Comment Re:All of it (Score 1) 187
Or, how ever long they want to have that service free. They can just boot you anytime or close up that application, GOOGLE.
Or they could *stop* charging and give you a terabyte of data, FLICKR
Comment Depends which is "backup" and which is "media". (Score 1) 187
I keep all the photos I take locally and upload the better ones to Flickr. I call the local store a backup and the Flickr uploads the media and answered 0-20%, but some might view the local store as the media and the Flickr uploads as a backup.
As others have said I stopped collecting music/video locally once I knew I could stream/torrent anything I wanted whenever I wanted.
I'm really surprised at the results of this poll, I hope you all have off site backups!
For all of those of you saying that giving you data to 3rd parties allows them to start charging later Flickr recently went in the opposite direction.
Comment Make women *what* you? (Score 2) 295
Are those YouTube features personally tailored?
Also I'm pretty sure that theodp is breaking the Flickr T&Cs by linking directly to the image.
Comment Re:favorites... (Score 1) 204
No sir, *this* is the biggest problem with programming:
I can't imagine computer geeks using Word instead of their favorite text editors.
Indeed, everyone has his favorites.
All document conversions are left to the secretary (and she may do it in any way she pleases).
Submission + - PhD student builds 32 node Raspberry Pi cluster (theregister.co.uk)
JamieKitson writes: The Register has a report of PhD student Joshua Kiepert's side project building a beowolf cluster of 32 Raspberry Pis. "Side project" because he built it purely to test his main thesis and wanted to avoid having to wait to use his university's 32 node xeon cluster. Cue "imagine a beowolf cluster of these" jokes.
Submission + - Incredible bionic arm can pick up eggs, hold a beer. (youtube.com)
JamieKitson writes: This video uploaded to YouTube shows an amazingly advanced bionic arm. The last third or so of the video shows two incredible demonstrations that show its ability to pick up an egg without cracking it and then hold a (full) beer bottle without it slipping out of his hand. I honestly found it spine tingling. In a good way.
Submission + - OS upgrades powered by Git (webconverger.org)
JamieKitson writes: The latest Webconverger 15 release is the first Linux distribution to be automagically updatable from a Github repository. The chroot of the OS is kept natively in git's format and fuse mounted with git-fs. Webconverger fulfills the Web kiosk use case, using Firefox and competes indirectly with Google Chrome OS. Chrome OS also has an autoupdate feature, however not as powerful, unified & transparent as when simply using git.
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Comment Britain? Ha! (Score 1) 245
The idea that the British government (I am British btw) could orchestrate any sort of cyber attack is a joke. Have you seen the reports on any NHS project recently? Have you ever seen James Bond at a computer? No. I rest my case.
Comment ACPO (Score 1) 194
ACPO is a very strange organisation, it's an unaccountable PLC, refusing FOI requests, and yet it is funded in part by tax payer's money and has a lot of power within the police and government.
Comment Streisand (Score 0) 5
> The effort which had raised £2000 so far, was also thus nipped down in its buds, by the vengeful council.
Hardly, she's now up to £15k, over twice the original target.
Submission + - Politicians get 9 year old's blog shutdown, in retaliation for criticism (wired.com) 5
thej1nx writes: "Fed up of the frequently unhealthy lunches with limited salad options, provided by her School catering service/local council, nine year old Martha Payne from Argyll in Scotland started a cheeky blog, where she posted photos of her daily school meals and rated them. The blog gained quick worldwide attention, gathering over 2 million hits in just 2 months, with school children from around the world sending photos of their own lunches. The resulting public attention on its nutrition lacking food, shamed the local council into changing the skimpy unappetizing meals for healthier ones, after an initial month-long food fight with her.
Yesterday, the council finally retaliated by pulling her out of class and forcing her to shutdown her blog by informing her that she had been banned from taking photographs of the meals, due to the unflattering headlines appearing in the newspapers.
The 9 year old Martha had also started leveraging the blog by asking her followers to donate to a charity called Mary’s Meals that funds school food in Africa, and starting off herself by sending £50 that she got from a magazine that reprinted some of her photos. The effort which had raised £2000 so far, was also thus nipped down in its buds, by the vengeful council."
Yesterday, the council finally retaliated by pulling her out of class and forcing her to shutdown her blog by informing her that she had been banned from taking photographs of the meals, due to the unflattering headlines appearing in the newspapers.
The 9 year old Martha had also started leveraging the blog by asking her followers to donate to a charity called Mary’s Meals that funds school food in Africa, and starting off herself by sending £50 that she got from a magazine that reprinted some of her photos. The effort which had raised £2000 so far, was also thus nipped down in its buds, by the vengeful council."
Submission + - Primary school girl told to stop photographing and blogging school meals (blogspot.co.uk)
JamieKitson writes: "British primary (elementary I think to those of you in the US) school pupil Martha/"Veg" has been taking photographs of her school dinners and blogging about them at her blog Never Seconds since April. The blog has gained in popularity and Martha decided to do something with the popularity, namely raising money for an international school dinners charity. Unfortunately the local council, Argyll and Bute, having apparently not heard of the Streisand effect, didn't like the publicity that her blog was generating and have shut her down. There is a happy ending though, similarly to Matthew Inman found recently, donations have gone through the roof and she has already passed her target."
Comment Re:Payback! (Score 0) 667
Note the update: http://neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=467492
Comment Oh Dear (Score 0) 667
Uh-oh, now she's after me: https://twitter.com/Bostonglobalz/status/206188080007348225
Submission + - Photographer threatened with legal action after asserting his copyright (baldheretic.com)
JamieKitson writes: Photographer Jay Lee got more than he bargained for after sending some DMCA take down notifications out to hosts of sites using one of his pictures. One Candice Shwagger accuses him of everything from conspiracy over local sheriff elections to child abuse. Since Candice is now threatening legal action Jay has said he'll take down the post, so here's a snap shot.
After reading the story I checked for use of my own pictures and found one of them being used on a review site without even a credit. Here's a snap shot of that page.
After reading the story I checked for use of my own pictures and found one of them being used on a review site without even a credit. Here's a snap shot of that page.
