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.
Comment Finance is not economy (Score 2) 278
Most of the contributions are not financial in an open-source project. So if you focus on money only, you can only get irrelevant results.
Comment Re:Non SI units (Score 2) 193
To my knowledge drinkable coffee is actually forbidden in the united states. Something to do with temperature and the danger of spilling it.
Comment Re:Who can tell real comments from astroturf? (Score 1) 263
I think the correct term was "Persona Management Software"
Comment Re:Who can tell real comments from astroturf? (Score 1) 263
Cory Doctorow's Novel "Homeland" speaks about this. It turns out that there was a FOIA request pending (by Aaron Schwarz) for the "Identity Management Software" that the US Airforce bought.
NASA's Next Frontier: Growing Plants On the Moon 193
An anonymous reader writes in with news about a NASA project that aims to grow plants on the moon in specially made containers. "In 2015, NASA will attempt to make history by growing plants on the Moon. If they are successful, it will be the first time humans have ever brought life to another planetary body. The Lunar Plant Growth Habitat team, a group of NASA scientists, contractors, students and volunteers, is finally bringing to life an idea that has been discussed and debated for decades. They will try to grow arabidopsis, basil, sunflowers, and turnips in coffee-can-sized aluminum cylinders that will serve as plant habitats. But these are no ordinary containers – they’re packed to the brim with cameras, sensors, and electronics that will allow the team to receive image broadcasts of the plants as they grow. These habitats will have to be able to successfully regulate their own temperature, water intake, and power supply in order to brave the harsh lunar climate."
