Comment Re:What Else To Use? (Score 0) 212
I was wondering the same and at least VLC media player "says" it will play those.
I think I might have some music cd's or other where there are Quicktime-files. Not that I've seen those in many many years.
Comment Re:Everyone should be like me (Score 0) 227
>"Sorry, I'm not on Facebook." and "Nope, I don't want a Facebook account." are excellent replies that will enhance the quality of your life.
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>There is a social life outside of 'social media', and only the daft ones think otherwise.
Well it might go other way too. 'Oh you don't have facebook account so you're not interesting and now I'll go talk to one that have it.' Needles to say that it might happen in other communications too but it's other thing.
And yes.. I did remove my account few years ago. There's been few times it might still cool but I would say that prety much all the people I want to see do not require FB-account.
Comment Re:lol hilarious ignorance (Score 0) 1134
You forgot the part were the IT-posse might suggest end users to do and use something else but the users just don't care.
Comment Re:What the? (Score 0) 241
My big quibble with all of these "click to log on" types of systems is they are a pain in the butt.
These are also frustrating when you use something Nokia E51 mobile phone. Problem is with small screeen and also Nokia's browsers sometimes isn't really good with these. It does work but it's a lot nicer when you can use normal open wlan.
Starbucks Frees Wi-Fi 241
CWmike sends in this excerpt from Computerworld: "Free unlimited Wi-Fi is coming to nearly 7,000 company-operated Starbucks stores in the US beginning July 1, Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz said on Monday. Schultz also said that Starbucks is partnering with Yahoo! to debut the Starbucks Digital Network this fall. Starbucks customers will have free unrestricted access to various paid sites and services, such as wsj.com, as well as other free downloads Starbucks didn't detail. A spokeswoman said the access will be 'unlimited' and 'simplified, one-click.' By comparison, first-time Wi-Fi users in Starbucks stores now get up to two hours free after registering, but then must purchase additional time at the rate of $3.99 for two consecutive hours. That Wi-Fi access is already free to AT&T DSL home customers and AT&T mobile customers, according to the Starbucks website, but the connection process requires up to nine steps. McDonald's added free Wi-Fi to 11,500 locations earlier this year."
Submission + - Father of Green Revolution, Norman Borlaug, dies a (bbc.co.uk)
countincognito writes: "Norman Borlaug, a genuinely remarkable man and the father of the Green Revolution in agriculture, has died of cancer at his Dallas home aged 95. His life's work on developing high-yield, disease-resistant crops has been credited with having saved an estimated one billion people from famine, and one billion hectares of forest and rainforest from being cleared for agricultural production."
Comment Re:Democratic voice of Burma - gruesome photo. (Score 0) 338
It was also in BBC's news site. Actually I couldn't find it now so maybe the pulled it off?
British Traffic Wardens Issued CCTV Head Cameras 410
Rick writes "The Surveillance Society of Great Britain has taken another turn for the worse, as
traffic wardens in Eccles, Manchester are being issued with CCTV head sets and
given the legal power to impose fines of up to £80 for littering and other anti social behavior"
Google Used To Diagnose Disease 167
dptalia writes "About 20% of all diseases are misdiagnosed, a percentage that has remained steady since the 1930s. However, scientists have discovered that by inputting the key symptoms into Google they can get the correct diagnosis about 58% of the time. For rare and unusual diseases, this provides doctors the information they need to get a correct cure. Of course, Google is only as good as its knowledge base, and its users, so this isn't a cure for everything."
YouTube Removed 30,000 Japanese Videos from Site 265
Grooves writes "YouTube has been asked to remove almost 30,000 videos from their site, according to reports. The Japan Society for Rights of Authors, Composers and Publishers (JASRAC) found 29,549 videos on the site that had materials contained in them that where not authorized by rights holders. From the article, 'A spokesperson for that organization said that they were considering petitioning YouTube for a better screening process. Although YouTube is legally obligated to remove infringing material when notified, some copyright holders have expressed irritation at the notion that they need to police YouTube themselves.' Now that Google's is attached to the site, will events like this become more commonplace?"
OSCON - the Wrap-Up 49
lisah writes "NewsForge's Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier has been reporting from OSCON all week and wrote a great wrap up of the event. He even had the foresight to take along a video camera while rubbing elbows with some of what Brockmeier calls the 'leading minds in open source.' Caught on tape: Kernel developer Greg Kroah-Hartman, Python creator Guido van Rossum, Jeff Waugh of Canonical, Greg Lund-Chaix of OSL, and OSCAMP 2006 organizer Brandon Sanders."
$5000 Award for Open Source CMS 127
The Citizen writes "Packt Publishing has released details of an award scheme for open source Content Management Systems to enter and win a $5,000 prize. From the article: 'The Packt Open Source Content Management System Award is designed to encourage, support, recognize and reward an Open Source Content Management System (CMS) that has been selected by a panel of judges and visitors to PacktPub.com.' They're asking for people to submit nominations for their favorite open source Content Management System now."
Spam from Taiwan 229
TristanGrimaux writes "According to a recent study done by CipherTrust, two thirds of the world's spam is sent by Taiwan servers. The US follows with 24% and in a distant third is China with only 3% of the servers who actually sends the spam." The article cites easy access to broadband and lack of crackdown on offenders as the main contributing factors.
Windows Vista To Make Dual-Boot A Challenge? 442
mustafap writes "UK tech site The Register is reporting on security guru Bruce Schneier's observation that the disk encryption system to be shipped with Vista, BitLocker, will make dual booting other OSs difficult - you will no longer be able to share data between the two." From the article: "This encryption technology also has the effect of frustrating the exchange of data needed in a dual boot system. 'You could look at BitLocker as anti-Linux because it frustrates dual boot,' Schneier told El Reg. Schneier said Vista will bring forward security improvements, but cautioned that technical advances are less important than improvements in how technology is presented to users."
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