No. For simple users i would go with an ipad.
Seniors dont care about investing (time/attention/money) in more possibilities or the latest technology, they just want the most fool-proof solution to their problem.

Works great. Searchable. Allows any hierarchy. Downside is a file can/should only exist in one folder, you could migate this using multiple playlists.

Mexico is going to see a whole lot of trucks with a nuclear sticker soon, if this proves to help being stolen.

Dupe http://news.slashdot.org/story/07/06/26/1855202/day-of-silence-on-the-internet

I saw no new frontpage stories for over a day, whats up /. ?

This is not going to help the developers that ponder developing a Windows RT app right now.
I have no Windows8 or RT phobia, but this news (if true) would put me off..

Time to up my karma..

Ever seen a remote desktop tool that's fast/efficient enough to play back video?

Err, yes. RDP.
Its so effecient i often wonder why my wooden medieval laptop running Linux is able to play the video, thats when i realize its streamed via RDP from my Windows PC. Sound and everything.

No, it just doesnt enough. People expect the thing to replicate all smartphone functionality, when in fact it only works with the Samsung browser, WhatsApp, S-Calendar, and the default (not gMail) email app.

A bit like the Samsung S-View cover feature. Its nice, but why doesn't it tell me more about individual app notifications? (the same way i do see a face when called)

Battlefield has vehicles. Which is why i enjoy BF, its a bit more arcade gaming that way. I dont want an infantry simulator,say CoD.

IMHO BF3 dropped the ball though regarding vehicles, no fun being a driver there. The insane GPU specs didn't help either.

The funny thing with terrorism is that it means "scaring people". Which happens to be exactly what "terrorism preventing" does:

Politics found a war terminology, that also depicts its own negative side effects, side effects that actually support the war argument.

There should be a word invented for this maelstrom, because irony is not cutting it.

I switched to CrunchBang. Its less annoying than the Unity interface (i have no use for its features, they just get in the way and frustrate me) works great on my old (non-pae) notebook.

Now in CrunchBang i just have to right-click to start applications, and manually have to add new applications to that menu, but that was surmountable.

No, Google did not choose to join a program that would give NSA access.

"we have not joined any program that would give the U.S. government—or any other government—direct access to our servers. "
Source: http://googleblog.blogspot.be/2013/06/what.html

We know nothing about what Google did not choose to do, for all intents and purposes, because the NSA does have this goal i assume they have (or are going to) meet it. Likely in secret.

Furthermore as stated elsewhere encryption is irrelevant, with or without willing cooperation from Google Inc. the NSA is able to decrypt it.

And in other news..

"The same seas that we evaporate and drive boats across could become repositories to store large quantities of plutonium. A new computer model suggests that holes in the Atlantic Ocean, a 106400000 sq-kilometres formation right next to the U.S. that is a hotbed for water, could store all the radio active waste emitted by the country's power plants from now until 2080."

0_o

Fixed link: http://www.nasa.gov/exploration/commercial/cargo/orbitalsciences-index.html

URL for "successfully launched their demo cargo mission to the ISS" is missing the last character, gives 404.