Comment Re:Objective-C (Score 2) 254
Now that's why I need a Cinema Display so that it can all fit on one line.
Comment Re: So... (Score 1) 341
Here is another novel idea: why not teach the basis of grammatical analysis and etymology in school instead?
Comment 9TB for Crushing weak passwords (Score 1) 41
I'll take that with a grain of salt. Thank you.
Comment Call the N S A (Score 1) 128
Call the NSA. He is obviously trying to aid the enemy.
He even hid his terrorist training equipment in his son bedroom. What a horrible father. Take his son away! Think of the children!
Comment Welcome to the new Slashdot (Score 1) 412
Slashdot : Fox News for Herds. Stuff that mattered.
Comment Half of the success is a good name (Score 5, Funny) 341
Of course, it would travel well with a name like 'Voyager'.
It is not like we had called it Phobos-Grunt. I mean, come on, phobos means 'fear' in Greek. And grunt, well, that just does not sound good.
Comment Re:Let me be the first to say (Score 1) 627
I think it is mostly unreadable because it was written on a tablet, case closed.
That, or it was written on a laptop, lid closed.
Comment Re:Somebody should tell us what this really means (Score 3, Interesting) 136
It means that Oracle controls Java on embedded devices. Google can not take Harmony and have it run its Java apps in the next Android OS. Instead, Google has to say Pretty Please to Oracle first, and then buy the binary or source code license from them.
Comment Re:Remains unbelievable (Score 4, Insightful) 1306
What is unbelievable is that Americans criticize fundamentalism in Muslim countries but they do not see the bigotry in their own culture.
So much for pretending to have the moral high ground.
US Antitrust Judge Examining Windows 7 Documents 225
Anonymous writes "After more than 11 years, the US antitrust case involving Microsoft is still alive, with a federal judge overseeing enforcement of provisions under which the software giant must operate. And now, Judge Kollar-Kotelly says she'll take a close look at new technical documents involving Windows 7. This case began during the Windows 95 era."
Comment Mind your French (Score -1, Offtopic) 326
"Et tu?" is not correct French. "Et toi?" is.
"tu" must always come with a verb.
"tu" must always come with a verb.
Submission + - Keylogger Hardware Embedded in New Dell Laptop (virus.org.ua)
kendbluze writes: "Here's an EE who was doing a simple repair to a nearly-new Dell 600m laptop when he noticed something a bit curious. Turns out he found a hardware keylogger sitting between the keyboard and ethernet controllers! See what Homeland Security didn't have to say about it."
Submission + - Switzerland bans the use of GPS units in cars.
An anonymous reader writes: If you're traveling with a GPS in your car to Switzerland, be very careful! As of January 10th, the Swiss authorities (ASTRA) have forbid the use of GPS systems in cars. They also banned the selling of car GPS units throughout the country.
The reason is that the software running on these devices reveal the location of traffic radars, through which less people have been fined in the recent years and thus Swiss authorities miss a lot of money. The controversial ban has been created a large commotion inside and outside the country, forcing the authorities to put an official document online [pdf — in Germans], with answers to most frequently asked questions.
GPS devices such as TomTom, Garmin, Mio, Navman, Medion, Route 66, Packard stand Ring, Sony and ViaMichelin are all in the banned list.
The reason is that the software running on these devices reveal the location of traffic radars, through which less people have been fined in the recent years and thus Swiss authorities miss a lot of money. The controversial ban has been created a large commotion inside and outside the country, forcing the authorities to put an official document online [pdf — in Germans], with answers to most frequently asked questions.
GPS devices such as TomTom, Garmin, Mio, Navman, Medion, Route 66, Packard stand Ring, Sony and ViaMichelin are all in the banned list.
Submission + - Top 5 Technical drawbacks of the iPhone
morpheus83 writes: "Steve Jobs has high hopes for the iPhone and plans to capture 1 % of the mobile phone market which may seems small but it is not as 1 billion handsets were sold last year which would mean 10 million iPhones. But the iPhone does have some technical drawbacks from battery life to memory as Newlaunches points out."
Submission + - Nice List of iPhone Problems
An anonymous reader writes: The Mac fanboy site roughlydrafted.com has just released a post listing ten of the iPhones biggest problems (referred to as "myths"). It has the usual anti-microsoft, anti-palm and anti-cisco comments, but seems to be quite an accurate and complete list of how the iPhone is broken and what ridiculous explanation one might think of to defend it.
Myth Eight: An integrated battery is a significant problem for users
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Having an extra battery to swap in makes sense on a laptop, but does not make sense for a phone, particularly one that has standard external battery packs that can be used via its dock connector.
