Comment Just because (Score 5, Insightful) 199
The worst thing about this story it that it would probably be unnoticed if it happened at any other factory in china. But now it's Foxconn and iPad 2 so now it's interesting.
Submission + - SPAM: IBM Now Officially Worth More Than Microsoft
liqs8143 writes: "IBM is officially worth more than Microsoft. At market close yesterday there was a $1 billion difference between the companies.
For anyone who remembers the history of the tech landscape of 1990s — this is a stunning news. :D"
Link to Original Source
For anyone who remembers the history of the tech landscape of 1990s — this is a stunning news.
Link to Original Source
Comment Re:idiot analysis (Score 2) 342
And the second hand buyers have actually proven they are willing to pay some price for the product, and not nothing at all.
Comment User stupidity? (Score 1) 282
What do you do If you know the following data has been compromised: email-address and possibly the password used for that email address as well (if it's the same). You fecking change the password as soon as you are aware of the fact! I'm sorry but if you didn't do that yet you deserve to be locked out of psn for ever and preferably locked out of a reproduction opportunity as well.
Comment Re:The most important thing (Score 2) 317
Stop plugging your own site it's lame, and you already have it in your signature.
Comment Join! (Score 1) 141
Do your part and join the Mobile Infantry now to save the world!
Comment Re:Wakeup call US? (Score 1) 174
How is the iDEAL payment flow noticeably different from that of PayPal, which you call "horrible", other than that iDEAL is branded by the bank and not eBay?
With iDEAL you click on buy on your chosen website you come to the main login of your bank you use a username ( 8 random letter number combination) and a chosen password (min.8 letters + number) you then get a screen with a code. you have a little device yourself you put your debit card in you then enter a given code and it will give you the correct response for that given code at that given time. And if you remember the Wikileaks payment issues, paypal could just shut it off completely regardless if the bank cared about it or not. a service like iDEAL would not do that and let the bank decide for itself. As for direct payments in person that would need time and investment to change but it is still completely technically possible and more secure
Submission + - windfarms paid to not generate electricity (bbc.co.uk) 1
doperative writes: Six Scottish windfarms were paid up to £300,000 to stop producing energy, it has emerged. The turbines, at a range of sites across Scotland, were stopped because the grid network could not absorb all the energy they generated.
Comment Wakeup call US? (Score 3, Interesting) 174
When is the US consumer ever going to learn that the credit card is one of the worst inventions ever! Of course it's Sony's fault but you are using a broken system. Make direct online banking the standard, not some insanely insecure card or some horrible third-party service like paypal.
Here in The Netherlands we Have iDeal We need to get to such a system on a global scale. The tech is there and it's more secure, so what the hell are they waiting for.
Comment There was a game called Titan Quest (Score 1) 365
And It suffered heavily from a bug that would pop up in the pirated version. Ton's of people where complaining on the forums that the game was buggy and no good because of it. And other people listened and didn't buy it. So if software developers really want to do such a thing either make it a minor problem or patch it in later, because if you don't it can hurt your reputation.
Comment Re:Dummies (Score 1) 365
Well I didn't pirate GMod and it was still a waste of my 10$ so I kinda wish I had. I love creating stuff and that's why I thought I would like GMod as well, but it didn't appeal to me at all.
Comment Re:yes but... (Score 3, Interesting) 1251
The flat earthers deserve more respect they are closer to the right answer than the ID crowd
http://chem.tufts.edu/AnswersInScience/RelativityofWrong.htm
Submission + - Is Silicon Valley Over? (techcrunch.com)
HaveNoMouth writes: Paul Carr writes in TechCrunch that Silicon Valley is no longer where the real tech innovation is happening. Instead, the valley has filled up with cargo-cult Zuckerclones. Carr describes a recent party where he struck up a conversation with an entrepreneur who claimed he was creating a billion-dollar company:
It was only then I noticed his outfit. Everyone else was in smart-ish jeans and shirts, but the entrepreneur was carefully dressed in a hoodie and a pair of open-toed flip flops. Later investigation would reveal that his 'billion dollar' app was a social network for people with
.edu addresses. The secret sauce? The fact that it gave college kids a way to flirt around campus.
Any of this sounding familiar? All he needed to complete the picture was a couple of embittered rowing twins baying for his blood...
Carr says the real tech innovation is happening in places like New York where old media is dying, where people take risks because they have nothing left to lose.
Submission + - Wikipedia flights with retention of contributors (wikimedia.org) 1
rackeer writes: "According to wikipedia's Editor Trends Study, active contributors are leaving, and new contributors don't stay with the project and make up a continuously smaller share of the total number of contributors. A whitepaper by the wikimedia foundation proposes top priorities based on this study. One of these priorities is the creation of a climate which is positive towards newcomers. What is your opinion of what should change?"
Submission + - ACLU's Mobile Privacy Developer Challenge (develop4privacy.org)
An anonymous reader writes: Privacy groups announced a mobile privacy developer challenge today. The competition, Develop for Privacy, challenges mobile app developers to create tools that help ordinary mobile device users understand and protect their privacy. Its sponsored by the ACLU of Northern California, the ACLU of Washington, and the Tor Project, with the assistance of the Ontario Information and Privacy Commissioner's Office. Submission deadline is May 31, 2011. The winner will be announced in August 2011 at an event in Las Vegas, coinciding with the DEFCON and Black Hat security conferences.
