Comment Use google's DNS (Score 1) 349
Just because you use comcast's pipes doesn't mean you have to use their DNS.
8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 are the addresses to use for DNS
Comment Telcos never lose money (Score 1) 329
Submission claims they "lose money"
They might make less money but they NEVER lose.
Only the customers lose money.
Is it just me or does everyone hate their cell carrier?
Comment Re:Yes (Score 2, Funny) 467
Anyone see what is wrong with this?
...... Dell's Pro Support is reasonably good,..........
The major problem I have had with Dell is
Comment The Euro Zone continues its war again US companies (Score -1, Flamebait) 266
Microsoft, Google, Apple -- what do they have in common?
All are based in the same country.
Anyone have a list of French or German companies fined?
Didn't think so......
Have to get the money to pay bailouts from somewhere.
Submission + - Intel says Clover Trail won't work with Linux (theinquirer.net)
girlmad writes: Intel's Clover Trail Atom processor can be seen in various non-descript laptops around IDF and the firm provided a lot of architectural details on the chip, confirming details such as dual-core and a number of power states. However Intel said Clover Trail "is a Windows 8 chip" and that "the chip cannot run Linux".
While Intel's claim that Clover Trail won't run Linux is not quite true — after all it is an x86 instruction set so there is no major reason why the Linux kernel and userland will not run — given that the firm will not support it, device makers are unlikely to produce Linux Clover Trail devices for their own support reasons.
While Intel's claim that Clover Trail won't run Linux is not quite true — after all it is an x86 instruction set so there is no major reason why the Linux kernel and userland will not run — given that the firm will not support it, device makers are unlikely to produce Linux Clover Trail devices for their own support reasons.
Submission + - Patent troll sues X-Plane (x-plane.com) 2
symbolset writes: X-plane is a cross-platform flight simulator app, notably the only serious one that supports Mac OSX and Linux. It's under threat by an NPE (Non Practicing Entity), Uniloc, suing for things X-Plane has done for decades. X-plane cannot afford to defend this suit, so if somebody doesn't step up and defend them then we lose X-plane forever.
Submission + - There's enough wind energy to power Earth 200x over (nature.com)
notscientific writes: "Renewable sources of energy are obviously a hit but they have as yet failed to live up to the hype. A new study in Nature Climate Change shows however that there is more than enough power to be harnessed from the wind to sustain Earth's entire population... x200! To generate energy from the wind, we may however need to set up wind farms at altitudes of 200-20,000 metres. To be fair, the study is purely theoretical and does not look at the feasibility of such potential wind farms. Regardless, the paper does provide a major boost to backers of wind-generated energy. Because science has confirmed that the sky's the limit."
Submission + - Dutch court rules hyperlinks illegal
Ubi_NL writes: In today's ruling of Playboy (via publisher Sanoma) vs Dutch blog Geenstijl, the court ruled that hyperlinking to copyrighted material was itself infringement of copyright. The court ordered the blog to remove all links to the infringing links (court ruling in dutch). How this ruling fits into the supreme court ruling that hyperlinks cannot by themselves infringe copyright is still to be discussed, possibly in an appeal. An interesting detail of the case is that the anonymous source that pointed Geenstijl to the images did this from an IP address within the Sanoma organisation...
Comment Re:Try to get First Post on Slashdot (Score 2) 515
What will really happen is that after a while they will bring all the problems to you.
"He can solve it. Why should I do the work?"
Be careful what you wish for. And don't resent them for doing it.
I just retired after 40 years of being like you.
It never gets old. But you do!
Live long and prosper.
Comment Another fly on the wall heard from (Score 2) 570
Apple is one of the most successful companies in the world -- right now.
But everyone with a soap box seems to think they know better than Apple management how the company should be run.
If they are really that smart go start your own company and beat Apple at it's own game.
Comment Boycott the Times not Apple (Score 1) 744
The key organization quoted in the article has gone on record as saying the article is false and misleading.
BSR Open Letter to NYT
"The narrative you present is an inaccurate picture of the work we have done with Apple, of the role Apple played in the worker hotline project, and of BSR’s views of Apple."
Move along. Nothing to be seen here. Just another news hack selling papers.
Comment Re:a bit disingenuous (Score 1) 120
I thought it was number 2 after the new Apple headquarters building.....Shows what I know......
Comment Re:Why are Libs so enamored with taxes? (Score 4, Insightful) 623
How many of those 25k affiliates "forgot" to include their affiliate income?.......
So anyone who has a different opinion from yours is a law breaker?
Or is that what you do when you think you can get away with it?
Amazon's position has been tested all the way to the Supreme Court.
Amazon is in the right and CA is trying to do something the Constitution prohibits.
Nuff Said!
Comment Turn the tables on them! (Score 4, Interesting) 310
How about a culture where attempting to stigmatize people for your own gain is looked on as bad?
Or one where openness and freedom of speech is looked upon as helpful?
Does anyone with more than a room temperature IQ think the "bad guys" don't know the satellite orbits?
Comment Re:Am I reading this correctly? (Score 1) 417
OS X doesn't fail. It is either Java or Flash that gets the system in trouble.
You may have noticed that the Pwn2Own contest is run against stock systems.
Now that flash and java are not on the system when it ships lets see who fails first.
And just as a side note the person who crashes OS X first is an Apple hater.
If he was a windows hater I wonder which system would go down first......
Even with that OS X passes the first day of testing. So does windows.
It is only when they can get to the keyboard and send the browser to a website that the system gets in trouble.
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