Comment Re:On the cusp of a sea change (Score 2) 358
Gives a whole new meaning to 'my computer crashed' though...
Submission + - Ladies and gentlemen, set your alarms! (raspberrypi.org)
cekerr writes: It appears the long awaited Raspberry Pi computer has an imminent release:
"The Raspberry Pi Foundation will be making a big (and very positive) announcement that just might interest you at 0600h GMT on Wednesday 29 February 2012. Come to www.raspberrypi.org to find out what’s going on."
"The Raspberry Pi Foundation will be making a big (and very positive) announcement that just might interest you at 0600h GMT on Wednesday 29 February 2012. Come to www.raspberrypi.org to find out what’s going on."
Infertility Could Impede Human Space Colonization 360
intellitech writes "The prospect of long-term space travel has led scientists to consider, increasingly seriously, the following conundrum: if travelling to a new home might take thousands of years, would humans be able to successfully procreate along the way? The early indications from NASA are not encouraging. Space, it seems, is simply not a good place to have sex."
Comment Re:Seriously? (Score 5, Informative) 275
The world is consuming a
Your piddling 65k addresses for a class B? 2 hours, tops.
Comment Re:Never! (Score 1) 275
Here, have a
Comment Re:I got one (Score 2) 275
"But what's going to happen? Will IANA stop giving out numbers and say, "sorry, nothing we can do. No more numbers."
Yes. Quite possibly in less than a month.
When we're down to 5
The RIRs then have until their v4 pool runs dry - they won't get any more - which may be quite quick for some (like apnic) and slower for others.
After that it's down to what ISPs have - they'll probably ramp up their prices for v4 an instigate such horrors as carrier grade NAT, just to stretch it out, but it's just postponing the inevitable.
And yeah, potentially this is bigger than y2k and the great unwashe don't even know it's happening - even though it *will* affect them.
Comment Re:Looks (Score 1) 717
This should come out next year in the U.S.
Comment Re:Battery availability might be a concern. (Score 1) 328
BS. I used to use my old N95 as a GPS without any connection at all. It works fine.
Comment Handbrake (Score 5, Informative) 177
Handbrake is what I use:
Comment Re:Seriously? (Score 1) 561
Damn those entertainers...
Time To Dump XP? 1213
An anonymous reader writes "Gartner is saying it's time to plan your migration now (if you havent already done it). I for one know my company still has loads of users still on XP, citing training costs (time and money) rather than software license fees. Is my company alone in wanting to stay in the 1990s or is Windows 7 the way forward?"
Why IE9 Will Not Support Codecs Other Than H.264 436
jlp2097 writes "There is a new article up on Microsoft's IEBlog explaining why IE9 will support only the H.264 codec: 'First and most important, we think it is the best available video codec today for HTML5 for our customers. Relative to alternatives, H.264 maintains strong hardware support in PCs and mobile devices as well as a breadth of implementation in consumer electronics devices around the world, excellent video quality, scale of existing usage, availability of tools and content authoring systems, and overall industry momentum – each an important factor that contributes to our point of view. H.264 also provides the best certainty and clarity with respect to legal rights from the many companies that have patents in this area.'"
Comment Re:I can't believe..... (Score 5, Interesting) 179
It was voted in by about 200 pissed up MPs who had been dragged out of the pub to make sure it passed. Only about 40 actually attended the debate.
Watching it happen was an eye opener to say the least. Any illusions that we have actual representation died that day.
Comment Re:That'll work (Score 2, Interesting) 179
2*[branches of the ISP]*[Family members/friends/dog]
Also the act says nothing about keeping a count for *ex* subscribers.. so pingponging between two may be enough.
Mexico Will Shut Down 25.9 Million Cell Phones 370
Several months ago, as a way to prevent the use of cellular phones in criminal activities, the government of Mexico started a program to require all phone owners to register cell phones in their own names. The registry associates each phone with the listed owner's Clave Unica de Registro de Poblacion (CURP) [CURP, in English], which is supposed to be a unique ID for every Mexican citizen. Now, as nanahuatzin writes,
Yesterday the timeline to register the cell phones expired, and there are
[approx 26] million cell phones yet unregistered (English translation of the Spanish original). While the procedure is simple, sending a text message with the CURP to a special number, most people do not want to register: some are wary of the uses to which the government will put the data; others did not understand or did not know the procedure. So far, only 69% have registered, most of them in the last few days, while the system to register has been oversaturated. So in an unprecedented move for any country, the Mexican government is announcing the shutdown of 25.9 million cell phone lines. Meanwhile, as a measure of protest, hundreds of people have registered their cell phones in the name of the president of Mexico, Felipe Calderon Hinojosa, to show how pointless is the registry."
