Slashdot Mirror


User: markdowling

markdowling's activity in the archive.

Stories
0
Comments
226
First seen
Last seen
Profile
(view on slashdot.org)

Comments · 226

  1. I guess we now know the answer to the question on Intel Says Clover Trail Atom CPU Won't Work With Linux · · Score: 2

    how, in a media swamped with Apple mania, do you get attention for a processor launch?

  2. Biggest mistake - HTML5? on Zuckerberg: Betting On HTML5 Was Facebook's Biggest Mistake · · Score: 4, Funny

    So not any of FB's many privacy "mistakes" then?

  3. Industrial applications on Making Saltwater Drinkable With Graphene · · Score: 1

    This might allow more internal water recycling within industrial facilities like the Alberta Tar Sands, since the graphene filter could assure a high level of purity of the recycled water, as opposed to drawing more fresh water and discharging "within allowable limits" effluent.

  4. Time limited offer on Google Glasses Announced · · Score: 1

    All will go well until Google decides this is yet another project they blew a bunch of money on for no real return, and send a remote-kill command to all the units. Like Buzz and Wave and Health and and and...

  5. Re:Buy RIM on Apple Has Too Much Money · · Score: 1

    Apple don't do integrated keyboards. RIM continually forgets that's the bit of their devices people feel most loyalty to.

  6. They should buy US and California debt on Apple Has Too Much Money · · Score: 1

    Seems to be the best way to stop politicians threatening you is if you can foreclose on them.

  7. Also important for your employer that you fuck off on Do Companies Punish Workers Who Take Vacations? · · Score: 1

    People who work every day they can and remote into the office on the others are sometimes the people who refuse to let other people see what they are working on. Google "John Rusnak" as an example. My brother works for an offshore subsidiary of a US bank and he and his colleagues often have to take mandatory time off so that other people can be familiar with their files.

  8. Agreed. on Democratic Super PAC Buys Newtgingrich.com · · Score: 1

    If this was the .XXX TLD you could understand a degree of ambivalence with respect to how it might look to own it, but to let newtgingrich.com or .net or .org out there? This isn't twitter, it's not like verification or a quasi-requirement to have "parody" can be enforced.

    This is a presidential campaign - Newt is paying a lot of people a lot of money to think about how he is presented. Some one of those people should be feeling embarrassed right now - and not just about working for a Republican.

  9. Fat chance on Debt Reduction Super Committee Fails To Agree · · Score: 2

    Chuck Norris IS a Republican. Good luck persuading him to raise taxes on anyone. He endorsed Ron Paul for 2012 FFS.

  10. Too many of the US 99% on Debt Reduction Super Committee Fails To Agree · · Score: 1

    dream of being the 1%

  11. ""Users will receive a one-time notification" on Firefox 8.0 Beta Available · · Score: 1

    Oh Christ. Cue 100+ support calls.

  12. We've been uninstalling Java for some time now on To Stop BEAST, Mozilla Developer Proposes Blocking Java Framework · · Score: 1

    We only leave it on machines that MUST access websites which are require an applet or a Java executable to run.

  13. Dear Research In Motion on Amazon's New Silk Redefines Browser Tech · · Score: 1

    Please do a Silk-On-BES. Offloaded processing, but on our servers and not those of Amazon's data miners. For handhelds and Playbook.

    Love and kisses, the people who gave you $,000s for BES licenses.

  14. Brilliant idea on Sources Say Meg Whitman To Become HP CEO · · Score: 1

    Instead of swamping the retail channel, the next time HP decides to unload their latest failure they can put them on eBay!

    Now, preventing such mistakes would take someone more qualified but, you know, baby steps.

  15. Two requirements: cross platform data, secure data on British Govt Debates Swapping Printers For iPads · · Score: 1

    Any tablet approved for public servant use should only use open standards for data and meet a government security standard similar to those done by NIST, with two factor authentication.

    No to the iOS walled garden - no to a manufacturer who will issue devices which will tell Exchange it's an encrypted device when it isn't.

  16. If RIM wanted to have a Playbook firesale on The (Big) Problem With RIM · · Score: 1

    The smart move would be to ensure their corporate BES clients (i.e. me) get some form of dibs. After all, if it is perceived as a business-first device, why prioritise consumers? We have a small number of self-bought Playbooks in house now - with a large number we might consider getting some apps written (even given the SDK issues)

    They should also be smarter than HP and sell cheap bundles, not cheap devices, to get some kudos from their manufacturer and channel partners. Their resellers will want to ensure all their Playbook shelves clear, including cases, chargers and other accessories. Something like a $199 16Gb with case and charger rather than a $99 or $149 bare device and trust the consumer not to cheap out.

  17. Re:Market fragmentation on The (Big) Problem With RIM · · Score: 1

    "In my estimation they need to write apps and put that messaging system it on iOS, on Android, and on Windows Phone 7."

    Excellent idea. Just one question. How are you going to get that RIM app through the App Store unscathed, and how are you going to guarantee it will never be blacklisted?

  18. NY Times complaining about rushes to judgment? on Is the Quick Death of Failed Tech Products a Good Thing? · · Score: 1

    Like that time they crucified Blackberry Storm while RIM were still rolling out post release performance fixes?

  19. Facebook not fit for purpose on Teachers, Students Fight To Be Facebook Friends · · Score: 1

    If there is a need for collaborative work, Facebook doesn't have to be the platform for it - a dedicated education platform should be the goal. It also means that Facebook through a ToS or functionality change could disrupt classwork. Not good.

  20. It's at times like this on Teachers, Students Fight To Be Facebook Friends · · Score: 1

    it's necessary to remind Americans that the founding fathers had no comprehension of Facebook, let alone a society where children and teachers have the relationship paradigms that exist in the 21st century Anglosphere.

    The only thing a teacher would "poke" you with in the 1770s is a leather belt or a stick of some kind.

  21. Pork on Obama Administration Closing Recently Opened Datacenters · · Score: 2

    Cue yelling from Congresspeople whose datacentres are getting chopped.

    "Sack someone else! Cut somewhere else!"

  22. This better be good, NASA on NASA Briefing on New Mars Finding This Afternoon · · Score: 3, Funny

    You made the front page of slashdot with a tease release - now you'd better produce. Nothing less than alien life or alternatively a new way to jailbreak iOS will do.

  23. Why Mozilla should support non-paying corps on Mozilla Announces Enterprise User Working Group · · Score: 1

    Because people are exposed to Firefox at work and are thus encouraged to use it at home, for instance with Firefox Sync.

  24. Web standards not (all of) the issue on Standards Make Rapid Software Releases Workable · · Score: 1

    Firefox's decision to change UI elements for *existing installs* (from 3.6 to 4, aping IE 8 and Chrome) caused our trainer/support team angst. We want to keep autoupgrade for security but when we get a volley of "wtf" calls from users that is a problem.

  25. Disney have already trademarked... on Senior Citizens Lining Up to Tackle Fukushima · · Score: 1

    "Nuke Cowboys"

    with Clint Eastwood in the role of Yasuteru Yamada and Tommy Lee Jones as Michio Ito.

    Seriously though - if these lads are on the level I am highly impressed by their sense of honour to the younger engineers.