Comment Re:is it just me (Score 1) 578
They should buy a mobile phone company and torpedo the price structure for mobile data plans. They should buy Sprint or T-Mobile.
Comment Re:Beg to differ... (Score 1) 338
Try turning on the encryption just for your password to you ISP provided email account. Oops, now you can't log in any more. When they won't let us use even the most basic security for our accounts how are we supposed to be secure?
Comment Re:aka: The Valdez package (aka The BP package) (Score 1) 96
I think they meant Billion.
Comment If it starts with an "i"... (Score 1) 391
I won't buy!
Comment Re:model of management and commitment (Score 2) 138
Half the population has an IQ LOWER than 100. Just sayin...
Comment Re:Wait, what? (Score 1) 1307
They could easily have a Shared Calendar in a Public Folder in Exchange or one on a SharePoint server. Just because it doesn't start with an "i" doesn't mean that the IT department can't get it to support an iPhone. iPhones are what most of the folks I support use and I have no Apple products.
Comment Fixed that (Score 1) 98
Hardware: SanDisk, Nikon and Sony are Developing a 500MB/sec 2TB Flash Card specification
There, fixed that for you.
Comment Re:Go for it (Score 1) 1065
Sure they can. It doesn't have to be jamming. It could force "airplane mode" for all phones in a car. It's easy to determine if a bluetooth or cellular signal is coming from inside or outside a vehicle, you just need 3 or 4 directional antennas at the perimiter of the car. The no communication mode could be enforced if the car was moving more than 5mph for example. Think a little bigger, these are more like computers than the phones of old, anything is possible.
Comment Try it on the Space Station (Score 1) 277
Test the theory out on the space station. They have had a fair share of issues with their solar panels, maybe this alternate power supply could create enough energy to not only run the space station but some ion rockets to keep it in the proper orbit.
Comment Re:For me (Score 1) 402
Agreed, a strong installation document, good Dev and Test environments, separation of duties between programmers and installers and strong change control make a MUCH more stable environment.
Comment Re:Not apathy... (Score 1) 432
I think the word that should be here is animosity (i.e. hatred) and not antipathy (dislike). My $.02.
Submission + - NOAA chief "Dr. Jane" denies "oil plumes" in Gulf (wordpress.com)
looncanada writes: Federal oceanography boss Jane Lubchenco has joined minds with BP chief exec Tony "I would like my life back" Hayward in denying that sub-surface oil plumes exist or that they pose a threat to deepwater marine life. Scientists working for NOAA's own agency seem to disagree.
Submission + - New Drug Type Promotes Natural Antioxidant Defense (dartmouth.edu)
Billybob Jr. writes: Researchers at Dartmouth College and Medical School are finding continued success with synthetic triterpenoids, a new family of drugs they have developed. These compounds are potent inducers of the Nrf2 molecule that regulates the body's own antioxidant defenses. Conceived in the 1990s by two chemistry professors, the drugs "magnify the anti-inflammatory and anticancer properties of triterpenoids that occur naturally in plants" by nearly 500,000 times. In addition to Cancer, further research has also found significant results in the treatment and prevention of Diabetes, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, chronic kidney disease, age-related macular degeneration and emphysema, and even obesity. The drugs are now being tested by Reata Pharmaceuticals in Phase I human trials.
Submission + - Police officers seek right not to be recorded (gizmodo.com) 1
linzeal writes: When the police act as though cameras were the equivalent of guns pointed at them, there is a sense in which they are correct. Cameras have become the most effective weapon that ordinary people have to protect against and to expose police abuse. And the police want it to stop. Judges, juries and legislatures support the police overwhelmingly on this issue with only a few cases where those accused of "shooting" the cops being vindicated through the courts.
Comment Re:2TB with 512-byte sectors (Score 1) 467
But you do take a performance hit on writing as two sectors have to be modified and rewritten if any data changes. This is why VMWare places such a priority on you getting it right. EMC and NetApp also have a lot of technical literature on why it is so important.
