merlin3000 - Slashdot User

Comment Re:camera in the Nano but not the Touch? huh? (Score 1) 521

by merlin3000 on Wednesday September 09, 2009 @07:55PM (#29373449) Attached to: Apple Announces iTunes 9, "LPs," Video Camera for the iPod Nano

I think it's not to make it to much like the iphone. Touch with a camera needs only needs the phone part and it's an iPhone. The nano on the other hand still maitains a good distance.

Comment Missing something? (Score 1) 230

by merlin3000 on Tuesday August 11, 2009 @06:45PM (#29031147) Attached to: Reports of IE Hijacking NXDOMAINs, Routing To Bing

Not only does the OP miss the point completely (since what happens is that you are rerouted to the default search engine). But Am I missing something? Using that link I I'm redirected to some fat guys shirts page.

I'm getting kind of self-conscious.

Comment Re:Windows starter editon (Score 1) 297

by merlin3000 on Sunday August 09, 2009 @05:16PM (#29004911) Attached to: Is Intel Killing 12-Inch Displays On Netbooks?

Yes, I guess the inability to put the cheap version of windows 7 on anything bigger than 10.2 has nothing to do with it.

It's not a conspiracy, it's business. Hell, if I had a company that made netbooks I would probably do the same. Other options are just, for now at least, to expensive for the netbook price or linux, wich most people don't want in their netbooks.

Comment Windows starter editon (Score 1) 297

by merlin3000 on Sunday August 09, 2009 @03:35PM (#29004253) Attached to: Is Intel Killing 12-Inch Displays On Netbooks?

Isn't it more probable that they're taking them down so their whole netbook line is allowed to run windows 7 starter editon? That's one of the main limitations imposed by microsoft.

Comment Re:It only works for so long (Score 1) 151

by merlin3000 on Saturday August 08, 2009 @02:03PM (#28997063) Attached to: Movable Clouds Migrate To Chase Tax Breaks

Actually after the prices are lower and kind of stable between all the major cloud services/storage providers, doing so would probably force them to move their servers to other countries where the taxes are lower. The other option is to increase the prices. A mix of both will probably happen. Anywhere will become global and those who want it localized in USA will have to pay premium. I'm not criticising either side, the companies or the government. But when doing taxes one has to have in mind how will people react and act acoordingly, possibly achieving some middle ground.

Student Suing Amazon For Book Deletions 646

Posted by kdawson on Friday July 31, 2009 @12:28PM from the incident-that-will-not-stay-down-the-memory-hole dept.

Stupified writes "High school student Justin Gawronski is suing Amazon for deleting his Kindle copy of Nineteen Eighty-Four (complaint, PDF), because doing so destroyed the annotations he'd created to the text for class. The complaint states: 'The notes are still accessible on the Kindle 2 device in a file separate from the deleted book, but are of no value. For example, a note such as "remember this paragraph for your thesis" is useless if it does not actually reference a specific paragraph.' The suit, which is seeking class action status, asks that Amazon be legally blocked from improperly accessing users' Kindles in the future and punitive damages for those affected by the deletion. Nothing in Amazon's EULA or US copyright law gives them permission to delete books off your Kindle, so this sounds like a plausible suit."

BIOS "Rootkit" Preloaded In 60% of New Laptops 236

Posted by kdawson on Friday July 31, 2009 @11:45AM from the hijacking-lojack dept.

Keldrin_1 writes "Researchers Alfredo Ortega and Anibal Sacco, from Core Security Technologies, have discovered a vulnerability in the 'Computrace LoJack for Laptops' software. This is a BIOS-level application that calls home for instructions in case the laptop is ever lost or stolen. However, what the application considers 'home' is subject to change. This allows the creation of malware capable of 'infecting the BIOS with persistent code that survive reboots and reflashing attempts.' Computers from Dell, Lenovo, HP, Toshiba, Asus, and others may be affected."

Spirit Rover Begins Making Night Sky Observations 157

Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday June 29, 2009 @09:40AM from the rover-that-keeps-on-giving dept.

Nancy Atkinson writes "Even though the Spirit rover is stuck in loose soil on Mars, she has an overabundance of electrical power due to a wind event that cleaned off her solar panels. While MER scientists and engineers are having the rover take pictures of her surroundings in an effort to figure a way to get her dislodged, there also is enough power (since the rover isn't moving anywhere) to do something extra: keep the rover 'awake' at night and run her heaters so she can take images of the night sky on Mars. 'Certainly, a month or more ago, no one was considering astronomy with the rovers,' said Mark Lemmon, planetary scientist at Texas A&M University and member of the rover team. 'We thought that was done. With the dust cleanings, though, everyone thinks it is better to use the new found energy on night time science than to just burn it with heaters.'"

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