Comment Re:What would you do if you had a million dollars? (Score 1) 152
I'll tell you what I'd do, man: 10 internet connections at the same time, man.
'cause chicks dig dudes with 10 internet connections at the same time.
Submission + - TSA Petition is back up! (whitehouse.gov)
An anonymous reader writes: The TSA petition that was taken down last Thursday (http://politics.slashdot.org/story/12/08/12/1521240/white-house-pulls-down-tsa-petition) has been recreated. Your help is needed to sign and push the petition back to its former glory.
Submission + - Could you hack into Mars rover Curiosity? (extremetech.com)
MrSeb writes: "NASA’s Curiosity rover has now been on the surface of Mars for just over a week. It hasn’t moved an inch after landing, instead focusing on orienting itself (and NASA’s scientists) by taking instrument readings and snapping images of its surroundings. The first beautiful full-color images of Gale Crater are starting to trickle in, and NASA has already picked out some interesting rock formations that it will investigate further in the next few days (pictures below). Over the weekend and continuing throughout today, however, Curiosity is attempting something very risky indeed: A firmware upgrade. This got me thinking: If NASA can transmit new software to a Mars rover that's hundreds of millions of miles away... why can't a hacker do the same thing? In short, there's no reason a hacker couldn't take control of Curiosity, or lock NASA out. All you would need is your own massive 230-foot dish antenna and a 400-kilowatt transmitter — or, perhaps more realistically, you could hack into NASA's computer systems, which is exactly what Chinese hackers did 13 times in 2011."
Submission + - Creating a school computer lab with Ubuntu for $0 (ifixit.org) 1
An anonymous reader writes: Here is an interesting story of a school in Oakland that used old computers running Ubuntu and OpenOffice.org to provide a school computer lab for students.
Comment Recommended reading (Score 1) 523
Comment Helvetica FTW (Score 4, Funny) 158
"Yo, Baskerville, I'm really happy for you, and Imma let you finish, but I just got to say Helvetica is one of the best fonts of all time."
Comment Re:Yeah, but how do you measure 'Quality' (Score 2) 349
There are ways to determine quality. One pretty standard way is to count the number of bugs found during testing each phase of development (design, coding, unit test, product test, integration tests and after its in production).
Those can be valuable metrics, but finding and fixing a lot of bugs can't improve the innate quality of the item under development/test. In other words, you can't test quality into the product.
Comment Do they discuss.... (Score 1, Funny) 242
... security measures at these all-hands meetings?
http://techcrunch.com/2012/07/12/yahoo-confirms-apologizes-for-the-email-hack-says-still-fixing-plus-check-if-you-were-impacted-non-yahoo-accounts-apply/
http://techcrunch.com/2012/07/12/yahoo-confirms-apologizes-for-the-email-hack-says-still-fixing-plus-check-if-you-were-impacted-non-yahoo-accounts-apply/
Comment Go for the trifecta (Score 1) 268
Eat Burger King, wash it down with Pepsi, and use non-BT wifi...
Comment Re:Successful ad campaign is successful (Score 1) 244
but if apple had filmed a turd for 20 seconds and published that as an official advert it would have the highest viewcount on youtube - however I really doubt that would mean it's a successful advert for them in building of their brand image.
People would have said they liked the new fully cornerless design and swirly textures. Brown is obviously the new white (or black) and you have to be impressed by the new smell feedback technology. It's soft and warm to the touch as well, making it comfortable to hold.
I mis-read "cornerless" as "corn-less."
Submission + - Mexican hotel chain outsources IT to US (computerworld.com)
cweditor writes: Grupo Posadas has five data centers supporting more than 100 hotels and other lines of business, but it's moving almost all of those operations to a service provider in Texas. Could cloud service providers help the US become a destination for tech outsourcing instead of an exporter of tech jobs? One stumbling block: The US finds itself on the receiving end of protectionist legislation in other countries that discourages use of non-domestic IT service providers, says the Information Technology & Innovation Foundation.
Submission + - Apple refuses to carry eBook that mentions Amazon (hollylisle.com)
nam37 writes: Apple’s digital stores are known for their strict policies and painful approval processes; even the slightest error can get an author’s work barred from the company’s ecosystem. In a rather frightening story, author Holly Lisle, who is known for her online writing guides, described her recent conflict with Apple. Lisle’s latest book, “How To Think Sideways Lesson 6: How To Discover (Or Create) Your Story’s Market,” was rejected from the Cupertino-based company’s iBook store because it contained “live links” to an Amazon website. After the author removed the links, however, Apple rejected the title once more, telling her that the company wouldn’t sell her book because it mentioned an Apple competitor. As a result of Apple’s actions, Lisle has pulled all of her work from the iBooks store and no longer recommends the service.
Submission + - Apple's Mountain Lion: Three million downloads in 4 Days (pcr-online.biz)
YokimaSun writes: Apple just seem to be unstoppable at the moment with the release of Mountain Lion which is by far most successful OS X release in Apple’s history. Mountain Lion boasts over 200 new features including iCloud integration, AirPlay Mirroring, system-wide sharing, and soon Facebook Integration which will come in a later update. The upgrade price of $19.99 also has a massive bearing on why its so popular. Just a shame that Macbooks are so heavily priced.
Submission + - Apollo Moon flags still standing, images show (bbc.co.uk)
TheNextCorner writes: "Images taken by a Nasa spacecraft show that the American flags planted in the Moon's soil by Apollo astronauts are mostly still standing.
Each of the Apollo missions planted an American flag in the soil at their landing sites.
Scientists had previously examined photos of the Apollo landing sites for the flags, and had seen what looked like shadows cast by them on the lunar surface.
Now, researchers have studied photos of the landing sites taken at different points during the day (and under different illuminations) and have observed shadows circling the points where the flags are thought to be."
Each of the Apollo missions planted an American flag in the soil at their landing sites.
Scientists had previously examined photos of the Apollo landing sites for the flags, and had seen what looked like shadows cast by them on the lunar surface.
Now, researchers have studied photos of the landing sites taken at different points during the day (and under different illuminations) and have observed shadows circling the points where the flags are thought to be."
Comment Re:You know you're old when... (Score 1) 85
I miss the salad days of alt.peeves
