Comment If Twitter loses (Score 2) 335
They should pay the fine in batches of 140 single cents.
Comment In 200 years time (Score 1) 351
Digital archaeologists are only able to browse the ancient web on their emulators until the day in history W3C introduced DRM.
That is one of MY biggest cons against DRM in HTML.
Submission + - Google Fiber expands to Olathe Kansas (forbes.com)
skade88 writes: If you are one of the lucky 125,000 people who live in Olathe, Kansas, the rest of us congratulate you on your new amazing $70.00/month, 1 GB Google fiber service. Google also announced they will be letting us know about further cities that will be wired up with Google Fiber service soon. This shows that Google Fiber is not just a sandbox they are going to keep in Kansas City, Google Fiber is a real business they will keep expanding. In other exciting news, the FCC wants to see at least one community in each state with 1 Gigabit home service by 2015.
Comment Memento style minitel browser (Score 2) 58
Having all this Minitel page data is nice, but would only be useful if they would use a memento style interface where you can browse through time.
I remember Minitel was used several times to organise rallies against the government, as a type of social media if you like.
Comment bitbay.com (Score 1) 97
For the best deals on used bitstreams.
Special offer, today only: 50% discount on all PDFs. Get them now before they are gone!
Comment Cool stuff (Score 2) 41
Would really like to see Unicorn become open source.
Where I work we use datamarts spread across several data warehouses, which is quite similar to the FB way.
Since we use a bottom-up design model, creating so called solutions using this indexer would be very straightforward.
Comment Not just a simple prank (Score 5, Informative) 142
because they applied some BGP trickery to have the IP resolve in NK
https://rdns.im/the-pirate-bay-north-korean-hosting-no-its-fake
Comment I confess (Score 1) 418
Most of the times I end up at SO through the google and in over 50% of all "cases" that helps more than ploughing through documentation pdfs, wikis and kbs.
Even though I am a documentation evangalist as part of my job, I believe documentation will never get better and will always be incomplete.
Good, or at least, good enough documentation saved my ass numerous times. For example documentation about a custom compiled database function that got lost because somebody, dropped the database instead of the table as intended. A binary restore from a backup got the data back, but the function was lost. The application using the function failed instantly. Although I wrote the function myself, it would have taken days to rewrite it from scratch. Luckily I documented the function code and how to load it, and a smart coworker managed to restore it without consulting me.
Documentation is an ambiguous beast, too little is bad, but too much is sometimes worse...
Comment Re:Only one program I miss (Score 1) 165
There are WAY MORE java web apps you might think
Where I work we have at least 3 applications that only can be used through an applet.
Plus all our KVMs are java applets, thanks to HP...
Comment MS is going to sue (Score 1) 215
They already own the rights of having stuff melt after a few uses.
Comment Mod up Estonia (Score 1) 77
In addition, learn kids not to use and learn only a single OS or particular programming language. Use them all, get to know them, learn their pros and cons.
Comment Yes (Score 1) 295
But you'll need loads of cash, connections in South America and a replacement face.
On a serious note, no. I have always been careful (since CompuServe) but there are some traces, if you dig usenet. Most sites from back then are gone. Lucky I have a generic name, first hit is a guy somewhere far away, so I am happy...
Submission + - Yahoo! Pushing Java Version Released in 2008 (krebsonsecurity.com)
futhermocker writes: From TFA:
"At a time when Apple, Mozilla and other tech giants are taking steps to prevent users from browsing the Web with outdated versions ofJava,Yahoo!is pushing many of its users in the other direction: The free tool that it offers users to help build Web sites installs a dangerously insecYahoo! has offered SiteBuilder to its millions of users for years, but unfortunately the tool introduces a myriad of security vulnerabilities on host PCs.SiteBuilder requires Java, but the version of Java that Yahoo! bundles with it isJava 6 Update 7. It’s not clear if this is just a gross oversight or if their tool really doesn’t work with more recent versions of Java. The company has yet to respond to requests for comment.
"At a time when Apple, Mozilla and other tech giants are taking steps to prevent users from browsing the Web with outdated versions ofJava,Yahoo!is pushing many of its users in the other direction: The free tool that it offers users to help build Web sites installs a dangerously insecYahoo! has offered SiteBuilder to its millions of users for years, but unfortunately the tool introduces a myriad of security vulnerabilities on host PCs.SiteBuilder requires Java, but the version of Java that Yahoo! bundles with it isJava 6 Update 7. It’s not clear if this is just a gross oversight or if their tool really doesn’t work with more recent versions of Java. The company has yet to respond to requests for comment.
Submission + - KDE's Vivaldi Tablet Will Be Available In 3 Months (muktware.com)
sfcrazy writes: KDE's Aaron Seigo has revealed that after initial hiccups they are finally working with UK and China based companies and the much anticipated KDE Vivaldi tablets should be available in the market in around 3 months. He also said that they will be making annocements by the end of this month or early March. While he did not give any details about the tablet he did mention it will have better display and more memory than the previous vesion. Here is the video of his Google Hangout session where he talked about the tablet.
Comment Re:If drones can't find him (Score 1) 498
No problem, they just need to attach a couple of wings, and re-classify him, problem solved...
