interfecio - Slashdot User

Comment At least point the fingers in the right direction (Score 1) 481

by interfecio on Wednesday December 15, 2010 @08:21PM (#34568650) Attached to: Netflix Touts Open Source, Ignores Linux

Microsoft. How is it Netflix's fault for Novell/moonlight not being allowed to have the proper DRM codebits from silverlight to implement into moonlight. Use google. This shit is all over the net.

Comment Re:So about auto insurance (Score 1) 1505

by interfecio on Monday December 13, 2010 @03:53PM (#34537784) Attached to: Judge Declares Federal Healthcare Plan (Partly) Unconstitutional

You are only required to carry auto insurance to pay for damages that you do to OTHER people / property. This is called having just liability. You are not required to carry full coverage, unless the bank owns your car, then it's really not your car, so again, you're paying in case you damage other persons (the banks) property. Having only liability, you're self-insuring your own vehicle of damages and will pay everything out of pocket to fix your vehicle. Think of the law requiring you to provide full coverage on your vehicle. You are also not required by law to purchase a vehicle.

Top Reason for Facebook Unfriending Is Too Many Useless Posts 300

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday October 06, 2010 @04:00PM from the if-you-don't-have-any-thing-say dept.

alphadogg writes "The No. 1 reason why friends dump friends on Facebook is when they get fed up seeing too many useless posts, according to new research out of the University of Colorado Denver Business School. Posts about polarizing subjects such as politics and religion as well as inappropriate and racist comments also sever many Facebook relationships, according to Christopher Sibona, a PhD student in the Computer and Science and Information Systems program. 'Researchers spend a lot of time examining how people form friendships online but little is known on how those relationships end,' said Sibona, whose research will be published in January by the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. 'Perhaps this will help us develop a theory of the entire cycle of friending and unfriending.' Sibona surveyed more than 1,500 Facebook users to get to the bottom of why people dump each other. Not surprisingly, people who flood others with posts are at great risk of being unfriended. 'The 100th post about your favorite band is no longer interesting,' he said." Samzenpus likes this.

Comment Nothing to see here.... (Score 3, Informative) 131

by interfecio on Thursday August 19, 2010 @05:51PM (#33307898) Attached to: Root Privileges Through Linux Kernel Bug

From the RedHat bug report: Eugene Teo (Security Response) 2010-08-12 21:44:06 EDT Linus has committed a fix for this issue: http://git.kernel.org/linus/320b2b8de12698082609ebbc1a17165727f4c893

Comment Probably cheaper... (Score 3, Insightful) 182

by interfecio on Sunday August 08, 2010 @05:41PM (#33183344) Attached to: Google Testing an Airborne Camera Drone

...more efficient, and faster to get up to date imagery for maps than to wait and pay for satellite imagery. Military has these planes that fly by themselves to take pictures to update maps. This looks like it's just the civilian sector following lead. I can only imagine that aligning and presenting imagery data from an aircraft is a lot easier and requires less compute/man hours than satellite imagery. Especially if the need is only for new imagery of a small area.

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