Comment Re:How will the system work? (Score 2) 455
They are probably talking about tracking your purchases probably based on some personally identifiable information (credit cards, store reward cards etc). And assume you eat what you purchase.
Comment Re:How to befuddle the TSA: (Score 1) 256
Peanut butter is a slurry: tiny solid particles suspended in a fluid phase. So is toothpaste.
Comment Re:Get a clue Big Sis (Score 1) 256
The secondary screening is done by a 350lb guy named Ivan.
Comment Re:easy to turn off as well (Score 3, Informative) 234
Speaking of Motorola, so far I haven't heard of one single phone from them that has CIQ on it. My Motorola XPRT certainly doesn't have it (I used Trevor's tools to check) nor does the Verizon equivalent (Droid Pro). More power to them.
Comment Disagree (Score 4, Insightful) 216
Mine is infinity since I don't have a facebook account.
Comment Re:Not impressive (Score 2) 154
I have used a program that did exactly that on my WinCE PDA, over 6-7 years ago.
Fedora Aims To Simplify Linux Filesystem 803
jfruhlinger writes "Even Linux's most passionate partisans will admit that its filesystem, which stashes vital files in a variety of arcane directories, can be baffling to users. The developers at the Fedora project want to cut the Gordian knot and consolidate all executables into /usr/bin and all libraries into /usr/lib or /usr/lib64. One downside: this system would conflict with the standards developed by the Linux Standard Base, or the (rarely used) Filesystem Hierarchy Standard."
Comment Re:Cheap Chinese ones are fine (Score 1) 165
I agree. I use a cheapo ($15 or so) serial port Chinese-made programmer for DIP8 I2C and SPI EEPROMs, has been working like a charm for over 2 years. Looks like this: http://i.ebayimg.com/t/Serial-Eeprom-programmer-24Cxx-93Cxx-and-25xxx-/22/!C!P6,0QBWk~$(KGrHqV,!jME0DV!UBpyBNCNme3PvQ~~_12.JPG
I believe you can find USB versions for not much more money.
Comment Re:Yay Barnes & Noble (Score 1) 241
My phone is from Motorola. My e-reader is from B&N. Not only they're good, but they're also Microsoft-patent-free. Win-win.
Flowchart Guides Readers Through the 100 Best SF Books 222
Hugh Pickens writes writes "T. N. Tobias writes that over the summer, over 60,000 people voted at NPR to select the top 100 science fiction and fantasy books of all time. The result? A list of 100 books with a wide range of styles, little context, and absolutely no pithy commentary to help readers actually choose something to read from it. Now SF Signal has come to the rescue with a 3800 x 2300 flowchart with over 325 decision points to help you find the perfect SF or Fantasy book to meet your tastes. Don't like to scroll? There's an interactive version that let's you answer a series of questions to find the perfect SF book."
Comment Hungry hungry dino (Score 1) 104
Good thing dinosaurs never discovered the properties of pot... now THAT would be a big hunger.
(or maybe they did... and went extinct)
Comment All of the above (Score 1) 417
I have all versions of Windows from 3.0 to XP in use - all in virtual machines. The ones I use the most (for testing and gaming purposes) are XP from the NT series, and Me from the 9x series. Since the virtual hardware is standardized, Me doesn't get into driver hell and is remarkably stable.
Comment Re:who killed privacy? (Score 3, Insightful) 286
it's funny that the tech industry holds some of the most privacy-concerned individuals (..)
That is only if you believe the all-caps paragraphs on all the EULAs and TOS you click through. Often the following paragraphs will contradict the bombastic declarations of commitment to privacy - on the same page.
Comment Re:Simple. (Score 1) 619
Romania is in Europe. In Romania, you pay for receiving calls on your cell phone.
What were you saying about ludicrous?
Comment Flawed reasoning (Score 1) 79
Quote from the discussion:
"The justification is simple. We're removing the Firefox version number
from all of the common user-visible locations because we don't believe
that users need to know what version they're on. We're moving to a model
that's more like the Web. What version of Gmail are you on?
We've removed it from all of our marketing materials. We're removing it
from the download button on the Website. We're removing it from how we
talk to users about Firefox. We're ending version numbers because
they're not meaningful to users (except in troubleshooting situations.)
People using Firefox do need to have confidence that they're on the
latest version, though, and that's what this feature provides. Telling
the user explicitly that Firefox has checked and that she is indeed up
to date is a much better way of letting the user know that she's up to
date than giving her a number she can compare with some other number on
a website somewhere to figure out if she's on the latest version. "
I cannot subscribe to this reasoning. There are many, many reasons why an end-user will want to know the version of Firefox he's using. For instance if he wants to avoid a certain feature present in some builds but not in others. Example: the so-called "AwesomeBar" (more of an AwfulBar if you ask me) which I had to go to extra lengths to avoid. Not everyone likes every single bit of Firefox.
