Comment Re:People stopped using Telnet? (Score 3, Funny) 238
That's easy play. I surf the web by licking the ethernet cable.
Submission + - Blocking child porn sites "exacerbates problem" (pcpro.co.uk)
Barence writes: Handing the responsibility of shutting down child porn sites to web firms and watchdogs removes any incentive for police to investigate the crimes, according to a European digital rights group. It cited the UK's Internet Watch Foundation as an example of the Government passing the buck.
"The IWF is a system that has taken on a life of its own,” EDRI's EU advocacy co-ordinator Joe McNamee told PC Pro. “It's an extra-judicial system that leads to websites being blocked. That doesn't stop the abuse from taking place. The Government is happy with a system where it can show activity in this important policy area without necessarily having to devote significant resources to the problem."
"The IWF is a system that has taken on a life of its own,” EDRI's EU advocacy co-ordinator Joe McNamee told PC Pro. “It's an extra-judicial system that leads to websites being blocked. That doesn't stop the abuse from taking place. The Government is happy with a system where it can show activity in this important policy area without necessarily having to devote significant resources to the problem."
Comment Re:what the.... (Score 2) 2254
Lucky you. I'm stuck with a 2 GHz Celeron and 768 megs of RAM at work, and the site is barely usable on Chrome. When I try to scroll down with the mouse wheel it actually takes two or three seconds to do anything.
Slashdot Launches Re-Design 2254
Today we are pleased to announce the launch of the third major re-design in our 13.5 year history, and I don't think it looks half bad.
The new theme represents a serious gutting of the underlying HTML and CSS, as well as all-new graphics. There will be many design wiggles, bug squashes, and compatibility glitches that survived testing, so bear with us for a bit.
Please direct your bug reports and feedback (good and bad!) to Garrett Woodworth who is currently
in charge of such things.
Thanks to him, Wes, Vlad, Dean, Phil and Tim, who have each worked hard to get this out the door. Juggling the needs of users, editors, and various business functions is a hard job, and you guys did good.
Submission + - Google acknowledges Nexus S failure on long calls (phonearena.com)
alx5000 writes: "Not that long after Apple's iPhone 4 Antennagate, it's now Google's turn to remind us how smartphones are increasingly more "smart" and less "phone": a failure on the new Nexus S makes the phone reboot mid-call mostly during calls longer that 3 minutes, but even during shorter ones. If this turns to be a software problem, things could get hairy, with Gingerbread for the rest of Android terminals just around the corner."
Comment Re:Obligatory South Park (Score 1) 785
Oh I know, we should just ban texting while swimming from dolphins...
Comment No. (Score 1) 332
Tactile feedback rocks. Touch screen can't replicate that very well. I don't know of anyone who can accurately touch-type on a touch screen (heh, see what I did there?).
Comment Re:2.2250738585072011e-308 (Score 1) 213
1.112537e-308 ought to be enough for anybody.
First PlayStation 3 Custom Firmware Created 269
Stoobalou writes "Hot on the heels of the discovery of the the PlayStation 3 private root key, and its subsequent leakage by iPhone hacker Geohot, the first custom firmware for the formerly impenetrable console has been released. A code wrangler known only as Kakaroto reckons he has created the world's first custom firmware for the popular console — although if you're expecting it to help you play pirated games, you might be a little disappointed."
Submission + - Microsoft Patents the 'Record' Button (conceivablytech.com)
An anonymous reader writes: You have to appreciate that Microsoft pays attention to what may be rather trivial products and slaps a patent on them. In this latest wave of approved patents — the U.S. Patent and Trademark office granted 35 Microsoft patents to Microsoft today — is the right to claim the 'record' button. This is not just your average record button. It is a record button in every conceivable form, on a computer, grouped with other buttons or standalone, with light or without lights, on a keyboard or not. In all seriousness — do we really need such patents?
Comment Re:The thing with ASCII (Score 1) 728
Actually I use a Finnish/Swedish keyboard and speak Finnish. I am well aware of different keyboard layouts with accents or special characters. However, even those share most of the keys with an US English keyboard layout.
A keyboard with a-z, the usual punctuation marks, and possibly a few accented or umlaut characters is and will be the de facto keyboard unless we start replacing normal text with unicode characters. Until that day (which I hope never comes!), you'd have to use a seperate keyboard for programming on this unicode programming language. And as already said on this thread, they tried it with APL and it failed horribly.
Comment The thing with ASCII (Score 5, Insightful) 728
The thing with ASCII is that it's easy to write on standard keyboards, and does not require a specialized layout.
Once someone can cram the necessary unicode symbols into a keyboard so that I don't have to remember arcane meta-codes or fiddle with pressing five different dead keys to get one symbol, I'm all for it.
Ubuntu Moves Away From GNOME 514
An anonymous reader writes "It's official: Ubuntu has, with its ironically named 'Unity' interface, chosen to move away from GNOME for Ubuntu Natty Narwhal. Or at least move away from GNOME Shell. Mark Shuttleworth says that Ubuntu will still be 'GNOME,' even if it's not using GNOME Shell. Do you agree?"
Comment Re:Lots of versions (Score 1) 292
I see the appeal of google's choice though - it keeps things simple. "What version are you on?" "3.6.10"... ? Isn't easier to just call it 5?
Oh right, that must be why my Chrome is at version 7.0.517.41...
Submission + - All Your Stonehenge Photos Belong To England (techdirt.com)
An anonymous reader writes: English Heritage, the organization that runs and manages various historical sites in the UK, such as Stonehenge, has apparently sent letters to various photo sharing and stock photo sites claiming that any photo of Stonehenge that is being sold violates its rights, and only English Heritage can get commercial benefit from such photos. In fact, they're asking for all money made from such photos, stating: "all commercial interest to sell images must be directed to English Heritage." As one recipient noted, this seems odd, given that English Heritage has only managed Stonehenge "for 27 of the monument's 4,500 year old history."
