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Comment Cheap cellular cost? (Score 1) 851

by D H NG (#38462776) Attached to: Do You Really Need a Smart Phone?
Where did you get such a cheap cellular plan? I hardly make any calls, but my bare-bones prepaid phone plan costs more than $4 a month. In the US, the cheapest I found is T-Mobile To Go, which charges about 10 cents a minute if you buy $100. Since the minutes last at most a year, the minimum you have to pay is about more than $8 a month.
Twitter

Submission + - Juror's Tweets Overturns Trial Verdict (bbc.co.uk) 1

Submitted by D H NG
D H NG writes: The Arkansas Supreme Court had overturned a murder conviction due to a juror tweeting during the trial. Erickson Dimas-Martinez was convicted in 2010 of killing a teenager and was sentenced to death. His lawyers appealed the case on account of a juror tweeting his musings during the trial. Tweets sent include "The coffee here sucks" and "Court. Day 5. here we go again". In an opinion, Associate Justice Donald Corbin wrote "because of the very nature of Twitter as an... online social media site, Juror 2's tweets about the trial were very much public discussions." Dimas-Martinez is to be given a new trial.

Comment Re:Hold up, wait a minute (Score 1) 585

by D H NG (#37559886) Attached to: Chrome Set To Take No. 2 Spot From Firefox

May eventually happen, but It's going to be a bit...

Stats from from a real world web site over the last 30 days...

MS Internet Explorer No 891,058 47.4 % Firefox No 317,909 16.9 % Safari No 264,506 14 % Google Chrome No 162,473 8.6 % Android browser (PDA/Phone browser) No 93,691 4.9 % Unknown ? 54,509 2.8 % IPhone (PDA/Phone browser) No 28,603 1.5 % Mozilla No 25,610 1.3 % Opera No 12,074 0.6 % BlackBerry (PDA/Phone browser) No 9,396 0.4 %

Must be an Apple-oriented site. Where in the real world would Safari be ahead of Chrome?
Google

Submission + - Belgian newspapers delisted on Google (google.com)

Submitted by D H NG
D H NG writes: After being ordered by the Belgian courts to "remove from its Google.be and Google.com sites, and in particular, cached links visible on Google Web and the Google News service, all articles, photographs and graphics of daily newspapers published in French and German by Belgian publishers", Google had removed all traces of the newspapers in question from all its search services. The newspapers, however, are crying foul, and alleged that it was done in retaliation for being sued for copyright violations.
China

Submission + - China-Based Password Collection Campaign Uncovered (blogspot.com)

Submitted by D H NG
D H NG writes: Google announced that it recently uncovered a campaign to collect users' passwords. The campaign, apparently originating from China, affected what seem to be the personal Gmail accounts of hundreds of users including, among others, senior U.S. government officials, Chinese political activists, officials in several Asian countries (predominantly South Korea), military personnel and journalists. Google said it detected and has disrupted this campaign and has notified victims and secured their accounts, as well as notified the relevant government authorities.

Comment Won't run on older machines (Score 1) 729

by D H NG (#36013362) Attached to: Ubuntu Unity: The Great Divider
I "upgraded" my 5-year-old Dell laptop (one of the first that came pre-installed with Ubuntu) from 10.10 to 11.04 and had to switch to classic mode. The Unity interface seems to require too much resource and so it didn't load anything besides the desktop icons. I've had similar problems before with Compiz. Seems like with this release, the Ubuntu people dropped any pretense of catering to older systems and went full force with the eye candy. If I want a resource hog OS, I might as well go with Windows.

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