Also last week NPR did a fair piece on the FWD.us agenda to viscerate the current immigration/H1B discussion; in order to except themselves (as a classic lobbyist move). If I didn't hate Zuckerburg enough before, I certainly do now. He's a freaking zillionaire, while having no concept of actually *working* in the tech field, as a career, and *trying* to grow old in this country while supporting self/family. Yet he's all in favor of rolling over older I.T. workers while importing fresh blood from abroad to support his business, at lower costs.

But let's not simply single Mark out. Let's also add LinkedIn's Reid Hoffman, Dropbox's Drew Houston and Yahoo's Marissa Mayer to the list of those supporting FWD.us.

http://www.npr.org/2013/05/09/182516877/facebook-joins-lobby-for-overhauling-immigration

Miano is a former programmer. Now he's a lawyer who represents displaced tech workers. He blogs for the Center for Immigration Studies, a group that's decidedly right-wing. But for now, groups like this are just about the only ones opposing the increase in tech worker visas. Miano says with tech giants like Facebook teaming up with well-heeled liberal groups, he doubts his views will get much of a hearing on Capitol Hill. Martin Kaste, NPR News.

Kudos to Elon Musk for dropping out of this %$#@! lobbying group. This is just another example of extremely wealthy people working to buy influence with the best government money can buy.

Amsterdam has invested in a huge facility for converting trash into electricity, and is improving the barge infrastructure so it can import more waste from neighboring countries. Anecdotally it seems to be a more efficient approach to create electricity, (and salvageable metals), as opposed to merely heat. The trams run on electricity, for example.

http://www.amsterdam.nl/aeb/english

What if I call it a "self standing three-legged device". What if I call it an iSprinkler?

You mean a dog?

Hey we've all been there man. Welcome to Slashdot Sports.
Thanks too, I can't remember reading such an entertaining sports write-up since Jim Murray.

This is true. Although I am bit too you to remember it. I do recall the black and white vector CAD monitors, and that damn strobing lightpen that we had to tap the glass of the monitor with. Talk about bleeding eyes.

I also remember the thrill when the software went from mainframes, to run on x286 PCs, and it was fast too!

Aren't firefox extensions open-source code, by requirement, (also in order to be hosted by Mozilla)? A search engine took me to this page, and this seems to be the case. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/XUL/School_tutorial/The_Essentials_of_an_Extension

Okay, the same extension is in the Chrome store too, but from what I gather, in terms of being safe from malware, the chrome store offers no really-certain safety. It seems like a hack on the reporting mechanisms that otherwise shutdown service. Or, maybe my firefox is now mining bitcoins. But hey, at least it runs on Linux.

Here's an even better site & link: http://www.flightradar24.com/data/flights/boe272

Cool!

What? You were expecting ponies?

While on the surface your backup suggestion seems valid, in reality one must also assess how realistic a successful recovery will be, for you, and at what cost to you.

Thanks a lot for writing up this suggestion. I had no idea Amazon Glacier was only a penny per gigabyte, and thus a realistic way for me to backup virtual machines offsite, finally, (using only my available slow home upload bandwidth). Which got me to Searching on the net...

CloudGates.net does indeed look like a useful service.

A Search engine lead me to a free Windows client called FastGlacier http://fastglacier.com/faq.aspx

This technote from 'AWS Blog' explains how to use the more standard and better documented Amazon S3 Data buckets to automatically offload data after a specified time to Amazon Glacier storage. The trick is to create a lifecycle rule. I'm inclined to try this, once I get myself better organized, although CloudGates also looks very worthy. Kudos! http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2012/11/archive-s3-to-glacier.html

Happy World Backup Day!

To further illustrate your point, about what would have happened had Nokia not adopted Elop's Nokia/Microsoft partnership, allow me to quote from the same source you cited have already cited, (mobile-industry analyst Tomi Ahonen)

This is the year Tizen will ship. Tizen at least initially will feature Samsung's top phones, so imagine the Galaxy S4 but running an evolution of what we saw with MeeGo on Nokia's award-winning N9. And the beauty with Tizen is the carrier community around it, starting with NTT DoCoMo which promises to start to sell Tizen phones in Japan this year. Tizen's launch will be seen as the perfect case study of contrasts, how can Samsung now, as world's largest smartphone maker and world's largest phone maker, with the help of carriers, switch from the world's most used smartphone OS (Android) to its new OS developed with Intel (Tizen). And the intention is to launch new smartphones in parallel with the existing system but introduce first Tizen phones at the top end of the price pyramid, as flagships. This is exactly what Nokia had in its strategy prior to Elop selecting Windows. Nokia, as world's largest smartphone maker back then, and world's largest phone maker, with the help of carriers, was intending to switch from what was then the most used smarpthone OS (Symbian) to its new OS developed with Intel (MeeGo). The intention was to launch new smartphones in parallel with the existing system, and introducing MeeGo smartphones at the top of the price pyramid, as flagships. And contrast that with what Elop did at Nokia - as world's largest smartphone maker, against the wishes of carriers, abandoned world's bestselling OS platform, forced change to the smallest, developed solely by the evil empire, Microsoft, known as the widow-maker of mobile who bankrupts all its partners. The new phones were not introduced in parallel but to replace Nokia's existing platform and the launch was not at the flagship, but in mid-price level. Wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong wrong and wrong. But yes, now we'll see how Samsung does it 'right' - remember, my dear readers, as you see Tizen phones and their reception and support by carriers - and think, this could have been Nokia in 2011 when the N9 on MeeGo launched.

http://communities-dominate.blogs.com/brands/2013/03/preview-of-the-smartphone-wars-bloodbath-year-4-smartphones-galore-this-year-will-be-pretty-stable-w.html

What about power and redundancy? What about about bandwidth redundancy? Those two little tick-boxes seems to favor data center centralization for a lot of folks concerned about business operations, uptime, and their associated costs vs. risks.

Maybe if we're talking about a business with multiple dispersed office locations, but still, those larger enterprise clients also seem better served by a real data center. Look at it this way, is your core business power and bandwidth? Can that be outsourced more reliably while retaining security?

It is true. The Ubuntu Tweak tool, and Gnome 3, along with whatever extension a user feels they need (like adding a restart button), works very well. Gnome 3 is an affordable, modern OS IMHO and I like it a lot. I have Ubuntu 12.04/Gnome 3 on all my PCs, from large double-monitor rigs to a 10" netbook display. And I am thrilled I don't have to reconfigure anything until October 2017 according to this chart:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LTS

Also, the low-tech folks with no budget who 'just needed a (recycled) computer' that I've turned on to it, have all taken to it well so far, with the most-minimal of hand-holding. So they are all good until October 2017 too. And I already know when to be ready for them, and when to get them ready too. October 2017 folks. Write it down.
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https://extensions.gnome.org/
http://ubuntu-tweak.com/
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Here's an amazing article that gives all kinds of historical telecom cable information, including the internet exchange in Alexandria Egypt. It also discusses repair ships and some inherent physics problems having to do with the pressures placed on the spindles (of the undersea cables) on-deck.

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/4.12/ffglass_pr.html

Sadly, I can't locate a version of the article with the wonderful photos of the original printed piece.