Comment Re:stopped using it? (Score 2) 857
Undoing my mods in this thread because I have to ask - have you never used the "shutdown" or "restart" options? Do you ever turn off your computer?
Comment Re:does anyone still care about "certification"? (Score 1) 66
While I agree with you completely, I think you're looking at this backwards. Linux people will put Linux on servers no matter what - but if we know that purchasing a ProLiant server is going to come with less or no headaches as compared to some other brand's unknown experience, maybe we'll be more likely to purchase a ProLiant. At least that seems to be HP's angle in this case.
Firefox: In With the New, Out With the Compatibility 366
snydeq writes "Mozilla's 'endless parade' of Firefox updates adds no visible benefit to users but breaks common functions, as numerous add-ons, including the popular open source TinyMCE editor, continually suffer compatibility issues, thanks to Firefox's newly adopted auto-update cycle, writes InfoWorld's Galen Gruman. 'Firefox is a Web browser, and by its very nature the Web is a heterogeneous, uncontrolled collection of resources. Expecting every website that uses TinyMCE to update it whenever an incremental rev comes out is silly and unrealistic, and certainly not just because Mozilla decided compatibility in its parade of new Firefox releases was everyone else's problem. The Web must handle such variablility — especially the browsers used to access it.'"
Wirelessly Powered Medical Implant Propels Itself Through the Bloodstream 37
cylonlover writes "With the wait still on for a miniaturization ray to allow some Fantastic Voyage-style medical procedures by doctors in submarines, tiny electronic implants capable of traveling in the bloodstream show much more promise. While the miniaturization of electronic and mechanical components now makes such devices feasible, the lack of a comparable reduction in battery size has held things back. Now engineers at Stanford University have demonstrated a tiny, self-propelled medical device that would be wirelessly powered from outside the body, enabling devices small enough to move through the bloodstream."
Moglen: Facebook Is a Man-In-The-Middle Attack 376
jfruh writes "In an email exchange with privacy blogger Dan Tynan, Columbia law professor Eben Moglen referred to Facebook as a 'man in the middle attack' — that is, a service that intercepts communication between two parties and uses it for its own nefarious purposes. He said, 'The point is that by sharing with our actual friends through a web intermediary who can store and mine everything, we harm people by destroying their privacy for them. It's not the sharing that's bad, it's the technological design of giving it all to someone in the middle. That is at once outstandingly stupid and overwhelmingly dangerous.' Tynan is a critic of Facebook, but he thinks Moglen is overstating the case."
Comment Re:Car analogy (Score 1) 403
I think where the judge's analogy falls apart is when he assumes your car would still be "fully functioning" if you avoided the amusement park for cars. If I want to buy (insert some new PS3 game here) and play it without ever connecting to the PSN, I'm going to be forced to install a firmware update just to play the new game, aren't I? I don't see how that would constitute my PS3 being "fully functional" anymore. (and I don't see how that could be worked into this car analogy either)
Not that I own a PS3; I don't. But that's how things are done with my Xbox360.
Not that I own a PS3; I don't. But that's how things are done with my Xbox360.
Comment Re:PC analogy (Score 1) 278
Exactly. Or perhaps a better analogy would be handsfree Bluetooth.
"I bought this car because it has Bluetooth. It's not a feature every owner of this model will use, but it is one of the reasons I chose THIS car over other cars."
And then the manufacturer remotely bricks the Bluetooth because I got my oil changed somewhere other than the dealership.
"I bought this car because it has Bluetooth. It's not a feature every owner of this model will use, but it is one of the reasons I chose THIS car over other cars."
And then the manufacturer remotely bricks the Bluetooth because I got my oil changed somewhere other than the dealership.
Comment Re:PC analogy (Score 1) 278
I don't agree with my position, but to play Devil's advocate here...
it's not negatively harming others
In the case of geohot and the PS3 hacking, Sony might argue that it is harming their business. Because corporations are people, after all.
Microsoft Responds To Linux Concerns Over Windows 8 and UEFI Secure Boot 389
CSHARP123 writes "A few days ago, Red Hat employee Matthew Garrett speculated that OEM machines shipping with copies of Windows 8 may lock out support for Linux installations. Garrett highlighted Microsoft's new Secure Build OEM requirements for Windows 8 systems. Microsoft chose to directly respond to confusion surrounding Windows 8's use of the UEFI Secure Boot feature on Thursday. Tony Mangefeste of Microsoft's Ecosystem team said, 'Microsoft supports OEMs having the flexibility to decide who manages security certificates and how to allow customers to import and manage those certificates, and manage secured boot. We believe it is important to support this flexibility to the OEMs and to allow our customers to decide how they want to manage their systems.'"
Comment Re:Lost some funding? (Score 1) 387
It appears with posts like this, that perhaps the opposite of your signature is also true.
Off-topic I know, but sorry, I couldn't resist.
Off-topic I know, but sorry, I couldn't resist.
Comment Re:unHappy FF user here (Score 1) 247
Mod parent up! It's great to have Ubiquity back!
Comment unHappy FF user here (Score 4, Informative) 247
The only downside is extensions
I've been loving Firefox for years, but this fast release schedule is driving me nuts. Every time a new "major" version comes out now, at least one or two of my extensions break. The first one to go (on FF4) was Ubiquity, which still isn't fixed, and the stupid thing about that is Ubiquity is a Mozilla Labs extension. It's pretty sad when their own damn extensions can't even keep up, let alone 3rd party stuff.
So, back to your point about extensions being the only downside, honestly, do we use Firefox for any other reason? I could have ditched FF for Chrome or even IE9 (shudder) but it's the extensions that make Firefox so awesome, and that's what's suffering the most with this bullshit release schedule.
Comment Hurry up 'n buy every TLD imaginable while you can (Score 2) 186
As a webmaster, I get a lot of those ones presumably from China and thereabouts that all say pretty much the same thing:
Dear CEO,
We are big important registrar and $FICTICIOUS_COMPANY wants to buy from us this follows:
$YOUR_HOSTNAME.cn
$YOUR_HOSTNAME.tw
$YOUR_HOSTNAME.com.cn
$YOUR_HOSTNAME.com.tw
(et cetera)
Sometimes the poor English can be entertaining.
Dear CEO,
We are big important registrar and $FICTICIOUS_COMPANY wants to buy from us this follows:
$YOUR_HOSTNAME.cn
$YOUR_HOSTNAME.tw
$YOUR_HOSTNAME.com.cn
$YOUR_HOSTNAME.com.tw
(et cetera)
Sometimes the poor English can be entertaining.
Comment With apologies to Chandler Bing (Score 2) 372
"Yes, I was really sad too, when the artist stopped drawing the deer."
Comment Re:Yo Dawg, (Score 1) 199
I think that making every app work in a browser is the path of least resistance for companies trying to make a multi-platform product. This might not actually be true in all cases, but a lot of executives with a limited knowledge of technology see it this way.
