Comment Re:Truecrypt: Open source, free, works very well. (Score 1) 121
Truecrypt is my go-to encryption solution.
Comment Re:OK, dumb question after reading the article (Score 1) 747
Unfortunately Stallman just devolved to his "Us vs Them" mentality that fails to serve him and his movement. He should have been trying to start a debate on plug-in standards or how web application authors and hosts can build community and extensibility through open standards and free software ideals. But that didn't happen.
I would also argue that proprietary software doesn't destroy innovation, and free software doesn't create it. It's about the products in question and the industries they serve.
OH and It isn't GNU/Linux, it's just Linux.
Submission + - EU: MS Must Offer Competitors' Browsers: Now What? (computerworlduk.com)
Glyn Moody writes: "So the European Commission is going to require Microsoft to offer competitors' browsers with Windows. But having the option to install Firefox, say, is useless unless people know what it is. The implication is that we need some kind of campaign to ensure that people understand the choices they will have. How can open source best exploit this latest EU decision?"
Comment RIp on it if you like..... (Score 1) 1235
But it is seriously the simplest thing one can do to alert someone they are being photographed, potentially against their will. And if I am not mistaken isn't a similar law in effect in japan? And besides you can always COVER THE SPEAKER!
Comment I welcome it (Score 1) 75
Safari on iPhone, much like it's desktop counterpart needs work. The only thing that ever encouraged Apple to innovate is competition. It's uphill battle against Windows has brought many welcome changes to OS X, as well as may new apps to meet customer need (like Safari).
I see a browser war on iPhone producing a better Safari for both platforms.
Comment Pitney Bowes Postage Station (Score 1) 480
But past that nothing.
Comment Wrong Year (Score 1) 169
The mouse was invented in 1964, NOT 1968
http://www.time.com/time/covers/1101041011/nextessay.html
Comment Re:Not in this economy. (Score 1) 1123
Unless you had some certs or a considerable volume of experience. That's how I got my sysadmin job with no degree.
Submission + - Google Chrome Download Page now LIVE
TheReverandND writes: "Google Chrome BETA for Windows is now available for download HERE"
Sensual Stretching *NSFW*
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This isn't any more stupid than the egg baby projects they had us do in sex-ed.
Submission + - The War Against Virtual Beer Pong (time.com) 1
Michelle Shildkret, 360i on behalf of TIME.com writes: "JV Games was all set to release "Beer Pong" for the Nintendo Wii when parents and lawmakers got a whiff, forcibly renaming the game to Pong Toss and filling its pixelated cups with water instead.
But the game is still rated "T" for teen, and anybody who encounters it will be able to draw clear conclusions as to its intended purpose (drink and get drunk)."
Project Arcade 158
Craig Maloney writes "Growing up, I found myself more than once in an arcade, be it in the mall, Meijer, or a free-standing building. The atmosphere was unmistakable: loud, with lots of activity, and people getting fully immersed and "in the zone" between them and their pixellated avatar. While playing an arcade game at home has been possible for many years now, the true arcade experience has been a little more elusive. There's something about having an upright video game cabinet, and playing on arcade hardware that gives the game that extra sense of being right in the arcades of my youth. There are many sites out there that have different plans for building a MAME arcade cabinet from scratch, but most read like a post-mortem for how the author pieced together their particular setup. What if you just want to convert an old (non-working, I hope) cabinet into a MAME arcade cabinet? Lots of information is out there, but where do you start? Project Arcade is an excellent introduction for building your own MAME arcade cabinet from scratch, and compiles lots of material into one comprehensive book." Read below for the rest of Craig's review.
Submission + - AMD Announces Release Date for Barcelona in Q3 (yahoo.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Rumors said the release wouldn't be until late Q4 but an August ship date is now promised. They're only releasing up to 2.0 GHz processors at first, with the top speed devices coming out later in the year.
Apple Dumps Most of Aperture Dev. Team 305
SuperMog2002 writes "An article over at Think Secret is reporting that Apple has fired much of the Aperture development team. The Shake and Motion team was assigned to work on Aperture's image processing pipeline for version 1.1. Apple has also dropped the price of Aperture from $499 to $299, and is offering those who purchased the program at $499 a $200 Apple store coupon." From the article: "Perhaps the greatest hope for Aperture's future is that the application's problems are said to be so extensive that any version 2.0 would require major portions of code to be entirely rewritten. With that in mind, the bell may not yet be tolling for Aperture; an entirely new engineering team could salvage the software and bring it up to Apple's usual standards."
