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Comment Re:Money (Score 1) 758

I was thinking more about Windows licensing, as to run those you need to run Windows, and server versions of Windows are fucking expensive with licensing.

No need to use the Express editions of Visual Studio when you can get the full version for free through Bizspark

Bizspark is Microsoft's way of hooking start ups. Free licenses to all MS software, yes office included (even Office for Mac), for 3 years. Then you pay an "exit" fee of $99

After the 3 years you can continue to use the products you just don't get anymore licenses, and yes they can be used for commercial stuff.

A little fine print, you must meet the following requirements:

  • Developing software?
  • Privately held?
  • Less than three years old?
  • Making less than US $1M annually?

http://bizspark.com/

Comment Re:Title is wrong, not GPS (Score 1) 379

The Wikipedia article states that the satellite also broadcasts the same information as a "GPS" satellite. Don't know if that makes it a GPS sat or not since it is commerical, but it does all the function of a GPS sat plus more (WAAS).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wide_Area_Augmentation_System

"The space segment consists of multiple geosynchronous communication satellites which broadcast the correction messages generated by the Wide-area Master Stations for reception by the User segment. The satellites also broadcast the same type of range information as normal GPS satellites, effectively increasing the number of satellites available for a position fix..."

Image

Verizon Sued After Tech Punches Customer In Face 493

suraj.sun writes "A Verizon customer filed a lawsuit after the tech the company sent out got a little punchy. Instead of fixing the customer's problem, the tech allegedly hit him in the face. The New York Post says the tech attacked the customer after he asked to see some ID before allowing access to the apartment. From the article, '"You want to know my name? Here's my name," Benjamin snarled, slapping his ID card into Isakson's face, according to Isakson's account of the December 2008 confrontation. "The guy essentially snapped. He cold-cocked me, hit me two or three solid shots to the head while my hands were down," said Isakson, a limo driver. He said the pounding bloodied his face and broke his glasses. But things got uglier, Isakson said, when Benjamin squeezed him around the neck and pressed him up against the wall. "He's prepared to kill me," Isakson said. "That's all I could think of." The customer broke free and ran away. The Verizon tech then chased the customer until he was subdued by a neighbor who was an off-duty cop.'"
Patents

Submission + - EFF Busts Illegitimate Subdomain Patent (infozine.com)

eldavojohn writes: "Unlike a lot of community support protection programs, the EFF's Patent Busting Project is starting to bear real fruit instead of just leveling the finger at companies. The USPTO is revoking an illegitimate patent granted in 2004 that sounds like automatically assigning subdomains. Sites like Wordpress, LiveJournal or basically anyone with generated subdomains have been doing this for quite some time. If you have some extra cash, now's the time to pony up a few bucks so the EFF can continue on as one of the few organizations genuinely protecting your interests."

Comment Re:Not the programming (Score 2, Informative) 334

Dish Network has the Family Pack for $19.99. That gets you 55 channels. Sure most are family orientated but you also get channels like:

DO IT YOURSELF
FOX NEWS CHANNEL
Outdoor Channel
RFDTV
THE SCIENCE CHANNEL

Or The Welcome Pack for $9.99 (23 channels)

  Comedy Central
  Home & Garden
  Oxygen
  AMC
  TBS
  MTV2
  Boomerang
Discovery Kids
  Learning Channel
  MSNBC

Dish Network is moving to the small packages and it sells pretty good.

Comment Re:Linux on PS3? (Score 1) 425

The guys who created the Rouge Equifax Signing Certificate used 200+ PS3 to help find the MD5 collision.

We had more than 200 PS3s at our disposal, located at the "PlayStation Lab" of Arjen Lenstra's Laboratory for Cryptologic Algorithms at EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland

http://www.win.tue.nl/hashclash/rogue-ca/

There are tons more you can do with a PS3 than play games.

Comment Re:Surely (Score 1) 497

Speaking from experience: Microsoft site licenses for its products for academic institution cost $0

I dont think that you are speaking from Experience.

Micrsoft would never give away Server 2008, Vista, VS 2008 for a whole school for free. On the page you linked to you need to click on 'Compare Subscriptions'

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/academic/bb676724.aspx

and you will see that the cheapest they offer is $399 a year. That only gives you online access.

Each department needs to sign up for MSDNAA. The CS dept. cant use its software keys for the Math or Engineering dept.

The ACM club at my school sells Vista, and VS 2008 for $20 each. If my school did the 3 years online and media for $1437, it would only take 24 students a year to buy Visual Stuido and it pays for itself.

Sure it is not free, but you are not losing money on it.

Comment Re:Misplaced priorities? (Score 5, Informative) 342

They only offer at most 95% per month, MINUS pre-scheduled downtimes, and non-scheduled downtimes that are "exempt". Honestly, 90% uptime per month real. The key is that these numbers are not real, because of the possible exemptions and everything, so a real SLA is unknown.

You could not be more wrong:

Enterprise-class service â" Google Apps includes a 99.9% uptime SLA.* Phone support is available for critical issues.

*The 99.9% uptime SLA for Google Apps is offered to organizations using Google Apps Premier Edition, as described in the Google Apps Premier Edition Terms of Service

http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/business/messaging.html

Sure it is only 3 nines but that is way better than the 90% you said

Comment Re:Just wondering.. (Score 1) 591

Don't do this. Wasting public money is not smart.

You don't need a coupon to buy one. it is just a coupon.

    We sell the DTV Pal box http://www.dtvpal.com/ If you wanted to and had the money we would let you buy every unit we have. The gov does not make them, or sell them. Private companies make and sell them, in the process they make some money.

We have customers who have one coupon and they buy 2 or 3

The coupon makes it easier for grandpa on Social Security to afford one.

Comment Re:I hope they win (Score 1) 77

When mine broke I decided that just because of itunes i was going to look for a different brand. It seemed like it installed 10 windows services always had updates and then the whole give you Safari unless you opted out.

That was when I said no more

My brother says it is 100 times better on his Macbook Pro. So i guess it is not all bad.

Television

Submission + - Blu-ray won't play Profile 2.0 Discs 4

Reservoir Hill writes: "Blu-ray may have taken a commanding lead in the next-generation format war but Betanews is reporting that early supporters of Blu-ray will be left out in the cold when the Blu-ray Disc Association introduces BD Profile 2.0, expected to arrive in October. Unlike HD DVD, which mandated features such as local storage, a second video and audio decoder for picture-in-picture, and a network connection from the very beginning, the companies behind Blu-ray took a different approach to keep costs down. "We should have waited another year to introduce Blu-ray to the public, but the format war changed the situation," said one manufacturer. Representatives at the Blu-ray booth at CES said that the PlayStation 3 is currently the only player they would recommend, due to upcoming changes to the platform. Asked if they were concerned about a backlash from early adopters who supported the format from the beginning, one representative said: "They knew what they were getting into.""
Security

Submission + - Facebook and PGP (sans.org) 1

An anonymous reader writes: SANS Internet storm center writes: "Facebook has taken a step in the right direction by adding the ability to add a link to your public PGP key. It also allows you to see which of your friends have keys. Hopefully it will also spread the word about PGP and allow for a more secure/safer social networking site. Granted, with PGP, there is a level of trust needed. However, it is still a step in the right direction and affords the benefit of no need to go searching public key servers looking for the key you need." Link to said application: http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?api_key=a98cc1399afbb000b568826ba5e0eecb

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