (NTU), they have developed ultra-fast charging batteries that can be recharged up to 70 per cent in only two minutes and have a 20 yr lifespan (10,000 charges). The impact of this is potentially a game changer for a lot of industries reliant on lithium ion batteries.

In the car industry for example, consumers will save huge on costs for battery replacement and manufacturers will save on material construction since they're using a nanotube structure of Titanium dioxide which is an abundant, cheap and safe material found in soil. Titanium dioxide is commonly used as a food additive or in sunscreen lotions to absorb harmful ultraviolet rays. It is believed that charging an electric car can be achieved in as little as 5 minutes making it comparable to filling up a gasoline based automobile.

Submission + - Mars' Atmosphere is Leeching Out Into Space (discovery.com)

Submitted by astroengine
astroengine writes: Early results from NASA’s recently arrived MAVEN Mars spacecraft show an extensive, tenuous cloud of hydrogen surrounding the red planet, the result of water breaking down in the atmosphere, scientists said Tuesday. MAVEN, an acronym for Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution, arrived on Sept. 21 to help answer questions about what caused a planet that was once warm and wet to turn into the cold, dry desert that appears today. “It’s measurements like these that will allow us to estimate the escape rate of hydrogen from the Martian atmosphere to space today. It’s an important measurement to make because the hydrogen ... comes from water lower down in the atmosphere,” MAVEN scientist Mike Chaffin, with the University of Colorado, Boulder, told reporters on a conference call.

Submission + - Flight Attendants Want Stricter Gadget Rules Reinstated

Submitted by stephendavion
stephendavion writes: You might be super happy to toil away on your phone or tablet the entire time you're on a plane, but not everyone is pleased to see your face buried in your device during takeoff and landing. The Federal Aviation Administration's new, more relaxed rules on gadget use aren't sitting well with one group — flight attendants. According to a report from The Wall Street Journal, the nation's largest flight attendant union is now suing the FAA to have the ban on gadget use during takeoff and landing reinstated. The Association of Flight Attendants-CWA argues that the change has caused many passengers to ignore flight attendants' emergency announcements, and that the new rules violate federal regulations requiring passengers to stow all items during takeoff and landing.

Comment Re:Myth of Tech Innovation (Score 1) 16

I don't buy Abrash's "Myth of technological innovation". Counter-Proof: Multiple Discovery

Newton and Leibniz simultaneously invented Calculus. There have been many other simultaneous tech inventions.

If you are not first, there are always a few other people very, very close.

Submission + - The Empire Strikes Back Uncut (Fan Movie) (youtube.com)

Submitted by kdataman
kdataman writes: Live Action and Legos, MineCraft and Muppets, Pets and Produce. 480 fan-created 15-second clips have been assembled to remake the entire movie, scene for scene (but not always word for word). The variations swing from professional production values to cardboard cutouts, but they are all creative and many are hilarious. Hard to pick a favorite scene but the guys at MTV selected a few highlights: http://www.mtv.com/news/196080...

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