Comment Re:Easy! (Score 1) 388
They could offer to license the trademark to the pub ya know. They don't have to shut them down. Then all parties are pleased and the rights holder doesn't look like an asshole.
Comment The Sun is setting into irrelevance (Score 1) 100
I don't know about everyone else, but in the fortune 100 company I happen to work for they are moving all new projects to AIX and Linux. This has been going on for the last year. The sad part, for Sun/Oracle, is that it used to be a primarily Sun shop. Now all new projects are AIX and Linux and there is no interest in approving any Sun equipment. All the tech refresh projects we have are moving businesses to either AIX or Linux. This represents a fairly large revenue stream that they are losing. Seems to be a common trend from blogs/forums/etc. that I'm reading.
Comment Re:That's disgusting (Score 1) 207
Organic vegan agriculture can and is being done.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vegan_organic_gardening
http://www.vegfamily.com/gardening/veganic-gardening.htm
These are the same methods that I currently practice in my garden.
Animal derived inputs are not required to grow plants. If you do want to add some animal inputs there are animals on the site of most gardens/farms, they are typically running them. You might also want to read this:
Comment What about an OpenCL implmentation? (Score 1) 225
Could this decrypting take place on the GPU making it usable on more modest hardware?
Comment Re:Not true (Score 2, Funny) 221
I spent over a decade and almost $70,000 of my own money on personal growth.
That's a lot for "male enhancement".
Comment Re:On Hybrid Vehicles (Score 1) 594
Volvo is making a diesel hybrid for 2012:
http://www.autoblog.com/2009/06/01/volving-announces-diesel-plug-in-hybrid-for-2012-w-video/
Comment What's the diff? (Score 1) 178
What's the difference between this "3D" and the "3D" included on existing titles like the Coraline Bluray disc? Is this just a proprietary technology requiring special hardware with the same relative outcome?
Comment Re:Times they are a changin' (Score 1) 675
You remember that Apple patent for ads directly in the OS? My guess is that this will be the shift. You will not be able to filter them out as the OS will prevent you from doing so.
Just a wild ass paranoid guess, but that's where this is going I think.
Comment Re:Of course we'll see a shift (Score 1) 675
I'm hoping for a Gilligan's Island "reboot". Something darker and edgy. Too bad Chris Farley is dead, he would have made an awesome, cocaine addicted Skipper. I would still download torrents of it instead of paying for cable, because I believe great art should be a labor of love, unsullied by commercial interests
Wasn't that Lost?
Comment Re:How is that sustainable? (Score 2, Insightful) 453
Which part of $1.5B isn't beneficial? Their banks collect interest and their manufacturers make sales.
Meanwhile, 36K acres to power 150K homes? Doesn't a nice nuclear plant only need 100 acres or so to provide power that same number?
In you nuclear plant scenario are they mining and refining the necessary materials to power that plant on that 100 acres as well? What about the coolant?
Ballmer: Don't Expect Simpler Licensing Soon 260
nk497 writes "Steve Ballmer has admitted Microsoft's licensing is too complicated and contains too much fine print, but has no plans to change it at the risk of angering shareholders — and even customers who benefit from the confusion. "I'm sure we have fine print we don't need. We're not saints," he said, adding that customers have a way of figuring out how to pay the least amount of cash possible to use Microsoft's software. "Customers always find an approach which pays us less money.""
Hackers' Next Target — Your Brain? 295
Hugh Pickens writes "Wired reports that as neural devices become more complicated — and go wireless — some scientists say the risks of 'brain hacking' should be taken seriously. '"Neural devices are innovating at an extremely rapid rate and hold tremendous promise for the future," said computer security expert Tadayoshi Kohno of the University of Washington. "But if we don't start paying attention to security, we're worried that we might find ourselves in five or 10 years saying we've made a big mistake."' For example, the next generation of implantable devices to control prosthetic limbs will likely include wireless controls that allow physicians to remotely adjust settings on the machine. If neural engineers don't build in security features such as encryption and access control, an attacker could hijack the device and take over the robotic limb." Relatedly, several users have written to tell us that science may be closer to the science fiction "mind wipe" than previously thought. Put this all together and I welcome the next step in social networking; letting the cloud drive my limbs around town via a live webcam and then wiping the memory from my brain. Who has MyLimb.com parked and is willing to deal?
Comment Re:But does it make calls yet? (Score 2, Informative) 101
If you are looking for an idea of the apps people have written:
This is outside of whatever software your distro includes (Debian, SHR, OM2008.12, Qtopia, etc.).
gOS Gadget Aims Ubuntu At Cloud Computing 36
DeviceGuru writes "The gOS project has released version 3.1 of its Ubuntu-based Google-centric distribution. The release draws its packages from the Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron) repositories, but adds a bright green theme and a few alterations in default applications, but more importantly adorns its desktop with numerous gadgets based on the Mozilla Prism project along with an animated application-launch icon set based on the wbar project."
Comment Re:Just plain bullying (Score 1) 211
I agree with you BigTom. I got bullied and my parents enrolled me into Jujitsu classes. Shortly there after I began putting kids that wanted to get violent into pressure holds, etc. Then my parents started getting phone calls from other parents about how I was beating up on their child. I can only imagine how things would have been in these times.
While I think that everyone can benefit from martial arts training. The opinion of "Just deal with bullying or beat them up!" is no real solution. The ideal would be for parents to not allow their children to bully others and to correct them when they see that kind of behavior starting. A solution that I don't see legislation helping.
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