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Comment Ehh. (Score 5, Insightful) 1223

by tetrahedrassface (#41471359) Attached to: Torvalds Uses Profanity To Lambaste Romney Remarks

Linus is entitled to his opinions no matter how correct they are. However, I would go further and say that the two party system is largely staffed by fucking corrupt morons, and that if you think they are different you are batshit crazy. The two parties are just two arms of the *same machine*. Thank you.
Linux

Torvalds Uses Profanity To Lambaste Romney Remarks 1223

Posted by samzenpus from the can't-we-all-just-get-along? dept.
netbuzz writes "Last night Linux creator Linus Torvalds took to his Google+ page and called Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney 'a f***ing moron.' Torvalds' stated reason? Romney's much-ridiculed suggestion that air passengers would be safer in emergencies if aircraft windows could be opened (a suggestion which some, including Snopes.com, have taken as a joke). Torvalds also recently called Mormonism, Romney's religion, 'bats**t crazy.' Is this just Linus being Linus? Or does such outspokenness on non-technical matters reflect poorly on the Linux community that Torvalds leads?"
Games

Submission + - Savage XR 1.0 is Savagely Fun. (newerth.com)

Submitted by tetrahedrassface
tetrahedrassface writes: If you played the original cult classic, Savage: The Battle For Newerth and were proud that back in the day the development team made a Linux version available there is good news. After years of work, and many SVN revisons a new, much more dynamic and savage Savages is available. The game is available for Linux, Mac, and Windows and many features have been improved upon. Notably a improved models, a new editor, custom content and much more. It looks wonderful.
Operating Systems

Ask Slashdot: What Distros Have You Used, In What Order? 867

Posted by timothy from the was-it-yggdrasil? dept.
colinneagle writes "Linux dude Bryan Lunduke blogged here about the top three approaches he thinks are the easiest for new users to pick up Linux. Lunduke's, for example, went Ubuntu -> Arch -> openSUSE. It raises a question that Slashdot could answer well in the comments: what's your distro use order from beginning to now? Maybe we could spot some trends."

Submission + - Broken Busted and Out of Time The USPS Living in Dicey Times. (moneynews.com) 2

Submitted by tetrahedrassface
tetrahedrassface writes: The United States Postal Service does a pretty good job of moving mail around. They've been doing it for a couple of hundred years through good times and bad. The bad times for the postal service have gotten worse with the advent of the internet. The service made history a short time ago when it defaulted on its payment to its retirement benefits trust. It's about to happen again on September 30'th. At issue is how the service funds its retirement and health trust and a massive decrease in volume due to online communications such as e-mail, social sites, text, and sms. The employees of the USPS are good people, albeit working for an organization that can't seem to adapt out of the quandary they are in. Losing money badly the service recently agreed to buy used phones to help bolster the bottom line.
Some call this Armageddon for the postal world. According to the Inspector General the service might in fact run out of money for days or weeks in October until volume for the Holidays picks up. By next spring they forecast to be bankrupt entirely with out Congress acting, and there is the rub: Is the USPS a government service or a business and with so much connectivity these days why rely on paper? I'm sure the employees are good people, and don't want to pick on them, but perhaps their business model needs to be set free allowing them latitude in implementing needed changes. Dicey times. Dicey times indeed.

Comment Re:Big Deal (Score 1) 133

by tetrahedrassface (#41457503) Attached to: Why One Person Thinks Raspberry Pi Is Unsuitable For Education

Here you go. I ordered one through newegg today.

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Many common computing tasks, such as number crunching, data storage, and communications have shifted to the Internet. As a result, a very low cost computer – with access to the Internet – can be just as valuable as a much more expensive computer.

APC was born from our love of computers and our realization that the PC needs a fundamental redesign. The redesign that we offer is a computer that is more accessible, and more valuable, because you’re not paying for functions that you don’t need and won’t be using.
Moon

Submission + - NASA deep-space outpost (orlandosentinel.com)

Submitted by
DevotedSkeptic
DevotedSkeptic writes: "Top NASA officials have picked a leading candidate for the agency's next major mission: construction of a new outpost that would send astronauts farther from Earth than at any time in history.

The so-called "gateway spacecraft" would hover in orbit on the far side of the moon, support a small astronaut crew and function as a staging area for future missions to the moon and Mars.

At 277,000 miles from Earth, the outpost would be far more remote than the current space station, which orbits a little more than 200 miles above Earth. The distance raises complex questions of how to protect astronauts from the radiation of deep space — and rescue them if something goes wrong.

NASA Chief Charlie Bolden briefed the White House earlier this month on details of the proposal, but it's unclear whether it has the administration's support. Of critical importance is the price tag, which would certainly run into the billions of dollars."
The Internet

Submission + - A la carte TV channel choice is coming to the Internet (networkworld.com)

Submitted by colinneagle
colinneagle writes: Watching TV on the Internet is cheaper than watching it by cable or satellite, but it's also messier.

However, for the first time anywhere, HBO will be offering its programming to TV watchers in Scandinavia without requiring that they subscribe to HBO on satellite or cable. In the US, HBO makes some of its programming available over the Internet on HBO GO, but you have to be a conventional HBO subscriber to get it. In Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden, HBO Nordic AB will be available for just under 10 euros a month.

HBO, which makes the bulk of its money from its cable and satellite partners, isn't going to offer HBO as a separate service anytime soon in the U.S. On the other hand, Time Warner, which owns HBO, hasn't dismissed the idea of offering HBO as a separate service to Internet TV viewers in the States, either. At the Goldman Sachs Communacopia Conference, Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes said, "If in the long run, there's a clear development of enough people that need an a la carte offering of HBO, we'll look at it. It's not the main opportunity now."

Well, Time-Warner may not think it's time to seize the main chance of making TV more easily available on the Internet, but Roku founder and CEO Anthony Wood does. Wood told Todd Spangler of Multichannel News, that “In the next 12 months in the U.S. you’ll start to see a virtual MSO [multiple system operator], a pay-TV package distributed over the Internet through devices like Roku. Companies are trying to figure out how to reach a different class of customer, maybe who don’t have cable TV.”

Submission + - Very Very Bright Comet in 2013!! (blogspot.it)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Comet C/2012 S1 (ISON) will get to within 0.012AU of the Sun (extremely close) at the end of November 2013 and then to ~0.4AU from Earth at the beginning of January 2014! According to its orbit, this comet might become a naked-eye object in the period November 2013 — January 2014. And it might reach a negative magnitude at the end of November 2013.
Android

Submission + - Is it time for Android on the desktop? Via Technologies thinks so (apc.io) 2

Submitted by fragMasterFlash
fragMasterFlash writes: Via Technologies is launching the aPC, a $49 desktop motherboard running Android Gingerbread with support for downloading apps from the Google Play store. Dubbed "A bicycle for your mind" this device represents an attempt to span the digital divide, bringing a full-fledged computing experience to the next 2 billion new users.

Submission + - Eunuchs Had More Fun: Castration Leads To Longer Lives. (medicalnewstoday.com)

Submitted by
tetrahedrassface
tetrahedrassface writes: "A study out from Korea verifies what the animal world has been telling us for years. Castrated males live longer lives. The study rounds out the period of the Chosun Dynasty where servants were castrated. The unit-less men lived on average 14 to 19 years longer, could marry and lived to the ripe old age of seventy whilst their royal employers lived on average into their forties. While the science is in, before everyone runs to get the service done to their person, it seems that the younger you are when castrated, the better the benefit.
Shucks"

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