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Comment Re:You can thank make work (Score 2) 61

by NeoManyon (#64496389) Attached to: YouTube Rolling Out Its Widely Hated New Web Redesign

If it works for you great but for me I want most of the items i use to be on the one stable section, not having to change every time and having to remember all five(?) ribbons. Seems a lot more clicks and mouse movement to me and so I think it's terrible UI design. I've heard it was only developed so that Microsoft had unique patent-able interface so that Libreoffice etc would seem alien to most people. They could have had both interfaces and let people select what they find effective...

Comment Re:Just what we need right now... (Score 1) 582

by NeoManyon (#43057013) Attached to: 'Download This Gun' — 3-D Printed Gun Reliable Up To 600 Rounds

I would agree that we tend to treat the symptoms not the cause. However comparing the UK to the USA

http://www.nationmaster.com/compare/United-Kingdom/United-States/Crime

The UK has higher rape and drug use than the USA. And though i wasn't able to quickly find a reference but I believe the UK has much more knife related crimes. I would suggest most western countries have problems that need working on, it's just most don't have a fixation on guns like the USA
Canada

Ontario School Bans Wi-Fi 287

Posted by samzenpus from the balance-the-humors dept.
St. Vincent Euphrasia elementary school in Meaford, Ont. is the latest Canadian school to decide to save its students from the harmful effects of Wi-Fi by banning it. Schools from universities on down have a history of banning Wi-Fi in Ontario. As usual, health officials and know-it-all scientists have called the move ridiculous. Health Canada has released a statement saying, "Wi-Fi is the second most prevalent form of wireless technology next to cell phones. It is widely used across Canada in schools, offices, coffee shops, personal dwellings, as well as countless other locations. Health Canada continues to reassure Canadians that the radiofrequency energy emitted from Wi-Fi equipment is extremely low and is not associated with any health problems."

Comment Re:Well I don't think it'll be a problem like that (Score 1) 764

by NeoManyon (#33549796) Attached to: German Military Braces For Peak Oil

i totally agree with your point about cars. in 50 years time we'll look back with amazement at how decadent we were now. 1.5t of metal to move often one person, 75kg. If you live in a city you can get away with a top speed of 60kph.

Whatever fuel source cars will use in the future they will be substantially more efficient than todays.
Image

Scientists Discover Booze That Won't Give You a Hangover 334

Posted by samzenpus from the go-ahead-and-have-another dept.
Kwang-il Kwon and Hye Gwang Jeong of Chungnam National University have discovered that drinking alcohol with oxygen bubbles added leads to fewer hangovers and a shorter sobering up time. People drinking the bubbly booze sobered up 20-30 minutes faster and had less severe and fewer hangovers than people who drank the non-fizzy stuff. Kwon said: "The oxygen-enriched alcohol beverage reduces plasma alcohol concentrations faster than a normal dissolved-oxygen alcohol beverage does. This could provide both clinical and real-life significance. The oxygen-enriched alcohol beverage would allow individuals to become sober faster, and reduce the side effects of acetaldehyde without a significant difference in alcohol's effects. Furthermore, the reduced time to a lower BAC may reduce alcohol-related accidents."
Bug

Passage of Time Solves PS3 Glitch 147

Posted by Soulskill from the if-only-they-were-all-so-easy dept.
An anonymous reader writes "A quick update on the widespread PlayStation 3 glitch we discussed recently: as of last night (Monday, March 1st) the problem has resolved itself. I powered up my PS3 to find the clock was set to April 29th, 2020, but once I went into the system menu and set the date and time via the internet I got an accurate date. That seems to be the test of whether your PS3 is 'fixed' or not; Sony says you should be all set."
Government

Microsoft's Bulk Deal With New Zealand Collapses 166

Posted by kdawson from the door-off-hinges dept.
vik writes "The latest 3-year, pan-government deal that Microsoft has been establishing with the New Zealand government since 2000 has collapsed, opening the doors to the wider use of open source software in government. The NZ State Services Commission (already a prize-winning user of open source) says in a statement that it '...became apparent during discussions that a formal agreement with Microsoft is no longer appropriate.' Having lost their discount, individual government departments will now have to put their IT requirements out to tender individually."
Government

Time To Discuss Drug Prohibition? 1367

Posted by kdawson from the with-your-remaining-brain-cells dept.
gplus writes "December 5th was the 75th anniversary of the end of alcohol prohibition in the US. The Wall Street Journal has an op-ed which argues that now may be the time to discuss our war on drugs and the drug prohibition currently in place. The article argues that the harm caused by the banned substance must be balanced against the harms caused by the prohibition. As to why Americans in 1933 finally voted to end prohibition, while we barely even discuss it: 'Most Americans in 1933 could recall a time before prohibition, which tempered their fears. But few Americans now can recall the decades when the illicit drugs of today were sold and consumed legally. If they could, a post-prohibition future might prove less alarming.'"

Comment Decade of Linux on the Desktop (Score 1) 578

by essence (#23452320) Attached to: Getting Past "Ready For the Desktop"
I like to think of 2005 to 2015 as the decade of Linux on the desktop. It's really only the last few years that linux has become usable by grandma, so long as grandma has the right hardware. I'm hopeful that the next 7 years will see much improvement for linux. By 2015, Linux will be on par with/ superior to other OS's on the desktop.
The Courts

Sweden to Give Courts New Power to Hunt IP Infringers 171

Posted by Zonk from the unleash-the-p2p-sniffing-hounds dept.
I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "The Swedish Culture & Justice ministers are preparing to give new power to Swedish courts to let them force ISPs to give up subscriber IPs. The end goal is trying subscribers in court for copyright infringement. As the one-time home of the Pirate Bay, which is now internationally distributed, they face both US pressure and push-back at home. The Swedish arm of the Pirate Party is calling this move a 'sanctioned blackmailing operation', but hopefully the Swedish courts won't allow the IFPI to use as many tricks as the RIAA has in US courts."
Software

The Benefits of 'Vendor-Free' Open Source IT 111

Posted by Zonk from the keeping-the-consultants-out-the-cold dept.
mjasay writes "IDC has released a report looking into industry adoption of open software. In the study, analyst Matt Lawton stumbles across an intriguing trend: IT departments do most of the services around open source, rather than third-party consulting companies. While IDC believes this is a bad thing, the data in the report suggests otherwise. 70% of the enterprises surveyed did their own implementations, while roughly 90% supported their own open-source deployments. This might be a cause for alarm if the projects weren't so successful: 70% of the projects were deemed to be of "Critical" or "High Importance" compared to other IT projects and 90% plan to maintain or increase their investment in open source projects. Could it be that open source is liberating enterprises from an unhealthy dependence on vendors, and that early results suggest that this will be a Very Good Thing for the success of IT projects, many of which have failed historically."

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