Comment Re:It's for your own safety citizen (Score 2) 148
I'm perfectly safe, thank you.
Comment Or.. (Score 5, Funny) 186
Then again, it could be not. Interesting. I think I have had my number of conspiracy theories for today.
Comment Re: Burnouts are illegal. (Score 1) 290
Or a bloody foreigner. Not everybody behaves like an American. In lots of places wasting your tires is just plain stupid.
Comment Re:Young massive and hot. (Score 2) 43
This is news for nerds. What else would he talk about?
Comment Harry Potter gets real! (Score 3, Funny) 397
Next up: package delivered by drone will sound a siren if not opened immediately.
Personally, I would like to go back to the good old days when we used owls for that.
Comment Re:That's terrible... Salinger won't write any mor (Score 1) 218
On the contrary, now he has to write another story to keep secret!
Comment Re:open and fair (Score 1) 495
500% longer supported. When I bought my last Nokia N900, it refused to update because Nokia shut down the pre-configured servers. Thank goodness for a decent community.
Comment Re:50% of us have an iPhone (Score 1) 495
Or a Nokia.
Comment Re:Signal purpose (Score 1) 470
Not that I am aware of. A friend of mine experienced it in an Asian country, but I forgot which one.
Comment Biodegradable is not enough (Score 5, Informative) 470
You are right to say compostable. Merely biodegradable usually means that there are a lot of harmful chemicals after the degrading process.
Comment Signal purpose (Score 1) 470
In some countries, vendors "mark" clients with the bags. If you are a tough negotiator for the lowest price, you get a different colour plastic bag than if you are a western tourist who pays the first sum asked.
Docker 0.7 Runs On All Linux Distributions 88
rjmarvin writes "Docker 0.7 was released today, with 7 major new features including support to run on all Linux distributions. No longer capable solely on running on Debian and Ubuntu Linux, Docker 0.7 adds support for distributions such as Red Hat, SUSE, Gentoo and Arch. From the announcement: 'A key feature of Docker is the ability to create many copies of the same base filesystem almost instantly. Under the hood Docker makes heavy use of AUFS by Junjiro R. Okajima as a copy-on-write storage mechanism. AUFS is an amazing piece of software and at this point it’s safe to say that it has safely copied billions of containers over the last few years, a great many of them in critical production environments. Unfortunately, AUFS is not part of the standard linux kernel and it’s unclear when it will be merged. This has prevented docker from being available on all Linux systems. Docker 0.7 solves this problem by introducing a storage driver API, and shipping with several drivers. Currently 3 drivers are available: AUFS, VFS (which uses simple directories and copy) and DEVICEMAPPER, developed in collaboration with Alex Larsson and the talented team at Red Hat, which uses an advanced variation of LVM snapshots to implement copy-on-write. An experimental BTRFS driver is also being developed, with even more coming soon: ZFS, Gluster, Ceph, etc. When the docker daemon is started it will automatically select a suitable driver depending on its capabilities.'"
Comment Re:Double standards... (Score 1) 710
Usually thinking about a creator stops there. I never hear believers ask "then where did God come from?". Mind you: I do not hear any scientists ask where the "instability" came from that caused the Big Bang. éé
Comment Re:Regressive (Score 3, Interesting) 730
Actually, a monarchy can be a good thing if the monarch is not a dictator. For example, in the Netherlands, the king has little power but is "the face" of the country. This separation of power and representation is wonderful. Electing a king by birth is a bit preposterous, but it prevents the first power-hungry megalomaniac to be our first man. I know a monarchy is ancient and not of this age, but the mere thought of an alternative like Kohl, Bush or Mitterant makes me glad that we have one.
Comment Current reputation of The Netherlands (Score 3, Informative) 137
Anybody know what the current reputation of The Netherlands is?
Awful. The prime minister even refuses to say anything bad about the unlawful interceptions, because "it could harm our interests as well". Clearly "our interests" do not include the interests of the citizens. And our domestic affairs minister wants to give the police unwarranted tapping powers with the possibility to install spyware, only controlled by their own organisation.
Disclaimer: I live there.
