Comment Service Packs (Score 2) 44
This sounds like the old traditional (and very reliable) service pack process.
Comment Other Services too? (Score 2) 168
Sounds like a good place to host 4chan and the pirate bay. In all seriousness, once they stop paying the bills for the internet transit they'll dry up faster than lake meade.
Comment Re:Simple question (Score 2) 500
Because the simple fact of the matter is it isn't a terrible OS in the eyes of the average consumer. It mostly performs as advertised and is a "free" upgrade. Think about the reasons there was backlash against some of Microsoft's other recent OS busts - Windows ME-Unstable as hell, Windows Vista - slow as a dog, annoying UAC prompts, and lack of driver support. These are all things that most people can see and experience. Unfortunately, being spyed on by media companies is turning into an average daily experience.
Comment Demand? (Score 1) 75
I'm not a gamer but I am curious what the demand for this console is considering the next generation system has been available for several years?
Comment Re:Oh great (Score 2) 96
The lure of non-shared bandwidth is huge, if you have more than a handful of clients on a single radio, they can still consume the device easily. Clearly this won't be the answer, but it's nice someone is trying to think outside the box.
Comment Dumb Name (Score 1) 208
Who the hell would name their product MariaDB?
Did the Spamhaus DDoS Really Slow Down Global Internet Access? 70
CowboyRobot writes "Despite the headlines, the big denial of service attack may not have slowed the Internet after all. The argument against the original claim include the fact that reports of Internet users seeing slowdowns came not from service providers, but the DDoS mitigation service CloudFlare, which signed up Spamhaus as a customer last week. Also, multiple service providers and Internet watchers have now publicly stated that while the DDoS attacks against Spamhaus could theoretically have led to slowdowns, they've seen no evidence that this occurred for general Internet users. And while some users may have noticed a slowdown, the undersea cable cuts discovered by Egyptian sailors had more of an impact than the DDoS."
A German Parking Garage Parks Your Car For You 131
moon_unit2 writes "Tech Review has a story about a garage in Ingolstadt, Germany, where the cars park themselves. The garage is an experiment set up by Audi to explore ways that autonomous technology might practically be introduced; most of the sensor technology is built into the garage and relayed to the cars rather than inside the cars themselves. It seems that carmakers see the technology progressing in a slightly different way to Google, with its fleet of self-driving Prius. From the piece: 'It's actually going to take a while before you get a really, fully autonomous car,' says Annie Lien, a senior engineer at the Electronics Research Lab, a shared facility for Audi, Volkswagen, and other Volkswagen Group brands in Belmont, California, near Silicon Valley. 'People are surprised when I tell them that you're not going to get a car that drives you from A to B, or door to door, in the next 10 years.'"
Comment Heard this one before. (Score 1) 81
Sounds sort of like jurassic park.
Comment Uh...unless I'm mistaken, (Score 1) 639
It's a fucking box, who really gives a flying fuck?!?!
Comment No Taco (Score 1) 398
Alot more "Un-Nerdy" stories being posted lately since 'Taco left. Is a shift in content what drove him to leave?
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