Comment So? (Score 1) 467
simply a way for Microsoft to fight against it from close up, and armed with inside knowledge."
So, What is wrong in that? Any company would do that to its rival if it can..
Comment Re:Not quite (Score 1) 259
A stockholder company has a wide range of fiduciary issues. It's very likely that if the government, as 80% owner, tried to force corporate secrets into the open that the other 20% could sue them for abandoning their responsibility to the company.
We don't want the secrets to be open, we just want the one who owns the 80% company (i.e., we the people) to know those secrets.
Comment Re:I'm sorry, but maybe I'm missing the point... (Score 2, Insightful) 148
If I don't want something on Facebook, I don't put it on Facebook. There! Problem solved!
No, you can not predict what information may put you in trouble in the future. Something that looks harmless at present may bite you in the ass in the future (e.g. during job search etc.). So, if you have encrypted your posts right from the beginning, then you don't have to worry about the future.
UK Plans To Monitor 20,000 Families' Homes Via CCTV 693
metrix007 points out a story in the Sunday Express with more surveillance-camera madness from the UK, where the government now wants to place 20,000 CCTV cameras to monitor families ("the worst families in England") within their own homes, to make sure that "kids go to bed on time and eat healthy meals and the like. This is going too far, and hopefully will not pass. Where will it end?"
Submission + - Obama's committment to Sciecne
warrior_s writes: President Obama addressed members of the National Academy of Sciences on April 27, announcing a renewed commitment to science, technology, engineering, and medicine. Topics included America's energy future, revitalizing our health care system, science and math education, and allocating funding and implementing policies to ensure that America reclaims a position of world leadership in scientific innovation.
This is the first time since John F. Kennedy that a President was addressing the NAS during his first year in office. Obama said 3.4 percent of GDP will be devoted to science. This is big !!!
This is the first time since John F. Kennedy that a President was addressing the NAS during his first year in office. Obama said 3.4 percent of GDP will be devoted to science. This is big !!!
Comment Online Advertising results in profit? (Score 1) 203
I don't understand why would anyone buy anything by clicking on the ads appearing on webpages? I usually google the thing I want to buy, or just go to amazon, buy.com etc for price comparison. I don't think I will ever buy anything by clicking on ads. It is surprising to me that online ads can help sustain companies. Can someone please enlighten me? Thanks!
Comment In 1999, (Score 1) 739
I had to buy a Red Hat book to get my hands on to the linux install CD that came with it.
It took me (and one of my other friends) a whole night to figure out how to partition the drive. Basically, it was something like if you install linux in the partition beyond 4 or 8 GB (dont remember exactly), then you can not boot linux from that partition. We had windows installed in the beginning of HD.
It took us a while to get it running, but it was fun.
There was no internet in our dorms at that time. All the computers on our floor were connected using the old coax cable with terminators at both the ends.
There was no internet in our dorms at that time. All the computers on our floor were connected using the old coax cable with terminators at both the ends.
Comment Re:140 Characters? (Score 1) 183
oh nevermind.. 26^140 is correct
Well, given an alphabet of just 'a-z' + ' ', that would be 26 ^ 140 or:
1, 248, 155, 560, 712, 888, 693, 721, 116, 035, 178, 646, 463, 649, 590, 092, 724, 076, 699, 557, 919, 198, 775, 318, 840, 655, 335, 967, 337, 203, 969, 601, 545, 498, 350, 937, 608, 330, 255, 529, 112, 180, 176, 094, 892, 997, 792, 623, 787, 890, 917, 357, 870, 916, 489, 701, 094, 150, 005, 153, 729, 071, 148, 146, 282, 725, 376
which is quite a few possibilities.
actually its 140^26... 140 characters each with 26 possibilities
Comment Re:140 Characters? (Score 1) 183
Well, given an alphabet of just 'a-z' + ' ', that would be 26 ^ 140 or:
1, 248, 155, 560, 712, 888, 693, 721, 116, 035, 178, 646, 463, 649, 590, 092, 724, 076, 699, 557, 919, 198, 775, 318, 840, 655, 335, 967, 337, 203, 969, 601, 545, 498, 350, 937, 608, 330, 255, 529, 112, 180, 176, 094, 892, 997, 792, 623, 787, 890, 917, 357, 870, 916, 489, 701, 094, 150, 005, 153, 729, 071, 148, 146, 282, 725, 376
which is quite a few possibilities.
actually its 140^26... 140 characters each with 26 possibilities
Submission + - Daling with your advisor 1
warrior_s writes: I think there are many graduate students as well as professors who read slashdot on regular basis. My question is about honesty of professors in academia.
What can a (new/junior) graduate student do when his advisor his passing on his work as the work of the more senior graduate student or a postdoc. I understand that senior graduate students are in need of good academic publications. But passing a junior student's work as someone else's work in unacceptable.
On the other hand, a junior student needs the help of faculty later on when he will be graduating. So, it is difficult to oppose this injustice. Specially in this economy, when just leaving the school is not an option for all. And changing the advisor (especially the one who is highly reputed in academia) is not seen as good thing in the department.
How can one deal with such advisors?
What can a (new/junior) graduate student do when his advisor his passing on his work as the work of the more senior graduate student or a postdoc. I understand that senior graduate students are in need of good academic publications. But passing a junior student's work as someone else's work in unacceptable.
On the other hand, a junior student needs the help of faculty later on when he will be graduating. So, it is difficult to oppose this injustice. Specially in this economy, when just leaving the school is not an option for all. And changing the advisor (especially the one who is highly reputed in academia) is not seen as good thing in the department.
How can one deal with such advisors?
Comment Re:Oscar betrays its Western centerednes (Score 1) 317
And just so that people outside India know, movies far far far better than slumdog are made every year in India...
An also, I think other movies in the best movie nomination were a lot better than slumdog.. seriously..what the hell was there in slumdog to get the best movie award... i may never understand.
An also, I think other movies in the best movie nomination were a lot better than slumdog.. seriously..what the hell was there in slumdog to get the best movie award... i may never understand.
Comment Re:Fool me once, shame on you (Score 1) 417
12? Where does 12 come from?
My concern with upgrading my brother's 512meg Vista machine to a 512meg Win7 machine is that (1) I still don't think it will run any faster and (2) Win7 might not have the necessary drivers to operate the video/audio cards and therefore be impossible to use.
I think your concern is not valid here. I am running Win7 on my 5 year old inspiron 300m with 640 Megs of memory, and believe me, Win7 is runnig just fine.. Never experienced any slowdown or anything.
And regarding drivers, it did not first install the drivers for my wireless card, but when I connected it to Internet using wired ethernet, it downloaded and installed the drivers for wireless card just fine. I was able to run all the programs for general web surfing,.. and IMs like skype yahoo etc without any problem.
Journal Journal: Is Google.com down?
As of 10:30pm eastern time, I think that google.com is suffering outage and may be under some kind of ddos attack
Comment Re:Wireless (Score 1) 1079
Because with Apple the AirPort Express is your "dock", as most of what you're asking for can already be done wirelessly. Plug your speakers and your printer into your Express,
The only thing here is that you can not plug your speakers into the airport express.
http://store.apple.com/us-hed/product/MB053?mco=MjU4NjAzNA#overview
Comment Re:What a pity (Score 2, Informative) 179
What I am saying is, seven years in to the stark reality posed by the threat of Islamic terrorism, I am surprised that India hasnt opted to carpet bomb Pakistan occupied Kashmir.
A correction, its not 7 years, its almost 20 years since islamic terrorism started in India.
This is the beginning I think, and the terrorists have never looked back.
