Comment Really? (Score 1) 969
The US's been preparing for this kind of war? Van Riper says it bosh.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2002/aug/21/usa.julianborger
Comment Pixi (Score 1) 137
Palm Pixi had a damn good design, never mind the OS. Woulda brought it if it had lasted long enough to get launched in India.
Comment Apple rolls, others stumble and skid.. (Score 1) 204
Why does everything named Apple look so smooth and polished while other tech companies seem to be in a perpetual mess? Apple makes great products, makes great comebacks, settles even lawsuits suavely. Used to admire Google, but they are no longer the style statement they used to be.
Oracle is of course, to a tech illiterate hackernews-reading wannabe, a patent troll.
Comment Printing press.. (Score 1) 628
Printing press cost the job of those monks who copied, illuminated and bound manuscripts. Fie on you, Gutenberg.
Turning Your E-Reader Into a Cheap Tablet 193
grahamsaa writes "NPR's Weekend Edition aired a story today on how rooting the Nook Color can turn it into a full fledged and relatively inexpensive Android tablet. The story claims that the process takes about half an hour, and only requires the purchase of a Nook and a microSD card, and points listeners to a YouTube tutorial on how to root the device. Could this signal a change in how mainstream users see devices like this? Could rooting Android devices like the Nook ever become mainstream?" We ran a story about this in December, and I haven't seen a flood of hacked readers anywhere so I doubt that tablet makers have anything to worry about.
Submission + - Friends Don't Let Geek Friends Do Finance
theodp writes: If Vivek Wadhwa remade Pinocchio, instead of The Coachman luring naughty boys to Pleasure Island to engage in mischievous behavior and be transformed into donkeys, you might find Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd C. Blankfein luring bright engineering grads to Wall Street to, well, engage in mischievous behavior and be transformed into, well, asses. While the practice of poaching engineering talent slowed after the economy tanked in 2008, Wadhwa is dismayed to report that thanks to hundred-billion-dollar taxpayer bailouts, investment banks have recovered and gone back to their old, greedy ways, snagging engineering grads who might otherwise solve the world's problems, making them financial offers they can't refuse, and morphing them into quants, investment bankers and management consultants. 'Not only are the investment banks siphoning off hundreds of billions of dollars from our economy with financial gimmicks like CDOs,' writes Wadhwa, 'they are using our best engineering graduates [25% of MIT grads in '06] to help them do it. This is the talent that our country has invested so much resource in producing.' He concludes: 'Let's save the world by keeping our engineers out of finance. We need them to, instead, develop new types of medical devices, renewable energy sources, and ways for sustaining the environment and purifying water, and to start companies that help America keep its innovative edge.' Amen, but how 'ya gonna keep 'em down on the Engineering farm after they've seen Wall Street?
Expensify CEO On 'Why We Won't Hire .NET Developers'
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TheGrapeApe writes "The CEO of San Francisco-based, VC-backed startup Expensify wrote a post on the company's blog about why he considers .NET experience on a resume a general liability, saying that it will 'definitely raise questions' when screening for developers in his shop. Quoting: '.NET is a dandy language. It's modern, it's fancy, it's got all the bells and whistles. And if you're doing Windows Mobile 7 apps (which the stats suggest you aren't), it's your only choice. But choosing .NET is a choice, and whenever anybody does it, I can't help but ask "why?"' Does he have a point? Or is it counterproductive to screen devs out based on what platforms or languages they have used in the past?"
Comment sad/happy (Score 1) 228
Am I supposed to feel happy that I can preserve my privacy or should I feel sad that FBI is reduced to complaining about its own incompetence and asking to be spoon fed?
Submission + - Ths Arizona Governor Sues the US Government (militaryringinfo.com)
Anonymous Coward writes: "The governor of Arizona is fed up with illegals crossing into that state and even more so by the federal governments attempts to get the Enforcement Immigration Law which Arizona has passed nullified.
Arizona is the main corridor for illegals who cross into the US from Mexico and also for dope smugglers. As a result their border with Mexico seems to be out of control. Dope smugglers are fighting a territorial war over this area because it is such a popular route for smuggling drugs and people into the United States.
She in essence is filing a counter suit against the government because of the confrontation with the Arizona law. She is saying by filing the suit that the federal government needs to do more to help secure the Arizona border. They need to have a better plan to assist the State if they are going to interfere in State business. I can agree in principal to this line of reasoning. If the federal government is going to restrict the States doing what they have to do to maintain order then they need to offer an alternative.
I say that we can use our military ring customers to help us to control our borders. They can help out here at home just like they do in other countries who don’t even appreciate our presence."
Arizona is the main corridor for illegals who cross into the US from Mexico and also for dope smugglers. As a result their border with Mexico seems to be out of control. Dope smugglers are fighting a territorial war over this area because it is such a popular route for smuggling drugs and people into the United States.
She in essence is filing a counter suit against the government because of the confrontation with the Arizona law. She is saying by filing the suit that the federal government needs to do more to help secure the Arizona border. They need to have a better plan to assist the State if they are going to interfere in State business. I can agree in principal to this line of reasoning. If the federal government is going to restrict the States doing what they have to do to maintain order then they need to offer an alternative.
I say that we can use our military ring customers to help us to control our borders. They can help out here at home just like they do in other countries who don’t even appreciate our presence."
Comment Re:is china a school bully or a professional kille (Score 1) 208
Hurmm. But the Chinese would know that, wouldn't they? But then if you are gonna do something like this, there is risk involved. A school bully is rash, while a pro takes calculated risks. So which is China?
Submission + - Ask Slashdot 1
cbytes writes: "So I received a spam email today that acts as if I sent a dirty message to someone and the message I'm getting is the reply. I look it up and it is a virus they attached, so no biggie, it's just spam, right? Well the kicker is that the email address it has in the To: column isn't my email address. It lands in my email but it's addressed to a sopris.net address I never had. So how does it say it's to sopris.net, but end up in my inbox??"
Comment is china a school bully or a professional killer? (Score 1) 208
Either China is the next superpower whose superiority is backed by superb cyber offense capability, or one of these days their "victims" are gonna expose their hubris and gonna send them(China) back to IT stone age.
Chinese were quick off the blocks as regards information warfare
Add to that their military doctrine is about hiding their strength, obscurity et al. So if they are attacking and not bothering to hide, hmmm.. What are they upto?
Submission + - Woman uses soup ladle to stop a tiger (bbc.co.uk)
Submission + - Protests in Iran against the Islamic Regime (voanews.com)
surfslasher writes: News from reporter Reza Sayah says: 7p Tehran witness — crowds swell to 10s of thousands — walk quietly towards Azadi sq. #iran #25bahman #cnn #iranelection
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