Remember when Facebook changed all of our default email accounts to their own, unused system, without informing any of us? That was fun! But it looks like the problem could be much wider and more damaging than it first seemed.
Apparently since nobody wants or needs a Facebook email address, Zuckerberg and co have decided the only way to get people to use their substandard service is to delete the other email address already stored on your phone.
More than $87,000 worth of the virtual currency known as Bitcoin was stolen after online bandits penetrated servers belonging to Bitcoinica, prompting its operators to temporarily shutter the trading platform to contain the damage.
Friday's theft came after hackers accessed Bitcoinica's production servers and depleted its online wallet of 18,547 BTC, as individual Bitcoin units are called, company officials said in a blog post published on Friday. It said the heist affected only a small fraction of Bitcoinica's overall bitcoin deposits and that all withdrawal requests will be honored once the platform reopens.
... no one got fired for running Linux
That's because by the time they had a fully functional system, there were so many obscure configurations, custom scripts, and dirty hacks required that they are the only one who knows how to administer it.
It would probably also help if you could get Linux users to stop fighting amongst themselves over every little goddamn thing. Outsiders are really turned off by what looks like a bunch of squabbling geeks fighting over their favorite Star Trek series (which we all know is DS9, anyway). Average consumers *do not* like stepping into the middle of a fight which they don't even understand. That's one of the reasons they like Windows and OS X (all the fighting over those is kept behind the scenes, for the most part).
Not only that but another big turn off is that documentation often tends to be non-existent, incomplete, confusing, or simply wrong then, to make matters worse, when inexperienced users venture into the forums looking for guidance, the replies are usually along the lines of RTFM emphasized with varying degrees of condescension. Very rarely will you find a simple, clear set of instructions on how to perform a specific procedure. New users need hand holding but the Linux community will more often than not just throw them to the wolves.
As long as it lasts me the whole day with moderate to heavy use from when I wake up to when I go to bed and plug my phone in I am happy. Besides it is much more easy to remember to charge my phone every night instead of every other night.
I always just purchase a cradle that can charge an extra battery. I then purchase 3 or 4 extra batteries. I stick one in my car, one in my laptop bag, one goes in my back pocket, and one stays on the charger.In this way I just have to swap out the battery when it dies. I always have a charged battery at hand and I never have to have my phone on a charger. A battery will usually last 12-24 hours but heavy use and bluetooth can shorten this considerably. They only take an hour or so to charge so if I use more than one while I am away from the charging cradle it is not difficult to catch up so all the extras generally stay charged.
The optimum committee has no members. -- Norman Augustine