Comment There's no debate (Score 4, Insightful) 267
Why should there be a debate? If you like one of them, use it. Otherwise, try XFCE, LXDE, Enlightenment, Ratpoison or whatever suits you.
Comment Re:Fewer left turns? (Score 1) 363
Aye! The good old times! I still miss the polite habit of throwing the oncoming traffic out of the saddle with a lance...
Comment The other way around (Score 1) 116
I would very much rather take the loop out of the lawyer.
Comment Man-in-the-street translation (Score 1) 273
"We need workers that have as much rights as machines, make us money, but are never in the way, and require no maintenance"
Well, you can't have both. Either you are a non-profit organisation that facilitates people doing something for each other, or you are a for-profit employer with employees. Uber seems to think that the term "sharing economy" means that everybody "shares" their money towards Uber itself.
OCZ Toshiba Breaks 40 Cent Per GB Barrier With New Trion 100 Series SSD 144
MojoKid writes: OCZ is launching a brand new series of solid state drives today, dubbed the Trion 100. Not only are they the first drives from the company to use TLC NAND, but they're also the first to use all in-house Toshiba technology with the drive's Flash memory and controller both designed and built by Toshiba. That controller is paired to A19nm Toshiba TLC NAND Flash memory and a Nanya DDR3 DRAM cache. Details are scarce on the Toshiba TC58 controller but it does support Toshiba's QSBC (Quadruple Swing-By Correction — a Toshiba proprietary error correction technology) and the drives have a bit of SLC cache to boost write performance in bursts and increase endurance. The OCZ Trion 100 series is targeted at budget conscious consumers and users still contemplating the upgrade from a standard hard drive. As such, they're not barn-burners in the benchmarking department, but performance is still good overall and a huge upgrade over any HDD. Pricing is going to be very competitive as well, at under .40 per GiB for capacities of 240GB, 480GB and 960GB and .50 per GiB for the smallest 120GB drive.
Comment Re: Very finance specific (Score 1) 217
Envious much?
No. I just want a sane society. A society based on cooperation is easier than one based on abuse. I don't want to be a slave, but I don't want slaves myself either. I just want slavery to stop. No, I do not follow.
Comment Ternary sector (Score 1) 87
Inspired by Douglas Adams, there will be a space program to send everyone from the UK into space. In three space craft. We send the ternary sector first...
UK May Send More People Into Space 87
sciencehabit writes: A few months ahead of the first visit by a U.K. astronaut to the International Space Station (ISS), the U.K. Space Agency has published its first strategy on human spaceflight, promising greater involvement in crewed missions and perhaps even participation in a mission out into the solar system. Following a public consultation and lengthy discussions across government, the new strategy, published yesterday, concludes that continued involvement in the ISS and other programs is the best way to involve U.K. scientists and industry in human spaceflight. The document says the government will consider bilateral projects with other space agencies but fears always being the junior partner since the United Kingdom has no launchers or space stations. It does not think that the commercial launch industry is sufficiently mature for the United Kingdom to buy services commercially. The report also states: 'The Agency will also consider its role in human exploration missions beyond Earth orbit, especially where this complements science and technology goals for robotic exploration.'
Comment Very finance specific (Score 4, Interesting) 217
a 60-year-old entrepreneur who made himself a fortune on Wall Street
The con, sorry, finance industry is one of the few areas where sane thinking only leads to people jumping ship instead of production. In real professions, you'd better know what you are talking about.
I always wonder how anyone with more than a half brain cell can work in the finance industry and still look at himself in the mirror each morning.
Comment Re: Yeah, software developers. (Score 1) 431
Yes, but at least they screw themselves now instead of being raped by foreigners.
Firefox 39 Released, Bringing Security Improvements and Social Sharing 172
An anonymous reader writes: Today Mozilla announced the release of Firefox 39.0, which brings an number of minor improvements to the open source browser. (Full release notes.) They've integrated Firefox Share with Firefox Hello, which means that users will be able to open video calls through links sent over social media. Internally, the browser dropped support for the insecure SSLv3 and disabled use of RC4 except where explicitly whitelisted. The SafeBrowsing malware detection now works for downloads on OS X and Linux. (Full list of security changes.) The Mac OS X version of Firefox is now running Project Silk, which makes animations and scrolling noticeably smoother. Developers now have access to the powerful Fetch API, which should provide a better interface for grabbing things over a network.
Comment Re:Same price for Windows 7 and Windows 8. (Score 1) 172
As a Greek, you're paying for someone else's money anyway.
There, fixed that for you.
People Are Obtaining Windows 7 Licenses For the Free Windows 10 Upgrade 172
jones_supa writes: Windows 7 has quickly started increasing its market share of desktop operating systems, nearing 61%. If you're wondering why this is happening when Windows 10 is almost here, the reason is this: Windows 10 will be available as a free upgrade for those running Windows 7 and 8, and the new OS will have the exact same hardware requirements as its predecessor, so the majority of PCs should be able to run it just as well. Because Windows 7 was launched in 2009, a license is more affordable than for Windows 8, so many users are switching to this version to take advantage of the Windows 10 free upgrade offer.
Comment Re:Why not just buy a few secondhand off Ebay? (Score 1) 66
Because those machines are just as old and therefore come with just as dry capacitors?
Submission + - MIT's Bitcoin-Inspired 'Enigma' Lets Computers Mine Encrypted Data (wired.com)
Guy Zyskind writes: On Tuesday, a pair of bitcoin entrepreneurs and the MIT Media Lab revealed a prototype for a system called Enigma, designed to achieve a decades-old goal in data security known as “homomorphic” encryption: A way to encrypt data such that it can be shared with a third party and used in computations without it ever being decrypted. That mathematical trick—which would allow untrusted computers to accurately run computations on sensitive data without putting the data at risk of hacker breaches or surveillance—has only become more urgent in an age when millions of users constantly share their secrets with cloud services ranging from Amazon and Dropbox to Google and Facebook. Now, with bitcoin’s tricks in their arsenal, Enigma’s creators say they can now pull off homomorphically encrypted computations more efficiently than ever.
