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Comment Root Shmoot (Score 1) 255

by brendan_orr (#54422571) Attached to: Netflix Says No To Unlocked Android Smartphones
There is a fallacy at work here... I run Linux on my desktops and HTPCs: I have access to my root account. I have the official Chrome release with Widevine support. I can watch Netflix via the browser. How is this any different than having a Linux-based Android device, a root account, and a method for secure DRM? Especially given my desktop processor is greatly more powerful than my mobile's. If I wanted to break copy protection it would be easier via desktop than anything else. A workaround usually always comes though. And maybe Netflix will quietly nix that requirement. I haven't heard anything about VPNs lately, anybody know if it is still an issue?

Comment How about we hackers? (Score 1) 863

I Agree to a point. I believe you are talking more about the "Doing one thing well" kind of aspect like most of our tools give us. But there is also the fact that we have enjoyed the benefit of choice. (Choice of shell, choice of desktop environment or window manager, etc). Should there be a choice at install time whether your system is sysdemd or sysvinit or makefile or whatever I think it would be a good thing (maintainability be damned though). Me personally I will stick with my sysvinit style startup. Has /. done a poll about this yet?
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Is Finding Part Time Work In IT Unrealistic? 396

Posted by Soulskill from the easier-to-replace-with-hardware dept.
I like my current job writes "Having worked full-time in IT for the past 12 years, I would really like to work less and focus on other goals and priorities in my life. I asked my current employer and was shot down. It seems like everyone I know in IT works full-time except for entry-level help desk staff. Striking out on my own seems to be the only way to control the ball and chain around my ankle. However, my experience with independent consulting is a 'feast or famine' situation, with work coming all at once, thus making part-time impossible, or the other extreme (which is even more likely). Is part-time work a pipe dream in IT? Maybe a career in toilet cleaning is calling me."
Space

New Mexico Might Declare Pluto a Planet 328

Posted by kdawson from the dwarf-schwmarf dept.
pease1 writes "Wired and others are reporting that for New Mexico, the fight for Pluto is not over. Seven months after the International Astronomical Union downgraded the distant heavenly body to a 'dwarf planet,' a state representative in New Mexico aims to give the snubbed world back some of its respect. State lawmakers will vote Tuesday on a bill that proposes that 'as Pluto passes overhead through New Mexico's excellent night skies, it be declared a planet.' The lawmaker who introduced the measure represents the county in which Clyde Tombaugh, Pluto's discoverer, was born. For many of us old timers, and those who had the honor of meeting Clyde, this just causes a belly laugh and is pure fun. Not to mention a bit of poking a stick in the eye."

Comment Re:DVDisaster? (Score 2, Informative) 68

by brendan_orr (#18274630) Attached to: TrueDisc Error Correction for Disc Burning?
I agree, DVDisaster is quite nice, I've my main copies of backups, then a separate disc with error correction files with copies being held on a hard drive and eventually tape, other hard drives and any other medium I can...at least for the really important backups. My ogg collection I'm not too worried about (as I can always re-rip the song/album should corruption occur)

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