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Comment Re:He has done both. (Score -1, Flamebait) 91

Because Elon is famously vindictive for anything that is now fawning praise?
Because he's a sexy name to be affiliated with?
Because being in his good graces may yield something desirable such as an actual vent being donated once Tesla actually makes them?

The reason people are critiquing this is because he is making the donation of a device (that may help, I'm not a respiratory therapist) that is widely available and costs 1-5K appear to be one that costs 30-50K and has global scarcity. And again it shows Elon is a marketing genius before all else, with a brand that people love to be affiliated with.

Comment Trying to get rid of life-time subscribers? (Score 4, Interesting) 158

This feels like Plex is trying to get rid of their old time lifetime subs. I'd imagine long time users of Plex are probably more technologically astute and more likely to care about this sort of privacy change... so why not change it, get delicious data and see if you can drop some of those guys that don't make you any more money. Nah... they wouldn't do that, right?

Comment Re: All-out trade war (Score 1) 742

there is a thriving urban middle class... heck

Price per Square Feet to Buy Apartment in City Centre
Shenzhen New York, NY
9,858.02 ¥ 8,505.93 ¥
(1,443.02 $) (1,245.10 $)
                                                      -13.72

Price per Square Feet to Buy Apartment Outside of Centre
Shenzhen New York, NY
5,118.91 ¥ 5,442.65 ¥
(749.31 $) (796.70 $)
                                                              +6.32 %

(source: Numbeo)

Submission + - Emerson sells "Network Power" Data Center unit

An anonymous reader writes: As Reuters and others report: Emerson today sold it's Network Power Datacenter Unit to Platinum Equity for ~$4 billion. The brands included in the sale include familiar datacenter names such as ASCO, Liebert, Avocent and Chloride. Platinum had also purchased the former Motorola Embedded from Emerson in 2014.
GNU is Not Unix

GNU Hurd 0.7 and GNU Mach 1.6 Released 129

jones_supa writes: Halloween brought us GNU Hurd 0.7, GNU Mach 1.6, and GNU MIG 1.6. The new Hurd comes with filesystem driver improvements, provides a new rpcscan utility, and the Hurd code has been ported to work with newer versions of GCC and GNU C Library. The Mach microkernel has updates for compiler compatibility, improvements to the lock debugging infrastructure, the kernel now lets non-privileged users write to a small amount of memory, timestamps are now kept relative to boot time, and there are various bugfixes. MIG 1.6 is a small update which improves compatibility with newer dialects of C programming language. Specific details on all of the updates can be found in the full release announcement. jrepin adds some more details: The GNU Hurd 0.7 improves the node cache for the EXT2 file-system code (ext2fs), improves the native fakeroot tool, provides a new rpcscan utility, and fixes a long-standing synchronization issue with the file-system translators and other components. The GNU Mach 1.6 microkernel also has updates for compiler compatibility, improvements to the lock debugging infrastructure, the kernel now lets non-privileged users write to a small amount of memory, timestamps are now kept relative to boot time, and there are various bug-fixes.

Submission + - DMTF's Scalable Platforms Management Forum releases first WIP for new server API

An anonymous reader writes: The Distributed Management Task Force's Scalable Platforms Management Forum has released the first Work In Progress of its new Open Server/Data Centre API for comment. It includes two technical submissions one based on the Redfish Proposal covered many times and a modified proposal from Microsoft aligning it with OData 4.0. They are looking for community feedback to help shape the API.

Submission + - Dell, Emerson, HP and Intel propose Redfish; an open and RESTful replacement for

Phelan writes: (Full disclosure: I work for one of these companies) As presented at last weeks Intel Developer Forum the Redfish Specification proposal aims to replace the much older and sometimes criticized IPMI over LAN interface. It offers significant improvements in scalability, ease of development and security by utilizing well understood JSON Schema, data model and secure web services.
A preliminary version of the specification proposal is available for review and feedback at RedfishSpecification.org (registration required for deep dive) and is being submitted as an open proposal to the Distributed Management Task Force's Scaleable Platform Management Forum.
Google

Portland Edges Closer To Google Fiber 106

Rambo Tribble (1273454) writes Portland, Oregon has taken another step toward finalizing a franchise agreement with Google Fiber. In a unanimous vote, the city council has approved the prospective contract. While existing Internet Service Providers fume, Mary Beth Henry, manager of Portland's Office for Community Technology, pointed out that Google is prepared to make a major investment in the city's infrastructure, while the other firms are not. Ms. Henry also indicated that Google was not receiving any special treatment. Google spokesperson, Jenna Wandres, responded to events in an email, saying, "There's still a lot of work to do beyond this one agreement, but we hope to provide an update about whether we can bring Fiber here later this year."
Data Storage

Open Source ExFAT File System Reaches 1.0 Status 151

Titus Andronicus writes "fuse-exfat, a GPLv3 implementation of the exFAT file system for Linux, FreeBSD, and OS X, has reached 1.0 status, according to an announcement from Andrew Nayenko, the primary developer. exFAT is a file system designed for sneaker-netting terabyte-scale files and groups of files on flash drives and memory cards between and among Windows, OS X, and consumer electronics devices. It was introduced by Microsoft in late 2006. Will fuse-exfat cut into Microsoft's juicy exFAT licensing revenue? Will Microsoft litigate fuse-exfat's developers and users into patent oblivion? Will there be a DKMS dynamic kernel module version of the software, similar to the ZFS on Linux project? All that remains to be seen. ReadWrite, The H, and Phoronix cover the story."

Comment Nice creation myth (Score 2) 54

So two years after CEPT approved working towards the SMS messaging standards 3 dudes who nobody ever heard of met and invented the standard.

Unless the two unnamed people in this story are Friedhelm Hillebrand and Bernard Ghillebaert it is a myth sold to a reporter.

Otherwise it's like the guy that copyrighted email.

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