Comment Last gen HP use those. (Score 2) 95
I bought an HP laptop a couple years ago and it was stuffed with Samsung ICR18650-28A batteries. I recycled them and use them for flash lights and laser pointers.
Submission + - Police raid home of 9-year-old Pirate Bay user, seize 'Winnie the Pooh' laptop (bgr.com) 1
zacharye writes: Copyright enforcement might be getting out of hand in Scandinavia. As anti-piracy groups and copyright owners continue to work with authorities to curtail piracy in the region, police this week raided the home of a 9-year-old suspect and confiscated her “Winnie the Pooh” laptop. TorrentFreak reports that the girl’s home was raided after local anti-piracy group CIAPC determined copyrighted files had been downloaded illegally at her residence. Her father, the Internet service account holder, was contacted by CIAPC, which demanded that he pay a 600 euro fine and sign a non-disclosure agreement to settle the matter. When the man did not comply, authorities raided his home and collected evidence, including his 9-year-old daughter’s notebook computer...
Comment Really?! (Score 1) 190
What the hell do they expect? They place critical computer systems online and they expect them to be safe? Why not leave them on an intranet and not worry about it.. Stop giving crackers a way to access the systems and nothing can happen... If the systems are so sensitive it seems logical right?
Comment Damn it! (Score 1) 165
I moved to TN a few years ago. I was just about to move to Chattanooga, but found a super cheap home just north of there. Damn did I screw myself. LOL
I see the EPB Fiber ads all the time on TV since I get it from Chatt. Now I am stuck with my little Telephone Co-Op with the max speed of 10mbit/1mbit and you can only get the 10/1 if you do not have their IPTV which I do. The max with TV is 6mbit/768kbit and if you are watching HD channels your speed fluctuates between 4-5mbits :(.. Best part is that I pay $69.95 a month just for the Internet....
Should have moved to Chatt... Anyone want to buy a House? LOL
Comment Well Then, (Score 2) 168
From what most people know about China is they make "Excellent Quality" items.
How long do you give before we are given a golden shower of chinese satellite parts?
Comment Re:Summary is misleading (Score 1) 336
No, the point is I had my HP for 1 year and 3 months when it died... I paid $800 for it plus tax. So I should be owed the replacement cost, minus the depreciated value.... The Compaq replacement is a POS period....
Comment Tell Me About It.... (Score 1) 336
I had one of the affected pc's (HP DV6110US). It was not the best computer, but a hell of a lot better than the piece of shit I have YET to receive!!!
I have always said that we got screwed.... I don't really need the replacement computer as I bought a Macbook 3 years ago when the HP took a dump, so I might sell both and buy a new Macbook Pro...
I would have been happier if they gave everyone the option of the Compaq or Asus EEE T101MT-EU37-BK, but only people who bought tablets are given the choice...
Comment Re:But... (Score 1) 180
Encrypted should have been the first security but what about security cameras? You would figure that since they are processing classified documents there would be security to screen personal and there property.
I have working with the US Army for years and when ever I enter a classified area we are searched.
Comment SInce When (Score 2, Interesting) 369
I just got out of the Military and was in there for 6 years.
Not one time did we ever wipe a hard drive, not because we did not care nor to lazy.
We never sold the hard drives or gave them away. We either reused the drive or we smashed it and then recycled it.
The Army is so paranoid that we even had to take RAM out of old computers that processed classified information just because it MIGHT have information left...
Man Uses Remote Logon To Help Find Laptop Thief 251
After his computer was stolen, Jose Caceres used a remote access program to log on every day and watch it being used. The laptop was stolen on Sept. 4, when he left it on top of his car while carrying other things into his home. "It was kind of frustrating because he was mostly using it to watch porn," Caceres said. "I couldn't get any information about him." Last week the thief messed up and registered on a web site with his name and address. Jose alerted the police, who arrested a suspect a few hours later. The moral of the story: never go to a porn site where you have to register.
Comment Only Thing Needed... (Score 2, Funny) 260
Directions to Country Kitchen Buffet...
SGI Releases OpenGL As Free Software 167
StoneLion writes "Since its release, the OpenGL code that is responsible for 3-D acceleration on GNU/Linux has been running on licenses that were accepted by neither the Free Software Foundation (FSF) nor the Open Source Initiative. Today, however, the FSF has announced that the licenses in question have been rewritten, the problems resolved, and the code freed. Peter Brown, executive director of the FSF, says, 'This represents a huge gift to the free software community.'"
Submission + - Gen Y -- tech savvy but ... (computerworld.com)
jcatcw writes: "Young people aren't choosing computer science majors because they take technology for granted — it's something to use not something to make a career. "By and large, this generation is very fluent with technology and with a networked world," according to James Ware, executive producer at The Work Design Collaborative LLC, a Berkeley, Calif., consortium exploring workplace values and the future of the workforce. That future may be in managing technology, which requires skills today's college students don't have: writing, critical thinking, hard work and just plain showing up. One of their primary concerns is a flexible schedule and healthy work/life balance."
Submission + - Start-up warms up personal robots (news.com)
Tjeerd writes: ""A Silicon Valley start-up is developing a hardware and software development platform for personal-assistant robots, autonomous boats and unmanned cars. The privately funded company, quietly started almost a year ago by eGroups founder and veteran Google architect Scott Hassan, plans to make its robotics software open source. That way, it hopes to draw a community of developers to build applications in these respective fields.""
Submission + - Drawing on Air
Roland Piquepaille writes: "In a recent article, PhysOrg.com reports that a team of computer scientists at Brown University has developed Drawing on Air, a haptic-aided interface to help artists to create 3D illustrations while wearing a virtual reality mask. 'The technique introduces two new strategies, using one hand or two hands, to give artists the tools they need for drawing different types of curves, and for viewing and editing their work.' The researchers hope that these techniques will improve the precision with which scientists can interact with their 3D data using a computer. This also would help artists to illustrate complicated artistic, scientific, and medical subjects. Read more for additional details and several pictures made with this system, a bat flight, a bearded man and a Swahili bride."
