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Submission + - GNOME 3 to remove EOG and Evince. Empathy should be replaced by Chat. (heise.de)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: At Guadec 2013 Allan Day hold a speech that explains, that EOG and Evince should be removed from GNOME and that its functionalty should go inside Nautilus. Furthermore he also likes to have Empathys features being merged inside Chat. The Empathy developers decided to not become part of this. More to read at germans HEISE news.

Submission + - EFF Slams Google Fiber for Banning Servers On Its Network (hothardware.com) 3

Submitted by MojoKid
MojoKid writes: Anyone who has tried to host their own website from home likely knows all-too-well the hassles that ISPs can cause. Simply put, ISPs generally don't want you to do that, preferring you to move up to a business package (aka: more expensive). Not surprisingly, the EFF doesn't like these rules, which seem to exist only to upsell you a product. The problem, though, is that all ISPs are deliberately vague about what qualifies as a "server". Admittedly, when I hear the word "server", I think of a Web server, one that delivers a webpage when accessed. The issue is that servers exist in many different forms, so to target specific servers "just because" is ridiculous (and really, it is). Torrent clients, for example, act as servers (and clients), sometimes resulting in a hundred or more connections being established between you and available peers. With a large number of connections like that being allowed, why would a Web server be classified any different? Those who torrent a lot are very likely to be using more ISP resources than those running websites from their home — yet for some reason, ISPs force you into a bigger package when that's the kind of server you want to run. We'll have to wait and see if EFF's movement will cause any ISP to change. Of all of them, you'd think it would have been Google to finally shake things up.

Submission + - The First "Practical" Jetpack May Be on Sale in Two Years (vice.com) 1

Submitted by Daniel_Stuckey
Daniel_Stuckey writes: This week, New Zealand-based company Martin Aircraft became certified to take what it calls "the world's first practical jetpack" out for a series of manned test flights. If all goes well, the company plans to start selling a consumer version of the jetpack in 2015, starting at $150,000 to $200,000 and eventually dropping to $100,000. "For us it's a very important step because it moves it out of what I call a dream into something which I believe we're now in a position to commercialize and take forward very quickly," CEO Peter Coker told Agence France Presse .

Comment Re:I'll hold out (Score 1) 122

by dmt0 (#44544233) Attached to: Unlocked Firefox OS ZTE Open Is Now Available On eBay For For $80
Even if it's fully open, with 0 binary blobs. How many qualified specialists, with serious math background, do you think are out there looking through complex encryption functions checking through flaws in math? Ever heard of Obfuscated C Code Contests? Openness of the code does not guarantee absence of backdoors even if the code does get a lot of eyeballs looking at it.

Comment Re:"Let me just take care of that for you." (Score 2, Interesting) 303

by dmt0 (#43853493) Attached to: Google Rolling Out Gmail Redesign

You got it. It's designer-driven change for change's sake. The same problem as Gnome with Gnome3 and the same problem that MS have with Windows 8. Changes that nobody wants or needs - except bored designers.

Change for change's sake? I don't think Google is as mindless as that.

A list of emails that a person gets only says so much about the person. You don't quite control what other people are sending you - they do. On the other hand the way that you interact with your email and how you categorize and prioritize it (did you find that "mark as important" feature useful?) tells so much more about you.

Of course that feature is there only to alleviate the stress from you and stop the inbox from being your master, nothing more.

Comment Re:They are trying for fame and fortune! (Score 4, Insightful) 24

by dmt0 (#43764755) Attached to: Syrian Electronic Army Hits Financial Times Sites, Feeds
"Syrian Electronic Army Was Here"

Is that all they've got? I mean last time a twitter account of Associated Press was hacked, just one post from it caused a flash crash on the markets with HUGE amounts of money changing hands:
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-04-23/twitter-hack-compete-evaporation-all-market-liquidity-one-chart

And these guys are posting "Syrian Electronic Army Was Here"??

Comment Re:Yeesh (Score 4, Interesting) 118

by dmt0 (#43643715) Attached to: The Body's "Fountain of Youth" Could Lie In the Brain
In yogic tradition the location of hypothalamus coincides with what is known as bindu visarga. From that point emanates amrita, which is roughly translated as the nectar of immortality. It is considered that it flows downward from that point and gets consumed by the digestive system. Certain techniques, usually involving inverted body position, reverse the flow of amrita, which can than get assimilated by the body.

http://www.satyananda.net/articles/introduction-to-kriya-yoga

Submission + - Has Lego Sold Out?

Submitted by
Hugh Pickens writes
Hugh Pickens writes writes: "Matt Richtel and Jesse McKinley write in the NY Times that for generations of American children, Legos were the ultimate do-it-yourself plaything. Little plastic bricks, with scant instructions, just add imagination. But today’s construction sets are often tied to billion-dollar franchises like “Star Wars” and “Lord of the Rings” and invite users to follow detailed directions, not construct their own creations from whole brick. It’s less open-ended, some parents and researchers say, and more like paint-by-numbers. “When I was a kid, you got a big box of bricks and that was it,” says Tracy Bagatelle-Black. “What stinks about Lego sets now is that they’re not imaginative at all.” Lego loyalists are quick to defend the company. Josh Wedin, the managing editor of the Brothers Brick, a Lego blog, called complaints that they are less creative “simply ridiculous,” adding that Legos always included some instructions, though he says he misses the alternative designs that used to be on the back of the box. But Clifford Nass, a sociology professor at Stanford University who studies how people relate to the physical world versus the virtual world, says some essential qualities were lost when Lego became more like other toys. “The genius of Lego was, you had to do the work.” Learning about frustration, Nass says, “is a hugely important thing.”"

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