Comment Re:It's not ROT13 (Score 0) 263
Good job, people with mod points.
Comment Re:It's not ROT13 (Score 1) 263
What did you run twice? The XOR one time pad or the ROT-13?
Why, for the love of all that is holy, is this not +5 funny?
Comment Re:eBay... (Score 1) 291
Those are usually emulated ISA slots that plug into the PCI bus. They're not actually compatible with a huge number of PCI cards as they buffer commands before translating between buses, breaking anything that needs very low latency.
Submission + - Intranet Content Management in a hostile environment (youtube.com)
redalien writes: "Paul Roeland, president of the Plone Foundation, talks at the recent Plone Conference about using the Raspberry Pi and other cheap computers for running sub-$100 intranets in environments where unreliable power and corrupt law enforcement make traditional servers unusable."
Comment Re:Everything would be on the same day every year. (Score 1) 725
Ah, sorry, the new commenting system still confuses me after years, I didn't see the parent to your comment, only the grandparent.
Comment Re:Everything would be on the same day every year. (Score 1) 725
Have you even read TFA? This proposes changing to a 364 day calendar with a leap week.
Comment Re:Just wait ... (Score 1) 198
The EU regs are your friend. You take as standard than an iPhone has to be jailbroken to be useful. The SIM card is the essence of your account, having it removable separates the two so you can change them, swap with friends, move abroad and keep your phone, temporarily use them for a data device, etc.
Comment Re:Nooo, don't do this! (Score 1) 198
Absolutely. My first phone took a mini-SIM but there's a full-SIM handset at my house. I remember them well, and when I got my first mini-SIM I thought how clever it was that they were backwards compatible.
You know, IPv6 has been a standard for ages and it's got low adoption. Why? Because the people that could choose to do it are lazy, however they're more likely to do a simple change like this as it doesn't block backwards compat.
Submission + - Could a Twitter community create a real museum? (computinghistory.org.uk)
Anonymous Coward writes: "An "Open Letter to the Twitterverse" has been sent to Twitter followers of @computermuseum to help raise £1.5m to create a computing history museum in Cambridge."
Comment Waste of money (Score 2, Funny) 301
A subscription that nobody needs? Oh, the irony.
Submission + - BDFL considered (potentially) harmful (stevemcmahon.com)
redalien writes: "Steve McMahon of the Plone project discusses what the appropriate role of a BDFL is in a mature open source project and the importance of a not-for-profit foundation to limit the BDFL's powers:
"Many open-source software projects have a BDFL, typically one of the project founders. In a healthy project, that authority is nearly exclusively moral authority. There is little or no real legal or contractual authority resting with the title holder. Moral authority is important. It allows the BDFL to resolve disputes, and a healthy project needs one or more persons with that kind of authority. What’s vital is that the authority can be challenged, and, if not exercised on behalf of the community, lost. The fact that moral authority can be lost is the best insurance it will be well-used.
Comment In my best emo voice: (Score 1) 421
Leave Perelmen alone!
Comment Re:Windows Mobile (Score 1) 365
You can actually do 99% of the code of an app for Android in C/C++ also. Because the Launcher application/framework is Java, your point of entry needs to be a Java application, but that is the extent of the requirement.
Comment umm.. (Score 1) 370
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OR, we could go back to .rm
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Comment Re:Dumb Government Abuse of Power (Score 1) 819
You might want to look into allodial title then.
