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Comment Either use dual-sim or multiple SIP accounts (Score 1) 161

by SpzToid (#47719899) Attached to: Calif. Court Rules Businesses Must Reimburse Cell Phone Bills

Obviously a dual-SIM phone can alleviate this problem, as can a modern phone with multiple SIP accounts configured, assuming then you have a good data plan, or can live happily as a simple hotspot-whore, (and most people could!).

To cite a reference, these Nokia phones have SIP support within the OS, so battery life is excellent, compared to having to run an App just for SIP accounts, (like SIPdroid).

http://developer.nokia.com/com...

The Nokia N9 and N900 phones also have SIP support within the OS and battery life is very good. Hmmm, I never bothered to look, but what about Jolla's Sailfish? For that matter, does anyone else know of another low-energy SIP stack in-use? I don't think iOS offers it, but I've been wrong before.

As to how to get your company telephone line (DID) in a workable state so you can access it via SIP, well, you're on your own slashdotters. (Hint: lowest common denominator is something like an OBi110 PSTN FXO adapter). In fact an OBi110 and a Raspberry Pi runny asterisk/FreePBX can forward incoming calls from a DID to any pre-configured (mobile) phone number.

That's a simple solution. At which point separate telephone bills become trivial and automatic.

Submission + - Why Apple Is Not Suing Xiaomi - Yet (ibtimes.co.uk)

Submitted by DavidGilbert99
DavidGilbert99 writes: Apple is still a relative new-comer to the Chinese market. In this market Xiaomi is now the biggest player, while Apple's isn't even in the top five smartphone vendors. Add to that uncertainty about enforcing patents in China, as well as a lack of detail about Xiaomi's own patents,and it is easy to see why Apple may not be willing to rock the boat — though that could all change if/when Xiaomi expands beyond China

Submission + - Death of the car: The tech behind Helsinki's ambitious plan to kill off private (zdnet.com)

Submitted by NBSCALIDBA
NBSCALIDBA writes: Eeva Haaramo (Norse Code), reports on Helsinki's Ambition plan to transform city transportation. From buses to bikes to Kutsuplus mini-transport vans, Findland's bold experiment in public/private enterprise offer an über-change in the way cities should look at the whole concept of getting around in a city.

Submission + - Recycled Car Batteries Transformed into Low-Cost Solar Panels

Submitted by rofkool
rofkool writes: MIT researcher have developed a method of transforming old lead-acid car batteries into long-lasting, low-cost solar panels.

It is estimated that a single battery could be used to produce enough solar cells to power up to 30 homes.

The discovery addresses two key problems: Firstly the problem of disposing of lead-acid batteries in an environmentally-responsible way, and secondly the difficulty of producing raw lead ore for use in solar cells.

Angela Belcher, W.M. Keck Professor of Energy at MIT and co-author of the study, said: "Once the battery technology evolves, over 200 million lead-acid batteries will potentially be retired in the United States, and that could cause a lot of environmental issues."

Comment Re:Motive? (Score 1) 359

by SpzToid (#47693451) Attached to: Ebola Quarantine Center In Liberia Looted

Should Not Feed Trolls(!), but yet again I can not help myself. What about former playmate, former co-anchor Jenny McCarthy, last seen on the (Oprah Winfrey replacement) daytime television show primarily aimed towards women called The View? Considering her anti-vaccination rhetoric, she was lucky to even be given her prominent seat at the table to begin with. Yet there she was, (until she wasn't).

Submission + - Project Aims to Build a Fully Open SoC and Dev Board (linuxgizmos.com)

Submitted by __aajbyc7391
__aajbyc7391 writes: A non-profit company is developing an open source 64-bit system-on-chip that will enable fully open hardware, 'from the CPU core to the development board.' The 'lowRISC' SoC is the brainchild of a team of hardware and software hackers from the University of Cambridge, with the stated goal of implementing a 'fully open computing eco-system, including the instruction set architecture (ISA), processor silicon, and development boards.' The lowRISC's design is based on a new 64-bit RISC-V ISA, developed at UC Berkeley. The RISC-V core design has now advanced enough for the lowRISC project to begin designing an SoC around it. Prototype silicon of a 'RISC-V Rocket' core itself has already been benchmarked at UC Berkeley, with results results (on GitHub) suggesting that in comparison to a 32-bit ARM Cortex-A5 core, the RISC-V core is faster, smaller, and uses less power. And on top of that it's open source. Oh, and there's a nifty JavaScript-based RISC-V simulator that runs in your browser.

Submission + - I was turned down for a job at a tech startup because I'm male

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Diversity in tech is a hot topic right now. I support bringing underrepresented women and minorities into STEM fields and promoting equality in education. I want my daughter to feel as comfortable with tech as I do. I never expected the politics of equality that believe in to result in me ending up being discriminated against. But it has now. Here’s how it happened.

Comment Re:Blame HR ...(what about the Recruiters/Agents?) (Score 1) 278

by SpzToid (#47656023) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Why Are Online Job Applications So Badly Designed?

How do the Recruiters/Agents submit their chosen candidate applications to HR? What value are Agents adding in the process to earn on average 1/3 of the fees paid by the client, for the contracted I.T. worker? Isn't it perhaps worth the effort to avoid recruiters at all costs and try to reach HR directly, using their broken application form process no matter how bad it is, because that directly broken process is preferable to involving Recruiters?

p.s. Aren't the bulk of jobs advertised on Dice from these Agents/Recruiters, in which case has Dice ruined itself chasing the low-hanging fruit?

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