Comment Yes, but... (Score 4, Funny) 92
...they make those delightful coconut cookies. I think we can forgive them.
Comment Re:Sin taxes and the rich (Score 2) 776
That Timecube site you created was near-perfect, man.
Comment Re:x264 sucks (Score 1) 361
That MSU comparison was seriously flawed, as detailed at length on Doom9's forums.
Comment Re:Man, Sometimes the Satire Writes Itself... (Score 1) 212
The agnostic phone: you're never sure whether it is currently vibrating in your pocket.
Not as far fetched as some might think... http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2007-06-12-cellphones_N.htm
Comment Re:Dirt Rental (Score 5, Insightful) 381
And the monopoly the utilities have was in every case granted by the state. The free market doesn't enter into it. Arguably, some things are naturally best managed by monopolies. Online services, outside of maybe - and it's a stretch - the cables that carry them, are not best served by a monopoly. Every time someone argues that the free market is responsible for monopoly misbehavior, my blood pressure goes up ten points. Free markets imply competition, which is distinctly lacking in the telco context thanks to government intervention.
FTC Warns Against Deceptive DRM 159
Jane Q. Public writes "At the Federal Trade Commission's Seattle conference on DRM, FTC Director Mary Engle started off by referencing the Sony rootkit debacle, and said that companies are going to have to get serious about disclosing DRM that may affect the usability of products. She also said that disclosure via the fine print in a EULA is not good enough, and 'If your advertising giveth and your EULA taketh away, don't be surprised if the FTC comes calling.' Transcripts and webcasts are available from the FTC website." Update 18:13 GMT by SM: as Jane Q. Public was nice enough to diplomatically point out, the webcasts are no longer functioning, but transcripts are still available.
Comment Wow... (Score 2, Funny) 7
She seems to be suffering from early-onset JPEG overcompression.
Comment Vint Cerf has a posse (Score 0, Offtopic) 126
6'1"
185 lbs.
7.5% tissue replaced with CAT6 cable
Comment Actually... (Score 1) 7
Those dumbbells are made of ugly.
Comment Re:Here's how it's going to play out (Score 1) 332
No it doesn't. The parent committed the fallacy of the broken window in quite an egregious way.
Gnome's Nautilus Gets ZFS Integration, In OpenSolaris 38
13bpower writes "Sun developer Erwann Chenede posted a new plugin for Nautilus that will integrate ZFS's backup capabilities with Nautilus. This should be a pretty killer feature." As one of the comments puts it, this adds a "Time Machine-esque" function to Solaris, through which a user can specify backup frequency, and when needed browse from available snapshots to restore files.
