Comment: Lean? (Score 4, Funny) 688
Don't we want all of our code lean?
Comment: Re:Are Linux Fans Really About Innovation? (Score 1) 433
Yes,
Linux fans are for Innovation. That is why the most innovating distros have the mind share of the community. What you are dealing with here are people who are not the majority. Remember the 2% always whine the loudest.
Cox and other home ISPs violating Net Neutrality-> 3
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popsensation writes "Cox communications is unlawfully blocking ports to home and business internet users. This is deemed unlawful by FCC 59192 preserving the free and open internet. They post their blocked ports online citing security and safety reasons, but that is not the case. I requested Cox technical service representative Becky — 1770 to unblock 445 as I am aware of the risks and was informed they will not open that or any other blocked ports. Their other blocked ports are used to provision web pages and files between neighbors, businesses, and communities. This is is unlawful and in violation of FCC rules and regulations. I've filed a complaint with the FCC reference number 11-C00348996."
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Dead Man's Twitter Feed Keeps Updating-> 1
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destinyland writes "Last week John Pospisil, the editor of Blorge.com, passed away. But his Twitter feed continued updating, since he'd configured it to re-tweet all the headlines from his group technology blog. "Eventually I figured it out," reports one technology blogger, "but it was a big shock to see more messages appearing from John himself on the day after he'd died." They also dedicated their first ebook to Pospil, a Thanksgiving children's story, because "I'd always thought we'd watch the world changing together...""
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Electronic contact lens displays pixels on the eye->
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An anonymous reader writes "The future of augmented-reality technology is here — as long as you're a rabbit. Bioengineers have placed the first contact lenses containing electronic displays into the eyes of rabbits as a first step on the way to proving they are safe for humans. The bunnies suffered no ill effects, the researchers say."
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Comment: Open Source has nothing to do with openness (Score 0) 65
It is a license. Free Software and Open Source both are derived from a simple idea, the code is free to reuse and distribute. The religiousity of the community is derived only from the community itself. Would it be nice if those projects were more community driven? Sure. Does it make them any less "Open" or "Free", no.
Comment: The U.S. is notoriously bad (Score 3, Interesting) 338
At stewarding its own resources, preferring instead to buy resources from other countries that do not have the level of regulation we have. We have plenty of oil, gas, rate earth metals etc... we just don't go after it.
How fast are SSDs anyway?->
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Brian Boyko writes "There’s no question that solid state storage is faster than more traditional disk drives, but how fast are SSDs are compared to each other? There’s no industry standard methodology or test environment for measuring SSD performance. Drive manufacturers and reviewers all use different applications, operating systems, and hardware, they produce the metrics and use them selectively to promote the products. It is difficult to compare test results from different sources. So how do you create an industry standard SSD test?"
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A New Approach To Reducing Spam?->
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WrongSizeGlass writes "A New Approach To Reducing Spam?
A team of computer scientists at two University of California campuses has been looking deeply into the nature of spam, and they think found a 'oechoke point' [PDF] that could greatly reduce the flow of spam. It turned out that 95 percent of the credit card transactions for the spam-advertised drugs and herbal remedies they bought were handled by just three financial companies — one based in Azerbaijan, one in Denmark and one in Nevis, in the West Indies. If a handful of companies like these refused to authorize online credit card payments to the merchants, “you’d cut off the money that supports the entire spam enterprise,” said one of the scientists."
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A team of computer scientists at two University of California campuses has been looking deeply into the nature of spam, and they think found a 'oechoke point' [PDF] that could greatly reduce the flow of spam. It turned out that 95 percent of the credit card transactions for the spam-advertised drugs and herbal remedies they bought were handled by just three financial companies — one based in Azerbaijan, one in Denmark and one in Nevis, in the West Indies. If a handful of companies like these refused to authorize online credit card payments to the merchants, “you’d cut off the money that supports the entire spam enterprise,” said one of the scientists."
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Comment: Re:Original Source and Actual Paper (Score 1) 462
Of course they picked it over yours. Yours is intelligently written and has an expectation that people will understand what you are talking about.
Unfortunately, this is Slashdot.