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Programming

Submission + - Our version of Bye, Bye, Miss American Pie...

Submitted by Earl The Squirrel
Earl The Squirrel writes: On Oct 12, 2011, Dennis Richie, creator of C and co-creator to Unix has died. As the hero's of our generation age, it's sad to say this will invariably happen, but it's sad for all of us who continue. Let's be sure to thank and salute those who have made what we enjoy so much. Losing two so close together makes it even harder.
HP

Submission + - HP Touch Pad still Popular with HP Employees 1

Submitted by Earl The Squirrel
Earl The Squirrel writes: Today HP made available to their employees (via their EPP store) one last batch of HP Touch Pads. The response has been so overwhelming that if you go to the HP store right now, you'll get the "Please try again later" page. HP employees have "slashdotted" their own store.

Comment Re:It has been seen before (Score 0) 236

by Earl The Squirrel (#37046132) Attached to: Google Pulls Plug On Programming For the Masses

Yeah, there should be a web page for ALL the various products that Google has killed, and some of the "impact" assessment. I mean how many is it by now?
Geeze, off the top of my head I can think of a few... Wave, Gears, Bookmark sync, Google Answers, Google Video, Dodgeball, etc, etc.

Using a Google tool in any sort of "production" environment is a real crap shoot, in my opinon...

Comment Is this an Apple or HP announcement? (Score 1) 87

by Earl The Squirrel (#35162476) Attached to: Security Warning Over Web-Based Android Market

I was watching this on engadget and couldn't tell from the images whether I watching an Apple or HP announcement.

This picture ... change TouchPad to iPad and put the guy in a black turtleneck....sure looks like the iPad announcement.. Look at this picture from the original iPad announcement... sure looks similar to me.

This e-mail app looks pretty damn close to the iPad one.

This keyboard sure looks almost identical to the iPad.

In general, I saw this as a rehash of the Apple and Google approaches to a common OS for Phone and Pad. Can't speak to either on "pc" though both have leaked rumors at least of having their OS on some form of a PC. To me this was a big "yawn" from a late comer to this space.
Robotics

Submission + - Robots Guarding US Nuclear Stockpiles In Nevada (singularityhub.com)

Submitted by kkleiner
kkleiner writes: The US National Nuclear Security Administration recently announced that it has started using autonomous robot vehicles to patrol the vast desert surrounding its Nevada National Security Site (NNSS). The 1360+ square miles of territory is home to millions of tons of low grade nuclear waste, as well as Cold War Era nuclear weapons, and cutting edge nuclear testing research. Guarding those precious nuclear materials is the Mobile Detection Assessment Response System (MDARS) robot, which is essentially a camera on a mini-Hummer. The MDARS can roam and scout the desert on its own, alerting a remote operator when it encounters something that shouldn’t be there.

Submission + - S&P says 60% of countries bankrupt by 2060 (businessweek.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: "Some sixty percent of the world's economies will be so in debt by 2060 that their debt will be downgraded to "junk" status, effectively bankrupting the countries, says a report from Standard & Poor's ratings agency, which also warns that attempts to deal with the problem could cause social instability." Is it time to start stocking up on ... whores?
Google

Submission + - Oracle's newest move to undermine Android (infoworld.com)

Submitted by GMGruman
GMGruman writes: Oracle's decision to shift focus from the Harmony Java open source project to OpenJDK seems innocuous enough — but InfoWorld's Josh Fruhlinger explains it's part of an effort to derail Google's mobile Android OS by gutting the open source project that Android has been driven by. IBM has signed on, apparently in return for getting the Java Community Process reactivated, leaving Google in a bind.

Comment So, Safety?? (Score 1) 488

by Earl The Squirrel (#33642932) Attached to: Airbus Planning Transparent Planes

Let's see, how frequently do airplanes have to use the following FAA rule:

1. Practice the "see and avoid" concept at all times regardless of whether the operation is conducted under Instrument (IFR) or Visual (VFR) Flight Rules.

(from http://www.faa.gov/about/office_org/headquarters_offices/ato/tracon/anchorage/pilots_info/mca/ )

I'm thinking FAA would frown on this type of plane simply because of the potential safety issue...

"Hey, did you see that big transparent plane over their thru the fog?"
Image

How the TSA Plans On Inspecting Your Monkey 114

Posted by samzenpus from the I'm-gonna-need-to-check-your-monkey dept.
The uncertainty of what might happen to your service monkey at an airport security checkpoint won't keep you awake at night anymore, thanks to the TSA. They have issued an easy to follow list of how they will ensure your helper monkey won't go all Planet of the Apes on your flight. Some of the security techniques used to make sure your primate is not a terrorist include: "Security Officers will conduct a visual inspection on the service monkey and will coach the handler on how to hold the monkey during the visual inspection. The inspection process may require that the handler to take off the monkey's diaper as part of the visual inspection."
Networking

Throttle Shared Users With OS X — Is It Possible? 403

Posted by timothy from the throttle-the-snot-instead dept.
whisper_jeff writes "I work in a design studio where the production director is also the owner's son (translation = he can do no wrong). He is fond of accessing a designer's computer via filesharing and working directly on files off of the designer's computers rather than transferring the files to his computer to work on them there. In so doing, he causes the designer's computer to grind to a near-halt as the harddrive is now tasked with his open/save requests along with whatever the designer is doing. Given that there is no way he's going to change his ways (since he doesn't see anything wrong with it...), I was wondering if there was a way to throttle a user's shared access to a computer (Mac OSX 10.5.8) so that his remote working would have minimal impact on our work. Google searches have revealed nothing helpful (maybe I should Bing it... :) so I was hoping someone with more technical expertise on Slashdot could offer a suggestion."

Apple Orders 10 Million Tablets? 221

Posted by ScuttleMonkey from the pricepoint-better-be-right dept.
Arvisp writes "According to a blog post by former Google China president Kai-Fu Lee, Apple plans to produce nearly 10 million tablets in the still-unannounced product's first year. If Lee's blog post is to be believed, Apple plans to sell nearly twice as many tablets as it did iPhones in the product's first year."
Debian

FreeNAS Switching From FreeBSD To Debian Linux 206

Posted by Soulskill from the changing-horses dept.
dnaumov writes "FreeNAS, a popular, free NAS solution, is moving away from using FreeBSD as its underlying core OS and switching to Debian Linux. Version 0.8 of FreeNAS as well as all further releases are going to be based on Linux, while the FreeBSD-based 0.7 branch of FreeNAS is going into maintenance-only mode, according to main developer Volker Theile. A discussion about the switch, including comments from the developers, can be found on the FreeNAS SourceForge discussion forum. Some users applaud the change, which promises improved hardware compatibility, while others voice concerns regarding the future of their existing setups and lack of ZFS support in Linux."

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