Comment: Re:Facebook is dying (Score 1) 192
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kernelistic
(#43714235)
Attached to: Facebook Home Flagship Phone, HTC First, May Be Discontinued
Should we cue in the "Facebook is dying" jokes?
Comment: Re: wait, will wiping off help? (Score 2) 275
I almost choked on my M&M's! Sir, I salute you for making my day!
Comment: Re:They've finally reached the step... (Score 1) 173
AC, you owe me a new keyboard!
Comment: Re:Um? (Score 1) 173
Where are my mod points, when I need them?
Comment: Re:WAKE ME WHEN IT IS 8.0 !! (Score 3, Funny) 112
You omitted the most epic part of the Windows family: Windows ME!
Comment: Re:Holy crap! (Score 1) 1109
... and hide your husbands!
Comment: Re:And it's in Japan (Score 1) 268
The glass itself is cheap - With decently-sized orders, you can get a 1 km run for under $75. The majority of the costs are manpower to string the stuff to poles (or run it through manholes), do splices and OTDR signal levels along the way. Besides higher population density, Japan has an added "advantage" of having lower median income, which is likely to translate into lower labor costs for installation...
Comment: Re:Standard upgradeable form factor parts (Score 1) 591
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kernelistic
(#43350379)
Attached to: If I could change what's "typical" about typical laptops ...
Laptop OEMs have been fighting this kind of thing for years because it eats into their bottom line. Apple seems to be the worst offender: Their "Retina" MacBook Pros offer locked multipliers, no mini-pcie bays, a proprietary flash storage interface and non-upgradable memory. Unfortunately, it's "in" to be like Apple and other OEMs are starting to follow suit.
Comment: Well, WHOIS says... (Score 1) 110
Domain: sh.it
Status: UNASSIGNABLE
Comment: Re:Is this a serious OS? (Score 1) 107
Sorry for being pedantic, but your "C" example declares Pythagoras() as returning a float yet you cast the return value of sqrt() to int. As it seems that your intent was to truncate, you should use floor() instead of relying on casting hacks.
Comment: Re:A2 Party (Score 1) 132
I was going to suggest Ashley's! Nice ambiance and excellent beer selection! I don't know if they'd up for hosting a 100+ people party... :)
PubPat Kills Four Key Monsanto Patents 436
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kdawson
from the going-to-seed dept.
from the going-to-seed dept.
IP Ergo Sum writes "PubPat's request for reexamination resulted in the rejection of four key Monsanto patents. According to PubPat, those particular patents were being used to 'harass, intimidate, sue — and in many cases bankrupt — American farmers.'"
US Government Checking Up On Vista Users? 291
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Zonk
from the security-theatre-in-your-home dept.
from the security-theatre-in-your-home dept.
Paris The Pirate writes "This article at Whitedust displays some very interesting logs from Vista showing connections to the DoD Information Networking Center, United Nations Development program and the Halliburton Company; for no reason other than the machine was running Vista. From the article 'After running Vista for only a few days — with a complete love for the new platform the first sign of trouble erupted. I began noticing latency on my home network connection — so I booted my port sniffing software and networking tools to see what was happening. What I found was foundation shaking. The two images below show graphical depictions of what has and IS trying to connect to my computer even in an idle state'."
HIV Vaccine Ready For Clinical Trials 385
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Zonk
from the go-science-go-science dept.
from the go-science-go-science dept.
amigoro writes with the happy news that a possible vaccine against HIV is nearing readiness for clinical trials. The compound could provide a 'double whammy' by not only inoculating the patient against future infection, but destroying an HIV infection in progress. "The vaccine is an artificial virus-like particle whose outer casing consists of the TBI (T- and B cell epitopes containing immunogen) protein constructed by the researchers combined with the polyglucin protein. This protein contains nine components stimulating different cells of the immune system: both the ones that produce antibodies and the ones that devour the newcomer."
Michigan Man Charged for Using Free WiFi 848
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Zonk
from the watch-where-you-wardrive dept.
from the watch-where-you-wardrive dept.
Nichole writes "Sam Peterson II was charged with unauthorized use of computer access for using a coffee shop's free WiFi. He is facing a 5 year felony charge and a $10,000 fine but apparently got off lucky and received only a $400 fine and 40 hours of community service because he was a first time offender. 'it seems few in the village of Sparta, Mich., were aware that using an unsecured Wi-Fi connection without the owner's permission--a practice known as piggybacking--was a felony. Each day around lunch time, Sam Peterson would drive to the Union Street Cafe, park his car and--without actually entering the coffee shop--check his e-mail and surf the Net. His ritual raised the suspicions of Police Chief Andrew Milanowski, who approached him and asked what he was doing. Peterson, probably not realizing that his actions constituted a crime, freely admitted what he was doing ... [the officer] didn't immediately cite or arrest Peterson, mostly because he wasn't certain a crime had been committed.'"