Comment RIP Steve - genius and innovator (Score 1) 1613
RIP Steve Jobs, the world will miss your vision and creativity.
Comment Favorites (Score 1) 368
Which is your favorite Star Trek enemy of Kirk?
Which is your favorite Star Wars movie?
What is your favorite music band?
Thanks for all the years and places we have never gone before...
Which is your favorite Star Wars movie?
What is your favorite music band?
Thanks for all the years and places we have never gone before...
Comment Thank you Rob! (Score 1) 1521
Thanks so much for /. and for all the thoughtful articles, comments, and unique points of view over the years.
Hoping for more good things in your future!
Good luck Rob!!!
Hoping for more good things in your future!
Good luck Rob!!!
Comment They are watching... (Score 1) 189
They are always watching you. No matter what you type, text, or tweet, they can and will read it and you will never even know.
After facebook facial recognition technology comes to fruition, your behavior patterns will be analyzed and recorded, and you may be 're-programmed' to fit back in to society nicely. If you fail to comply with the surveillance overlords, you must be prepared for the inevitable consequences.
The 'land of the free and the home of the brave' thanks you in advance for your cooperation.
Have a nice day.
After facebook facial recognition technology comes to fruition, your behavior patterns will be analyzed and recorded, and you may be 're-programmed' to fit back in to society nicely. If you fail to comply with the surveillance overlords, you must be prepared for the inevitable consequences.
The 'land of the free and the home of the brave' thanks you in advance for your cooperation.
Have a nice day.
Comment Free ebooks for everyone! (Score 1) 207
http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page
Get your free ebooks here! No need to enrich Amazon and Apple if you don't want to.
Get your free ebooks here! No need to enrich Amazon and Apple if you don't want to.
Comment Advertising is swamping the internet (Score 3, Insightful) 208
In my humble opinion.
Comment Re:Biting the hand that feeds you (Score 1) 301
Because there is a profit in it?
Comment Wronghaven (Score 4, Insightful) 36
It's a haven of wrongdoing!
But seriously, if we are going to sue every website and blog for re-posting photos found on the web, the internet is going to have to shut down due to widespread copyright violations.
But seriously, if we are going to sue every website and blog for re-posting photos found on the web, the internet is going to have to shut down due to widespread copyright violations.
Submission + - Apple doesn't love you, they just want your money (zdnet.com)
digitaldc writes: For years, OSX users have crowed about how they didn’t have to worry about viruses or malware, because mommy Apple kept them safe with an operating system that was immune to such things.
No, it was never immune. It was simply never on the radar of malware authors because it wasn’t financially attractive enough to attack. With the hundreds of millions of unprotected Windows installations, it didn’t make sense to bother. Well, there’s enough OSX users out there now to make it worthwhile, and the attacks are starting.
Apple’s response? Sticking its fingers in its ears and shouting “LALALALA! I can’t hear you!”
No, it was never immune. It was simply never on the radar of malware authors because it wasn’t financially attractive enough to attack. With the hundreds of millions of unprotected Windows installations, it didn’t make sense to bother. Well, there’s enough OSX users out there now to make it worthwhile, and the attacks are starting.
Apple’s response? Sticking its fingers in its ears and shouting “LALALALA! I can’t hear you!”
Comment Does anyone even use these any more? (Score 1) 301
I remember being FORCED to buy a TI graphing calculator in order to pass a college mathematics course. I remember all we needed it for was to plot graphs, which could have been (and probably should have been) done on paper. I didn't really learn anything by using it, except how to use the calculator. I used it for a couple months and then promptly sold it when I was done with the course.
What a scam by my college and TI.
What a scam by my college and TI.
Comment Apple is a religion (Score 1) 636
Just like any other one, you have to pay to truly 'belong' and you must never, ever take the Jobs name in vain.
Comment Lazy Stars (Score 1) 181
"the researchers estimated that there are nearly two free-floaters for every star in our galaxy."
Someone really needs to tell these stars to remember to flush when they are done with their solar discharges.
Someone really needs to tell these stars to remember to flush when they are done with their solar discharges.
Comment The world will end ... not worth worrying about (Score 1) 585
Time to live for today. NOW is the time we must worry about, make the best of what you have now at the moment.
Comment Cost / benefit analysis of monitoring everything (Score 1) 221
"...the publishers also want access to all computer systems on the campus network, to monitor compliance and copying."
Okay so the publishers are going to hire a small army of people to enforce this monitoring provision? Sounds like that cost will outweigh any losses incurred from anyone copying more than 10% of their material.
Sounds pretty stupid to me.
Okay so the publishers are going to hire a small army of people to enforce this monitoring provision? Sounds like that cost will outweigh any losses incurred from anyone copying more than 10% of their material.
Sounds pretty stupid to me.
Comment Funny, I heard the same thing about their cameras (Score 4, Interesting) 252
I heard on the radio the other day that hotel and city surveillance cameras were going to be the key to prove his innocence or guilt since they are virtually EVERYWHERE in New York City.
The other interesting tidbit of information is that DSK said that he would be set-up in some sort of entrapment sex scandal a few weeks before he arrived in the USA.
Makes you wonder...
The other interesting tidbit of information is that DSK said that he would be set-up in some sort of entrapment sex scandal a few weeks before he arrived in the USA.
Makes you wonder...
