Comment Re:Who's their test group? (Score 2) 239
Google Keep is great for that, no need to involve email.
Comment Re:You can pry my wallet from my... (Score 1) 375
Stores must love you when you pay a 1$ bread with a credit card and most of it stays in the pocket of the CC company...
Comment Re:Here's an idea (Score 2) 233
Yeah, who thought that playing violent games such as football, lacrosse or hockey in college is a good idea anyway. Or anywhere for that matter, I find those sports violent and stupid. There, I said it. It's better than people going at war or tribes throwing feces at each others, but barely.
Comment Re:No Way Out (Score 1) 720
Think about what you are doing and what you can split on a dual setup (headless server+laptop) like I described. You don't need the most powerful system in existence to develop nowadays. Unless you compile X11 or KDE every 10 minutes. Even the Linux kernel compiles from clean in a few minutes on my laptop.
Comment Re:No Way Out (Score 1) 720
In that same situation, I replaced a powerful and nosy desktop behemoth I'd been upgradiung for 15 years by a tiny and quiet headless linux Shuttle server that sits in a bookcase shelf next to the cable modem, always on (local NFS server, virtual machines via rdesktop, web server, family image server, media server, etc); and a powerful large screen laptop I close when I'm not using.
Comment Re:What a horrible name (Score 1) 647
wondering how Linux should be pronounced
You should fork the pronunciation then. That's how the open source world works, no ?
BlackBerry Will Buy Your iPhone For $550 120
mpicpp points out that BlackBerry is hoping to get iPhone owners to switch to Passport smartphones by promising up to $550 to trade in their phones. "The promotion, which starts Monday, promises as much as $550 to iPhone owners who trade in their handsets in favor of BlackBerry's Passport. The actual trade-in value depends on the iPhone, with the iPhone 4S worth up to $90 and the iPhone 6 worth up to $400. (The iPhone 6 Plus is not eligible.) BlackBerry then sweetens the deal by kicking in an additional $150 as a topper for each iPhone. The deal will run through February 13, but it's good only in North America. Customers must buy the $599 to $699 unlocked Passport phone through either BlackBerry's website or Amazon. The trade-in amount comes in the form of a Visa prepaid card."
The Schizophrenic Programmer Who Built an OS To Talk To God 452
rossgneumann writes: Terry Davis, a schizophrenic programmer, has spent 10 years building an operating system to talk to God. He's done this work because God told him to. According to the TempleOS charter, it is "God's official temple. Just like Solomon's temple, this is a community focal point where offerings are made and God's oracle is consulted." [The TempleOS V2.17 welcome screen] greets the user with a riot of 16-color, scrolling, blinking text; depending on your frame of reference, it might recall DESQview, the Commodore 64, or a host of early DOS-based graphical user interfaces. In style if not in specifics, it evokes a particular era, a time when the then-new concept of "personal computing" necessarily meant programming and tinkering and breaking things.
Comment Re:Why such a short lifetime ? (Score 1) 236
Nut that's the point of doing it modular: send a new module every few years, retire one every few years, this way you don't need to dump the whole thing at once and start over.
Sony Pictures Computer Sytems Shut Down After Ransomware Hack 155
MojoKid writes: It appears that Sony Pictures has become the victim of a massive ransomware hack, which has resulted in the company basically shutting down its IT infrastructure. According to an unnamed source, every computer in Sony's New York Office, and every Sony Pictures office across the nation, bears an image from the hacker with the headline "Hacked By #GOP" which is then followed by a warning. The hacker, or group, claims to have obtained corporate secrets and has threatened to reveal those secrets if Sony doesn't meet their demands.
Comment Re:UPS (Score 1) 236
Same experience here... until I changed brand of UPS. APC absolutely sucked, I had something like 10 different ones (I run a lot of hardware) fail in various ways. Since I changed brand: no more problems. I don't even remember what I have now since it's been under the desk for years without me needing to look.
Comment Re:Adblock... (Score 1) 319
I don't know what they mean by 'host' but 'hosts files' are a complementary solution to adblock. And yes it is spam, and since you are all anonymous cowards don't expect a discussion on that.
Leaked Documents Show EU Council Presidency Wants To Impair Net Neutrality 76
NotInHere writes: The advocacy group "European Digital Rights" (EDRi) reports on leaked documents proposed by the Presidency of the council of the EU (currently held by Italy), which plans to remove vital parts from the telecommunications package that introduced net neutrality. The changes include removing the definition of "net neutrality" and replacing it with a "reference to the objective of net neutrality," which EDRi says will impair any ability to enforce it.
Also, the proposed changes would allow ISPs to "block, slow down, alter, degrade or discriminate" traffic in order to meet "obligations under a contract with an end-user to deliver a service requiring a specific level of quality to that end-user." EDRi writes that "[w]ith all of the talk of the need for a single digital market in Europe, we would have new barriers and new monopolies."
The council of the EU is one of its two legislative chambers. The EU parliament can now object or propose further changes to prevent the modified telecommunications package from passing.
Also, the proposed changes would allow ISPs to "block, slow down, alter, degrade or discriminate" traffic in order to meet "obligations under a contract with an end-user to deliver a service requiring a specific level of quality to that end-user." EDRi writes that "[w]ith all of the talk of the need for a single digital market in Europe, we would have new barriers and new monopolies."
The council of the EU is one of its two legislative chambers. The EU parliament can now object or propose further changes to prevent the modified telecommunications package from passing.
Comment Re:Put your money where your mouth is. (Score 1) 247
Yeah and it's permeating the whole of society. This week only I heard (live, not on TV): a medical doctor say that there was solvent in one brand of D vitamin for babies; so many people say 'you never know' as an excuse to give homeopathy to their kids; a physics teacher say that radio waves are bad; kindergarten teachers say that wifi keep kids from sleeping well; a math teacher say she cannot stand to be near power lines; etc, etc, etc...
Comment Why such a short lifetime ? (Score 2) 236
Can't they plan something permanent, where you add and remove modules as needed ? Barely 2 decades of use for such an expensive project seems kind of a waste.
