Comment Obvious (Score 0) 193
Fans of those movies / shows are more into gaming / software and know how to use torrents and usenet. There will always be a percentage of people who pirate material. The industry should just accept that and move on.
SnapChat Turns Down $3 Billion Offer From Facebook 188
Dr Herbert West writes about a reported $3 billion offer from Facebook that Snapchat CEO Evan Spiegel turned down. "Snapchat, a rapidly growing messaging service, recently spurned an all-cash acquisition offer from Facebook for close to $3 billion or more, according to people briefed on the matter. The offer, and rebuff, came as Snapchat is being wooed by other investors and potential acquirers. Chinese e-commerce giant Tencent Holdings had offered to lead an investment that would value two-year-old Snapchat at $4 billion. Evan Spiegel, Snapchat’s 23-year-old co-founder and CEO, will not likely consider an acquisition or an investment at least until early next year, the people briefed on the matter said. They said Spiegel is hoping Snapchat’s numbers – of users and messages – will grow enough by then to justify an even larger valuation, the people said."
Comment Re:Two additional words (Score 1) 195
Heh, I was also thinking Star Trek. Put some money into shielding tech that we can also use in space.
Comment Re: Another day, another anti-Apple story (Score 1) 326
"oil-on-the-censor". I see what you did there.
Comment Re:No, because reality is FUCKING BORING (Score 1) 438
I disagree. Reality can be entertaining. Like on The Avengers when Thor uses the metal tower to focus Mjolnir, that's real application of science.
Comment Creative directory (Score 1) 410
Really timoth?
Comment Re:So stop using corks (Score 1) 134
Boxes are easy to transport and may be subject to different taxation. The downsides are quite bad: higher sulphur content, looks tacky and no flow of air to soften tannins once opened.
Comment Re:Better plots? (Score 1) 1029
I think he was referring to Daniel Craig in the Dragon Tattoo remake, not modern James Bond movies.
Comment Re:I remember when... (Score 4, Funny) 134
I liked his story better.
Comment Name already in use (Score 0) 97
There already exists a popular Linux based satellite receiver called Dreambox.
Comment Re:Grammer perhaps? (Score 3, Interesting) 316
"Grammer". You're one to complain.
Comment Re:Ah, of course... (Score 2) 61
You've got the wrong city. The majority of Cape Town is safe. Johannesburg is dangerous.
Systemd Ditches GNU C Library for Their Own 92
In his typical fashion of replacing perfectly working software with
useless broken-by-design crap, our dearest Lennart has decided that
the time has come for systemd to gain an email program. He determined
that the GNU libc was insufficient for the task of a dbus-enabled cpu
hogging email client, leading to the new systemd libc: "
Technically, this move makes perfectly sense, too. We are sick
of supporting unstable glibc APIs and ABIs, and we believe that we
greatly benefit from the fact that we now finally have everything the
OS userspace consists of in one single repository. Of course, this new
libc is not available to Ubuntu and other Linux distributions that
have not yet adopted systemd. However, after deliberately choosing a
home-grown display server (Wayland) over the generally accepted one
(Mir) we decided creating an incompatible libc would be the best
approach to create a strong platform following a strict release
cadence."
On the bright side "We also renamed the API call creat() to create()..."
Comment Sympathy post (Score 1) 6
I feel bad for this ghost town of a story hence this comment.
Comment Re:Obvious troll (Score 4, Funny) 187
Give it a month
