TerryC101 - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Actually makes good sense (Score 2) 702

by TerryC101 on Monday July 07, 2014 @09:31AM (#47398973) Attached to: TSA Prohibits Taking Discharged Electronic Devices Onto Planes

Cue every airport getting a paid for recharging kiosk. I'm sure that there is a good business idea in here somewhere.

Comment Re:Well, of course (Score 1) 361

by TerryC101 on Friday July 04, 2014 @11:19AM (#47383723) Attached to: NSA Considers Linux Journal Readers, Tor (And Linux?) Users "Extremists"

The USSR didn't have Hollywood. Just look at the amount of positive propaganda that gets consumed as entertainment. It's almost like there's some sort of plot.

Submission + - How Content Management Systems have changed the face of the Internet (phpfreelancedeveloper.com)

Submitted by sandraLennon3 on Friday June 27, 2014 @04:33AM

sandraLennon3 writes: The Internet would not be what it is today without content management systems. At its beginnings, the technology supporting it was difficult to use for simple people. There was a time when technology was not dedicated to the masses and when navigating on the Internet from your phone was not necessarily sci-fi, but at least a daunting task.

Comment Re:and yet... (Score 1) 221

by TerryC101 on Friday May 02, 2014 @11:15AM (#46899461) Attached to: Google Hit With Antitrust Lawsuit Over Default Search on Android Phones

It would be interesting to see a comparison of the number of steps needed to change the search provider in Android as opposed to a Windows phone.

Comment Even worse, UK Parliament to migrate to Microsoft (Score 1) 293

by TerryC101 on Monday December 09, 2013 @12:45PM (#45640499) Attached to: Google, Apple, Facebook, Twitter, Microsoft, Yahoo Form Alliance Against NSA

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/12/03/parliament_heads_for_ms/ I sometimes just don't believe how jaw droppingly stupid my government is. Unless of course they're just trying to cut out the middleman (GCHQ) and give everything streight to the NSA.

Comment Retaliation (Score 1) 348

by TerryC101 on Thursday September 26, 2013 @09:38AM (#44959121) Attached to: UK MPs: Google Blocks Child Abuse Images, It Should Block Piracy Too

I would love Google retaliating by releasing the search requests for the the relavent MPs.

Submission + - Build your own supercomputer out of Raspberry Pi boards (zdnet.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 02, 2013 @10:11AM

An anonymous reader writes: When you think do-it-yourself (DIY) computing, you probably think of setting up a screaming gaming computer or putting together the best possible components for the least amount of money. You're almost certainly not considering putting together a supercomputer. Maybe you should. Joshua Kiepert, a doctoral student at Boise State's Electrical and Computer Engineering department, has managed to create a mini-supercomputer using Raspberry Pi (RPi) computers for less than $2,000.

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