Comment Utah IT pro (Score 1) 181
Password: Admin
Comment Re:So right (Score 1) 410
It's also interesting to see how high the UIDs are
Kinda like how your UID is high??
Comment Re:This is what happens (Score 1) 93
Thanks for posting. Sorry you got modded down.
Video Plantronics Helps Make Remote Workers' Lives Easier (Video) 233
Comment Re:The "anti-indiviudal abilities agenda" (Score 1) 73
it is not at all clear that the error had anything to do with a focus on "individual abilities".
If you RTFA, there was a single point of failure isolated to a specific tool used to grind the mirror, and the subsequent mistakes made by management dealing with the error (i.e. when the mirror was on the bed of nails).
Comment Re:Safety (Score 1) 414
If there was the remotest chance their $millions worth of plane and PR could be brought down by your phone no one would be allowed them.
Slashdot has had an influx of non-tech ignoramuses. The fact is that there are distinct and well known reasons why there is electronics ban. Besides interfering with navigation, they can potentially interfere with communications with the control tower.
Electronic devices were designed not with airplanes in mind, but rather with a minimum amount of care that a consumer device requires.
FTA;
I don't buy that there is any interference issue, at least not in general,
The problem is we don't want airplane systems to withstand EMI "in general," we demand "perfect" operations so there can be a "perfect" safety record. Not just "in general" safe.
Comment Re:Before anyone makes any silly comments... (Score 2) 132
It would have been more informative to call the internal circuitry "filters" rather than "magnetics," which is conceptually more accurate.
That said, this has to be great advertising for Molex.
Rob Malda (CmdrTaco) Joins the Washington Post 232
kodiaktau writes "Slashdot founder and long time cat herder Rob Malda joins the Washington Post per an announcement today. According to the press release, he will be the Chief Strategist and Editor-at-Large working for WaPo Labs."
Rob has a more detailed description of the job on his blog: "Don Graham is trying to accomplish something that is a bit of a cliche these days: A startup inside an established corporation. A group that can exist at a nexus between newspapers, websites, cable networks, and TV stations and think about the big picture and the future without the normal burdens associated with a business operating at a large scale. ... They are actively iterating and experimenting in many directions, with strong support from the top of the organization. ... Washington Post executive editor Marcus Brauchli assures me that I'll also be working with the newsroom where I can contribute words, ideas, and tools that will improve the experience of the journalists doing work that I personally believe transcends the bottom line."
Comment I can see this point has yet to be made (Score 1) 671
Let me clear up the ambiguos advice that preceded this post. Get YOUR OWN machine!
Comment Wait (Score 1) 172
Where is the schematic for this thing??
Comment Re:Minix (Score 1) 120
Linux is a bit huge
The word is bloated. Which is difficult for embedded solutions to handle, and could well garner an audience for those that need a small footprint (and they're looking for an embedded programmer).
SCO vs. IBM Trial Back On Again 232
D___Breath writes "The lawsuit SCO started years ago against IBM (but really against Linux) is back on again. SCO first filed this clue-challenged lawsuit in March 2003. SCO claimed Linux was contaminated with code IBM stole from UNIX and that it was impossible to remove the infringement. Therefore, said SCO, all Linux users owe SCO a license fee of $1399 per cpu — but since SCO are such great guys, for a limited time, you can pay only $699 per CPU for your dirty, infringing copy of Linux. Of course, Novell claimed and later proved in court that SCO doesn't even own the copyrights on UNIX that it is suing over. IBM claims there is no infringing code in Linux. SCO never provided evidence of the massive infringement it claimed existed. The court ordered SCO three times to produce its evidence, twice extending the deadline, until it set a 'final' deadline of Dec 22, 2005 — which came and went — with SCO producing nothing but a lot of hand waving. In the meantime, SCO filed for bankruptcy protection in September 2007 because it was being beaten up in court so badly with the court going against SCO."
Comment Think about this (Score 4, Interesting) 135
If it had not been for the exhorbitant cost of the wars, we could have afforded to build a probe to orbit Pluto rather than just do a flyby.
As it was, New Horizons was largely made possible by a few congressman who pushed specifically for funding for this mission before Pluto's orbit removed it too far away from the sun.
Comment Re:I Left Today (Score 2) 722
I hope that you deleted your facebook account as well, because they at one time allowed the North American Man Boy Love Association (NAMBLA) to be on their website.
The thing is (whether you agree with it or not) many forum operators see themselves merely as a carrier and not provider or policer of content and try to remain neutral about content posted. Not unlike those that make/sell VHS tape or DVD players.
I thought that this whole problem was taken care of when they deleted r/jailbait. But what happened is the people associated with that content just moved to another forum. Just like they will move to another place on the internet again.
Google Offering Cash For Your Cache 152
pigrabbitbear writes "The gradual transformation of the web into an ultra-personalized, corporate-owned social space in the cloud has raised more than a few legitimate concerns about data privacy. Google, for obvious reasons, has always been one of the top cheerleaders for this metamorphosis. Touting a fresh new privacy policy that allows data about you from all of their services to coalesce, they've recently been particularly bullish about rendering that increasingly realistic digital portrait of you that lies stuffed away in their servers. It has led us again to question: How much are we comfortable with our machines knowing about us? How much is our privacy really worth? With their new program, Google is now asking those questions quite directly, and preceding them with dollar signs. Are we all on the verge of making our own information age Faustian bargains?"
