Comment Re:PETA agrees! (Score 1) 409
Umm..you can start with any fruit or vegetable available at your local store. As a caution please avoid eating a coconut without first removing its shell.
Comment Flamebait BBC report (Score 1) 409
It safe to assume that its just another flamebait BBC report not to be taken seriously. While the publisher (S Chand) is certainly of some repute in this country, it isn't known if this textbook has actually been adopted by any school.A textbook cannot be formally adopted by any school unless it gets approved by government institutions in charge of secondary education like NCERT or CBSE. This furore might have made sense if this textbook was being actually taught to kids; which isn't the case here.
Comment Re:PETA agrees! (Score 1) 409
As an aside, the human body isn't really adapted for consuming meat. Neither do we have incisor or canine teeth to cut into raw flesh nor a digestive system capable enough to digest meat. So in defense of vegans, meat eating doesn't come naturally to humans.
Comment Is this stuff that matters..? (Score 0) 144
$1.5 M iPads get pilfered from airport...okay..whats tech-worthy here: the fact that stolen goods were iPads, or that the dramatic way in which the heist was carried out?
Submission + - Jose Mujica: The world's 'poorest' president
red crab writes: "BBC News has carried out an article about Jose Mujica, labelled as the world's poorest president
It's a common grumble that politicians' lifestyles are far removed from those of their electorate. Not so in Uruguay. Meet the president — who lives on a ramshackle farm and gives away most of his pay. Mujica donates about 90% of his monthly salary, equivalent to $12,000 (£7,500), to charity. "This is a matter of freedom. If you don't have many possessions then you don't need to work all your life like a slave to sustain them, and therefore you have more time for yourself," he says."
It's a common grumble that politicians' lifestyles are far removed from those of their electorate. Not so in Uruguay. Meet the president — who lives on a ramshackle farm and gives away most of his pay. Mujica donates about 90% of his monthly salary, equivalent to $12,000 (£7,500), to charity. "This is a matter of freedom. If you don't have many possessions then you don't need to work all your life like a slave to sustain them, and therefore you have more time for yourself," he says."
Submission + - Automating: The New Outsourcing? (innovise-ies.com)
msoperdyer writes: "If repetitive IT tasks were automated now rather than outsourced overseas, the positive impact to employment, business and the economy could be huge. Couldn't it?....."
Submission + - Papa John's Sued For Unwanted Pizza-Related Texts (itworld.com)
jfruh writes: "Nationwide pizza chain Papa John's is finding itself on the receiving end of a $250 million dollar text spam lawsuit. As more and more people use their cell phones as their primary numbers, more and more companies will have them on file. Will this be the result?"
Comment Re:Don't negotiate with cyber criminals? (Score 1) 303
..The government is powerless or incompetent to protect you're rights...
Even if the government were competent enough, would you really like the government to protect yourself from a DDoS attack? On one hand you would want government not to police or censor the Internet and on the other you want it to protect you from petty cyber criminals?
Comment Mathemeticians and evolution of modern mathematics (Score 1) 278
ET Bell was an American mathematician and SF author whose couple of books Men of Mathematics and Development of Mathematics are considered quite remarkable.
Comment Re:I do not know why this appear on Slashdot !! (Score 1) 242
but if Amazon cares about the quality of their marketplace, they ought to be careful about letting any random person scrape a community-created document from the internet and publish it as an ebook.
By that definition, every tech book should be treated as non-original work since the information it conveys to the reader is already available freely on the web, though not consolidated as in a book. I think they (Amazon) need to understand that they are just sellers, not publishers and they need to be least concerned about what experience a user might derive after reading a book purchased by them.
Comment Re:frist (Score 2) 249
Yep, and regedit is as intuitive as vi.
Comment Re:Critical Apps on Linux. (Score 1) 249
I too always thought that this "unification" or interoperability within Microsoft products is their biggest advantage; until recently I tried to saddle a Sharepoint application with IIS, SQL server and Active Directory - It was as painful as OpenLDAP, MIT Kerberos and Samba integration I did a couple of years back.
Comment Re:in other words, a bigger ipod (Score -1, Flamebait) 214
Regardless of the marketing PR, an Apple fanboy will always buy Apple and invent some reason to like it; no matter how much similar competing products are available at lesser price in the market.
Comment Never a good idea.. (Score 5, Insightful) 233
Using touch screen controls on a car is akin to texting on your mobile; taking eyes off the road to see your dashboard or stereo controls is an inherently bad idea.
Comment Re:a little on the antiquated side (Score 1) 263
I never got to like CDE but it still was a precursor to many dekstops of today. The Mac OSX panel not only looks very much like CDE panel but is functionally too quite similar ; I neither liked the CDE panel nor the Mac's. The Solaris CDE had an additional optional panel on the left, if i can recall, and that was as ugly as the one Unity sports now. Also the square block icons of Windows 8 appear like a throwback of CDE.
