3.14159265 - Slashdot User

Comment Do they mean WDM? (Score 2, Informative) 129

by 3.14159265 on Friday July 16, 2010 @05:31AM (#32924172) Attached to: Irish Gov't Invests In Color-Coded Fiber Optics

Intune Networks (...) has developed a technology that can enable a single strand of fibre to move from carrying one signal from one operator to carrying data from 80 telecoms and TV companies all at once."

Do they mean they have "invented" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wavelength-division_multiplexing? I'm puzzled.

Comment Re:From what I've heard, it really is that bad... (Score 1) 673

by 3.14159265 on Sunday April 25, 2010 @12:02PM (#31975108) Attached to: Was Flight Ban Over Ash an Overreaction?

"in which case the tax-payers should compensate the airlines"

There, fixed that. People seem to forget this too often.

Comment Re:Opera is lousy from my experience, please go aw (Score 1) 292

by 3.14159265 on Wednesday February 10, 2010 @11:21AM (#31086004) Attached to: Opera For iPhone To Test Apple's Resolve

The question here seems to be "have you tried Opera yet?"...

Comment Re:OK, I see some value in here (Score 1) 427

by 3.14159265 on Thursday February 04, 2010 @10:39PM (#31030300) Attached to: Craig Mundie Wants "Internet Driver's Licenses"

Quite right!
And:
"If you want to drive a car you have to have a license to say that you are capable of driving a car"

Really, when did this happen? Any 15min driving in any major traffic area contradicts this immediately.

Comment Re:Double trademark trolls! (Score 1) 367

by 3.14159265 on Thursday January 28, 2010 @08:24PM (#30943988) Attached to: Fujitsu Readies Lawsuit Over "iPad" Name

They couldn't have missed it.
Maybe this is Apple's new stance when facing trademarks and patents (see the latest love affair with Nokia...): ignore them :)

Comment What about DRM? (Score 1) 175

by 3.14159265 on Thursday January 07, 2010 @09:10AM (#30681314) Attached to: FTC Worries About Consumers, Cloud Data, and Privacy

I'd rather see the title "FTC's concern that consumers don't understand the implications of buying DRM-infected data and hardware."

Comment Re:IBM has an excellant defense strategy . . . (Score 1) 227

by 3.14159265 on Wednesday December 16, 2009 @10:26AM (#30457240) Attached to: BetaNet Sues Everyone For Remote SW Activation

If they don't actually sell a product then they're not infringing anything, and they can invest everything on litigation. Great business model, really.

Comment The other button (Score 3, Funny) 167

by 3.14159265 on Thursday February 12, 2009 @05:36AM (#26824869) Attached to: Euro Parliament Wants "Red Button" For Shutting Down Games

Europeans also would like a "Red Button" for shutting down Parliament. Wishful thinking.

Comment Re:Red Button Doesn't Seem To Be Literal (Score 1) 167

by 3.14159265 on Thursday February 12, 2009 @05:24AM (#26824811) Attached to: Euro Parliament Wants "Red Button" For Shutting Down Games

Shouldn't shutting the damn thing off and "go to your room" be enough? Or just throwing the dvd out of the windows? Jeez...

Comment Far Manager (Score 2) 304

by 3.14159265 on Monday January 26, 2009 @07:27PM (#26614931) Attached to: Midnight Commander Development Revived

Unarguably the true descendant of Norton Commander, and it has gone open source recently!
Proper archive support, plug-in architecture, etc,etc.
http://www.farmanager.com/

I don't even consider touching any pc running Windows without a copy of this jewel.

Comment Re:Creating Telepathy (Score 1) 276

by 3.14159265 on Thursday December 11, 2008 @03:59PM (#26079843) Attached to: Japanese Scientists Claim To Reconstruct Images From Brain Data

And if that's possible then the next step will be "real" virtual reality.

Comment Re:there goes another dumb jet pack idea (Score 1) 486

by 3.14159265 on Wednesday December 10, 2008 @05:37AM (#26057199) Attached to: Future of Space Elevator Looks Shaky

"Think if the resources needed to defend it from terrorists(...)"

I find it extremely disturbing that this seen as an argument for not doing anything.
I've read elsewhere that they'd already won. So it is true.

Psystar Case Reveals Poor Email Archiving At Apple 123

Posted by timothy on Sunday November 23, 2008 @10:03PM from the let-me-check-the-round-file dept.

Ian Lamont writes "Buried in the court filings of the recently concluded Psystar antitrust suit against Apple is a document that discussed Apple's corporate policy regarding employee email. Apparently, Apple has no company-wide policy for archiving, saving, or deleting email. This could potentially run afoul of e-discovery requirements, which have tripped up other companies that have been unable to produce emails and other electronic files in court. A lawyer quoted in the article (but not involved in the case) called Apple's retention policy 'negligent.' However, the issue did not help Psystar's lawsuit against Apple — a judge dismissed the case earlier this week."

Comment Re:Pot, Kettle, Blackness (Score 0, Offtopic) 79

by 3.14159265 on Saturday November 22, 2008 @08:02AM (#25856855) Attached to: <em>Rock Band</em> Creators Hit With Class Action Lawsuit

Always thought all Ford does is making cars that barely work until the warranty expires... It's not like they have that kind of control and expertise :)

Comment Re:Quantity Vs Quality (Score 1) 160

by 3.14159265 on Wednesday November 19, 2008 @05:30AM (#25814941) Attached to: The Importance of Procedural Content Generation In Games

You might just want to have a look at this...

http://www.infinity-universe.com/Infinity/index.php

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