Comment: Evil sentients (Score 1) 722
Cthulhu, Landru, Vaal. And Bender, indirectly. After all, that's what they are.
A slightly more optimistic relative chose DeusExMachina.
Comment: Did you *really* count them all? (Score 2) 248
Most of mine are film cameras, not digital.
So who counted a camera obscura or even the light-sensitive contact paper used for kids' projects? And did you remember the one in your car facing backward?
And who still has outdated film in a film camera? One of mine does.
Comment: The power strip has a light... (Score 1) 497
... so even it counts as 1! Never mind the surge protector or UPS.
Comment: The horcrux of cookies (Score 0, Offtopic) 332
'Nuf said.
Comment: No old mobile phones, but I do have (Score 1) 307
several model 500 telephones lying around, a hand-crank generator that the kids used to ring them with, a Mickey phone (TPC actually required removal of the guts (their term) when I moved, and replacement at my new location), a landline phone I built myself, and an old, rusty mine telephone.
Then again, none of the wired phones is operational; we're only mobile now.
BlindType — the Amazing Keyboard of the Future 125
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kdawson
from the do-what-i-mean dept.
from the do-what-i-mean dept.
kkleiner writes "BlindType has created a new touchscreen keyboard program of the same name that changes size, orientation, and position to match your wandering fingers as they type. BlindType also features some of the most impressive typing correction software I've ever seen. The result is a practical touchscreen interface that knows what you meant to type, even if you make mistakes. Lots of them. In fact, you can type without looking at the screen at all."
FSF Asks Apple To Comply With the GPL For Clone of GNU Go 482
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timothy
from the y'know-fellas-the-license dept.
from the y'know-fellas-the-license dept.
I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "The Free Software Foundation has discovered that an application currently distributed in Apple's App Store is a port of GNU Go. This makes it a GPL violation, because Apple controls distribution of all such programs through the iTunes Store Terms of Service, which is incompatible with section 6 of the GPLv2. It's an unusual enforcement action, though, because they don't want Apple to just make the app disappear, they want Apple to grant its users the full freedoms offered by the GPL. Accordingly, they haven't sued or sent any legal threats and are instead in talks with Apple about how they can offer their users the GPLed software legally, which is difficult because it's not possible to grant users all the freedoms they're entitled to and still comply with Apple's restrictive licensing terms."
Mozilla Plans Fix For Critical Firefox Vulnerability In Next Release 140
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Soulskill
from the sooner-than-later dept.
from the sooner-than-later dept.
Trailrunner7 writes "A month after an advisory was published detailing a new vulnerability in Firefox, Mozilla said it has received exploit code for the flaw and is planning to patch the weakness on March 30 in the next release of Firefox. Mozilla officials said Thursday that the vulnerability, which was disclosed February 18 by Secunia, is a critical flaw that could result in remote code execution on a vulnerable machine. The vulnerability is in version 3.6 of Firefox."
Comment: My metric is WSJ's Walt Mossberg (Score 2, Interesting) 175
He has reviewed cloud backup and other services, yet never mentioned the legal differences between cloud based service storage and storage on your own in-house machine. That indicates that it's not interesting to his audience, which is telling. NPR recently did an article on how the domain holder of your email service is noticed by your potential job interviewer. Their comparison was between Yahoo! and of course AOL on one side (you're a LUser), and GMail on the other. Guess whose privacy actually suffers the most. This is definitely not understood.
FreeNAS Switching From FreeBSD To Debian Linux 206
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Soulskill
from the changing-horses dept.
from the changing-horses dept.
dnaumov writes "FreeNAS, a popular, free NAS solution, is moving away from using FreeBSD as its underlying core OS and switching to Debian Linux. Version 0.8 of FreeNAS as well as all further releases are going to be based on Linux, while the FreeBSD-based 0.7 branch of FreeNAS is going into maintenance-only mode, according to main developer Volker Theile. A discussion about the switch, including comments from the developers, can be found on the FreeNAS SourceForge discussion forum. Some users applaud the change, which promises improved hardware compatibility, while others voice concerns regarding the future of their existing setups and lack of ZFS support in Linux."