Comment Re:Distros? (Score 3, Insightful) 603
Arch: Friday
Not to be one of /those/ people or anything...
Comment /. Is A Creeper (Score 1) 357
Submission + - The galaxy may have billions of habitable planets (discovermagazine.com)
The Bad Astronomer writes: "A recent astronomical report came out stating that as many as 1 in 4 sun-like stars have earth-mass planets. But are they habitable? A simple bit of math based on some decent assumptions shows that there may be *billions* of potentially habitable worlds in the galaxy. Getting to them, of course, is another problem altogether..."
Comment What about ACTA? (Score 2, Insightful) 116
Wait, wait, wait. What about ACTA? I thought that was supposed to get us all on the same page. The one treaty to, in the darknets, bind them.
Submission + - 4chan DDoS Takes Down MPAA and Anti-Piracy Website (torrentfreak.com) 1
ACKyushu writes: Say what you like about 4Chan, when they want something done, it gets done. Following a call to arms yesterday, the masses inhabiting the anonymous 4chan boards have carried out a huge assault on a pair of anti-piracy enemies. The website of Aiplex Software, the anti-piracy outfit which has been DDoSing torrent sites recently, is currently down having been DDoS’d. They are joined in the Internet wasteland by the MPAA’s website, also currently under huge and sustained attack.
Comment Re:What are its dimensions? (Score 1) 210
I believe it uses Gorilla glass like all of the Galaxy S phones. It's thin and strong enough to use it for reprimands.
Comment Re:Someone call Google! (Score 1) 405
I think a lot of us, especially users of the N800 and N810 were excited. I know I'd of loved an upgraded version of my N800 -- which I still use every day. The price tag on the N900 and the network it was restricted to in the US were what eventually killed its possibilities. Nokia did a great thing by refusing to allow providers to put their mark on Maemo, now Meego, but it kept them from getting the notoriety they needed to make that phone popular, particularly on the provider subsidizing front. I would've bought one in an instant if it wasn't on AT&T.
Comment Re:Not just online (Score 2, Interesting) 338
Not just line men. We used to do that all the time as kids, just cause we figured out we could.
Comment Re:How do you know it was Ubuntu? (Score 1) 382
Well, yes, but you can say that about any percentage based statistic. If something doesn't exist, its statistic will be filled in by something else. The fact is that according to distrowatch, Ubuntu and Ubuntu-based Debian derivatives dominate the leader board. Not to mention the inclusion of Ubuntu on cheap Dell laptops for a time and the evangelizing of Ubuntu converts who're more passionate than new Christians. Maybe that's why Ubuntu Christian exists?
Submission + - Too Many Android Flavors Could Spoil The Platform (internetevolution.com)
rsmiller510 writes: Open source operating systems have a lot of upside, but when you give cell phone makers and providers the power to customize the phones to whatever degree they like, it could end up confusing consumers and watering down the Android label.
Comment Contribution of Notoriety Not Enough? (Score 1) 382
Ubuntu did contribute something: getting Linux to 5% of Internet traffic on OS Statistics. Isn't the increase in notoriety enough?
Comment Re:Critics are MORONS (Score 1) 382
You win with best comment. All we need in the Linux community is to have people tear apart the one distribution that has actually achieved any sort of "popular" success with over 4% of desktop Internet traffic now coming from Ubuntu. That being said. I use Arch, cause it's cool to use a distro that's harder.
Steve Jobs Tries To Sneak Shurikens On a Plane 661
An anonymous reader writes "Steve Jobs, while on a family vacation to Japan in July, picked himself up some Shuriken, otherwise known as Ninja throwing stars, as a souvenir. In his wisdom he decided to put them in his carry on luggage for the return journey. As it was a private plane he probably thought there would be no issue, but he was wrong. Even private plane passengers have to have all their baggage scanned, and the throwing stars were detected and deemed a hazard. It's alleged that Jobs argued that he could take them on the plane as no one could steal them on his private jet and use them. Security at the airport disagreed and demanded he remove the stars. Jobs, clearly angry at losing his throwing weapons, stated he would not be returning to the country." Undoubtedly this is part of the iNinja project.
You're Never More Than 115 Miles From McDonald's 55
There is some bad news for McNugget lovers. Thanks to a store closure in northeastern California, you can now be as far 115 miles from a McDonald's in the contiguous United States. The new "McFarthest" spot is in northwest Nevada, replacing the previous in South Dakota by eight heart-pounding, artery-clogged miles.
Comment Wait, wait, wait... (Score 1) 193
I'm sorry, but how many criminals carry iPhones? I thought criminals used Blackberrys to arrange their complex board meeting schedules.
