Comment Re:Why number pads? (Score 2, Funny) 523
... in case you hadn't noticed
in case you haven't noticed... we should be glad it's just upside down.
Seeing what they did to the letters, we're lucky the numpad isnt:
5 7 0
3 8 1
2 4 9
6
Comment Re:I wish the numpad would die (Score 1) 523
here's a penny kid. go buy yourself a joypad.
Comment Re:My Favorite Keyboard (Score 1) 523
from grandtech site i assume they just sell rebranded chinese stuff. you could probably get a "cheap foldable keyboard" instead of the "virtually indestructible expensive keyboard"
Tech Firms Oppose Union Organizing 715
cedarhillbilly passes along a piece from TheHill.com on the chilly reception that tech firms and lobbying groups are giving to a bill promoting union formation, which has a chance of passing in a more strongly Democratic congress and with a Democratic president. "Up to now, large tech groups have been on the sidelines in what is likely to be one of the roughest fights in Congress next year. A few, however, are preparing to weigh in. That makes other tech lobbyists nervous that, by doing so, the industry could sacrifice relatively good relationships with Democrats and, therefore, jeopardize some of their other legislative priorities."
Barack Obama Is One Step Closer To Being President 601
At 3:00 Eastern time on Monday Dec. 15, 538 electors in state capitols across the US cast the votes that actually elected Barack Obama the 44th President. Obama received, unofficially, 365 electoral votes (with 270 needed to win). The exact total will not be official — or Obama officially elected — until Congress certifies the count of electoral votes in a joint session on Jan. 6, 2009. The Electoral College was established in its present form in 1804 by the Twelfth Amendment to the US Constitution. Electors are not required to vote for the candidate who won their state — in fact, 24 states make it a criminal offense to vote otherwise, but no "faithless elector" has ever been charged with a crime. "On 158 occasions, electors have cast their votes for President or Vice President in a manner different from that prescribed by the legislature of the state they represented. Of those, 71 votes were changed because the original candidate died before the elector was able to cast a vote. Two votes were not cast at all when electors chose to abstain from casting their electoral vote for any candidate. The remaining 85 were changed by the elector's personal interest, or perhaps by accident. Usually, the faithless electors act alone. An exception was in 1836 when 23 Virginia electors changed their vote together. ... To date, faithless electors have never changed the otherwise expected outcome of the election."
Which OS Performs Best With SSDs? 255
Lucas123 writes "Linux, Vista and Mac OS perform differently with solid state disks. While all of them work well with SSDs, as they write data more efficiently or run fewer applications in the background than XP, surprisingly Windows 2000 appears to be the winner when it comes to performance. However, no OS has yet been optimized to work with SSDs. This lost opportunity is one Microsoft plans to address with Windows 7; Apple, too, is likely to upgrade its platform soon for better SSD performance."
Nmap Network Scanning 125
brothke writes "The 1962 song Wipe Out,
with its energetic drum solo started, was the impetus for
many people to take up playing the drums. Similarly,
Nmap, the
legendary network scanner, likely interested many in the art of hacking, and
for some, started a career for security professionals and
hackers. Nmap and its creator
Fyodor
need no introduction to anyone on Slashdot. With
that, Nmap Network Scanning: The Official Nmap Project Guide to
Network Discovery and Security Scanning, is a most useful
guide to anyone interested in fully utilizing Nmap." Read on for the rest of Ben's review.
Comment only got false positives anyway (Score 1) 351
for the 10min I left the filter on, all I got was false positives.
good riddance.
The same with the SSL fiasco recently. I bet my right arm that key people there are getting paid off the record for those changes.
Why would a open source app make it such a hassle to accept self signed certs?
Google To Sell Truly Open Android Dev Phone 219
binary.bang writes "Google has announced an unlocked version of T-Mobile's G1 for sale at the same unlocked price of $399. The Android Dev Phone 1 is the G1, except being truly open: no SIM-lock, no hardware lock. Feel free to flash your customized Android build — the bootloader won't be checking for signatures. Don't be misled by the word 'Dev,' looks like all you need to qualify is an Android Market account. This looks like the Open Handset Alliance delivering the promised Open Handset: yes root, yes flash-your-build, no contract, no strings attached. Anyone else relieved & thrilled?"
RIAA Sues 19-Year-Old Transplant Patient 663
NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "Just when you think they've reached rock bottom, it seems the RIAA always finds room to sink a little lower. This time they've sued an innocent, 19-year-old transplant patient, hospitalized with pancreatitis and needing islet cell transplants. Although the young Pittsburgh lady claims that she did not infringe any copyrights, she failed to answer the complaint in time, and a default judgment was taken against her. A Pittsburgh area lawyer has stated that he will represent her pro bono and make a motion to open up the default."
Bittorrent To Cause Internet Meltdown 872
Gimble writes "Richard Bennett has an article at the Register claiming that a recent uTorrent decision to use UDP for file transfers to avoid ISP 'traffic management' restrictions will cause a meltdown of the internet reducing everybody's bandwidth to a quarter of their current value. Other folks have also expressed concern that this may not be the best thing for the internet."
Comment Re:features myth (Score 1) 652
Apple's decision for their next OS, Snow Leopard, would indicate that you've incorrectly identified their beliefs. After all, the whole point of the next OS is to not bother with new features aimed at the end user and instead to focus on refining what they already have. Sounds like they're already doing just what you suggest that they should be doing.
Comment google == microsoft (Score 1) 73
google never opened nothing and never will.
search api? good luck finding usefull places using it with the daily limits they impose. all they do is open up spots on their apps so you could run some widgets.
microsoft came from a time when everyone was locked in IBM mainframes. they were the salviours because they let you use personal computers. now that's freedom! personal computers!
now, everyone is locked in microsoft applications. and google came to the rescue. you can run a widget inside their email and callendar app. now that's freedom!
And what about the little code they open source? that java framework to spit out unreadable javascript... geez. I'm on YUI side on this one.
StarOffice Dropped From Google Pack 135
Barence writes "Sun's StarOffice suite has been mysteriously dropped from the Google Pack of free software. The office suite has been axed without any warning or explanation on the Google site. Is Google trying to drive more people towards its own online suite of office applications? Or has it been stung into action by Steve Ballmer's recent comment that Microsoft Office faces stronger competition from StarOffice than it does Google Docs and Spreadsheet?"
Drive From Sydney Museum Could Unlock NASA Moon Data
"An archiving error by NASA has meant 173 data tapes have sat in Perth for almost 40 years, holding information about lunar dust that could be vital in expanding science's understanding of the moon. But after almost four decades, a donation from a Sydney computer society looks set to breathe fresh life into a long-neglected field of lunar science. ... These were the only active measurements of moon dust made during the Apollo missions, and no-one thought it was important. ... Mr Holmes has kept the tapes in a climate-controlled room since then, and it was only when he stumbled upon a 1960s IBM729 Mark 5 tape drive at the Australian Computer Museum that his company had the ability to unlock the information."
