Comment: Re:Where did the chips come from? (Score 1) 53
Chips can't be radioactive if produced from material free of radioactive material.
Maybe potato chips are the secret ingredient in Andrea Rossi's E-Cat Cold Fusion machine . . . ?
Comment: Re:DOA (Score 1) 431
There's no way this boneheaded bill will get past the Republican controlled House.
It's not about getting past . . . it's about posturing, posing and voguing by the Rep. He just wants to make a fuss about something so his constituents will maybe think that he is actually doing something useful for them.
Why waste time on a no-chance bill proposal . . . ? Publicity, of course.
Comment: Re:How about open-sourcing it? (Score 1) 259
. . . "Symphony" . . .
Comment: Re:Lotus -- OpenOffice (Score 1) 259
Symphony was just the Lotus style shell over it.
. . . so was anything said about Symphony in any announcement . . . ? Is that on the chopping block, as well . . . ?
Comment: Re:Learning is great (Score 4, Informative) 202
Learning is surely great in all forms.
. . . plus by learning the language . . . you also learn the culture. And be able to understand it better. That makes real business sense.
Comment: Re:2 obligatory questions (Score 1) 89
Go bush around here, and distances get epic.
. . . which is probably way off the rural scale in Germany, where the system was developed.
Folks in Germany see Australia on TV as a place where B-celebrities are sent to eat nasty looking creepy-crawlers and bathe in kangaroo poo. And then whine and bitch about each other to see who gets to stay the longest.
So how does one stay connected in southern cross . . . ?
+ - Goodbye, Lotus 1-2-3->
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walterbyrd writes "In 2012, IBM started retiring the Lotus brand. Now 1-2-3, the core product that brought Lotus its fame, takes its turn on the chopping block. IBM stated, "Effective on the dates listed below, [June 11, 2013] IBM will withdraw from marketing part numbers from the following product release(s) licensed under the IBM International Program License Agreement:" IBM Lotus 123 Millennium Edition V9.x, IBM Lotus SmartSuite 9.x V9.8.0, and Organizer V6.1.0.
Further, IBM stated, "Customers will no longer be able to receive support for these offerings after September 30, 2014. No service extensions will be offered. There will be no replacement programs.""
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Further, IBM stated, "Customers will no longer be able to receive support for these offerings after September 30, 2014. No service extensions will be offered. There will be no replacement programs.""
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+ - Justice Department got more than phone records in journalist probe->
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PolygamousRanchKid writes "When the Justice Department began investigating possible leaks of classified information about North Korea in 2009, investigators did more than obtain telephone records of a working journalist suspected of receiving the secret material.
They used security-badge access records to track the reporter’s comings and goings from the State Department, according to a newly obtained court affidavit. They traced the timing of his calls with a State Department security adviser suspected of sharing the classified report. They obtained a search warrant for the reporter’s personal emails.
The case of Stephen Jin-Woo Kim, the government adviser, and James Rosen, the chief Washington correspondent for Fox News, bears striking similarities to a sweeping leaks investigation disclosed last week in which federal investigators obtained records over two months of more than 20 telephone lines assigned to The Associated Press. AP executives and First Amendment watchdogs have criticized the Justice Department in part for the broad scope of the phone records it secretly subpoenaed. “The latest events show an expansion of this law-enforcement technique,” said attorney Abbe Lowell, who is defending Kim on federal charges filed in 2010 that he disclosed national-defense information.
Investigators also scrutinized computer records and found that someone who had logged in with Kim’s user profile viewed the classified report “at or around” the same time two calls were placed from his desk phone to Rosen, according to the documents."
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They used security-badge access records to track the reporter’s comings and goings from the State Department, according to a newly obtained court affidavit. They traced the timing of his calls with a State Department security adviser suspected of sharing the classified report. They obtained a search warrant for the reporter’s personal emails.
The case of Stephen Jin-Woo Kim, the government adviser, and James Rosen, the chief Washington correspondent for Fox News, bears striking similarities to a sweeping leaks investigation disclosed last week in which federal investigators obtained records over two months of more than 20 telephone lines assigned to The Associated Press. AP executives and First Amendment watchdogs have criticized the Justice Department in part for the broad scope of the phone records it secretly subpoenaed. “The latest events show an expansion of this law-enforcement technique,” said attorney Abbe Lowell, who is defending Kim on federal charges filed in 2010 that he disclosed national-defense information.
Investigators also scrutinized computer records and found that someone who had logged in with Kim’s user profile viewed the classified report “at or around” the same time two calls were placed from his desk phone to Rosen, according to the documents."
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Comment: Re:2 obligatory questions (Score 1) 89
A 1km range is next to nothing for rural Australian
For Texans, 1 mile is "neighbors" . . .
. . . 100 miles is "just down the road" . . .
. . . 1000 miles is "just down the road, aways" . . .
+ - Jolla Promises Sailfish Phone by End of 2013->
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judgecorp writes "Jolla has announced the first phone to use Sailfish, the new name for the MeeGo Linux-based mobile operating system which originated in Nokia. Jolla says the phone's coloured cases are more than just covers — they are an "other half" of the phone which will change and customise the appearance and functions of software on the phone."
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+ - Jolla Announces 1st Meego/Android-App Device Available Year End 2013
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x_IamSpartacus_x writes "Jolla, the Finnish company that continued Nokia’s work on the MeeGo mobile platform, announced details of its first smartphone on Monday. Availability for the Jolla device is expected by year end and can be pre-ordered now; the phone will be priced at no more than €399 (US $512.26).
The Jolla hardware looks similar to that of Nokia’s Lumia, with a clean, button-less front face that houses the 4.5-inch touchcscreen.The phone will use a dual-core processor and support 4G LTE in some regions. Internal storage tops out at 16 GB, but can be expanded via microSD card. The phone also includes an 8 megapixel rear camera with auto focus.
The phone is also “Android app compliant” which, in a move similar to that of BlackBerry, can help with available apps at launch."
The Jolla hardware looks similar to that of Nokia’s Lumia, with a clean, button-less front face that houses the 4.5-inch touchcscreen.The phone will use a dual-core processor and support 4G LTE in some regions. Internal storage tops out at 16 GB, but can be expanded via microSD card. The phone also includes an 8 megapixel rear camera with auto focus.
The phone is also “Android app compliant” which, in a move similar to that of BlackBerry, can help with available apps at launch."
Comment: Re:Or (Score 3, Funny) 271
$CONSPIRACYTHEORY
Ooh, ooh . . . let me play . . . I'm good at this!
"The government has been working on vaccines that cause autism to use against political enemies by the IRS, which will be running Obamacare, which is why the IRS sorted out the political enemies' tax exemption forms, because those political enemies are against Obamacare, so they won't get the Obamacare autism causing vaccines, which is why the IRS planned to delay processing the tax exemption forms, until the paper borne version of the virus could complete testing in Libya, but the Libyans discovered that the IRS papers distributed to them by the US embassy were the cause of their autistic births, and then stormed the embassy, which was covered up by the government to look like an average Islamic riot, which was working, until the Associated Press found out about it, and was planning to publish, but IRS found out about that, and told then the FBI to tap the phone lines of the Associated Press, so they could find all the journalists and the government leaks, so they could be given a potent adult version of the autistic causing vaccine, and therefore silence them all up, and so this is why the Associated Press reporters are acting all autistic now, and . . . "
Comment: Re:Incredible! (Score 1) 85
One day, humans might even be able to go into space!
One day, the IRS might even be able to go into space!
One way.
The newt was actually a human . . . he got better.
Comment: Re:Ugh (Score 3) 256
The damned thing's immortal.
IBM has found the secret to everlasting life!
Surely, there is some money to be made here?
Old COBOL programmers made a fortune with the year 2000 problem.
The exact same ones will make a fortune with the year 10000 problem. So, yeah, there must be some secret to everlasting life in all that COBOL stuff somewhere . . .
+ - IBM takes System/z to the cloud with COBOL update->
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hypnosec writes "IBM is taking its COBOL server platform to the next level by updating the mainframe platform in a bid to extend and enable its mainframes to host cloud based applications and services. The latest update is looking to add XMLS Server as well as Java 7 capabilities to the System/z COBOL platform and this update would extend the overall lifespan of COBOL by taking it up a notch and gearing it towards the cloud computing arena."
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