Comment Re:They've got a good shot at it (Score 1) 252
Well, Steam-exclusive maybe. It doesn't sound very Valve-like for it to be SteamBox-exclusive.
Comment Re:So basically... (Score 1) 459
How true. Every time someone debates these things, someone shows up with strong anti-prescriptivist arguments. As usual, there doesn't seem to be any rational basis for this in the real world. There are rules.
Comment Re:So basically... (Score 3, Insightful) 459
> language never stands still, it constantly evolves, there is no standard
Yes there is. The standard is "don't look like an idiot". This may mean different things but most people would agree that writing emails like "R U going today?" on a regular basis in a business environment would qualify.
> the world changes. deal with it
No. Anyone writing emails that can't spell out three-letter words is going to look like an idiot even in the future. Sorry, but I don't see that changing.
Comment So basically... (Score 4, Insightful) 459
Don't communicate like an idiot. What a good idea!
Comment Re:Once again, a single measurement.... (Score 0) 158
That is fundamentally the same thing as FPS, unless there are some unstated assumptions that come along with this.
Comment Facebook (Score 1) 446
Facebook has made one of the largest pushes into this area. Has it worked? I'm not sure, just because I tend to prefer to not tie my various accounts to Facebook. I assume some people feel the same way, but I suspect the population at large likes this.
Comment Re:/bin/su isn't SUID?! (Score 3, Informative) 122
See Fedora's page for the same feature.
In short, there is a system now which gives programs certain capabilities based on tags set in the file system. With this, running as root is not needed for most things.
Comment Re:You're confused (Score 1) 300
Um... I'm not really following anything you're saying.
Kernel 2.4 supports LVM, he just isn't using it.
Comment Re:You're confused (Score 1) 300
I think you might have misread what he said.
ext3 file systems on regular partitions wouldn't be able to use LVM snapshots, because, well, they're not running on LVM volumes.
Air Force Sets Date To Fly Mach-6 Scramjet 252
coondoggie writes "The US Air Force said it was looking to launch its 14-foot long X-51A Waverider on its first hypersonic flight test attempt May 25. The unmanned X-51A is expected to fly autonomously for five minutes, after being released from a B-52 Stratofortress off the southern coast of California. The Waverider is powered by a supersonic combustion scramjet engine, and will accelerate to about Mach 6 as it climbs to nearly 70,000 feet. Once flying, the X-51 will transmit vast amounts of data to ground stations about the flight, then splash down into the Pacific. There are no plans to recover the flight test vehicle, one of four built, the Air Force stated."
Comment Re:I use a virtual card. (Score 1) 120
Seriously, how can anyone on slashdot _not_ do this?
It's such a simple way to prevent these problems. My credit card companies let me set dollar limits and time limits on these virtual cards. You get to worry much less about fraud, as well as companies billing you when you no longer want them to.
Comment But is it really a blog? (Score 0, Redundant) 117
"Blog" was the short, cool way of saying "weblog".
Where's the web?
NSA Email Surveillance Pervasive and Ongoing 243
dkleinsc writes "The NY Times has a piece about work being done by Congressman Rush Holt (D-NJ) and others to curb NSA efforts to read email and Internet traffic. Here's an excerpt: 'Since April, when it was disclosed that the intercepts of some private communications of Americans went beyond legal limits in late 2008 and early 2009, several Congressional committees have been investigating. Those inquiries have led to concerns in Congress about the agency's ability to collect and read domestic e-mail messages of Americans on a widespread basis, officials said. Supporting that conclusion is the account of a former NSA analyst who, in a series of interviews, described being trained in 2005 for a program in which the agency routinely examined large volumes of Americans' e-mail messages without court warrants. Two intelligence officials confirmed that the program was still in operation.'"
Comment Re:BeOS (Score 2, Interesting) 626
It may have been an axiom, but really, what did BeOS do (or want to do) that Linux doesn't do now?
The Linux OS has been scaled to thousands of CPUs. Sure, most applications don't benefit from multi-processors, but that'd be true in BeOS, too.
I'd honestly like to know if there is some design paradigm that was lost with BeOS that isn't around today.
Comment Re:gdrive.com (Score 4, Insightful) 342
Then how do you suppose that email sent to user@gmail.com gets to the Google account? Someone just kindly forwards it?
