Comment Re: Nothing of value was added (Score 1) 158
The first thing I do on installing newer Ubuntu releases:
apt-get remove coreutils-from-uutils --allow-remove-essential
(and similarly revert to the original sudo version)
Comment trial and error is good (Score 2) 85
Is avoiding the trial and error step advisable? Certainly it won't always give you a material with the desired property but how many times do those 'errors' have their own unique benefits? For example the search for a synthetic rubber gave us silly putty.
Comment Re:you can't fully remove the Administrator accoun (Score 1) 200
But you can use a gpo to rename the local administrator account across your domain or rename it on single machines via lusrmgr.
Flight 447 'Black Box' Decoded 449
fermion writes "An initial report has been released by the BEA concerning the details of the last minutes of Flight 447 en route from Rio de Janeiro to Paris. According the report, the autopilot disengaged and stall warning engaged at 2 hours 10 minutes and 5 seconds into the flight. Less than 2 minutes later the recorded speeds became invalid. At 2 hours 14 minutes and 28 seconds, the recording stopped. The final vertical speed was recorded around 10,912 ft/min."
Comment Dupe (Score 1) 13
Copy and paste the insightful comments from http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=10/11/19/1931231 to boost your karma!
Comment Re:Do they taste good with fava beens and chianti? (Score 1) 154
But really, what would be the ethical implications of eating lab grown human tissue?
UK Government Plans 10-Year Database of Citizens' Travel 289
moderators_are_w*nke writes "The UK government is planning yet another database to track its citizens, this time keeping track of their movements in and out of the country for ten years. Just like all their other databases, this one 'is essential in the fight against crime, illegal immigration and [of course] terrorism.'" I'd be very surprised if the US is not already doing this, and just not making a point to let anyone know.
Comment Re:Is it just me... (Score 4, Informative) 191
They probably would have got further making the request under the UK Data Protection Act.
Comment DDA Compliance? (Score 4, Informative) 321
We have something called the disability discrimination act here in the UK, which pretty much rules out many interesting uses of Javascript if things like screen readers can't process them, and if there's no other way of providing that enhanced functionality to disabled users.
As others have commented here, I'm not convinced that the Google feature is in fact much more than eye-candy; and thus, since it doesn't really add any functionality, isn't really covered by the DDA. However, as soon as it actually becomes useful for something, then it will be covered; and I don't fancy the job of getting JAWS or something like that to interpret the JS in a meaningful way!
As others have commented here, I'm not convinced that the Google feature is in fact much more than eye-candy; and thus, since it doesn't really add any functionality, isn't really covered by the DDA. However, as soon as it actually becomes useful for something, then it will be covered; and I don't fancy the job of getting JAWS or something like that to interpret the JS in a meaningful way!
