Comment Re:Relation to possible revolution? (Score 1) 101
Maybe they're just upgrading their servers and something wrong..
Submission + - XBMC v11 Eden has been released (xbmc.org)
themib writes: "After only two release candidates XBMC v11.0 Eden has been released. The latest version contains many updates and new features including: Addon Rollbacks, Confluence improvements, Dirty region rendering, a new JPEG decoder, movie scraping, better network support, a new upgraded Weather service. This announcement also heralds the new XBMCbuntu Final."
Submission + - Facebook: No Plans To Sue Employers Asking For Your Password
An anonymous reader writes: Quoting ZDNet:
Facebook today stirred up quite the storm when it outlined how it wants to protect its users from employers demanding access to their accounts. The company said it is looking to create new laws as well as take legal action wherever necessary. Menlo Park contacted me to clarify one point though: it’s not suing any employers just yet.
Facebook today stirred up quite the storm when it outlined how it wants to protect its users from employers demanding access to their accounts. The company said it is looking to create new laws as well as take legal action wherever necessary. Menlo Park contacted me to clarify one point though: it’s not suing any employers just yet.
Comment Re:1366x768 (Score 5, Informative) 382
That is correct. Older higher-end Thinkpads had like 1600x1200 or 1440x1050 even on smaller screens, like 14" and that was back in 2002-2003, so, by now everyone should have caught up as parts became cheaper(they did, right?). But it's 2012, and the standards haven't been raised by much. Maybe the arrival of the new iPad will improve things...
Submission + - DPI-awareness of Windows 8
jones_supa writes: The Building Windows 8 blog comes up with a detailed post explaining the improved support of Windows 8 regarding different screen sizes, resolutions and pixel densities. Early the Windows team explored an inch-based scaling system, but found out that bitmaps would look blurry when scaled to unpredictable sizes. They ended up choosing three predefined scale percentages: 100%/140%/180%. The article goes on pondering the best solutions to make each app look good on different screens. Also is shown the distribution of resolutions being used today with Windows 7, 1366x768 having a huge lead at 42%.
Submission + - Drone and electronics 3D printed together (suasnews.com)
garymortimer writes: "“Bringing together 3D printing and printed electronic circuitry will be a game changer for design and manufacturing,” says Jeff DeGrange, VP of direct digital manufacturing at Stratasys. “It has the potential to completely streamline production by requiring fewer materials and steps to bring a product to market.”
An Optomec Aerosol Jet system was used to print a conformal sensor, antenna and circuitry directly onto the wing of a UAV model. The wing was 3D printed with the Stratasys Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM) process. The electrical and sensor designs were provided by Aurora Flight Sciences, a supplier of UAVs. “"
An Optomec Aerosol Jet system was used to print a conformal sensor, antenna and circuitry directly onto the wing of a UAV model. The wing was 3D printed with the Stratasys Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM) process. The electrical and sensor designs were provided by Aurora Flight Sciences, a supplier of UAVs. “"
Submission + - Congress wants *your* questions for TSA (house.gov) 1
McGruber writes: Transportation Security Administration (TSA) program challenges and failures will be the focus of a joint hearing of the US House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Government Reform and the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, on Monday, March 26, 2012. The Hearing is titled "TSA Oversight Part III: Effective Security or Security Theater?"
Bruce Schneier is scheduled to be a witness at this hearing. Additional information on the hearing is posted on the oversight committee's website: (http://oversight.house.gov/tsa-oversight-tell-us-your-tsa-story/)
The Congressmen who serve on these committees are soliciting questions from the public to ask TSA officials at the hearing... provided the public is willing to submit their questions via facebook (http://www.facebook.com/Oversight).
Bruce Schneier is scheduled to be a witness at this hearing. Additional information on the hearing is posted on the oversight committee's website: (http://oversight.house.gov/tsa-oversight-tell-us-your-tsa-story/)
The Congressmen who serve on these committees are soliciting questions from the public to ask TSA officials at the hearing... provided the public is willing to submit their questions via facebook (http://www.facebook.com/Oversight).
Comment Re:Hope and Change (Score 2) 186
there's your politics http://i.imgur.com/mSTMD.jpg
Submission + - Can you go 24 hours without any tech? (yookos.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Not to sound like an old lady, but back in my day, when I wanted to hang out with friends, I'd call them up on a landline phone. Dinners out never involved a group of four or five people looking down at their phones or checking into a social network, and if I had a paper to write for school, I'd go to the library and do the research using — gasp — books!
Of course, today, that's all changed with the rise of the Internet and devices like smartphones and tablets. There's no doubt technology has enriched our lives in so many ways, but it's also created a culture in which we're often more consumed with our gadgets and the digital world than we are with real people and the outside world. So what would you do if you didn't have access to any of your gadgets? Care to find out?
Reboot, a nonprofit group whose mission is to "reboot" cultures, traditions, and rituals in the Jewish tradition of Sabbath (a day of rest), is asking people to take a break from tech for 24 hours by participating in a National Day of Unplugging.
Now in its third year of celebration, National Day of Unplugging 2012 starts at sunset on March 23 and ends at sunset on March 24, and Reboot encourages participants to use the 24-hour tech detox as time to reconnect with friends and family, go outside, focus on your health, give back, meditate, and more.
I've written before that I'm all for taking the time to unplug. I'm pretty good about not checking my smartphone when I'm out with friends, but I'm making more of a conscious effort not to be tethered to it at other times too, like when I'm at home or on the bus.
That said, I still use it a lot to check e-mail and my social networks — and my newfound obsession with Draw Something is definitely not helping the cause. Also, when I come home, I instantly turn on the TV — sometimes I don't even watch it, I just like having it on in the background. Obviously, I could do a lot more to unplug, which is why I've decided to take the pledge.
Reboot doesn't explicitly define what unplugging means, simply stating "find the balance that works for you" and leaving it up to participants to decide. I'll be turning off my phone, laptop, and TV. I don't think I'll have any problems being without TV and my laptop, but I am a little nervous being sans smartphone for 24 hours (crap, maybe I truly am nomophobic). I've got several plans this weekend, so it's going to be interesting coordinating with friends without my smartphone.
I also love, love, love music, and am not sure how I'll survive without it (I suppose I'll have to resort to serenading myself in the shower).
I'll be chronicling my adventures this weekend (with pen and paper, of course), so check back Monday to see if I survived National Day of Unplugging. If you want to participate yourself, you can take the pledge here. Also, let us know in the comments section below if you plan to or not and why.
Of course, today, that's all changed with the rise of the Internet and devices like smartphones and tablets. There's no doubt technology has enriched our lives in so many ways, but it's also created a culture in which we're often more consumed with our gadgets and the digital world than we are with real people and the outside world. So what would you do if you didn't have access to any of your gadgets? Care to find out?
Reboot, a nonprofit group whose mission is to "reboot" cultures, traditions, and rituals in the Jewish tradition of Sabbath (a day of rest), is asking people to take a break from tech for 24 hours by participating in a National Day of Unplugging.
Now in its third year of celebration, National Day of Unplugging 2012 starts at sunset on March 23 and ends at sunset on March 24, and Reboot encourages participants to use the 24-hour tech detox as time to reconnect with friends and family, go outside, focus on your health, give back, meditate, and more.
I've written before that I'm all for taking the time to unplug. I'm pretty good about not checking my smartphone when I'm out with friends, but I'm making more of a conscious effort not to be tethered to it at other times too, like when I'm at home or on the bus.
That said, I still use it a lot to check e-mail and my social networks — and my newfound obsession with Draw Something is definitely not helping the cause. Also, when I come home, I instantly turn on the TV — sometimes I don't even watch it, I just like having it on in the background. Obviously, I could do a lot more to unplug, which is why I've decided to take the pledge.
Reboot doesn't explicitly define what unplugging means, simply stating "find the balance that works for you" and leaving it up to participants to decide. I'll be turning off my phone, laptop, and TV. I don't think I'll have any problems being without TV and my laptop, but I am a little nervous being sans smartphone for 24 hours (crap, maybe I truly am nomophobic). I've got several plans this weekend, so it's going to be interesting coordinating with friends without my smartphone.
I also love, love, love music, and am not sure how I'll survive without it (I suppose I'll have to resort to serenading myself in the shower).
I'll be chronicling my adventures this weekend (with pen and paper, of course), so check back Monday to see if I survived National Day of Unplugging. If you want to participate yourself, you can take the pledge here. Also, let us know in the comments section below if you plan to or not and why.
Submission + - Google Play Mulls Movie Sales (mindprocessors.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Google execs have spoken to some of the film studios about offering Android users the option to buy titles, sources tell CNET. The formerly named Android Market currently offers rentals.
Submission + - Secure your Wi-Fi -- or face a visit from the police (techworld.com.au)
angry tapir writes: "If you live in the Australian state of Queensland and have an insecure Wi-Fi router, you may get a visit from the police. In a bid to raise awareness about cybercrime, police in the northeastern state plan to "wardrive," or cruise the streets, scanning for Wi-Fi routers that are not password protected or use an aging, weak security protocol. Australian consumers and businesses don't need to worry about a fine: Police just plan on distributing information on how they can better secure their routers in their mailboxes."
Submission + - What happens when you stick your head in a particle accelerator? (todayifoundout.com)
NervousWreck writes: I'm sure we've all wondered at one point or another. This guy found out, lived, got married, and had a kid.
Submission + - Which Multiple Desktop Tool should one use on Windows 7? 2
asadsalm writes: "MacOS has spaces. Windows had no out-of-the-box utility for multiple virtual desktops. Which Multiple Desktop Tool should one use on Windows 7? Sysinternals Desktops, mdesktop, Dexpot, Virtual Dimension, VirtuaWin, Finestra are the few options that I have shortlisted."
Submission + - Can KDE Survive Without Ubuntu? (muktware.com)
sfcrazy writes: Jonathan Riddell, the KDE developer writes, "Since I had to announce that Canonical was dropping support for Kubuntu from 12.11 (and then had to announce two days later they were dropping support for 12.04) I've been getting lots of people asking "is this the end of KDE?"
I don't know if he meant the end of KDE or the end of Kubuntu because, in my opinion, KDE is a far bigger community outside of Kubuntu. There are many distributions such as Chakra, Mephis, Mandriva, Mageia, etc. So, I will be interested in learning how much of KDE's survival depends on Kubuntu.
I don't know if he meant the end of KDE or the end of Kubuntu because, in my opinion, KDE is a far bigger community outside of Kubuntu. There are many distributions such as Chakra, Mephis, Mandriva, Mageia, etc. So, I will be interested in learning how much of KDE's survival depends on Kubuntu.
Comment Re:Oblig. Fam. Guy (Score 1) 578
I`m sorry, but that show sucks.
