janap - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Now I understand (Score 1) 41

by janap on Tuesday May 15, 2012 @06:28PM (#40011015) Attached to: Online Music Storage Firm MP3tunes Files For Bankruptcy

Kind of curious, would you be willing to post a link to some of your music?

Sorry about the late reply - not used to getting any feedback or even mod points in here... :/
The band's name was Tumbleweed Trail and it existed during the latter part of the nineties. I put up a couple of our tunes for posterity in a playlist on Soundcloud, you're very welcome to have a listen!

http://soundcloud.com/strummindude/sets/tumbleweed-trails/

Comment Re:Now I understand (Score 5, Interesting) 41

by janap on Saturday May 12, 2012 @04:52AM (#39977441) Attached to: Online Music Storage Firm MP3tunes Files For Bankruptcy

Aww - those were the days! Mp3.com actually PAID indie artists to have their stuff on the site. Sent me cheques all the way to Sweden. The fees for cashing them in were greater than their value though... But at least we were PAID. Mr Robertson is for real and I wish him good luck in his future endeavors.

(I eventually brought our expired cheques with me on a trip to California, and the staff at mp3.com HQ happily exchanged them for a fresh one that I was able to cash in.)

Comment Re:VMs on a mobile device? (Score 1) 135

by janap on Wednesday September 07, 2011 @03:15PM (#37331208) Attached to: Samsung and VMWare Bringing Virtualization to Android

Its not "windows" it does not support the same APIs as windows. Its kernel is perhaps similar, but the userland is nothing like it.

"nothing like it" as in "Android is nothing like Slackware"?

Submission + - Putin says U.S. is "parasite" on global economy (reuters.com)

Submitted by Gunkerty Jeb on Tuesday August 02, 2011 @09:20AM

Gunkerty Jeb writes: "They are living beyond their means and shifting a part of the weight of their problems to the world economy," Putin told the pro-Kremlin youth group Nashi while touring its lakeside summer camp some five hours drive north of Moscow.

"They are living like parasites off the global economy and their monopoly of the dollar," Putin said at the open-air meeting with admiring young Russians in what looked like early campaigning before parliamentary and presidential polls.

Submission + - 800Mbps Wireless Network Made with LED Light Bulbs (ispreview.co.uk)

Submitted by

Mark.JUK

on Tuesday August 02, 2011 @08:44AM

Mark.JUK writes: "German scientists working at Berlin's Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications have set a new world record for Visible Light Communication (VLC) technology after they succeeded in using regular red, blue, green and white LED (Light-Emitting Diode) light bulbs as the basis for building a new 800Mbps (Megabits per second) capable ultrafast Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN). Dr. Anagnostis Paraskevopoulos explained: "With the aid of a special component, the modulator, we turn the LEDs off and on in very rapid succession and transfer the information as ones and zeros. The modulation of the light is imperceptible to the human eye. A simple photo diode on the laptop acts as a receiver. The diode catches the light, electronics decode the information and translate it into electrical impulses, meaning the language of the computer." The solution, which could be installed on ceilings and would cover approximately 10 square meters, would be ideal for HD video streaming and inside Hospitals or Aircraft where traditional Wi-Fi is often banned. However visible light signals can easily be blocked, such as when a hand is passed in front of the transmitter."

Submission + - Swede arrested for building nuclear reactor (thelocal.se)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 02, 2011 @07:40AM

An anonymous reader writes: A 31 year old Swedish male was arrested for trying to build a nuclear reactor in his apartment.

He got hold of radioactive material thru mail-order purchases and from smoke detectors.

Police raided his apartment after he had contacted the Swedish Radiation Authority (Strålsäkerhetsmyndigheten) to inquire if it was legal to construct a nuclear reactor at home.

Submission + - Apple lawsuit targeted wrong tablet: Samsung (delimiter.com.au)

Submitted by daria42 on Tuesday August 02, 2011 @04:02AM

daria42 writes: Is Apple trying to fire legal bullets in Australia but shooting blanks instead? Yes, according to Samsung, which was the target of an Apple lawsuit filed this week which saw the Korean electronics giant's Galaxy Tab 10.1 temporarily halted from sale in Australia. “Apple Inc. filed a complaint with the Federal Court of Australia involving a Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 variant that Samsung Electronics had no plans of selling in Australia,” Samsung said this afternoon. And the real tablet is still to go on sale. Interesting — looks like Apple might not have won the victory everyone thought it did.

Comment Re:Definitely a serious problem (Score 1) 408

by janap on Monday May 16, 2011 @05:06AM (#36138394) Attached to: The Rise of Filter Bubbles

Not having the user be aware that filtering is taking place is not filtering in my world. That's information dichotomy and censorship. Preference filtering should be implemented by means of sorting algorithms and highlighting or the like. Secretly suppressing information "for your own best interest" is subversive and counteracts democracy.

"There is no two ways of looking at it...." :)

Comment Re:Derhythmed (Score 1) 408

by janap on Monday May 16, 2011 @04:43AM (#36138338) Attached to: The Rise of Filter Bubbles

What's Bing?

It's the sound of a machine in a Monty Python movie, I believe.

Submission + - US pushes Internet kill switch again (cbsnews.com) 2

Submitted by FutureDomain on Tuesday January 25, 2011 @04:42PM

FutureDomain writes: Stymied last time, US lawmakers are again pushing a bill that would give the President the ability to shut down "critical" portions of the Internet. Unlike last time however, the new bill would prohibit judicial review of the law, which would also prevent challenges to any abuses of it.

Submission + - Starbucks: Now You Can Buy Your Latte with Your Ph (wordpress.com)

Submitted by cybracorp on Tuesday January 25, 2011 @04:29PM

cybracorp writes: RFID technology is hitting every kind of retailer out there. We have heard of it making big waves in the apparel industry, but people haven’t really been able to see the perks of RFID in their every day lives. That’s all about to change, especially if you are a coffee drinker.

Submission + - Bacteria as storage (computerworld.com)

Submitted by mjoseff on Tuesday January 25, 2011 @04:16PM

mjoseff writes: Chinese students are exploring storing data in bacteria. If biostorage and bioencryption (http://news.discovery.com/tech/bacteria-work-as-hard-drives-110110.html) are being explored what's next?

Submission + - Tunisia: The West Censors The Web, So We Can Too (techdirt.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 25, 2011 @04:14PM

An anonymous reader writes: While part of the reason for the regime change in Tunisia was government censorship, it appears the new government still wants to censor the internet — and is defending that plan by pointing out that Europe and the US censor the web too in their own ways, with blacklists and copyright takedowns. Perhaps the US and the EU should stop just talking about internet freedoms and actually live up to those ideals directly.

Submission + - Conficker Group: We failed to curb infections (threatpost.com)

Submitted by chicksdaddy on Tuesday January 25, 2011 @03:05PM

chicksdaddy writes: A new report from the Conficker Working Group concludes that coordinated efforts to stomp out the botnet were a mixed bag: helping to thwart the worm's efforts to register Web domains that it used to spread, while failing to stamp out infections on Windows computers, Threatpost reports. The "lessons learned" report released this month analyzes the fruits of a two year-old effort by a consortium of security firms, ISPs and top level domain (TLD) operators to battle variants of the Conficker worm. The group became a model of how to respond to and slow the spread of fast-moving, modern malware. However, the Conficker Working Group said it largely failed in its efforts to disinfect computers and eliminate the threat of the botnet. Millions of Conficker infected PCs remain. A larger, more permanent private-public partnership may be needed to focus on a "long term battle," rather than ad-hoc efforts to quash specific threats, the report concluded.

Submission + - The ghost towns of China (dailymail.co.uk) 1

Submitted by schwit1 on Tuesday January 25, 2011 @02:59PM

schwit1 writes: These satellite images show sprawling cities built in remote parts of China that have been left completely abandoned, sometimes years after their construction.

Elaborate public buildings and open spaces are completely unused, with the exception of a few government vehicles near communist authority offices.

Some estimates put the number of empty homes at as many as 64 million, with up to 20 new cities being built every year in the country's vast swathes of free land.

The photographs have emerged as a Chinese government think tank warns that the country's real estate bubble is getting worse, with property prices in major cities overvalued by as much as 70 per cent.

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