Comment Re:The one question we all want to know. (Score 2, Insightful) 238
And Nothing Of Value Was Lost (TM).
Comment Re:I think I read about this somewhere before... (Score 1) 200
That was my first thought, too. Mediatrons are finally coming.
Comment Re:Good (Score 2, Informative) 109
If you use Privoxy, the majority of those ads will go away, and you can do custom filtering for fun and profit easily.
What Do You Call People Who "Do HTML"? 586
gilgongo writes "It's more than 10 years since people started making a living writing web page markup, yet the job title (and role) has yet to settle down. Not only that, but there are different types of people who write markup: those that approach the craft as essentially an integration task, and those that see it as part of UI design overall. The situation is further complicated by the existence of other roles in the workplace such as graphic designer and information architect. This is making recruitment for this role a real headache. So, how do you describe people who 'do HTML' (and CSS and maybe a bit of JavaScript and graphics manipulation)? Some job titles I've seen include: Design Technologist, Web Developer, Front-end Developer, HTML/CSS Developer, Client-side Developer and UI Engineer. Do you have any favourite job titles for this role?"
Comment Re:The revolution ... (Score 1) 199
The revolution will be simulcast via twitter and telegraph, except where prohibited by law.
North Korea Missile Launch Fails 609
An anonymous reader writes "Remember the Intercontinental Ballistic Missile launch by the North Koreans last night? You know, the one that went over Japan and supposedly put a 'communications satellite' into orbit. Well, according to the US Northern Command and NORAD it has been a complete and utter failure, with the second stage and payload 'falling in the Pacific.'"
Comment Re:Got that? (Score 1) 353
conspiring to triage
There's a new crime. Let's commit it!
Comment Re:copyright enforcement? (Score 1) 747
It certainly could. Code, markup, graphics, it's all copyrightable. Whether it has in the past or not isn't relevant at all since it's functionally the same as any other code. And yes, people borrow from each other all the time, but that doesn't make it legally sound.
As for Stallman's ideas, it seems like the easiest thing to do would be to just not visit websites that don't license their scripts in a friendly manner. You're not going to hell just because you accidentally went to some site with non-free javascript once, it's only important (for very idealistic definitions of important) for the sites that you use regularly.
Comment Re:Digital cash (Score 3, Interesting) 65
I'll meet you at The Black Sun.
Comment Re:Probably not the sub's fault (Score 2, Funny) 266
Erm, what? The USS New Orleans only had 2600 deficiencies when inspected: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_New_Orleans_(LPD-18). Learn to read your own links.
Comment Re:There are some things we shouldn't see (Score 2, Insightful) 330
I don't like the Neo Nazis. I'd rather they chose not to say what they say. But I will defend, to the death if needs must, their right to say it. Someday, I might find myself the lone voice of dissension. I'd hope no matter what my views you'd stand up and support my right to say them. Otherwise, one day *you* might be that lone voice...
I agree fully, and that's why my Troll moderation is nonsensical. Apparently I should've laid down the sarcasm a bit more thickly...
Comment Re:There are some things we shouldn't see (Score 3, Insightful) 330
I think speech should be free, but seriously, how much worse off would we be if we didn't have Nazi sympathizers and other hate mongers?
Comment Re:Not a bug (Score 2, Informative) 830
and after saying "Ok, I got it", *guarantee*, that I can turn off the system in that very moment, without losing data or corrupting the file system in any way.
Which is precisely what fsync does, and is precisely what these developers didn't use. The filesystem knows better than you do how to get all the data it has to write onto the platters as fast as possible so if you need something specific like "it's important that this data get written now, so I'll wait for you to finish", you have to ask. Otherwise your apps would run a great deal slower since every little write (even a single byte!) would have to wait for the OS to say "OK, it's on disk". And if you really want that, there are flags you can use, e.g. O_SYNC. But you don't.
Comment Re:Not a bug (Score 1) 830
There's no reason you can't have your cake and eat it too. We have virtual filesystems like proc, why not a 'registry' filesystem? People will still be able to modify config files to their heart's content, with all the benefits of a 'registry'.
What To Do With Old USB Keys, Low-Capacity Hard Drives? 546
MessedRocker writes "I have at least a few USB flash drives around that I haven't needed since I got my 16GB flash drive, a 40GB external hard drive which I haven't needed since I upgraded to 500GB, and a couple of SATA hard drives I have pulled out of laptops which are either as large or smaller than the one I have in my laptop now. Furthermore, I don't really know anyone who needs any hard drives or flash drives. What should I do with my small, obsolete storage devices?"
