Comment greed v. community spririt? (Score -1, Redundant) 539
Why does this man hate blind people? Why does he want to force the blind to rely on the limited availability of commercial and specialised works for the blind?
Comment Re:Where exactly are these cards? (Score 1) 205
It will be interesting to see what happens with the aircraft workers who already are subject to MORE stringent checks than the ID card would require. Every relevant union has already come out and rejected the introduction of additional pointless ID cards.
Comment Better solution? (Score 1) 492
As aircraft are known to trigger cloud formation, surely we should be putting every last jet into the air, passengers or not, and get them pumping out polution to save the planet...
Comment Re:Linux desktops with proprietary apps! Sign me u (Score 1) 344
Perhaps you are not the intended market.
Many organisations outsource their IT services to companies like IBM. If IBM can supply the service and not have to pay for Microsoft licenses everybody (who matters) wins.
Comment Re:God, please let this be true. (Score 0, Redundant) 1093
The only purpose for a gun is to kill something.
But it's your country and so 14,000 people shot dead a year can safely be discounted so your right to bare arms is protected.
Comment Wot? No positronic brain? (Score 1) 785
Isn't anybody going to produce a quote from Asimov?
Comment gorilla arm (Score 1) 221
http://catb.org/jargon/html/G/gorilla-arm.html
Sometimes the movies don't consider the ergonomic problems of "clever" interfaces.
Feed Engadget: Researchers using nano-imprint lithography to make LEDs brighter (engadget.com)
Filed under: Household
Considering that there are quite a few nations out there aiming to ditch incandescent bulbs in the not-too-distant future, it follows logic that we should start making LEDs more suitable for in-home use. Of course, we've already seen a couple of advancements in the area, but scientists at Glasgow University -- along with the Institute of Photonics at the University of Strathclyde -- have reportedly found a way to make traditional LEDs a fair bit brighter. The process, dubbed nano-imprint lithography, involves "making microscopic holes in the surface of LEDs to increase the level of light they give off." Unfortunately, said process is still quite time consuming and expensive, but you can rest assured they're working to make the process quicker, simpler and cheaper for the good of mankind.[Via FarEastGizmos]
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Feed news.com: Year in review: The politics of privacy (news.com)
Debate centered on how and when to limit federal wiretaps, and the role of tech companies. Meanwhile, the Real ID Act ran into some real opposition.
Submission + - Scheduled reboots, what's your religion?
Kator writes: In the real world people say to keep a conversation calm don't bring up Politics or Money. But in the nerd world we have so many things to argue about we could go on for hours just making a list! I've been a Unix hack for 25 years and have gone back and forth with customers over time about rebooting a system on a schedule. I used to think it was cool to see '985+12:50' on my uptime, I mean show me a windows box that's been up for years without a reboot. But as I've gotten more paranoid and concerned about my customer's environments I have slowly come to the conclusion that I would rather reboot a machine in a scheduled maintenance window then have to reboot it in the middle of a panic. I recently had this discussion with a client who has a farm of Solaris machines, many of them with more then 800+ days uptime. In that time they've had several different admins over that period and who knows what has been 'manually' configured etc.
What is you opinion on scheduled reboots -vs- leave 'em running?
What is you opinion on scheduled reboots -vs- leave 'em running?
