gimmily - Slashdot User

Comment A Mobile Device with USB On-The-Go and TV-out (Score 1) 273

by gimmily on Monday March 25, 2013 @10:04PM (#43278043) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Why Buy a Raspberry Pi When I Have a Perfectly Good Cellphone?

My last phone (O2 XDA Flame) had the ability to plug in a USB hub which you could plug in a basic keyboard and mouse (even a basic wireless) and had TV-Out capabilities. They retailed for US$1200 back in 2007 (I have seen some on eBay for a couple hundred $). They also featured a separate graphics chip (NVidia GoForce 5500) and 3.5G (with a radio rom upgrade from XDA Dev).

Submission + - Google's Punishment? Lecture Those They Snooped On

Submitted by theodp on Tuesday March 12, 2013 @11:12PM

theodp writes: When Aaron Swartz tapped into MIT's network and scooped up data from one non-profit company, the U.S. Attorney threatened him with 35 years in prison and a $1 million fine. So what kind of jail time did 38 Attorneys General threaten Google with for using its Street View cars to scoop up passwords, e-mail and other personal information by tapping into the networks of their states' unsuspecting citizens? None. In agreeing to settle the case, the NY Times reports, Google is required to police its own employees on privacy issues, lecture the public on how to fend off privacy violations like the one Google perpetrated, and forfeit about 20% of one day's net income. Given the chance, one imagines that Aaron Swartz would have happily jumped at a comparable deal.

Submission + - Google explains why it became an energy trader (goodgearguide.com.au)

Submitted by

angry tapir

on Sunday May 02, 2010 @10:30PM

angry tapir writes: "Google has explained how it might use its status as an energy-trading company to increase the use of renewable energy sources in its data centers. In February, the company's Google Energy subsidiary received approval from the U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to buy and sell power on the wholesale market."

Submission + - Should the Govt pay for injured man's Wii? (delimiter.com.au)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 02, 2010 @07:41PM

An anonymous reader writes: Politicians in the Australian state of Victoria are currently locked in a debate about whether an injured man should be able to claim the cost of a Nintendo Wii under worker's compensation for rehabilitation purposes. The man's doctor apparently recommended he use the Wii Fit exercise device, but both insurance companies and the Government itself have blocked the payment and have now ridiculed the idea as paying for video games. But with the Wii Fit increasingly being used for rehabilitation purposes internationally, does the man have a fair case?

Submission + - Win7 deletes all system restore points on reboot (microsoft.com) 1

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 01, 2010 @05:01PM

An anonymous reader writes: Astonishingly, the so-called system restore feature in Windows 7 deletes restore points without warning when the system is rebooted. Today I did a clean install of Windows 7 Ultimate 32-bit (no dual boot), and noticed that whenever the machine rebooted after installing an application or driver, the disk churned for several minutes on the 'starting Windows' screen. Turns out that churning was the sound of my diligently created system restore points being deleted. Unfortunately I only found this out when Windows barfed at a USB dongle and I wanted to restore the system to an earlier state. Searching the net reveals that other users have experienced this problem (see URL). This is an extraordinarily bad bug, which I suspect most Windows 7 users won't realise is affecting them until it's too late.

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