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Comment Re:Ugh (Score 5, Insightful) 564

by Kensai7 (#45802239) Attached to: PC Makers Plan Rebellion Against Microsoft At CES

Personally, games was the last domain that kept me from ditching Windows (as they have evolved), so SteamOS is a gift from heaven, especially in the direction it is going. Microsoft should be scared to do more. Enough is enough with their dominating position. It reminds me of European cellular phone manufacturers (Nokia, Ericsson) before Apple came to shake their realities with the iPhone.

Submission + - NSA Says Snowden Used Legit Access to Steal Data (threatpost.com)

Submitted by Gunkerty Jeb
Gunkerty Jeb writes: It’s taken more than six months, but top officials at the National Security Agency are finally discussing some of the details of how former agency contractor Edward Snowden got access to all of the documents he stole and what kind of damage they believe the publication of the information they contain could do. A senior NSA employee tasked with investigating what Snowden did and how he did it said that Snowden simply used the legitimate access he had as a systems administrator to steal and store the millions of documents he’s been slowly leaking to the media, and that the information in those documents could give U.S. enemies a “road map” of the country’s intelligence capabilities and blind spots.

Submission + - Internet regulator shuts down Greek EU Presidency domain registered by a blocker (enetenglish.gr) 1

Submitted by Kensai7
Kensai7 writes: Eight years ago, Kostis Lympouridis purchased the eu2014.gr domain so that he could use it to criticise the government during its presidency of the European Union in 2014, as is his democratic right. But the authorities have now seized his site.

"I could foresee it would have a lot of traffic in 2014, due to the presidency. I wanted to use it as a blog to criticise the government. None of this is illegal," says Kostis Lympouridis, who last week learned that the foreign ministry had initiated legal procedures to seize the site and that a court hearing was scheduled for January 7. Lympouridis also stopped updating the site, obeying the terms of an interim injunction secured by the ministry.

Submission + - Wolfram Language Reference Manual (wolfram.com)

Submitted by Kensai7
Kensai7 writes: The Wolfram Language is coming along... the first 11,000+ draft documentation pages are up. Not all finished yet, but a great start...

Submission + - Electrolibrary: blending the boundaries between book and computer (phys.org)

Submitted by Kensai7
Kensai7 writes: Waldek Wegrzyn has a prototype that teases us into thinking about future interconnection opportunities that lie between the book and the computer. We might be about to turn a corner where there is no either-or choice to be made between a print book and an e-book, a print newspaper or an online site, but rather both print and digital working with each other. The book becomes part of the computer reading experience.

The video is nothing short of spectacular!
http://vimeo.com/47656204

Comment RTFA anyone? (Score 2) 394

by Kensai7 (#38635012) Attached to: World's Largest Passenger Plane May Be Unsafe, Some Say

"We confirm that minor cracks were found on some noncritical wing rib-skin attachments on a limited number of A380 aircraft. We have traced the origin. Airbus has developed an inspection and repair procedure, which will be done during regular, routine scheduled four-year maintenance checks. In the meantime, Airbus emphasizes that the safe operation of the A380 fleet is not affected."

1) minor and noncritical
2) on a limited number
3) traced the origin
4) have already found the solution
5) have already put it in the inspection list

OK, now you can ground the whole fleet...

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