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  1. Re: Best uses? on Raspberry Pi Zero W is a $10 Computer With Wi-Fi and Bluetooth (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Used one to monitor plcs at a hydroelectric project, another one to monitor the status of a compressor at a different site and another. Also had several different sites monitoring the up/down status of Lan devices and reporting back to the main server.

  2. Rather be an H1B who did things legally than some entitled fool who is living on land that was stolen from native Americans.

  3. Re:Why not Raspberry Pi? on One Million School Children To Get Free BBC Micro:bit Computers · · Score: 1

    What's the rush? The BBC Microbit project is crap. If they had bothered working with Raspberry they could've launched in 2015 or 2016 with an actual decent product. Now it's just some lame microcontroller when it could have been a full computer.

  4. I'm happy about this. For too long thrte have been too many ve4sions of windows in use. Having just one will make tbings easier for developers.

  5. Re:Still not enviromentally friendly on US Projected To Lead the World In New Solar Installations This Year (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Or maybe you are only supplementing what's coming in from grid. If so then that's not full solar and doesn't help much, especially at night.

  6. Re:Still not enviromentally friendly on US Projected To Lead the World In New Solar Installations This Year (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    I work for an Energy company. Without the battery your solution doesn't work at night ;)

  7. Still not enviromentally friendly on US Projected To Lead the World In New Solar Installations This Year (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Most solar installations need a battery to store the power. When the batteries fail they often go into landfill sites where they can leak.

  8. Re:No one bothered to define "bag lady"? on 'The Room Had Started To Smell. Really Quite Bad': Stephen Fry Exits Twitter (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    He puts stuff out there, he should expect some criticism, even from the nutjobs.

  9. Only the BBC consider him to be a "national treasure". They report about his every movement or opinion. To the rest of us he's just a quiz show host who gets more media attention than he deserves.

  10. Re:Top Publishers To Post News Stories Directly To on Top Publishers To Post News Stories Directly To Facebook Timelines · · Score: 1

    You only think you were never on facebook. They have photos of you, they know who you know and where you've been just from the content other people post on there (facial recognition in photos etc.) Also, every time you say a "like" button on an outside website, that image is often hosted on facebooks server, so they know which websites you are visiting and what sort of articles you like to read. Unless you have a plugin like Ghostery they are already tracking you.

  11. One Media Company For All on Top Publishers To Post News Stories Directly To Facebook Timelines · · Score: 1

    This will give facebook alot of control over which articles people see. I hope that people don't base their opinions only what they read on facebook. I hope people continue to look outside facebook for news. If not then zuckerberg could become too powerful. What happens if a news company reports negatively about facebook? Do they get dropped?

  12. Re:nasty aspects to case on Worker Fired For Disabling GPS App That Tracked Her 24 Hours a Day · · Score: -1, Troll

    She probably lied about it.

  13. Re:law vs. justice on Worker Fired For Disabling GPS App That Tracked Her 24 Hours a Day · · Score: -1, Troll

    Nope, they should be able to track their assets.

  14. Re:Company Property on Worker Fired For Disabling GPS App That Tracked Her 24 Hours a Day · · Score: 1

    Neh, it's much more fun to stalk people

  15. Company Property on Worker Fired For Disabling GPS App That Tracked Her 24 Hours a Day · · Score: 0

    They should be allowed to know where their property is. She has no case.

  16. Re:Fox also showed a guy killing himself on Does Showing a Horrific Video Serve a Legitimate Journalistic Purpose? · · Score: 1

    To be fair it was a live feed and the suicide part was unexpected. They probably should have had a 5 second delay on the video feed.

  17. Re:I'd defer to whatever the man who died wished on Does Showing a Horrific Video Serve a Legitimate Journalistic Purpose? · · Score: 1

    Most of the video is explaining the "reasoning" behind his murder. Fox News did not need to show the part where the terrorists try to excuse their actions. As far as I'm concerened this is a recruiting video and fox news give them free webhosting for it.

  18. They distributed a terrorist recruitment video? on Does Showing a Horrific Video Serve a Legitimate Journalistic Purpose? · · Score: 1

    They published a terrorist recruitment video on their website. In my books that makes them part of the terrorist group.

  19. Re:what a contest on Microsoft Announces Windows For Raspberry Pi 2 · · Score: 1

    You're doing it wrong. I never had any perfomance issues when I used to use Atom netbooks. You need to tweak the OS a bit to get usable performance. Oh and Windows 8 is alot faster than 7, so it's better to install that and add classic start to get the start menu back as well as disable the completely unneccesary visual affects. Windows XP perforrms good on netbooks, probably better than anything else, but due to security issues that is no longer an option. Not everyone can affor modern hardware, especially in poorer countries, but people want to be able to run a modern OS. The best option to get the balance is to have sofware that is efficient and cant take advantage of different hardware types.

  20. A different GUI sounds good to me on Microsoft Announces Windows For Raspberry Pi 2 · · Score: 1

    My PI 1 is nice as a mini server. I have with apache/mysql etc running good for collecting data from PLC. However, I have never been happy with the GUI's on offer. Maybe Windows will offer a semi-decent GUI as opposed to the half-baked Linux GUIs that are capable of running on a PI.

  21. Probably sold out to CIA a long ago on Moot Retires From 4chan · · Score: 1

    Sites like this are often infiltrated by CIA to monitor peoples thoughts and track users.

  22. Re:VB6 was better on Justified: Visual Basic Over Python For an Intro To Programming · · Score: 1

    I used to think that. Yes VB6 was very simple to use, but VB.net is alot more powerful. It's also much easier to depoly your applications. I remember in VB6 having to write a whole bunch of code to automatically update my application. VB2010 is fine.

  23. Re:To infinity and beyond! on Mozilla Teases First Browser Dedicated To Devs · · Score: 1

    No, it's just slow and bloated now and takes fro every to start in comparison to chrome

  24. The World is Overcrowded on Gates Donates $500M+ To Fight Malaria and Other Diseases · · Score: 2

    While I don't doubt the intentions of Bill and others who want to try and people alive, sadly this is natures way of making sure the world doesn't get overcrowded. It's a sad fact but people NEED to die.

  25. Re:moving vs. stationary on Ballmer Leaves Microsoft Board · · Score: 1

    Nonsense. Microsoft were the ones who brought desktop computing into the mainstream. Their "status quo" gave users an interface that they were famililar and comfortable with. Only when they started changing things around did it get bad. What are the alternatives? A company like Apple that is even more evil? Amateur Linux source applications which are lacking in quality? Let's face it LibreOffice is poorly coded, badly designed and alot slower than Microsoft Office. Most Linux apps have poor interfaces and very little in the way of quality assurance.