Comment Re:A job for Little Snitch (Score 1) 49
following apples suggestion for limiting spotlight intrusiveness does not stop spotlight attempting to connect to a large range IPs.
Comment but apprently it can be circumvented... (Score 1) 437
Roku updated their Netflix app with the forced Google DNS - solutions are available to circumvent the new changes.
http://support.unblock-us.com/...
Comment Implausible. (Score 5, Funny) 393
Plait accuses the congressmen of trying to bury private spaceflight under red tape in order to protect established industries in their own states
This seems highly unlikely - I can't think of a single example of congressmen doing something like this before.
Comment Watch Europa Report first... (Score 1) 49
will provide tips on what not to do...
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt20...
Comment Re:mad props (Score 1) 105
Indeed, that this OS is still vibrant and alive after so long is a real acheivement.
As a matter of curiousity, could someone please answer why Unix and the various derivatives are still so strong? Why are there so few new OSs that match this one in terms of security etc? Did these guys create the best OS it was possible to make first time or are there better, new OSs waiting in the wings? As you can probably tell, i dont know too much about this so please be gentle....
Comment Re:Most professors guilty? (Score 1, Interesting) 467
i think the note taking skills (or lack there of) of the students is a contributing factor to the sub-optimal transmission of information during college level education.
Piracy and the PSP 272
In a lengthy interview with Gamasutra about the state of the Playstation brand in 2009, Sony's senior vice president of marketing, Peter Dille, made some interesting comments about how piracy has affected their popular portable console, the PSP. He said, "we're convinced that piracy has taken out a big chunk of our software sales on PSP," a platform that was slow to start anyway due to the lack of early interest from game developers. Dille mentions that while they can fight piracy with hardware upgrades in new versions, that doesn't do anything to help the roughly 50 million PSPs already out there. He goes on to address other aspects of the PlayStation line, including complaints about the pricing and exclusivity.
Comment Re:Hopefully (Score 2, Informative) 207
without embryonic stem cells the process for making these induced pluripotency cells would never have been discovered.
The genes required for such reprogramming are intimately involved in the mechanisms that embryonic stem cells use to maintain their phenotype. Indeed without the extensive studies that have gone on in both human and mouse ES cells we would be completely ignorant about the roles of these genes.
A little research will make you sound a whole less ignorant.
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