Comment Re:IFTTT (Score 1) 177
Great tip. Thanks! :)
Fun to use and indeed powerful.
Oddly enough, when I installed IFTTT I thought that it would do what Automate does.
Comment Re:Meanwhile (Score 1) 138
Slashdot still doesn't offer https support.
Get in line, I'm waiting for UTF-8!
Comment Yeah... but.... (Score 1) 116
It is 488 meters long and 74 meters wide
Yeah... but, how many football stadiums is that?
Comment Re:Amateurs (Score 1) 261
They are looking at it wrong! ;)
Comment Amazon Referal URL? (Score 2) 242
Why there's a referal ID in the IMDB URL?
Comment Re:It's easy to understand why (Score 1) 1029
big stars, bigger explosions, and top-notch special effects
—exactly what keeps me away from cinemas.
Why don't you like movies about astronomy?
Submission + - Young man with 16 year old girlfriend now sex offender for life (arstechnica.com)
closer2it writes: From ArsTechnica comes this story:
"Sidney Myers, a 20-year-old South Carolina man, had procured a powerful handheld device built in a foreign country, a device which allowed him both to transmit a bomb threat and to create child pornography. The device was an HTC smartphone, and his use of the phone has now branded Myers a lifelong sex offender and landed him an 18 month federal prison sentence. His public defender claims that the “facts of this case have never been seen in our jurisdiction and likely will not be seen again,” but in the smartphone age, perhaps the facts no longer seem as unusual as they once would have.
"Sidney Myers, a 20-year-old South Carolina man, had procured a powerful handheld device built in a foreign country, a device which allowed him both to transmit a bomb threat and to create child pornography. The device was an HTC smartphone, and his use of the phone has now branded Myers a lifelong sex offender and landed him an 18 month federal prison sentence. His public defender claims that the “facts of this case have never been seen in our jurisdiction and likely will not be seen again,” but in the smartphone age, perhaps the facts no longer seem as unusual as they once would have.
Comment Re:FireFoxConn OS (Score 1) 94
No Microsoft flamewar. No unicode support. lame
Comment Assange doppelganger (Score 1) 541
This is a very crazy idea, but what if a Julian Assange body double exited the embassy?
I think that would be very interesting to see.
I think that would be very interesting to see.
Comment Re:Coporate Policy Stifling Innovation Also (Score 1) 124
Sir, sorry to disturb you, but I was passing by and found some of these <br/> on the floor. Are they yours? ;)
Comment Ugly (Score 1) 578
I look at Windows 8 and makes me miss Win7 GUI. This however is an improvement over Win7 and is by far the best UI mock-up for Windows 8 I've seen. Microsoft should just hire this guy.
Comment Easy fix! (Score 5, Funny) 85
All they need to do is create the ".NoMediaNoMedia" file. This will keep the photos and the file ".NoMedia" from being viewed on the device.
Google Pledges Not To Sue Any Open Source Projects Using Their Patents 153
sfcrazy writes "Google has announced the Open Patent Non-Assertion (OPN) Pledge. In the pledge Google says that they will not sue any user, distributor, or developer of Open Source software on specified patents, unless first attacked. Under this pledge, Google is starting off with 10 patents relating to MapReduce, a computing model for processing large data sets first developed at Google. Google says that over time they intend to expand the set of Google's patents covered by the pledge to other technologies."
This is in addition to the Open Invention Network, and their general work toward reforming the patent system. The patents covered in the OPN will be free to use in Free/Open Source software for the life of the patent, even if Google should transfer ownership to another party. Read the text of the pledge. It appears that interaction with non-copyleft licenses (MIT/BSD/Apache) is a bit weird: if you create a non-free fork it appears you are no longer covered under the pledge.
Comment No (Score 1) 266
Comment Re:Real pilot here. (Score 1) 369
Damn... I wish I had mod points to mod parent up. :(
