Comment Re:NSA (Score 2) 94
Nah, just business as usual.
For pure evil, you have to go to Wall Street.
Comment Re:And most don't care (Score 3, Informative) 94
That's because it doesn't affect most people. Besides, in relative terms it isn't too bad. Yes, pervasive surveillance infringes people's rights[1], and (speculatively) a small number of people who haven't done anything wrong get hurt by that. But the US (and the rest of the 5 eyes) aren't China, or North Korea, or ISIS. They aren't actively killing or seriously repressing large numbers of their own people. All this stuff just doesn't impact on the life of Joe Ordinary, so he doesn't care.
Some people within the United States may disagree with you. Pot, meet Kettle. Kettle, meet Pot.
Comment Re:Stupid (Score 1, Troll) 387
Witeboards are racist. So are blackboards, which is what chalkboards were called before 1886.
Comment Re:I just have to laugh! (Score 1) 529
Say that to the Vietnamese boat people.
Presumably you mean the ones who didn't drown. They did get lucky, compared to the others.
Comment protip (Score 4, Funny) 71
to for surveillance of properties
Protip: if you're not sure which preposition to use, put both.
Comment Protip (Score 1) 270
hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraq's
Protip: try to pair up your errors, and hope that one masks the other.
Comment Re:I just have to laugh! (Score 1) 529
Or he got lucky. In any case, anecdotes prove nothing.
Comment Re:Couldn't care less. (Score 2) 241
Reverting the Windows 8 start screen
So he did the needful?
Comment crap (Score 1) 56
it also kept legitimate commercial entities doing business with the software
How did it do that? By threatening to kill their pets if they stopped?
Comment The Clarendon Electric Bell. (Score 1) 403
It has been ringing continuously since 1840, and will probably continue for a long time.
Read all about it here: http://www.atlasobscura.com/pl...
Comment motto my botto (Score 1) 12
That's not a motto, it's a frickin' list.
Comment Re:This isn't fking starwars (Score 1) 33
The kind that writes 'a collection visualizations', perhaps?
Ask Slashdot: Most Chromebook-Like Unofficial ChromeOS Experience? 99
An anonymous reader writes: I am interested in Chromebooks, for the reasons that Google successfully pushes them: my carry-around laptops serve mostly as terminals, rather than CPU-heavy workhorses, and for the most part the whole reason I'm on my computer is to do something that requires a network connection anyhow. My email is Gmail, and without particularly endorsing any one element, I've moved a lot of things to online services like DropBox. (Some offline capabilities are nice, but since actual Chromebooks have been slowly gaining offline stuff, and theoretically will gain a lot more of that, soon, I no longer worry much about a machine being "useless" if the upstream connection happens to be broken or absent. It would just be useless in the same way my conventional desktop machine would be.) I have some decent but not high-end laptops (Core i3, 2GB-4GB of RAM) that I'd enjoy repurposing as Chromebooks without pedigree: they'd fall somewhat short of the high-end Pixel, but at no out-of-pocket expense for me unless I spring for some cheap SSDs, which I might.
So: how would you go about making a Chromebook-like laptop? Yes, I could just install any Linux distro, and then restrain myself from installing most apps other than a browser and a few utilities, but that's not quite the same; ChromeOS is nicely polished, and very pared down; it also seems to do well with low-memory systems (lots of the current models have just 2GB, which brings many Linux distros to a disk-swapping crawl), and starts up nicely quick.
It looks like the most "authentic" thing would be to dive into building Chromium OS (which looks like a fun hobby), but I'd like to find something more like Cr OS — only Cr OS hasn't been updated in quite a while. Perhaps some other browser-centric pared-down Linux would work as well. How would you build a system? And should I go ahead and order some low-end 16GB SSDs, which I now see from online vendors for less than $25?
So: how would you go about making a Chromebook-like laptop? Yes, I could just install any Linux distro, and then restrain myself from installing most apps other than a browser and a few utilities, but that's not quite the same; ChromeOS is nicely polished, and very pared down; it also seems to do well with low-memory systems (lots of the current models have just 2GB, which brings many Linux distros to a disk-swapping crawl), and starts up nicely quick.
It looks like the most "authentic" thing would be to dive into building Chromium OS (which looks like a fun hobby), but I'd like to find something more like Cr OS — only Cr OS hasn't been updated in quite a while. Perhaps some other browser-centric pared-down Linux would work as well. How would you build a system? And should I go ahead and order some low-end 16GB SSDs, which I now see from online vendors for less than $25?
Comment New submitter? Don't become an old one. (Score 1) 93
The Claudico super computer uses an algorithm to account for gargantuan amounts of complexity by representing the number of possible Heads-Up No-limit Texas Hold'em decisions.
Ummm, wrong. It's the other way round. You don't put shoes on by keeping your feet warm, do you?
Comment Re:New HTTP daemon (Score 2) 80
And there you have the reason why almost nobody uses OpenBSD.
Yeah, well, I use OpenBSD, and I know a ton of people who use it for, say, firewalls, routers and other. And, yes, even web servers an other stuff.
Seriously, man: PHP? Really?
