Comment MS vs. Apple? (Score 2, Informative) 314
If anyone should be heavily criticized for a poorly organized web presence, it's IBM.
Comment Re:Only Webkit-based browsers (Score 1) 75
And people have already been doing this for some time. You simply embed a UIWebView in your app. All Apple has really done is decided that your stupidly simple app with a UIWebView taking up the whole screen is no longer verboten.
Comment Let the law handle it (Score 1) 299
Shouldn't there be some kind of legally defined minimum along with nice availability regulations?
They make them keep records on everything else!
Comment Re:bad omen (Score 1) 162
That isn't necessarily true. It's just as possible people are wasting time fixing unimportant issues and ignoring more important ones.
I'm not trying to disparage the OpenBSD team or anything. It's just that no development team is perfect.
NASA to Test Emergency Ability of New Spacecraft 126
coondoggie writes "NASA this will show off the first mock up of its Orion space capsule ahead of the capsule's first emergency astronaut escape system test. NASA said it will jettison the full-size structural model off a simulated launch pad at the US Army's White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. The launch escape vehicle sits atop the Orion capsule which is slated to be bolted on an Ares rocket. The escape vehicle is made up of three solid rocket motors as well as separation mechanisms and canards, and should offer the crew an escape capability in the event of an emergency during launch, according to NASA."
Submission + - Anonymous Cowards Not Welcome
Anonymous Coward writes: "I guess you're just trying to discourage anonymous cowards, because I finally gave up trying to post when I couldn't correctly type whatever the f-ck this says:
http://images.slashdot.org/hc/43/625ab3b9631a.jpg
But for the record, I am human!"
Submission + - Associated Press puts credibility on the line
An anonymous reader writes: Matt Crenson a political science professor and a AP National writer had a piece published on ethanol. Just at the time when Bush is visiting Brazil. A country that uses ethanol for energy extensively. In case you wondered, the Associated Press, or AP, is an American news agency, the world's largest such organization.
This article says that ethanol use for energy is a bad idea no matter how you cut it. Even when some parts of this long article are correct, they are outwheigthed by the baseless inaccuracies. From " most analysts conclude its environmental benefits are questionable at best. " all the way to " even the most generous analysts estimate that it takes the energy equivalent of three gallons of ethanol to make four gallons of the stuff. " Plus the question-answer format of the middle portion of the article has a nauseating fact feeding style.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070311/ap_on_sc/ethan ol_q_a_9
This article says that ethanol use for energy is a bad idea no matter how you cut it. Even when some parts of this long article are correct, they are outwheigthed by the baseless inaccuracies. From " most analysts conclude its environmental benefits are questionable at best. " all the way to " even the most generous analysts estimate that it takes the energy equivalent of three gallons of ethanol to make four gallons of the stuff. " Plus the question-answer format of the middle portion of the article has a nauseating fact feeding style.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070311/ap_on_sc/etha
Submission + - Thailand block YouTube!
LewCPE writes: Authorities in Thailand were trying to do session hijack on every request those try to reach YouTube on last Friday. Most of requests to http://www.youtube.com/ will get reply as "301 — Permanently Removed" while the request to http://youtube.com/ or directly request to IP like http://208.65.153.251/ still success. Bangkok Post has report on this activity, it referred my post on Blognone.com[Thai].
The interesting part is the hijack server identify itself as "Apache/1.3.31 (Unix) mod_hwforward_1_0", while the mod_hwforward_1_0 seems to be never exist. But many countries found something like this too as you may see it on Google.
Jupiter Gets New Red Spot 141
saskboy writes "The planet Jupiter is growing a new red spot. Jupiter is already well known for its Great Red Spot storm which is visible through modest backyard telescopes, so it will be interesting if this newer spot sticks around and grows. From the article: 'The official name of this storm is Oval BA, but Red Jr. might be better. It's about half the size of the famous Great Red Spot and almost exactly the same color. Oval BA first appeared in the year 2000 when three smaller spots collided and merged. A similar merger centuries ago may have created the original Great Red Spot, a storm twice as wide as our planet and at least 300 years old.'"
Linux Support for Hybrid Hard Drives? 86
christoofar asks: "HHDD (Hybrid Hard Disk Drive) technology has been receiving some buzz lately. The concept is not new, but Samsung has been working on a consumer version of HHDD that everyone can use. HHDDs are disk drives that carry onboard RAM (in this case, NAND flash) which is non-volatile and offers to speed boot times and writes to the disk. This carries enormous benefit to laptop users who need to keep their disk activity to a minimum in order to preserve battery life.
Given that Microsoft is adding support for Hybrid Hard Drives in their upcoming Windows Vista release, what efforts are being undertaken in the Linux realm to use this new storage technology?"
Journal Journal: So what's the deal with blogging? 1
I mean seriously, it's just a bit retarded.
