Comment leave it alone (Score 1) 725
why mess with something that works. Leave well enough alone.
Submission + - Return US copyright to 14 years (whitehouse.gov)
An anonymous reader writes: There is a petition on the new Whitehouse petition web site about returning US copyright to a 14 year term. Click on the "Link to the orginal story" link to go to the sign and sign it.
Submission + - O2 filtering internet for UK mobile users (theregister.co.uk)
Geeky writes: Not new news but I hit the block yesterday for the first time — and not for a site that should have been blocked. Attempting to access the site redirects you to Bango, thus exhibiting all the symptoms of a malware or virus infection that has hijacked DNS. I'd never heard of Bango — why would I give them my credit card details?
The filter is also useless — Google image search works just fine, so adult content isn't hard to find. Does that make O2 liable if parents rely on the filter? What about claims from companies who might lose trade through being incorrectly flagged as adult?
Time to move to another provider or do they all do it?
The filter is also useless — Google image search works just fine, so adult content isn't hard to find. Does that make O2 liable if parents rely on the filter? What about claims from companies who might lose trade through being incorrectly flagged as adult?
Time to move to another provider or do they all do it?
Comment Shotgun (Score 1) 1016
Shotgun or rifle its fun and educational
Comment been doing that for a while (Score 1) 382
When i deployed to Iraq, the contractors there made 140K a year. Being military i make less than 40 to do the same work for the entire year. Something tells me we need to trim the fat starting with contractors that make retarded amounts of money....
Submission + - Microsoft may block Linux booting on OEM PCs (itworld.com)
An anonymous reader writes: In Microsoft's recently published requirements for 'Windows 8 Certification,' ITWorld reports that OEM PCs must have 'secure boot' in which the bootloader must be signed by a trusted CA. This could potentially stop Linux booting on standard PCs, as the GRUB bootloader has not been signed by any CA, and is unlikely to be because of the terms of GPLv3.
Submission + - How Microsoft can lock Linux off W8 PCs (networkworld.com) 3
Julie188 writes: "Windows 8 PCs will use the next-generation booting specification known as Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI). And actually Windows 8 logo devices will be required to use the secure boot portion of the new spec. Secure UEFI is intended to thwart rootkit infections by using PKI authentication before allowing executables or drivers to be loaded onto the device. Problem is, unless the device manufacturer gives a key to the device owner, it can also be used to keep the PC's owner from wiping out the current OS and installing another option, such as Linux."
Submission + - The Register Hacked (theregister.co.uk)
An anonymous reader writes: It appears the Register has been hacked.
See the screenshot here
http://itigloo.com/2011/09/04/the-register-hacked/
See the screenshot here
http://itigloo.com/2011/09/04/the-register-hacked/
Submission + - Galaxy Tab 10.1 vs. iPad 2 Smackdown (deviceguru.com)
__aajbyc7391 writes: DeviceGuru's 10-inch tablet smackdown pits Samsung’s Galaxy Tab 10.1 against Apple's iPad 2. At price parity the iPad 2 is probably a better bet for the average user since it's a more stable, near-perfect device with a rich assortment of apps for nearly every possible function you'd like to perform on a tablet, reasons the post. However, with the Samsung tablet's cost of goods rumored to be around $215 versus $260 for the iPad 2 for comparable models, Samsung could drop its 10-inch tablet's price to $425 and pose a serious challenge to Apple's device. But will they...?
Submission + - Time may fly erratically, come September (nerc.com) 1
ibsteve2u writes: "Field trials for the elimination of the time error correction (the intentional increase or decrease of the 60 Hz frequency many household clocks rely upon to keep time in order to compensate for load-driven variations) applied to the nation's electricity grid are tentatively scheduled to begin in September:
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While it is intuitively obvious that any frequency offset that moves target frequency away from the reference point to which all other frequency sensitive devices (such as relays) have been indexed will have a potential impact on those devices' performance, the industry has by and large regarded Time Error Corrections as harmless and necessary as part of the service it provides to its customers. However, in light of this data, NERC's stakeholders are now questioning whether or not the intentional movement closer to (or in some cases, further away from) the trigger settings of frequency-based protection devices as is evidenced during Time Error Correction events is appropriate.
Accordingly, NERC is planning a Field Trial during which the practice of doing Time Error Corrections will be suspended. What will this affect? We don't think it will have much affect at all, but just to be safe, we are reaching out to various industries to get their thoughts on this. Those industries include appliance manufacturers, software companies, chemical manufacturers, companies that make automation equipment, computer manufacturers, and many others.
Submission + - Trashcan for the command line (blogspot.com)
mchnz writes: "I've created collectfs — a FUSE filesystem that wraps an existing Linux directory hierarchy and collects all clobbered files into a trash directory. Collectfs provides versioned file history for development tools such as vi, make, gcc, sed, and awk by implementing trash collection at the filesystem level where it belongs."
Submission + - What if you could solve the deficit? (publicradio.org) 4
pha7boy writes: As people are wondering if Congress will ever be able to solve the budget/deficit crisis, do they understand the complexities involved in the decision making process? Alternatively, do Tea-Party-ers in Congress understand the impact of cutting programs such as education, research, or healthcare?
The Wilson Center's Science and Technology Innovation program, together with American Public Media created Budget Hero, a web game allowing players to try and balance the budget and solve the deficit problem by making policy choices. While the game might not offer ready made policy solutions, it goes a long way toward explaining the trade-offs one has to make in the quest to reduce the deficit.
The Wilson Center's Science and Technology Innovation program, together with American Public Media created Budget Hero, a web game allowing players to try and balance the budget and solve the deficit problem by making policy choices. While the game might not offer ready made policy solutions, it goes a long way toward explaining the trade-offs one has to make in the quest to reduce the deficit.
Submission + - Microsoft pays university to use Office 365 (nebraska.edu)
An anonymous reader writes: "Microsoft is providing $250,000 in Business Incentive Funds to help us migrate from Lotus Notes to Office 365. That funding will pay for some consulting and licenses to convert a large percentage of our users from Lotus Notes to Office 365. We will also use that funding to pay for a Microsoft Premier Support agreement covering email and Microsoft Office applications for the entire University. "
Submission + - Stealing My Free Code! (wordpress.com) 2
An anonymous reader writes: I recently found out that the company I used to work for is removing all the open source licenses (GPL and MIT) from my work and distributing it as proprietary software and taking all the credit despite the fact that they contributed nothing to it. They are even renaming it something really silly. What should I do?
Comment oh really (Score 1) 137
so that was what they were doing before that rocket flew overhead. "Astronomy"
