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Comment: Shooters "fled scene on small motorized vehicles" (Score 1) 148

by Dast (#39088485) Attached to: Commercial Drones Taking To the Skies

Regardless what you think about the group who were launching the drone, I think we can all agree that our first reaction to seeing the ugly thing would be to shoot first and ask questions later. Years of first person shooter games with enemies that fly around have permanently implanted the reaction into my brain.

And then the drone shooters "fled scene on small motorized vehicles". Weird, but awesome.

Comment: Re:Intel Softcores (Score 1) 151

by Dast (#38104770) Attached to: Intel's Plans For X86 Android, Smartphones, and Tablets

1) Lots of experience in chip design. I don't see why they can't create an ARM-Core competitor.

They already did. It was called XScale (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xscale). I believe it was eventually sold to Marvell. I still do work for clients that use them. Not exactly power houses, but they get the job done.

Comment: Re:why is a GUI thread talking about network manag (Score 1) 835

by Dast (#36991716) Attached to: Linus Torvalds Ditches GNOME 3 For Xfce

Having just tried Xubuntu 11.04 and regular Ubuntu 11.04, trying to decide which to give to one of my clueless relatives, I'd say the one thing that lacked in the XFCE setup was browsing smb network shares through the file browser. It was easy for said relative to pop in an Ubuntu 11.04 boot cd (unity and all), get into a live desktop, and find the network share for some network gadget he had. Sure Nautilus pulls in a ton of junk and ain't great on your outdated desktop, but it works. The default file browser in Xubuntu wasn't nearly as functional, for all of the speed up it might have given.

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Twitter's Fantasy Valuation->

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jfruhlinger writes "Yesterday the press breathlessly reported that an infusion of cash from a Russian venture fund bumped Twitter's vaulation up to $8 billion dollars. But does this number have any basis in reality? It seems to follow a series of numbers put out by company insiders that have little or no relationship to its actual revenue or prospects for future profits."
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Federal IT Will Survive The Budget Deal->

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jfruhlinger writes "Like most people in America — and like most government workers in particular — federal IT staffers are wondering how the recent budget deal will affect them. It seems that they won't suffer much, for two reasons: there was already a major tech consolidation effort underway, and everyone involved is hoping that IT initiatives will result in cost-savings in other areas of government operations. In particular, federal moves to the cloud — which can yield considerable savings, despite a need for up-front investment that deters some shops — will continue."
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How To Manage 500,000 HD Cameras?!->

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An anonymous reader writes "I see stories like this and I shudder at the big brother implications, then the sys admin in me kicks in and wonders what kind of software and data center(s) are needed to cope with and manage this kind of incoming data?"
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Facebook: "Anonymity Has To Go Away" 4

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An anonymous reader writes "Facebook’s marketing director Randi Zuckerberg, who also happens to be Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s sister, wants to put an end to online anonymity. She believes that Internet users would act much more responsibly on the Internet if they were forced to use their real names at all times.

Related: Poole To Zuckerberg: You’re Doing It Wrong"

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