Comment Old news? (Score 1) 17
I've known about this for months. This is news?
Comment Re: good news (Score 1) 48
I've long considered starting my own company manufacturing and selling routers, and simply using OpenWRT for the default firmware. Ideally employ a programmer to maintain a branch for my hardware, but of course contributing everything to the open source project and keeping nothing proprietary.
The problem is that there isn't really a market for it - the vast majority of people simply don't care.
Comment Magic (Score 1) 258
I know this isn't directly related, but it's the first thing I thought of (and it's a good story anyhow).
http://www.catb.org/jargon/htm...
Comment Re: Public Shaming the Red Chinese ? (Score 1) 52
In the words of Tom Clancy "Your dicks aren't big enough to get into a pissing contest with us!"
Comment Cool (Score 0) 128
But is it actually of any practical use to us?
Comment Re: TP-Link (Score 2) 427
Yes, but get the hardware revision 2.0. The 1.x devices still have WiFi troubles.
Comment Re: One trillion becquerels (Score 1) 190
You are what you eat.
Comment Re: I've heard this one... (Score 2) 260
That would be a rectifier. Google wants an inverter.
Comment please don't give up (Score 1) 573
I've been waiting for a plex app for my Panasonic TV for ages. Please don't let Panasonic's stupidity get in the way of you bringing it to market.
Also, I'm terribly disappointed in the Slashdot hive today. Talking about the shit that is the beta and ignoring the matter of the post is incredibly rude.
Good luck and good speed.
Comment Non-issue (Score 5, Insightful) 260
I suspect that this is less about blocking YouTube downloaders, and more about blocking those extensions that appear after not un-checking the box on programs downloaded and installed from the internet.
I.e. it's more for the protection of grandma who wants to download a pretty solitaire app than it is for stopping little Johnny downloading his music videos of Miley.
If you're smart enough to follow a few simple instructions and install a local extension, you're smart enough to follow a few simple instructions and install the Dev channel of Chrome first.
Comment Re: The IP is his trademark(s) that mark his busin (Score 5, Informative) 252
Google the tort of passing off. It is not necessary for a trademark to be registered for it to be legally defendable.
Comment New s? (Score 1) 951
I'm sorry, but in what way is this news? This has been floating around the internet since about March. suddenly it becomes news when Microsoft finally admits it?
Adobe Releases Its Own HTML5 Video Player 139
An anonymous reader writes "Webmonkey has an interesting tidbit about Adobe's release of its own HTML5 video player: 'Adobe has released an embeddable video player that plays HTML5 native video in browsers that support it, and falls back to Flash in browsers that don't. It's cross-browser and cross-platform, so it works on iPhones, iPads and other devices that don't support Flash. Using Adobe's new player, these devices can show videos in web pages without the Flash plug-in.'"
Asterisk 1.8 Released With Support For Google Voice 83
Thinkcloud writes with a note that long-standing open-source VoiP software Asterisk has just been updated, and it's packed with more than 200 enhancements, security updates, and new features — including calendar integration and support for Google Voice and Google Talk. Asterisk's fully-featured PBX includes call waiting, hold and transfer, caller ID, and other useful tools so it's a great option for small businesses that need to watch costs."
Mazda Claims 70 mpg For New Engine, No Hybrid Needed 576
thecarchik writes "There's no word on when the new version of the Mazda2 will finally reach the US but when it does we can reveal that it will return a fuel economy of 70 mpg — without the aid of any electric motors. This is because the car will feature Mazda's next-generation of drivetrain, body and chassis technologies, dubbed SKYACTIV. The new Mazda 2 will come powered by a SKYACTIV-G engine, Mazda's next-generation direct injection gasoline mill that achieves significantly improved fuel efficiency thanks to a high compression ratio of 14.0:1 (the world's highest for a production gasoline engine)." I wonder if a real-life-real-drivers 70 mpg car is what will actually arrive, or if such promises will dissolve like Chevy's promises about the Volt did.
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