Comment Re:Cyanogen IS Android if you are a geek (Score 1) 177
The Desire has a rather small internal storage memory, meaning that unless you change the partition layout you will quickly run out of storage space.
Comment Re:They are watching... (Score 1) 189
ScienceDaily (Nov. 12, 1997) — Computer "eyes" are now up to such tasks as watching for fugitives in airline terminals and other busy locations. A sophisticated face-recognition system that placed first in recent Army competitive trials has been given the added ability to pick out faces in noisy or chaotic "street" environments. The new "Mugspot" software module developed at the University of Southern California automatically analyzes video images, looking for passers-by. When it finds them, it picks out the heads in the images and then tracks the heads for as long as they remain in the camera's field.
Almost 15 years ago, it was already possible to accurately track and recognise people in grainy, blurry, low-res video. As if intelligence agencies *aren't* having a field day with facebook.
But 15 years ago millions of people did not voluntarily (albeit unknowingly, for the most part) submit their personal photos and videos for this kind of analysis.
Comment Re:Wonderful. (Score 1) 228
The US' statistic is also surprising: 5.0 per 100,000 - the highest among OECD countries by a long shot (though still comparatively safe compared to the majority of countries in the world).
That must be all those guns people have the right to carry, and all the murders constantly covered on the news which make people feel like they should probably carry a gun, just in case...
Comment Re:yay! (Score 1) 159
Why, do you think anyone would attempt a hijack?
Comment Re:What a stupid article. (Score 1) 102
Posted by timothy on Thursday May 12, @03:59PM from the click-no-to-agree dept.
Comment Re:This is how marketing works (Score 1) 144
You might as well have written: "I think PC Pro paid Slashdot to bring this otherwise useless story so they could get some advertising money."
Comment I don't mean to be a grammar nazi, but... (Score 1) 87
Or maybe they're discussing some police probe based virtual worlds in which the communities are collectively in favour of a particular money trail?
I'm not a native English speaker, so I might be wrong in pointing out that there is a problem here. But I don't think I am.
Comment Re:Diff? (Score 2) 201
Well, that would give you one very large diff and not several specific ones that you could pick and choose between.
Comment Re:"Media has opinions" (Score 1) 378
Funny how your comment came almost the same time as the headline "Red Hat Paid $4.2m To Settle Patent Suit" - were they paid or have they paid? I guess we will never know (unless we read the summary or TFA that is).
Comment Re:Twitter's End Game (Score 1) 127
Seems they are all about the money now...
... because they were not until now?
Comment Re:lacking important path transformation algorithm (Score 1) 91
IIRC there is an icon preview panel which means you can remove the last element from your list.
Comment Re:IANA (Score 1) 109
That's a bit like the other day when I accidentally my new server
Comment Re:This a re-org for the foreign offices only (Score 0) 468
Some might say that it should be spelled "couldn't", but I'm not a native English speaker.
Airborne Prions Prove Lethal In Mouse Studies 116
sgunhouse writes "Wired has a story up on the lethality of airborne prions. It should be noted that prions (which cause 'mad cow disease' and similar disorders) are not normally airborne, and take a long time to kill the infected animal, but so far are 100% lethal if something else doesn't kill the animal first. So, they are not likely to be useful as a biological weapon (my first thought when reading their headline), but they present another safety precaution to consider."
Comment Re:Software engineer vs. computer programmer? (Score 1) 337
But surely, the academic title MSc Eng is only allowed to be used by people holding a diploma for such a degree? If this is not the case, then I might as well add a couple of extra degrees to my business card.
