Comment Re:Rule #1: Draw a Picture (Score 1) 241
Works great for videoconferencing, or sending a quick diagram thousands of miles. Draw it on a white board, then share or snap a picture.
Comment It is what you are used to (Score 1) 1173
The town I grew up in had a roundabout that circled a monument, but I left it before I started driving. After college, I moved near two towns that have greenspace in the middle of the village, forcing a roundabout pattern. Locals, including tractor trailers, pass through it problem-free.
Last month, I spent a few days in Sweden with a rental. I drove more roundabouts in a day than I had driven in over 20 years of US driving, and the only time I didn't feel perfectly safe is when I couldn't clearly see the entrance to the circle on my left.
A new one is going in right now in the next town, but people are fearful. Why? Because they've not driven in them before. After two months, I bet things will be just fine.
Comment Complicated... (Score 1) 264
Got back from a work trip to Sweden last week. ROC-IAD and IAD-CPH were fine going over. Coming back, CPH-ORD was cool. Then it got weird.
My ORD-ROC flight wasn't even on the board (because it was still 4 hours before departure), but an earlier one that was delayed still hadn't left yet. I got on standby for that one, and got in an hour before my originally scheduled arrival at 0015. Good thing I did - my flight got bumped to 0220 arrival, and then got cancelled outright. Still wondering where my checked bag of dirty laundry is.....
Submission + - Linux Kernel violates patent (theregister.co.uk)
doperative writes: A jury has found that in using Linux on its back-end servers, Google has infringed a patent held by a small Texas-based company and must pay $5m in damages.
In 2006, Bedrock Computer Technologies sued Google and several other outfits – including Yahoo!, Amazon.com, PayPal, and AOL – claiming they infringed on a patent filed in January 1997. The patent describes "a method and apparatus for performing storage and retrieval...that uses the hashing technique with the external chaining method for collision resolution", and the accusation is that companies infringed by using various versions of the Linux kernel on their servers.
In 2006, Bedrock Computer Technologies sued Google and several other outfits – including Yahoo!, Amazon.com, PayPal, and AOL – claiming they infringed on a patent filed in January 1997. The patent describes "a method and apparatus for performing storage and retrieval...that uses the hashing technique with the external chaining method for collision resolution", and the accusation is that companies infringed by using various versions of the Linux kernel on their servers.
Comment Re:They must have overlooked this (Score 2) 327
Perhaps not. Wiki article says that aircraft was at 17000' and still climbing. It was not at cruising altitude of 30000'+.
Comment Re:Missing Option (Score 1) 266
Choose one of the last two options then - they are effectively the same thing.
Submission + - France Outlaws Hashed Passwords (bbc.co.uk) 3
An anonymous reader writes: Storing passwords as hashes instead of plain text is now illegal in France, according to a draconian new data retention law. According to the BBC, "[t]he law obliges a range of e-commerce sites, video and music services and webmail providers to keep a host of data on customers. This includes users' full names, postal addresses, telephone numbers and passwords. The data must be handed over to the authorities if demanded." If the law survives a pending legal challenge by Google, Ebay and others, it may well keep some major services out of the country entirely.
Comment Original article (Score 2) 2
Submission + - “Anonymous” Attacks Sony (ps3-hacks.com)
baxpace writes: "The renowned hackers Anonymous have managed to take down the US Sony sites including blog.us.playstation.com for interrupting the "free flow of information".
A video has been released by the group stating that this was done in retaliation for suing Geohot and demanding the IP's of those who have visited his site among other reasons."
A video has been released by the group stating that this was done in retaliation for suing Geohot and demanding the IP's of those who have visited his site among other reasons."
Comment Re:Only one case? (Score 3, Informative) 515
Some of the comments on the article reach the same conclusion. One even suggests it was someone at the store where they were purchased that installed the logger. Problem is, Samsung's tech support guy already admitted to it.
Comment Re:Conspiracy Theory? (Score 1) 301
Then you'd think they could do better than the Long Island Press. They need to reach a wider audience.
Submission + - Why you're getting screwed on data roaming (zdnet.co.uk)
superglaze writes: "It's no surprise that operators/carriers charge a lot for letting customers use the mobile internet while travelling abroad. But where do those charges come from exactly? We at ZDNet UK have done some deep investigation, and it turns out those $10/MB prices are derived from costs that are more like 3c/MB. In other words, you're paying a ridiculous amount for something that costs next to nothing to provide. Consumers, businesses, app developers — everyone is getting screwed here.This has to stop — please sign our petition."
Submission + - Why the Russians got into space first? (telegraph.co.uk) 2
doperative writes: According to the Telegraph, it's because they had to build bigger rockets as their nuclear bombs were less advanced than the Americans. I would have thought that the technology would be similar, as a nuclear device would require the same amount of fissionable material and conventional explosives regardless of who made it. besides which didn't Soviet spies steal most of the design for the first Russian nuclear bomb.
"Yet the Russians .. were first to launch a satellite, first to launch a dog and, now, first to launch a man. The reason they were so good at these stunts was because they were so bad at building nuclear weapons. Their bombs were inordinately heavier than American ones of similar payload. A heavier bomb necessitated a bigger rocket to carry it on a transcontinental trajectory"
Comment NY Times source article (Score 2) 328
http://www.zeit.de/digital/datenschutz/2011-03/data-protection-malte-spitz
Scroll down a bit in that article, and you can even pull a copy of the spreadsheet with location data.
Comment Re:Incorrect Info All Around (Score 1) 100
I expect more from slashdot.
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