Technically, teleported is the correct word. We're talking teleportation in the scientific sense, not Star Trek teleportation -- not that the unwashed masses know the difference.
I'd actually say that "object" is the wrong word. I'm not sure I'd call a photon an object. "Particle" would be 1000% better, and much less confusing.
Funny, I was thinking that this was one of the better summaries that I've seen on Slashdot lately. No click-bait, all the pertinent facts, and covers a subject that's actually news for nerds. The summary is plenty good enough to not have to RTFA, which should be the top criterion for all good Slashdotters!
Hey, if the guys who created Petya want to be part of the Bitcoin/Dark-Web economy and all that it entails, it's only logical that they are fair game for the assassination market.
When I saw the headline, my first thought was "Finally! Their caps are so low!" Unfortunately, it's the not the cap itself that's expanding, it's the number of people forced to bear it.
Religions other than Islam are illegal in Saudi Arabia. If a Saudi Arabian court rules that "illegal" Christian/Jewish/Buddhist websites should be deindexed worldwide, surely Google would not respect that. What makes this case any different?
And technically whoever blew up Newt Gringrich's reign by publishing a cell call intercepted in Gainesville, Florida should have been prosecuted, but no one was.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb... has all the details about the Newt Gingrich call intercept. Ironically, I'm from Gainesville, but never heard about this story until today.
Consumer: Can you please just make your program simply play my music? Apple: We're going to do much more than that! It will play and organize your music, sync your phone and ipod, apply iOS updates, manage Apple credentials, sell music, sell videos, sell apps, and install drivers and services. They said it wasn't possible, but in addition, we've made the interface simultaneously so spartan yet so confusing that just knowing how to use it at all will be a mark of pride.
This really, really, really scares me. These days, any time a UI is changed it often gets worse and worse. Just look at Windows 8. Just look at Firefox Australis. Just look at GNOME 3. Just look at MS Office. Just look at Android. Just look at Slashdot Beta.
You don't even have to look further than the last refreshed user interface from Apple! The flat, pastel look in IOS 7 and later is a big step back from the original classy UI.
I'm conflicted here. On one hand, I despise Unity, so I think dropping it is a very welcome change. How refreshing that a company is actually listening to its users. I only wish it would have happened a long time ago. It's a bit ironic that the primary UI is shifting to GNOME though, who practically make a living from ignoring their users' wishes.
On the other hands, I feel really bad for these people who are now out of a job. They were most likely the devs who were just following orders to move Unity forward.
Do you think all those "fixit" shops were buying their parts from Apple? Apple only sells to authorize service persons, and they only sell to them because they have been trained in proper repair techniques.
They're not buying stolen parts, if that's what you're implying. There is more than enough demand for 3rd parties to manufacture replacement Apple parts. I just bought a brand new replacement LCD for an iPhone 6 for all of $25.
True, but running a home (or God-forbid, business) from mobile broadband would only be a desperate last-resort option. You will have sky-high bills, throttling after a certain amount of easily-reached bandwidth, or more likely, both.
Too competitive? I would submit that the broadband industry is *least* competitive major industry in America. If you have any choice in providers at all, you are lucky.
I'm not a fan of removing the home button AT ALL, and I dislike the rounded edge screens. You know what I *would* pay for, though? A phone that didn't need a case, and that could be dropped from chest height with no visible damage. That is the next killer feature in my book. Paying top dollar for a slick-looking phone that you have to wrap in an ugly, thick Otterbox case to hope to *maybe* protect it, is a waste of a good design.
XUbuntu is very easy to install and maintain. It has a familiar Windows-like file manager and toolbar, and does away with the horrid UI that comes by default with Ubuntu. I've used that on a daily-driver development machine for a number of years. Download at http://xubuntu.org/
I know your comment was intended to be funny, but the reality is that they *have* already started asking Hangout users to switch to Allo, Duo, or Messages.
I'd upvote you a thousand times if I had mod points today.
Ubuntu (via Unity), GNOME, and Microsoft have all completely jumped the shark to support a class of users that, as best as I can tell, does not exist. I use Linux as my main work OS, day-in day-out. I know exactly zero people who use Ubuntu, GNOME, or Windows on tablets. These three are removing usability piece by piece to support a glorious future that no one wants. At least on Linux there are sensible UI alternatives like xfce that allow people like me to get work done, but that does not spare us from the destruction of useful apps running in that UI, like gedit as mentioned above.
Not only do they not have an announcement on the Adobe semaphore site, it looks like it hasn't been updated in at least 2 years. The site proudly announces the "new" code, i.e. the one from 2012 that just got solved. The news page is even worse. It's all news from the original solving in 2007.
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Ironically, this could lead to a massive increase in TP-LINK sales.
We used to make fun of TP-LINK as brand a few years ago, but I now own some TP-LINK hardware and have been very happy with it.
As an American who's worked in the computer industry for 20+ years, I've never once heard anyone pronounce it "rawter".
Technically, teleported is the correct word. We're talking teleportation in the scientific sense, not Star Trek teleportation -- not that the unwashed masses know the difference.
I'd actually say that "object" is the wrong word. I'm not sure I'd call a photon an object. "Particle" would be 1000% better, and much less confusing.
Funny, I was thinking that this was one of the better summaries that I've seen on Slashdot lately. No click-bait, all the pertinent facts, and covers a subject that's actually news for nerds. The summary is plenty good enough to not have to RTFA, which should be the top criterion for all good Slashdotters!
Hey, if the guys who created Petya want to be part of the Bitcoin/Dark-Web economy and all that it entails, it's only logical that they are fair game for the assassination market.
When I saw the headline, my first thought was "Finally! Their caps are so low!" Unfortunately, it's the not the cap itself that's expanding, it's the number of people forced to bear it.
Religions other than Islam are illegal in Saudi Arabia. If a Saudi Arabian court rules that "illegal" Christian/Jewish/Buddhist websites should be deindexed worldwide, surely Google would not respect that. What makes this case any different?
And technically whoever blew up Newt Gringrich's reign by publishing a cell call intercepted in Gainesville, Florida should have been prosecuted, but no one was.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb... has all the details about the Newt Gingrich call intercept. Ironically, I'm from Gainesville, but never heard about this story until today.
"News" About the The Internet Of Things Is Becoming More Difficult To Escape
I guess I'm the weirdo. I've never understood why people choose Chrome over Firefox. I use Firefox on all platforms. Chrome is just butt ugly.
A $1000 laptop that can only run Windows Store apps? Somebody at MS is getting fired.
This story just in from our First World Problems desk...
Consumer: Can you please just make your program simply play my music?
Apple: We're going to do much more than that! It will play and organize your music, sync your phone and ipod, apply iOS updates, manage Apple credentials, sell music, sell videos, sell apps, and install drivers and services. They said it wasn't possible, but in addition, we've made the interface simultaneously so spartan yet so confusing that just knowing how to use it at all will be a mark of pride.
These things have been popular in places where [...] banking infrastructure makes person-to-person payments hard.
Like in America?
This really, really, really scares me. These days, any time a UI is changed it often gets worse and worse. Just look at Windows 8. Just look at Firefox Australis. Just look at GNOME 3. Just look at MS Office. Just look at Android. Just look at Slashdot Beta.
You don't even have to look further than the last refreshed user interface from Apple! The flat, pastel look in IOS 7 and later is a big step back from the original classy UI.
I'm conflicted here. On one hand, I despise Unity, so I think dropping it is a very welcome change. How refreshing that a company is actually listening to its users. I only wish it would have happened a long time ago. It's a bit ironic that the primary UI is shifting to GNOME though, who practically make a living from ignoring their users' wishes.
On the other hands, I feel really bad for these people who are now out of a job. They were most likely the devs who were just following orders to move Unity forward.
Do you think all those "fixit" shops were buying their parts from Apple? Apple only sells to authorize service persons, and they only sell to them because they have been trained in proper repair techniques.
They're not buying stolen parts, if that's what you're implying. There is more than enough demand for 3rd parties to manufacture replacement Apple parts. I just bought a brand new replacement LCD for an iPhone 6 for all of $25.
True, but running a home (or God-forbid, business) from mobile broadband would only be a desperate last-resort option. You will have sky-high bills, throttling after a certain amount of easily-reached bandwidth, or more likely, both.
Too competitive? I would submit that the broadband industry is *least* competitive major industry in America. If you have any choice in providers at all, you are lucky.
I'm not a fan of removing the home button AT ALL, and I dislike the rounded edge screens. You know what I *would* pay for, though? A phone that didn't need a case, and that could be dropped from chest height with no visible damage. That is the next killer feature in my book. Paying top dollar for a slick-looking phone that you have to wrap in an ugly, thick Otterbox case to hope to *maybe* protect it, is a waste of a good design.
XUbuntu is very easy to install and maintain. It has a familiar Windows-like file manager and toolbar, and does away with the horrid UI that comes by default with Ubuntu. I've used that on a daily-driver development machine for a number of years. Download at http://xubuntu.org/
I know your comment was intended to be funny, but the reality is that they *have* already started asking Hangout users to switch to Allo, Duo, or Messages.
I'd upvote you a thousand times if I had mod points today.
Ubuntu (via Unity), GNOME, and Microsoft have all completely jumped the shark to support a class of users that, as best as I can tell, does not exist. I use Linux as my main work OS, day-in day-out. I know exactly zero people who use Ubuntu, GNOME, or Windows on tablets. These three are removing usability piece by piece to support a glorious future that no one wants. At least on Linux there are sensible UI alternatives like xfce that allow people like me to get work done, but that does not spare us from the destruction of useful apps running in that UI, like gedit as mentioned above.
Not only do they not have an announcement on the Adobe semaphore site, it looks like it hasn't been updated in at least 2 years. The site proudly announces the "new" code, i.e. the one from 2012 that just got solved. The news page is even worse. It's all news from the original solving in 2007.
Astronomers have spotted a star whizzing around a vast black hole
Black holes are the antithesis of vast. They have no size whatsoever.