Journal Journal: I might be done with /. 1
/. Used to be an obsession for me. I've been here over a decade. I've 2^8th +5 comments, 2^8 days read. I have broken news here by waking the Admins. For the last 10 years
Comment Oh wow (Score 5, Insightful) 105
You people are horrible.
Comment Pricing (Score 1) 60
I hear these are headed for the premium end of the tablet market, with the usual unsat display resolution. I.E. not going to move units.
Comment Re:Dangerous virus (Score 2) 86
Five of the authors of this paper died of Ebola, including one who did not work with any patients or samples directly.
Comment Re:You're assuming.... (Score 3, Interesting) 86
Some medical workers are in fact spreading the disease.
Comment Re:This Just In! (Score 1) 111
This is what led the Grant County PUD to begin rolling out fiber to the home in 2000. Now this rural Washington county has gigabit fiber to the home at reasonable rates when much of Seattle is still stuck on DSL or Comcast level technology and rates.
Comment Re:ok, so, what now (Score 1) 89
It took humans a million years to colonize the western hemisphere. Time is long.
Submission + - CDC stops reporting Ebola numbers 2
symbolset writes: After reporting reported suspected and confirmed infections and deaths from Ebola every two days for some time, the US CDC has let a week lapse without an update to their figures. Cases and deaths had previously been increasing at a logarithmic rate so frequent updates are essential to discover if current medical efforts are effective.
Comment Re:Easy to lobby when funded by the taxpayer (Score 4, Insightful) 159
Any is too much.
Comment Re:perhaps now that he is gone they may have a cha (Score 1) 142
Office is their last line of defence. But the walls will not hold. Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more; Or close the wall up with our English dead.
Comment Re:true reaon for leaving! (Score 1) 142
When you are spending your $20B fortune in $2B chunks it goes pretty quick.
Comment Re: C (Score 1) 142
Frankly, they can keep the source. Burn it with fire.
Comment Re:For Win9, MS should go back to Service Packs... (Score 0) 304
This is an example of why Microsoft's software ought not even be considered by a serious professional. It ticks all the boxes. Denial of service without user interaction. Security vulnerability with remote root potential. Workaround requires disclosed remote root potential. Recovery requires hands on the device.
It is only going to get worse.
Comment Re:Upcoming fix? (Score 1) 304
If it machine checks its performance as a space heater will be slightly reduced, as the lack of spam zombie workload will leave it in an idle state.
Comment Re:They fired 30% of their testers (Score 1) 304
I suppose if you wanted a font of information about disastrous bugs marked "ship anyway" and unreported faults, you could do worse than a suddenly terminated tester.
