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Comment Holy crap .. let it go man ... (Score 1) 635

by UnknownSoldier (#47787909) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: What Old Technology Can't You Give Up?

Fuck man, I _still_ have my Apple //e and Apple //c but seriously I don't see the purpose of cluttering up new computers with stuff you never use.

When I upgraded from my old Phenom II X4 955BE to my i7 4770K @ 4.1 GHz I didn't bother with a DVD Burner / Blu-Ray drive. I would rather have something with minimal parts, and is ultra quiet that isn't wasting power.

When I upgraded the MacBook Pro not have a DVD burner or hard-wired ethernet port feels a little weird too, but I realized ... there is a time to hold onto old tech, but most of the time I have to ask:

Why?

Submission + - Haiku debates kernel switch to Linux... or not. (osnews.com)

Submitted by taikedz
taikedz writes: A very interesting discussion is taking place in the Haiku mailing list. A developer has created a working prototype implementation of the BeOS API layer on top of the Linux kernel, and he is wondering if the project is worth pursuing.

Both 'sides' make a lot of compelling arguments, and it gives a lot of insight into decisions that went into the Haiku project, both past and present.

Submission + - Geography Can Be Tough': Canada Trolls Russia For Ukraine Action (npr.org)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Tensions may be rising between Russian and Canada on the political front, but when it comes to Twitter, the two countries are already engaged in an all-out flame war.

On Wednesday, the Canadian Joint Delegation to NATO lobbed a cheeky tweet in Russia's direction following a Russian military spokesperson's claims that the country's soldiers had "accidentally" crossed the Ukranian border earlier this week.

"Geography can be tough," wrote the Canadian government agency's official Twitter account. "Here's a guide for Russian soldiers who keep getting lost & 'accidentally' entering #Ukraine."

Submission + - Why women have no time for Wikipedia 2

Submitted by Andreas Kolbe
Andreas Kolbe writes: Wikipedia is well known to have a very large gender imbalance, with survey-based estimates of women contributors ranging from 8.5% to around 16%. This is a more extreme gender imbalance than even that of Reddit, the most male-dominated major social media platform, and it has a palpable effect on Wikipedia content. Moreover, Wikipedia editor survey data indicate that only 1 in 50 respondents is a mother – a good proportion of female contributors are in fact minors, with women in their twenties less likely to contribute to Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation efforts to address this "gender gap" have so far remained fruitless. Wikipedia’s demographic pattern stands in marked contrast to female-dominated social media sites like Facebook and Pinterest, where women aged 18 to 34 are particularly strongly represented. It indicates that it isn’t lack of time or family commitments that keep women from contributing to Wikipedia – women simply find other sites more attractive. Wikipedia’s user interface and its culture of anonymity may be among the factors leading women to spend their online time elsewhere.

Submission + - Research Shows RISC vs CISC Doesn't Matter 1

Submitted by fsterman
fsterman writes: The power advantages brought by the RISC instruction sets used in Power and ARM chips is often pitted against the X86's efficiencies of scale. It's difficult to asses how much the difference between instruction sets matter because teasing out the theoretical efficiency of an ISA from the proficiency of a chip's design team, technical expertise of its manufacturer, and support for architecture-specific optimizations in compilers is nearly impossible . However, new research examining the performance of a variety of ARM, MIPS, and X86 processors gives weight to Intel's conclusion: the benefits of a given ISA to the power envelope of a chip are minute.

Submission + - Comcast tells government that its data caps aren't actually "data caps" (arstechnica.com) 1

Submitted by mpicpp
mpicpp writes: Customers must pay more if they exceed limits—but it’s not a cap, Comcast says.

For the past couple of years, Comcast has been trying to convince journalists and the general public that it doesn’t impose any “data caps” on its Internet service.

That’s despite the fact that Comcast in some cities enforces limits on the amount of data customers can use and issues financial penalties for using more than the allotment. Comcast has said this type of billing will probably roll out to its entire national footprint within five years, perhaps alongside a pricier option to buy unlimited data.

“There isn't a cap anymore. We're out of the cap business,” Executive Vice President David Cohen said in May 2012 after dropping a policy that could cut off people's service after they use 250GB in a month. Comcast's then-new approach was touted to "effectively offer unlimited usage of our services because customers will have the ability to buy as much data as they want."

Comment Re:Because of _censorship_ (Score 1) 300

by UnknownSoldier (#47758145) Attached to: Put A Red Cross PSA In Front Of the ISIS Beheading Video

Making excuses for X never works.

Either we are consistent, or we quickly slide down that slippery slope of banning X, Y, Z.

At what points does it stop?

Do we ban hentai, futanari, computer-generated / Computer-Graphics child porn, etc., etc.?? Who decides?? Why should we pretend that person _A_ morals are the ones everyone has to follow??

America was founded upon the principle of open toleration. "I may not agree with what you say but I will defend the right for you to say it."

If you don't want to watch images or videos that you find offensive, here is a novel idea, don't watch them.

The correct solution is tag videos, much like movies already do, so people have an IDEA of what to expect. I already skip NSFW emails, pictures, videos. I don't have the right to stop others from watching that and don't pretend to. I may not like what they see but guess what -- I don't have to. I only need to tolerate their choices as long as it effecting others negatively.

Censorship isn't the solution. In /. we allow people to post -- groupthink just moderates them down so they are less visible. Why? Because of one little fact:

ALL man-made laws are RELATIVE.

--
"Only cowards censor."

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