cristiroma - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Why can't they start over ? (Score 1) 404

by cristiroma on Friday November 01, 2013 @08:04AM (#45298833) Attached to: Tech Titans Oracle, Red Hat and Google To Help Fix Healthcare.gov

And that would be writing it in Dart, running on RHEL with an Oracle back-end.
Luckily Microsoft didn't step in, they could have ended up with a Silverlight interface on top.

Comment Re:Do no evil? (Score 1) 193

by cristiroma on Saturday October 19, 2013 @04:33PM (#45176759) Attached to: When Opting Out of Ad Tracking Doesn't Opt You Out

Yeah, "poor" good guys Google - how can you blame the drug dealer? He's only handling the stuff...
I love when no one can be blamed. How about shooting first, as questions later - That way, Google would be much more "careful" about the stuff is handling. Then you wouldn't have this scenario in the first place.

Comment Re:What could go wrong? (Score 1) 182

by cristiroma on Sunday October 13, 2013 @12:43PM (#45114619) Attached to: Weaponized Robots Could Take Point In Future Military Ops

If you would have watched the attached videoclip, it says that the soldier takes the ultimate decision when to fire.

Comment Is using Open Source technologies (Score 1) 497

by cristiroma on Thursday October 10, 2013 @10:22AM (#45091259) Attached to: Cost of Healthcare.gov: $634 Million — So Far

Just checked and I see Java, Apache (Tomcat?), Bootstrap, jQuery.
Would have been a lot cheaper if site were built with Microsoft Office Professional tools like InfoPath, Access, IIS and Word to edit the actual HTML templates.
Even Dreamweaver should have cut costs by at least half.

Submission + - NASA.gov offline due to government shutdown (csmonitor.com)

Submitted by AngryNick on Tuesday October 01, 2013 @03:56PM

AngryNick writes: The shutdown of the US Federal government has resulted in NASA.gov and many other government sites being shutdown or frozen in time. From the Christian Science Monitor:

After the government shutdown at midnight EST on Oct. 1, the World Wide Web became a little less accessible. Many major government agencies either went entirely offline or only offered static homepages, with disclaimers that information would not be updated. Social media use was suspended with final tweets and posts telling followers services would be suspended. Furloughed government workers won’t even be able to check their email to find out when they need to come back to work.

Comment Re:What stops people from redistribution? (Score 1) 97

by cristiroma on Thursday September 26, 2013 @04:49PM (#44964547) Attached to: BitTorrent "Bundles" Create Cash Registers Inside Artwork

Piracy drops because sharing on torrent is pointless (unless you are a linux distro or some sort of big chunk of data).
In my experience most people don't WANT TO PAY! And that's why 99% of the torrents are breaking copyright rules.
Because an album costs between 15$ and $40 in countries where average salary is $250 and where is $2500 (and gives $1 to the artist). Would you pay like 10% of your montly income for an album?
I'm very sure the way of distributing music will change

Submission + - Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to retire within 12 months

Submitted by cristiroma on Friday August 23, 2013 @09:28AM

cristiroma writes: Microsoft Corp. today announced that Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer has decided to retire as CEO within the next 12 months, upon the completion of a process to choose his successor. In the meantime, Ballmer will continue as CEO and will lead Microsoft through the next steps of its transformation to a devices and services company that empowers people for the activities they value most.

Comment Re:Windows 8 woohoo! (Score 5, Insightful) 210

by cristiroma on Tuesday August 20, 2013 @11:44AM (#44619231) Attached to: Write Windows Phone Apps, No Code Required

Writing "apps" like this is like making websites in MS Word

Submission + - Tweet Increases Apple's Market Value by $17 Billion 3

Submitted by SmartAboutThings on Wednesday August 14, 2013 @05:58AM

SmartAboutThings writes: Activist investor Carl Icahn has recently tweeted the following: "We currently have a large position in APPLE. We believe the company to be extremely undervalued. Spoke to Tim Cook today. More to come" The effect? Apple’s market value increased by more than 17 billion dollars, which represents a five percent stock jump. Apple’s stock price is currently at a seven-month high of $490. Icahn has amassed over $1.5 billion worth of Apple shares which is less than 1 percent of Apple’s market cap when the moment mister Icahn sent his tweet.

Submission + - Google: No expectation of privacy on Gmail! (consumerwatchdog.org)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 13, 2013 @09:37PM

An anonymous reader writes: "Google Tells Court You Cannot Expect Privacy When Sending Messages to Gmail — People Who Care About Privacy Should Not Use Service"

Comment Integration with OSX (Score 2) 178

by cristiroma on Monday July 29, 2013 @05:53PM (#44417395) Attached to: Nokia Lumia 1020 Video and Photo Shoot Preview

Does it sync with Mac OSX Contacts and Calendar? Without handing over my data to Google (share Google calendar ...)?

Comment Re:Porn Collection (Score 2) 113

by cristiroma on Wednesday July 24, 2013 @05:08AM (#44368545) Attached to: Google's Latest Machine Vision Breakthrough

No, because it would go mad and overheat the CPU, looking through all that porn.

Comment Re:why cloud? (Score 1) 290

by cristiroma on Friday July 19, 2013 @08:20AM (#44326235) Attached to: How One Drunk Driver Sent My Company To the Cloud

They did mention that they're only a multi-million dollar operation, not multi-billion, so why invest in a data center of your own? When you can keep the servers in the back-alley for peanuts. I'm sure that hosting the email on GMail is top privacy.
I just wonder, what their clients have to say about that?

Comment The coin ... (Score 1) 97

by cristiroma on Wednesday June 12, 2013 @02:41AM (#43982335) Attached to: Google Glass Teardown

What's the purpose of the coin?

Comment Re:Define "Fake Post" (Score 1) 164

by cristiroma on Tuesday April 23, 2013 @02:27AM (#43522571) Attached to: Former Diplomat Slams Facebook For Inaction On Fake Pages

Umm, let me think ... opening a case, like on PayPal? Where the two can confront each other? Scanned IDs? Hand written papers like certificate of birth is hard to fake. It's not like everyone is a fucking Photoshop guru. And if you provide a scan with high dpi, it will be really hard to fake. Not fool proof, but discouraging. And if you can't solve that, warn that police might be notified and consequences could be nasty.
Even if you can't handle that, at least pretend you're trying. But they can't do anything about it, because this kind of work is conducted probably by some african vilagers. And moving anything in that direction would cut a slice from Zuckerberg's pie. Who would like that?

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