Comment Spoken like (Score 1) 187
Spoken like someone who has never gotten run over by a hybrid before.
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Submission + - Blue Screen of Death plagued Deepwater Horizon oil (engadget.com)
blugu64 writes: Microsoft really doesn't have any blame here. BP should have known that windows is by definition faulty and thus avoided its use in mission critical applications. If they were running linux this whole disaster would never have happened.
All of you running windows are a party to this disaster and dare I say it, should be prosecuted and held liable for aiding and abetting the continued use of windows as a desktop operating system. You should all be ashamed of yourselves.
All of you running windows are a party to this disaster and dare I say it, should be prosecuted and held liable for aiding and abetting the continued use of windows as a desktop operating system. You should all be ashamed of yourselves.
Comment Re:The information market was like the housing mar (Score 1) 538
It really depends though. Some information has a large cost associated with its creation.
Comment What is his problem? (Score 4, Insightful) 538
If they're getting paid $14 and the retailer is selling it at a loss, well, he already got $14 for it!
Comment Competition (Score 5, Insightful) 538
"But I think it really devalues books, and it hurts all the retailers of the hardcover books.'"
No kidding. Competition is funny that way.
Comment Price??!? (Score 4, Insightful) 538
First they have to be cheaper then paper books.
Comment SOMEBODY CALL THE INTERNET POLICE (Score 3, Funny) 427
I just had a packet collision!
Comment Re:Why do you have a steering wheel in your pants? (Score 2, Informative) 427
In all countries you need a TV license to operate a TV Transmitter. I think what you are referring to is that some country make you have a license for a TV receiver.
Comment Excuse me (Score 0, Offtopic) 427
Excuse me sir but do you know what I pulled you over?
Comment This is dumb (Score 1) 170
This is stoopid I can't find anything in the text of this bill that says anything about cyberwarriors.
Personal Weather Stations Helping With Weather Forecasting 72
Weather Storm writes "Weather information from thousands of personal weather stations are being used for weather forecasting by several private and government agencies, including the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The Citizens Weather Observation Program (CWOP) was created by a few amateur radio operators experimenting with transmitting weather data with packet radios, but it has expanded to include Internet-only weather stations as well. As of September 2007, nearly 5,000 stations worldwide reported weather data regularly to CWOP's FindU database. The weather data is forwarded every 15 minutes to NOAA's Meteorological Assimilation Data Ingest System (MADIS), checked for temporary and spatial consistency, than utilized by computer forecast models and internal forecast verification programs. In a Febuary 2007 report (PDF) DHS listed CWOP as a national assets to the 'BioWatch' Network, stating that data from personal weather stations could be useful in weather forecasts for hazardous releases. In 2007, the FindU server received 422,262,687 weather reports which is a 29.5% increase over 2006." The personal weather stations certainly come in stylish shapes.
Apple Charges For 802.11n, Blames Accounting Law 471
If you have a Core 2 Duo Macintosh, the built-in WLAN card is capable of networking using (draft 2) 802.11n. This capability can be unlocked via an update Apple distributes with the new AirPort Extreme Base Station. Or, they will sell it to you for $4.99. Why don't they give it away for free, say with Software Update? Because of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (which was passed in the wake of the Enron scandal). iLounge quotes an Apple representative: "It's about accounting. Because of the Act, the company believes that if it sells a product, then later adds a feature to that product, it can be held liable for improper accounting if it recognizes revenue from the product at the time of sale, given that it hasn't finished delivering the product at that point."
Submission + - FreeSBIE 2.0 released
An anonymous reader writes: FreeSBIE 2.0 has been released, based on FreeBSD 6.2. FreeSBIE is a LiveCD based on the FreeBSD operating system,
i.e. you can boot and run FreeBSD directly fromthe CD, without touching your hard drive.
Full details and information on how to download are available:
http://ftp.freesbie.org/2.0-RELEASE/FreeSBIE-2.0-R ELEASE-announce.txt
Full details and information on how to download are available:
http://ftp.freesbie.org/2.0-RELEASE/FreeSBIE-2.0-
Submission + - The Hidden Engineering Gender Gap
ifindkarma writes: "Joyce Park, CTO of invitation site Renkoo.com [1], has
written a two-part essay exploring why there is no pipeline of self-taught
female engineers entering the tech industry via Open Source or other
individual efforts. In "The Hidden Engineering Gap" [2], she asks why
there are so many self-taught male software engineers in startups, but
no similar pool of women. In "A Modest Proposal" [3], she discusses a
potential short-term fix to the problem.
Links:
1. http://renkoo.com/
2. http://www.venturebeat.com/contributors/2007/01/02 /the-hidden-engineering-gender-gap/
3. http://www.venturebeat.com/contributors/2007/01/04 /a-modest-proposal/"
written a two-part essay exploring why there is no pipeline of self-taught
female engineers entering the tech industry via Open Source or other
individual efforts. In "The Hidden Engineering Gap" [2], she asks why
there are so many self-taught male software engineers in startups, but
no similar pool of women. In "A Modest Proposal" [3], she discusses a
potential short-term fix to the problem.
Links:
1. http://renkoo.com/
2. http://www.venturebeat.com/contributors/2007/01/0
3. http://www.venturebeat.com/contributors/2007/01/0
Submission + - What tax software do you use?
r_jensen11 writes: I know this topic has been asked at least once before, but seeing as how 6 years have passed, I figured the question is due again. It's about that time of the year again when we find out how much we owe Uncle Sam (Or as in my case, how much Uncle Sam owes me.) Software has changed drastically in the past 6 years since the previous query I found on Slashdot, as well as many tax rules. Does anyone here use tax software other than TurboTax and TaxCut? I know that there are also online forms I can fill out, but which ones are accessable to people that use OS's other than Windows and OSX? I'd preferably use a program that I can use off-line and store my information locally instead of using eforms, but if I have to resort to eforms, which ones should I investigate and which ones should I stay far away from?
