Comment Re:Missing option: (Score 1) 219
Just use the built in Linux 'ddate' command in a terminal to find the current discordian date from the system time. see 'man ddate' for more information.
FCC To Propose Net Neutrality Rules 110
wiredog writes "From The Washington Post comes news that the FCC is preparing to propose net neutrality rules on Monday. Quoting: '[FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski] will discuss the rules Monday during a keynote speech at The Brookings Institute. He isn't expected to drill into many details, but the proposal will specifically be for an additional guideline on how operators like AT&T, Verizon, and Comcast can control what goes on their networks. That additional guideline would prevent the operators from discriminating, or act as gatekeepers, of Web content and services. ... The agency is expected to review what traffic management is reasonable and what practices are discriminatory. The guidelines are known as "principals" at the agency, which some public interest groups have sought to codify so that they would clearly be enforceable.'"
Comment Re:Hmm (Score 1) 85
RTFA? I had fun finding the pictures that looked like paper tape and hollerith punch cards... then I ran across the one that looked like a program board for an IBM 557 and gave up.
Comment Re:What's the basis of the count? (Score 1) 408
That depends on the airport, and the gates. I flew through Kansas City once (never again) and every gate had TSA probes. Every other airport where I have had to transfer, I was lucy enough to be in the same area as the arriving flight.
Can I change my vote? I was counting round trips with transfers as ONE. Silly me.
Comment EDLIN (Score 1) 437
I would rather use console switches in binary, but I used a early line editor (years ago) to write my own editor. Besides, rumor has it, EDLIN was the only program actually written by Bill Gates.
Comment Re:Run a productive Meeting (Score 1) 161
4. No meeting, class, or gathering should last more than a micro-century. Do the math; 365.2425 x 100 = days in century x 1440 = minutes in a century / 1M = Maximum meeting time. Minimum 0, so 40 minutes does fall within the law.
Comment Spam is a good thing (Score 1) 176
Kill all your spam filters, then print it out and use it to heat your house when it gets cold. Problem solved, especially if you use green paper and ink.
Comment Re:So half the time they are better? (Score 1) 532
Cool... how do you use Google Reader to access /. ? Is that an IE only thing? I use Linux and FireFox. Will it work with that? If it does, can I migrate to GR for all my on-line applications?
Comment Re:Work is the amount of energy (Score 1) 252
I'm retired so I don't get paid as such. I get up in the morning with nothing to do, and go to bed at night with only half of it done. I like to ride my bicycle almost every day, so expending energy to move my jewels/mASS has to count for some definition of work.
Comment Re:My Network (Score 1) 1397
What about wireless network names? Drive around sometime with wifi-radar or one of the other hotspot scanners and you may discover My Network: NoNetHere or NoneThere, depending on how you parse. One of my machines is NowHere or is it NoWhere? No particular theme, just what pops out while setting a machine up. So I end up with names like M00, P00, anonxmous, y0da, etla (Extended or Enhanced or Expanded Three Letter Acronym), etcetera.
Comment Re:Slashdot, I'm in shock! (Score 1) 429
I worked in upstate NY, and retired from there and moved to Florida... it is the law! Have not had a hurricane since I got an emergency generator. As far as losing internet connectivity, I have wireless, you insensitive clod.
Submission + - CNet reporter calls for Microsoft to abandon Vista (news.com)
mr_mischief writes: As it's hard to miss the stories lately, all of us on /. are likely to know people are underwhelmed with Windows Vista. Well, Don Reisinger over at CNet's News.com is not quite just underwhelmed. He suggests that Vista may be the downfall of Microsoft because the company has really just missed the mark with the operating system. Despite years in development, Reisinger says Vista was delivered to market too early. He also says it's overpriced and plain doesn't work well enough for its users, among other complaints. His suggestion? Support those who are running it, but ditch Vista and move on.
Submission + - TomTom uses Linux, but doesn't support Linux users 3
Michele Alessandrini writes: "Having bought several TomTom One navigation systems here at work (Italy), I was browsing their web site to find information about maps.
There are several pages of documentation about their devices.
In one of them, they proudly inform you that their devices use Linux, as a warranty of power and stability.
But, when you come to the software (the one used to manage updates, set locations, etc), they only support Windows and Mac OS.
Not that surprise, and not that the software is really necessary.
But the point is: they probably saved million dollars using a free kernel, and they didn't even care supporting Linux users.
Am I the only one disappointed?"
Submission + - Mutant Algae to Fuel Cars of Tomorrow?
Hugh Pickens writes: "Algae has long been known as a promising source of biodiesel, however algae also produce a small amount of hydrogen during photosynthesis. The MIT Technology Review reports that now researchers have created a mutant algae that makes better use of sunlight to increase the amount of hydrogen that the algae produce. In a commercial bioreactor, the top layers of algae absorb most of the sunlight but can only use a fraction of it. Anastasios Melis and his team at the University of California have manipulated the genes that control the amount of chlorophyll in the algae's chloroplasts reducing the chlorophyll so that the algae absorb less sunlight. This lets more light penetrate into the deeper algae layers so that more cells use the sunlight to make hydrogen. Although the process is still at least five years from being used for hydrogen generation, Melis estimates that if 50% of capacity of the photosynthesis of the algae could be directed toward hydrogen production, an acre could produce 40 kilograms of hydrogen per day bringing the cost of producing hydrogen to $2.80 a kilogram. At this price, hydrogen could compete with gasoline, since a kilogram of hydrogen is equivalent in energy to a gallon of gasoline."
Submission + - 1300 Unopened Fry's Rebate Forms Found In Dumpster (consumerist.com) 2
blackmonday writes: "The Consumerist is reporting a find of 1,300 unopened rebate submissions in a dumpster belonging to Vastech, a rebate processor hired by Fry's Electronics. Vastech's management blames it on a bad employee."
