Comment Re:I would rather.... (Score 1) 554
If you get fired, you get none of the unvested stocks, so it's a choice of all or nothing.
Comment Re:Hold up, wait a minute (Score 1) 585
May eventually happen, but It's going to be a bit...
Stats from from a real world web site over the last 30 days...
MS Internet Explorer No 891,058 47.4 % Firefox No 317,909 16.9 % Safari No 264,506 14 % Google Chrome No 162,473 8.6 % Android browser (PDA/Phone browser) No 93,691 4.9 % Unknown ? 54,509 2.8 % IPhone (PDA/Phone browser) No 28,603 1.5 % Mozilla No 25,610 1.3 % Opera No 12,074 0.6 % BlackBerry (PDA/Phone browser) No 9,396 0.4 %
Must be an Apple-oriented site. Where in the real world would Safari be ahead of Chrome?
Comment One word (Score 1) 519
Comment This is old news (Score 2) 237
This happened 2 years ago, and the Korean government already caputulated and gave YouTube an exemption.
Submission + - Belgian newspapers delisted on Google (google.com)
D H NG writes: After being ordered by the Belgian courts to "remove from its Google.be and Google.com sites, and in particular, cached links visible on Google Web and the Google News service, all articles, photographs and graphics of daily newspapers published in French and German by Belgian publishers", Google had removed all traces of the newspapers in question from all its search services. The newspapers, however, are crying foul, and alleged that it was done in retaliation for being sued for copyright violations.
Submission + - Apple Backs Down on In-App Subscription Policy (macrumors.com)
SimonTheSoundMan writes: "Macrumors report that Apple have backed down on plans where external in-app subscriptions have to be available at the same price or cheaper within Apple's own stores. Unfortunately, this is a little too late for some apps such as Readability which was previously rejected by Apple."
Submission + - China-Based Password Collection Campaign Uncovered (blogspot.com)
D H NG writes: Google announced that it recently uncovered a campaign to collect users' passwords. The campaign, apparently originating from China, affected what seem to be the personal Gmail accounts of hundreds of users including, among others, senior U.S. government officials, Chinese political activists, officials in several Asian countries (predominantly South Korea), military personnel and journalists. Google said it detected and has disrupted this campaign and has notified victims and secured their accounts, as well as notified the relevant government authorities.
Comment Won't run on older machines (Score 1) 729
I "upgraded" my 5-year-old Dell laptop (one of the first that came pre-installed with Ubuntu) from 10.10 to 11.04 and had to switch to classic mode. The Unity interface seems to require too much resource and so it didn't load anything besides the desktop icons. I've had similar problems before with Compiz. Seems like with this release, the Ubuntu people dropped any pretense of catering to older systems and went full force with the eye candy. If I want a resource hog OS, I might as well go with Windows.
Comment How Brazil saved its currency from hyperinflation (Score 1) 519
Listen to the Planet Money podcast on NPR for an interesting story about how Brazil invented a nonexistent currency about 2 decades ago to fix its hyperinflation problem.
Comment Re:Really Slashdot?!? Really? (Score 4, Informative) 154
Actually, this is not just the article singling out time travel. According to The New York Times, the original government report does single out TV dramas that involve characters traveling back in time.
Comment Google's arsenal of programming language people (Score 5, Informative) 229
James Gosling - Java
Guido van Rossum - Python
Ken Thompson - C, Go
Joshua Bloch - Java
Comment Re:Who cares? (Score 1) 366
How do you expect to get an honest response from the Chinese when they're being constantly monitored by the government?
Submission + - Bing Caught Copying Google Results (searchengineland.com) 1
D H NG writes: Google had gone public with the results of a sting operations that it says showed Bing was copying Google results. Following the practice of cartographers adding fake data to their maps, Google created fake results for gibberish search strings (such as "mbzrxpgjys") and performed Google searches for those terms on computer with IE Suggested Sites and Bing Toolbar enabled. Sure enough, these results started appearing in Bing for those search terms. Microsoft did not deny the allegations.
Submission + - Larry Page to replace Eric Schmidt as Google CEO (blogspot.com) 1
D H NG writes: While announcing its Q4 financial results, Google had also announced some changes in leadership. Starting April 4, Google co-founder Larry Page will replace Eric Schmidt as CEO. Sergey Brin will retain the title Co-Founder and Eric Schmidt becomes the Executive Chairman and retains his position as Chairman of the Board of Directors.
Study Says Software Engineers Have the Best US Jobs 337
D H NG writes "According to a new study by CareerCast.com, software engineers have the best jobs of 2011 in the United States, based on factors such as income, working environment, stress, physical demands and job outlook, using Labor Department and Census data. Mid-level software engineers make between $87,000 and $132,000 a year, putting them in the top 25% of the 200 professions studied by income. Software engineers beat out last year's number one job, actuary, which came in third, behind mathematician."
