>> North Korea has demonstrated that it can put payloads in orbit. From this achievement it is a very short leap to aiming those payloads to impact any continent on Earth
You forgot to add, "as anyone who's played Civ will know."
Let me slow it down for you. Corporations want to save money - period.
Since it costs less than $100/year to run a PC (http://www.cnet.com/how-to/calculate-your-pcs-energy-use/), replacing PCs to save energy would rarely make sense (e.g., you don't spend $1K to save $50/yr), but if you can fund a replacement with a government grant or other "energy savings" program you're MUCH more likely to buy (and PC makers are desperate to goose sales now that desktops are on the decline).
Computer salesperson: "Hey, it's time to replace your old machines." Gov buyer: "Fuck off, they work just fine." Computer salesperson: "But these shiny new Intel models SAVE ENERGY." Gov buyer: "On second though we've got plenty of taxpayer money to blow on 'energy efficiency' projects. Why don't ya' put us down for half million new laptops and two million of those tablet thingies so people can plug them in next to their desktops - I mean 'replace their energy-sucking desktops' - and see if you can't find a new boat for 'my nephew' and a trip to the Caribbean for 'my travel agent' while you're at it."
And your computer is LEAKING AN IP ADDRESS RIGHT NOW!!!
Who selects this kind of crap for SlashDot? If you don't know how DSL works 20 years after it became a popular option, turn in your geek card and GTFOML.
>> British and U.S. officials have been negotiating a plan...Congressional approval would be required of any deal negotiated
Do these US officials report to the executive branch? Then why isn't the headline something like, "Obama happy to bend over for British wiretapping of US citizens" or some-such? This stuff doesn't happen in a vacuum...
I don't recall Obama vetoing any re-authorizations of the USA Patriot Act. Isn't this just Rubio saying, "I agree with George W. and Obama's policies, and I want them in place permanently (without that pesky sunset thing we renew every X months/years)?"
Netflix helps when you just want to flop down and watch something random, but when you want to watch episode X of series Y (not carried by Netflix) NOW, that's where I use torrents, etc.
As a developer, I though the entire point of Docker was to reduce dependence on an entire layer of IT: the human gatekeepers in charge of the release systems and procedures and eventually the care and feeding of maintenance systems (who often f*** something up with manual fumbling or delay things with meetings involving coffee-swilling waterbags).
At least that's how I've seen Docker used in corporations so far, anyway.
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>> Klimenko said forcing Google and Apple to pay more taxes
Hillary, is that you?
>> Microsoft has launched the Windows 10 update history site.
>> It is something of a work in progress at the moment
Well, which is it? Really launched and ready to be useful or is this just vaporware?
>> provide 1.1 million people in Morocco with power and cut carbon emissions by 760,000 tons a year
As long as you keep population constant?
I'd keep an eye on this in the next few weeks:
http://www.opera.com/privacy
>> North Korea has demonstrated that it can put payloads in orbit. From this achievement it is a very short leap to aiming those payloads to impact any continent on Earth
You forgot to add, "as anyone who's played Civ will know."
The "news about the news" has been out there for the better part of a week. Did you really just hear about it?
Remember Wired? That brought back some good early-2000 memories. So they have a web site now? Who knew?
>> Kraft Diner cooks in 1ms.
And everyone in the diner dies too. But I wonder how long it would take to cook Mac and Cheese at that temperature?
>> and two M$ languages
If you're committed to using M$, you're probably already using profiling. What would this add that's missing from that today?
>> a meteorite strike in India killed a man and injured three others
Isn't that a level 9 spell? Were there any related "prismatic", er, rainbow attacks in the area too?
Let me slow it down for you. Corporations want to save money - period.
Since it costs less than $100/year to run a PC (http://www.cnet.com/how-to/calculate-your-pcs-energy-use/), replacing PCs to save energy would rarely make sense (e.g., you don't spend $1K to save $50/yr), but if you can fund a replacement with a government grant or other "energy savings" program you're MUCH more likely to buy (and PC makers are desperate to goose sales now that desktops are on the decline).
Could you follow that?
Computer salesperson: "Hey, it's time to replace your old machines."
Gov buyer: "Fuck off, they work just fine."
Computer salesperson: "But these shiny new Intel models SAVE ENERGY."
Gov buyer: "On second though we've got plenty of taxpayer money to blow on 'energy efficiency' projects. Why don't ya' put us down for half million new laptops and two million of those tablet thingies so people can plug them in next to their desktops - I mean 'replace their energy-sucking desktops' - and see if you can't find a new boat for 'my nephew' and a trip to the Caribbean for 'my travel agent' while you're at it."
And your computer is LEAKING AN IP ADDRESS RIGHT NOW!!!
Who selects this kind of crap for SlashDot? If you don't know how DSL works 20 years after it became a popular option, turn in your geek card and GTFOML.
>> British and U.S. officials have been negotiating a plan...Congressional approval would be required of any deal negotiated
Do these US officials report to the executive branch? Then why isn't the headline something like, "Obama happy to bend over for British wiretapping of US citizens" or some-such? This stuff doesn't happen in a vacuum...
Didn't Windows Defender kill off the "anti-malware" market? Does anyone really still run things like "Symantec" or "McAfee"?
>> Hint: DRIVERS CARS
Hmmm...that's a hard one. Is the answer "CARRIED SVRS" (servers)? "DRIER SCARVS" (scarves)? Please tell us!
>> If Hillary wins, it may be dead because Bernie has forced her to take a stand against it.
You must be new here. Nothing pivots like a Clinton in office.
Could this be behind "wind turbine illness" a lot of people now complain about?
I don't recall Obama vetoing any re-authorizations of the USA Patriot Act. Isn't this just Rubio saying, "I agree with George W. and Obama's policies, and I want them in place permanently (without that pesky sunset thing we renew every X months/years)?"
But has it passed Congress yet?
>> long-time Slashdot reader who now leads a "nice quiet life in Iowa."
Are you saying that if you live in the American midwest, you have to give up reading SlashDot?
>> Russia Begins Work On a Lunar Lander
Landing is easy. Now try building something that can re-launch itself back OFF the moon and I'll be impressed.
>> It looks to me like it's just a local torrent client with a browser plugin
I *KNOW* - but where's the source code for the plug-in?
Netflix helps when you just want to flop down and watch something random, but when you want to watch episode X of series Y (not carried by Netflix) NOW, that's where I use torrents, etc.
As a developer, I though the entire point of Docker was to reduce dependence on an entire layer of IT: the human gatekeepers in charge of the release systems and procedures and eventually the care and feeding of maintenance systems (who often f*** something up with manual fumbling or delay things with meetings involving coffee-swilling waterbags).
At least that's how I've seen Docker used in corporations so far, anyway.