Comment Um, Litigate? (Score 4, Insightful) 341
They do business in EU, as do you. The solution should be obvious. Drag them into court.
Submission + - Ask Slashdot: Dedicating Code?
The_Buse writes: This week I lost my grandmother and after returning to work (as a web developer) I find myself looking for some way to dedicate something to her memory. Unfortunately, I'm no author so I can't dedicate a book to her, and I can't carry a tune so penning a song in her honor is out of the question. What I can do is write one hell of a web app, and after nearly a year of development my (small) team and I are nearing the release date of our next product. My question is, have you ever dedicated a project/app/code in honor of someone? What's the best way to do it: comment blocks in the header, tongue-in-cheek file names, easter eggs? Or is this a horrible idea all together?
Comment Here's your answer: (Score 1) 474
1) Noise cancelling headphones.
2) If the above doesn't work, then move.
Comment Re:Bring it to Linux (Score 1) 143
Just wondering here, how do you guess they are emulating ARM instructions? It would be MUCH faster to just set up an x86 Vm and run Android for x86 in it.
Comment At Work: (Score 1) 867
RHEL->SLED
Comment At home: (Score 1) 867
Debian->Knoppix->Ubuntu->Mint
Comment Re:Fragmentation (Score 1) 100
Most games use the NDK and contain binary compiled specifically for ARM. Obviously those apps will not run on the MIPS processor.
Um... Unless they are recompiled to run on MIPS? I don't really see the problem as GCC already supports this.
Comment Re:Hate broadcasting CC (Score 1) 221
Not so. I nuke the chip out of any CC I receive - the magnetic strip is still there and they still work at the ATM just fine.
Comment Re:Disaster waiting to happen (Score 1) 221
You sir, are an idiot.
Comment Re:Not hacking (Score 1) 153
Not anonymous enough.
Comment Re:Python's problem (Score 1) 510
Indeed one of python's problems is the GIL, but that only applies to multithreaded apps. In contrast, multiprocess apps are unaffected. The python standard library "multiprocessing" module makes it trivial to spawn child processes and messaging through pipes & queues, so the whole GIL thing really becomes kind of a non-issue.
Comment Not permanately out of service (Score 1) 70
From http://www.issi-us.net/ "Per our previous communication we continue to work the key procedures to restore Skyterra 1 to service. Based on our current progress we now estimate that we will return customers to service by 1200 EST (1600 UTC) on Sunday."
Did anyone even read TFA?
Comment How about a LiveCD (Score 1) 671
The prior suggestions to just get a 2nd laptop or netbook for your own personal use may be the most ethical. But from your original post I gather that that is not your concern. So...
Assuming that laptop does in fact have tracking software that can report on the applications that are running and/or be used to send screenshots back to your employer, your ideas to run standalone apps from a USB drive would only land you in "trouble" because the screenshots would still show "rogue activity". The other idea of imaging the whole HDD, re-installing, and imaging back sounds like more hassle than it's worth. But at least from this I know that your BIOS isn't locked down to the extent that you can't boot from external media. So...
What I would suggest is to run a standalone OS from a USB thumb drive or CD / DVD. In doing this, you can run the alternate OS of your choosing, while sidestepping the considerable hassle of creating the backup image, installing the other OS... Here is a rather comprehensive list from which you can choose. Knoppix, Ubuntu, or Mint are the ones I would try first.
Comment Re:Microsoft discriminates against the handicapped (Score 2) 312
Let's not forget about the obnoxious deaf person with all of those hand gestures!
Comment Expert? (Score 1) 161
And how exactly is a NASA scientist an expert of Chinese spy satellite technology? Just wondering.
