The thing on my mind is, how much does Oracle earn with a patch release. The ask toolbar crapware is installed by default and people hitting "next next next" will be infected. Only by installing this with care you will not get the ask toolbar. I know they are not alone in this (adobe wants to install the crome browser as default AND the google toolbar for IE, talk about redundancy) but they incorporate it in all updates..

I personally back up everything in my Wearable Personal Private Cloud (WPPC). The WPPC is amazing It can hold many GB's, is cheap for limited space but with a bit of money you can get a lot more space! The transfer speeds are amazing and I can access all my could data wherever I am as long as there is a computer, because it is the cloud it is always with me. It also has enhanced security an privacy features because it can be taken offline whenever I like it to be. In the old days the WPPC would be called a USB stick but that is just old! I hate it when the cloud label gets stuck on everything. A simple cluster with two nodes is now a cloud. Heck even a single synology nas with no reduncancy is now a cloud http://www.synology.com/support/video_your_cloud.php?lang=us In the old days it would be port forwarding not it is a cloud.

At Bean (http://www.baen.com/) the books are drm free and in all sorts of formats. When I buy a book I make shure it will be readable in the future on any new device I own no even when the store drm server crashes or the publisher goes belly side up. The books I buy at Bean don't have to be cracked in order to do this. One little confession: only 2 books and 1 monthly bundle were bought at Bean by me (I still buy books because for reading pleasure, not DRM free-ness).

Recently my ISP started an 'ipv6 pre-pilot', I instantly joined. I now run dual stack ipv4/ipv6 (stateless + dhcpv6) with an opendns ipv6 dns server. After the proper firmware was pushed to my modem it took me 15 minuted to config. Surprisingly i have had no problems at all. Windows vista/7 and android devices all receive/figure out both ipv4 and ipv6 configs. ipv6 incapable devices just kept humming without even touching them. Adding ipv6 was utterly uneventfull....bummer... Things I have done: I changed my startpage to http://ipv6.google.com/ (only for myself, other's don't care) Only sometimes i see something like the images: you are using ipv6 ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff:(yes too short) Using torrent I regularly see ipv6 peers (being connectable rocks) fun fact: the facebook ipv6 address is: 2620:0:1cfe:face:b00c::3

Is a file the (a)original data or (b) the original data + annotations data in other databases. What does a user expect when he/she creates a "copy" of a file. I have never seen a discussion like: "I downloaded a picture from facebook and now all the likes and comments are missing!" Suppose it will pop-up in the near future..

why? Microsoft mostly worked on improving earlier microsoft hyper-v code, it was below standards and needed a lot of work to be of acceptable quality. you could also state you will be upgrading immideately so earlier bad microsoft code will be replaced by acceptable quality ASAP! whatever you prefer either bad or good code from microsoft on your machine.

The negative effects are also observed in adult behaviour. people with cars with all safety features (airbags, crumple zones, abs, esp, a computer that detects weird behaviour and adjusts seats/seatbelts just before impact) drive less carefull than others with old "unsafe" cars. When sane grownup behaviour becomes worse with the safe features, i would not be surprised children becoming challenged to try to find a little danger no matter what. 'Hey running acros the street gets mu hartrate up with all the horns!'

http://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-intel-executive-was-wrong-about-windows-8 Long story short, this statement from intel is incorrect. But guess what: intel is a chip manufacturer that sells x86 cpu's and has sold its arm devision a few years back, how much more biased do you want a source of information. In reality it will most likely be an ugly vm running your old non recompilable software slowly.

Am I now a registerd ps3 pirate even though i don't even own a ps3? Bad me for being interested in console hacking!

in 3d now! 2d printing is soo last decade.

i totally forgot! they were fun ... for two days. really it was supposed to be a revolution/ riot thing. but i think it was so little of a nucance ot had virtually no impact. nothink like cutting internet for an entire country(a nucance that luckyly backfired spectacularly).

Wow look at al those comments... too much whitespace/ cannot turn of ajax/ warnings on validation/ yada yada... Slashdot is news for nerds, all nerds know how best to design a website and whatever will be released 80% will start bitching about function x and looks of part y. In other words it can never be good. I think it is, it looks fresh, it seems to perform smooth enough. Let me be part of the the 20% that sais: Good job slashdot, nice result of some hard work

Cars don't need fuel, that was just implemented to prevent sleep driving on long trips, this car has no driver so it does not need that function.

I am the only human in my own little IT firm, that makes a 1 in 1 ratio...