Comment Re:No, this is absolutely normal SOP these days. (Score 1) 299
Oh, like TransCanada / Keystone XL Pipeline is trying to do...
http://www.theglobeandmail.com...
Comment "Do you feel like I do?" (Score 1) 51
Yeah, but can she make a Les Paul talk like Peter Frampton?
Comment I work at a fed site in Ottawa 7km away from downt (Score 5, Informative) 529
We are in a total lockdown. No one gets in or out.
Comment Nexus support for flash drives (Score 2) 183
Other android smartphones flash drives with OTG cables out of the box, why don't you?
Comment FL100 (Score 1) 406
Your stuff stays stowed below 10,000 feet so you don't get tangled up in your earbuds, tablet, Ken Follet paper brick as your trying to exit the plane should the unthinkable happens.
It's not the safety drill that is the issue here.
Comment Who runs bartertown? (Score 1) 82
Apparently, some scientist from UK and Finland.
Malware Posing As Official Google Play Store Evades Most Security Checks 100
DavidGilbert99 (2607235) writes Mobile malware on Android is nothing new, but now security company FireEye has discovered in the Google Play store a sophisticated piece of malware which is posing as....the official Google Play store. Using the same icon but a different name, the malware is not being detected by the vast majority of security vendors, is difficult to uninstall and steals your messages, security certificates and banking details.
Localized (Visual) Programming Language For Kids? 185
First time accepted submitter jimshatt writes "I want my kids to play around with programming languages. To teach them basic concepts like loops and subroutines and the likes. My 8-year-old daughter in particular. I've tried Scratch and some other visual languages, but I think she might be turned off by the English language. Having to learn English as well as a programming language at the same time might be just a little too much.
I'd really like to have a programming language that is easy to learn, and localized or localizable. Preferably cross-platform, or browser-based, so she can show her work at school (Windows) as well as work on in at home (Debian Linux).
By the way, she speaks Dutch and Danish, so preferably one of those languages (but if it's localizable I can translate it myself).
Any suggestions?"
Comment 30,000,000 miles (Score 2) 187
Is the order of magnitude these heads have traveled (in a circle).
8000rpm x 60 x 24 x 365 x 16 x (5.25/2/2)*pi x 12 x 5280
Comment Re:The Man Who Said No To Sony (Score 1) 255
Another quote from that story...
I could go to my grave, and my tombstone could say, 'Here lies the dumbest CEO ever to live. He chose not to sell to Wal-Mart.'
I wasn't condoning nor condemning nVidia's move, just pointing out the similarities.
Comment Re:If you're getting a refund... (Score 1) 526
This. A million times this.
Nobody should ever pay income tax deductions above the absolute minimum permitted by law. Do I have to include a cheque when I turn in my income tax paperwork?
Of course, but meanwhile that cashflow sits in MY bank account, which has side benefits of raising my number of free transactions, makes it easier to keep a minimum balance, helps get a better interest rate on progressive savings accounts, provides an extra cushion againts overdrafts
Comment The Man Who Said No To Sony (Score 2) 255
There seems to be a lot of similarities to the Snapper Lawnmower story.
"Jim Wier believed that Snapper's health -- indeed, its very long-term survival -- required that it not do business with Wal-Mart. "
Comment Re:does it have a FBI unlock code? (Score 1) 154
Failing that, drugs and a $5 wrench. [xkcd #538]
Comment Autodesk Sketchbook (Score 1) 415
Seems to do what's needed.
On a related note, has someone combined x86 emulation and WinE into a single package for Andro?
Comment Re:Best guess on "throaty" (Score 1) 56
"Damn you autocorrect!"
