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  1. Somebodies registered vim.dev and emacs.dev on Google's New .dev Domain Opens To All (engadget.com) · · Score: 2

    Check them out:

    www.vim.dev
    www.emacs.dev

    I did not found this, read it somewhere :)

  2. What's an iInch? on LG Announces V40 ThinQ With Five Cameras, 6.4-iInch OLED Screen (theverge.com) · · Score: 0

    Is it like an inch, but defined by Apple?

  3. CLI, after all, is a great user interface for many users and it's perhaps the flattest UI that exists.

    When I use a CLI, I use a device with buttons distinguishable both visually and by touch. The keyboard is not a flat UI.

  4. If they're not going to work on it on Google Go-Playing A.I. Retires To Focus On Energy Conservation And Medicine (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    How about donating the current snapshot to a computer museum or a go association? If the hardware costs too much, perhaps do a crowdfunding campaign.

    I'd say "the A.I. that beat the best human player" has some cultural value. Granted, the possibility of Google going under any time soon is very low, but this piece of great engineering achievement deserves a backup place of safekeeping to ensure it is not lost to the times.

  5. Re: Free still means freedom to some of us on StarCraft Is Now Free, Nearly 20 Years After Its Release (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    https://opensource.org/history

    The “open source” label was created at a strategy session held on February 3rd, 1998 in Palo Alto, California, shortly after the announcement of the release of the Netscape source code.

  6. Greed and complacency on Ask Slashdot: Why Did 3D TVs and Stereoscopic 3D Television Broadcasting Fail? · · Score: 1

    I have a TV that is capable of 3D. However I discovered that on the connected PC I can't play games in 3D unless I pay nVidia extra for their 3DTV Play software. It is the same deal with AMD too.
    They're both now pushing VR which on the software side is pretty similar to 3D (having the game produce left / right eye images instead of a single one) and it seems you can get that for free?! What's the justification for that?

    And my TV has HDMI 2.0 which has enough bandwidth for 4k@60Hz but somehow 3D is limited to only 1080p@24Hz / 720p@60Hz.

    It makes me feel that both nVidia / AMD and the TV makers aren't serious about 3D and does just enough to make a tick on that feature checklist...

  7. SATA 3 spec is defined as 6 GB/s

    No, SATA 3 spec is defined as 6 Gbps, and with 8b/10b encoding, actual throughput 600MB/s max. Given that NVMe SSDs can run over 2000MB/s, SATA being a bottleneck is true.

  8. I can almost imagine the conversation on Backwards S-Pen Can Permanently Damage Note 5 · · Score: 1

    Engineer: We've put $x million into user interface design so that the Note 5 is usable even by idiots.

    Idiot: *Insert pen backwards*

    Engineer: ARRRRRRRGH!!

  9. Re:Crazy people on English DJ Claims Wi-Fi Allergy · · Score: 1

    Or perhaps there are problems with his house's electric power? Over-voltage, under-voltage, brownouts, frequent lightning strikes etc.

    Or there's something wrong with the air. e.g. seaside salty moist air causing erosion.

    Or even simpler, he just forget to shutdown the computer and cut the power directly!

  10. Re:More frequent updates? on New Binary Diffing Algorithm Announced By Google · · Score: 1

    Oops, the last sentence should of course read 'I am not aware of any organization that sends out patches ...'.

  11. More frequent updates? on New Binary Diffing Algorithm Announced By Google · · Score: 1

    This, the Chromium devs say, will allow them to send smaller, more frequent updates, making users more secure.

    Is patch size usually a factor in determining whether to send out a patch or not?

    In my experience, people update because a patch fixes some bugs or introduce some features they want. The size of the patch doesn't matter unless the user is severely bandwidth-limited.

    For developers, patches are usually sent out on a schedule (e.g. Microsoft's patch Tuesday), when certain milestone is reached, or when a sufficiently dangerous bug is found and need to be fixed quickly. I am not any organization that sends out patches based on 'the size of the diffs accumulated so far', but please enlighten me if you know of one.

  12. Mozilla could have handled its trademarks better on Firefox To Be Renamed In Debian · · Score: 1
    Not directly related to the Debian situation, but Mozilla could have instead trademarked 2 names, e.g. "Firefox Official" and "Firefox Unofficial" or somesuch. Only unmodified builds can be branded Firefox Official and builds based on Firefox code but modified CAN (not must) be branded Unofficial.

    This way there is no need for every distribution/individual to come up with a new name when they modify Firefox and distribute the result.

    Now we're in a potential situation that there'll be a dozen of differently-named browsers that all have similar functionality. This does not help the Firefox brand, but rather dilutes it IMHO.

  13. Re:Chicken and the egg on ESR Says Linux Followers Should Compromise · · Score: 1
    Well, it is a case of
    "There are only 1,000 completely open-source Linux-base players out there, why should we open-source our codec?"
    and
    "There are a million Linux-base players out there and they all use proprietary codecs, why should we open-source ours?"
    In the end, you could have compromised and gained no "clout".
  14. Re:Can RICO Act be used against the RIAA? on RICO Suit Filed Against Skype Founders · · Score: 1
    Can't this Act be used against the RIAA?

    Somebody already did.

  15. Re:Where's the problem here? on University Bans Wireless Access Points · · Score: 1
    If they get away with this, can [they] require students to use a particular brand of LAN card or wireless device?

    Close. From the sidebar of the article:

    Important Notice

    Please note that due to inconsistent performance with other products, UTD supports only the Orinoco (Lucent) and Intel wireless products.

  16. Funky color? on G5 iMac To Come With Marble Blaster Gold · · Score: 5, Funny

    I first read the title as "G5 iMac to come in marble blaster gold" and thought Apple was going back to making funky-colored computers.

  17. Re:Promoting? on Ericsson Pulls Bluetooth Division · · Score: 3, Informative

    "Promoter" is a membership level (the highest one, Ericsson did came up with the technology after all) of the Bluetooth SIG, and this seems to be the context of the quote. Also notice that it says "chip" customers. The 2nd article mentioned Ericsson will still do software development.

  18. Emulation? on Locally Secure Email Clients? · · Score: 0, Redundant
    Would something like Linux + WINE (I know, WINE is not an emulator) be practical for you, if you are just running a email client?

    You can go all the way to using Linux + Win98 running on VMWare.

    Not sure if qemu is stable enough, but if it is good enough to boot WinXP...

  19. Re:Bottom line: you're screwed. on Locally Secure Email Clients? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I think the idea is to raise the barrier enough to prevent the roommates from casually browsing into his email, not against them cracking into his data.

  20. Re:Controversial on Winny P2P Software Creator Arrested · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Also it is reported that there are magazines and books that teach people how to use file-sharing software. It can probably be argued that if creating the software is guilty, teaching people how to use it is guilty also.

  21. Controversial on Winny P2P Software Creator Arrested · · Score: 5, Insightful

    His arrest is controversial since there was no mention that he participated in sharing files, only for writing (and updating -- an argument used by the police that his act was deliberate) the software that enabled file-sharing.

  22. Re:What's the problem here? on FBI Investigates Open Records Request · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Why would the underground tunnel system even be a security issue?

    I think it is not that someone can hide there, rather that the tunnels are part of the campus infrastructure one can damage, for example there are gas pipes that runs through them, or, heaven forbid, the fibers that carries all the data. Terrorists can probably incite a riot by cutting the p*rn supply to the campus :-)

  23. Re:My impression of the exam on First Java AP Computer Science Exam Complete · · Score: 1

    On the other hand, I heard they had less hassle cleaning the place afterwards - garbage piled up for a while, but it was cleaned up eventually.

  24. Re:Kiss Apple Goodbye! on Sony Connect Online Music Download Store Launches · · Score: 1

    Apple had not started service in Japan though, so they are on equal footing there.

  25. "XT" as the new "top-of-the-line" standard? on Previewing ATi's Radeon X800 XT & X800 Pro · · Score: 5, Funny

    I don't know about you, but "XT" doesn't sound all that "high tech" to me.

    Maybe ATi will come out with these cards next.

    Radeon X800 AT
    Radeon X800 386
    Radeon X800 486

    And then they'll run into trademark problems with a certain other semiconductor manufacturer...