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Submission + - Users petition Lenovo to remove vendor-lockin from the BIOS (change.org)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: A petition has circulated online which is nearing a thousand signatures that seeks to challenge vendor-lockin at the BIOS level. Lenovo is one of a select few laptop vendors that has always whitelisted their mini-PCIE and NGFF cards. Every card must be approved by Lenovo or the BIOS will force the user to remove the card. The users are demanding that Lenovo release a BIOS which has the option to opt-out of that whitelist.

This whitelist prevents users from doing things like upgrading their wifi cards.

Submission + - Brian Stevens Resigns as Red Hat CTO to pursue New Opportunity (eweek.com)

Submitted by darthcamaro
darthcamaro writes: Since November of 2001, Brian Stevens has been the CTO of Red Hat but as of August 28 that's no longer the case. Under Stevens' tenure, Red Hat transformed its business, adding Red Hat Enterprise Linux, acquiring JBoss, Qumranet, Gluster and Ceph as well as joining (and now leading) the OpenStack Foundation. So why did he leave? No official word, but apparently it is to purse a new opportunity that Stevens just could not pass up.

Submission + - 'The Internet of Things' Is a Lot of Hype (dice.com)

Submitted by Nerval's Lobster
Nerval's Lobster writes: Recently, Gartner analysts declared the “Internet of Things” (or IoT) to be at the “Peak of Inflated Expectations,” trumping even the completely overblown “Big Data.” The technology industry is, unfortunately, driven by bright shiny objects, and venture capitalists are subject to a herd mentality, always looking for the next big thing... and that next big thing is The Internet of Things. But as Silicon Valley veteran Miko Matsumura describes in this column, there's just one problem: 'There’s already an Internet of Things it’s called the Internet.' Yes, he argues, the development of IPv6 allows for a radically expanded address space for more devices. But the shift to IPv6 can hardly be considered a radical shift to enable the emergence of a new Internet, either 2.0 or one made up of 'things': 'There may be some method to all this madness, but it requires considerable discernment to know the difference between a fundamental technological advance and one of these trend bandwagons.' Do you agree?

Submission + - How the World's Fastest Electric Car Is Pushing Wireless Charging Tech

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: With the first ever season of Formula E revving up in China next month, it's clear there’s more to electric cars than Tesla. But the race cars hitting the track in Beijing don’t have anything on the speed of Drayson Racing Technology's Lola B12 69/EV, which holds the record for the world’s fastest lightweight electric car, and which uses the kind of power technologies that could one day have applications off the track too—like charging your phone wirelessly.

Submission + - Canada tops list of most science-literate countries (theglobeandmail.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: A recent survey of scientific education and attitudes showed the Canadian population to have the highest level of scientific literacy in the world, as well as the fewest reservations about the direction of scientific progress (full report). A key factor is a high level of scientific knowledge among the general population (despite comparatively low numbers of people employed in STEM fields). Another is a higher level of comfort with choosing rationality over religious belief — only 25% of Canadians surveyed agreed with the statement "We depend too much on science and not enough on faith", as opposed to 55% in the U.S. and 38% in the E.U.

I also wonder if the vaunted Canadian healthcare system plays a role. When advances in medical science are something you automatically expect to benefit from personally if you need them, they look a lot better than when you have to scramble just to cover your bills for what we have now.

Submission + - Man Loses Half His Skull, Surgeons Repair it to Look Normal with 3D Printed Mesh (3dprint.com)

Submitted by ErnieKey
ErnieKey writes: Surgeons in China have performed surgery this morning on a man who had suffered a severe head injury 10 months ago. After the accident, he was left with a huge portion of his skull and brain missing. Unable to go into public because of people calling him names such as "Half Headman", and after losing his ability to speak and write, something had to be done. Thanks to a donation by a company called Stryker, in the US, surgeons were able to take a scan of the mans head, and 3D print a titanium mesh that has been inserted between the his scalp and brain. Doctors expect the man to return to normal, in both appearance and brain function because of this new technology.

Submission + - Porn viewing habits by operating system (pornhub.com)

Submitted by cccc828
cccc828 writes: The porn network PornHub released interesting statistics (beside the URL, safe for work). According to their data Windows dominates the desktop porn market (85.5% compared to 10.9 for OS X and 1.7 for Linux), Android dominates smart phones (48.34% to 40.60% for iOS) and iOS dominates the tablet market (77.38% to 21.50% for Android). They also take a look at game consoles and even list each OS' favorite porn star and search terms. It is interesting to note that Linux seems to be particularly popular with Indian users.

Comment Re:What's a reboot? (Score 1) 252

by FilmedInNoir (#47646587) Attached to: <em>Babylon 5</em> May Finally Get a Big-Screen Debut
From Lost I learned to fear the name Damon Lindelof. Anything he "writes" is just a trail mix of tropes with Christian mythos on top.
Examples: Lost; plot elements get introduced but then never explained or removed if they interfere with the new ones. The entire show ends in a church because the island is Heaven see... The smoke monster was Satan and the polar bear was John the Baptist..... No it's just shit. He re-wrote the script for Prometheus and by that I mean he changed a few hings so it didn't make any sense. Remember the nerd rage because they could of had that alien base on the same planet that Ripley landed on because that would of made sense and connected the two movies visually. Nope, fuck that, this is a new type of alien it's not even related to those Giger ones. Or is it? Nope it's not. HA HA suck it loyal fans of the original movie. Also it goes by fast but the scientist says the alien on the floor has been dead for 2000 years. So something happened on Earth ~2000 years ago that made them want to kill all live on Earth.... Jebus was an Engineer?

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