Comment Re:I Wonder? (Score 1) 310
Start screen --> app bar --> all apps
Comment Re:Couldn't they just arrest the students? (Score 1) 289
Comment Re:Anonymous is against scientists now? (Score 2) 333
anarchists != Anonymous.
Where in TFA does it mention anonymous?
Where in TFA does it mention anonymous?
Comment Re:Privacy issue in Europe (Score 2) 684
The European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) has warned that smart meters, which must be introduced into every home in the UK within the next seven years, will be used to track much more than energy consumption unless proper safeguards are introduced.
Submission + - Google Highlights Censored Search Terms in China (itworld.com) 1
itwbennett writes: "Responding to complaints from Chinese Googlers that the search engine is 'inconsistent and unreliable,' Google has updated its service to help users steer clear of search queries that will result in page errors. Google will now highlight characters and phrases that are likely to 'break' a user's connection. 'By prompting people to revise their queries, we hope to reduce these disruptions and improve our user experience from mainland China,' the company said in a blog post."
Comment Re:"Java scripts" (Score 1) 124
And by "this plugin" I mean "this feature." My apologies for being stupid.
Comment Correction (Score 0) 426
Adobe Releases Last NPAPI Linux Version of Flash Player.
It'll be usable on non-Chrome browsers once they get their heads out of the sand and implement Pepper.
Keep up or get left behind. :)
It'll be usable on non-Chrome browsers once they get their heads out of the sand and implement Pepper.
Keep up or get left behind.
Comment Re:To read it, you say? (Score 2) 148
Blu-Ray is an optical medium. Hard drives are magnetic. The use of lasers in writing is unusual. They use the lasers to flip magnetic bits. The lasers can't simply be shined onto a bit and then have light deflected in one of two directions depending on the data stored.
Comment Re:Yay! if they figure out 2 read da stuff, we'r g (Score 1) 148
Those two activities are generally not limited by disk access speed.
Comment Re:I think the bigger news here is... (Score 5, Interesting) 330
Wikipedia does too.
Comment Re:Make it send data to you (Score 1) 360
The problem with that is that the user can't provide information like what they were doing when the crash happened or what the expected behavior was.
For uncaught exceptions, sending a stacktrace could be helpful. Depending on the language, though, there might not be exception handling - just crashes.
Comment Re:Why not treat web pages as loss leaders? (Score 1) 373
Just playing the devil's advocate here, but wasn't the Internet in the 70s-80s more of an experiment with far fewer users than it has today?
Comment Re:Javaception (Score 5, Informative) 234
It doesn't implement that much of the standard JVM.
Comment Re:Raise taxes NOW! (Score 0) 99
I agree, but this isn't really the place to post that.
Comment Re:well.. (Score 1) 157
It's a bash/similar shells command.
Theoretically, it can work on almost any OS.
