Comment Re:Love it! (Score 2) 81
That's because Mobile Internet is half-decent in most places in Japan. You don't bother with public WiFi.
Comment Re:Start a side business and sell it (Score 1) 848
This is also called 'conflict of interest' and is generally illegal and frowned upon when you are inevitably caught.
Comment Re:OK Here we go again. (Score 1) 333
I think you already did it.
Comment KDE on Windows? (Score 4, Informative) 244
Doesn't KDE run on Windows these days? You could probably just run KMail directly...
Ask Slashdot: Radiation Detection For Tokyo Resident? 371
An anonymous reader writes "I'm an American who is living in Tokyo. Stories have started popping up about 'radiation hot spots' in Tokyo and surrounding prefectures so I have begun to worry. I live on the first floor of my apartment building and right by our washing machine there is a gutter out there that is clogged with rain water and mud, which has me especially worried because my wife and I are planning to have kids soon. Obviously no one from the government is going to come by to check our gutter so I feel the need to take matters into my own hands. I have absolutely no idea so I'm asking you guys. What kind of radiation detector should I get? A Geiger Counter? If it measures Gamma rays is that enough? Are alpha and beta dangerous too? I know no one has all the answers regarding radiation but any advice you guys could give me would be great."
Comment Re:Unbundle "Skype" (Score 3, Informative) 63
So.... no different than before Microsoft bought it then.
Comment Re:BeOS (Score 1) 429
Very likely; one of BeOS' strengths was excellent multimedia support.
Comment Re:And "From Dust" (Score 1) 261
Awwww man, I really really wanted to play that.
Comment Re:Balls of steel (Score 0) 404
*whooosh*
Comment Re:Temperature under metrics (Score 1) 2288
Here you go, start from 0 (freezing) and go up by 5' and you have the same ranges:
Sub-zero: Freezing
0-5 Very cold
5-10 Cold
10-15 Very cool
15-20 Cool
20-25 Comfortable
25-30 Warm
30-35 Very warm
35+ Hot
Comment Re:They also review movies (Score 1) 192
Well, you might want to watch it; but you only should if you think you might like "David Lynch does a snuff film".
Comment Re:'limousine liberalism' (Score 1) 589
Hydro BOOM! ?
Comment Re:Google is hypocritical (Score 1) 562
They do.
The closest you get from a developer analogy is say Google AppEngine - which is a webapp hosting / development framework. Which you are free to use whichever ad network you choose on the resulting webapps.
Comment Re:OpenGL and the rant about marketing (Score 2, Insightful) 515
Misrepresenting the truth perhaps. Sure you have *vendor specific* extensions all over the place - but that means you have feature X implemented on card Y but not Z; and the same feature gets implemented twice by different vendors in different ways with different bugs.
Frankly OpenGL is a mess - and the fact they scrapped the planned overhaul to make it developer competitive again means its pretty much dead in my opinion as a reasonable competitor.
Submission + - Password management in distributed networks
thetinytoon writes: As many of the readers, I'm one admin in a team running a network of servers, switches and client computers, with each and every system having some username and password to access the administrative interfaces. For obvious reasons, you don't want to have one combination for them all, but for still being productive, you don't want to look up some obscure 16-digit password in a secure container anytime you need to do something. Password generation rules are mostly so obvious, that you could use one password anyways, and most hardware devices don't allow the use of Challenge/Response-algorithms like OPIE. So I'm asking: how do you solve this dilemma in your networks?
