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Comment Re: What is 300 trillion ? (Score 1) 205

Sorry, I had to amend your bad grammar. When you post on the internet, it is forever. Please take care in future. And, finally, to outrage you, it's not your language. (But the grammar was bad by your own rules..)

( Expect to lose karma, it's worth it to make a point, ) #StupidOverThere

Comment Re: What is 300 trillion ? (Score 1) 205

Except that your numbers are heavily massaged for propaganda purposes and dont (sic) actually resemble reality.

What kind of country has a population so stupid they can't keep tabs on inflation via the cost of a basket of goods?

I like the way you glid over the inflation argument, the strongest argument (for me) in your parent post. You could maybe make it in politics. But not in Europe.

Comment In related news, Twitter users are condemned (Score 1) 128

by bLanark (#43738605) Attached to: Saudi Arabian Telecom Pitches to Moxie Marlinspike

The head of Saudi Arabia's religious police has warned citizens against using Twitter, which is rising in popularity among Saudis.

Sheikh Abdul Latif Abdul Aziz al-Sheikh said anyone using social media sites - and especially Twitter - "has lost this world and his afterlife".

Twitter was the platform for those who did not have any platform, he said.

BBC News Middle East

Submission + - OpenShot Video Editor Achieves $35k on Kickstarter, Final Goal in Reach! (kickstarter.com) 5

Submitted by JonOomph
JonOomph writes: The popular open source video editor, OpenShot, has less than 39 hours remaining on popular crowd-funding site, Kickstarter.com. The lead developer, Jonathan Thomas, has proposed a revolutionary new feature, which would allow users to offload CPU, memory, and disk cache to a local server (or multiple local servers), dramatically increasing the speed of previewing and rendering. The more servers added to the pool, the faster the video editing engine becomes (with the primary limitation being network bandwidth). If the final goal of $40k is reached in the remaining hours, this feature will be added to the next version of OpenShot.

Submission + - British Regulator Investigated Over Low 4G Auction Revenue (techweekeurope.co.uk)

Submitted by judgecorp
judgecorp writes: Ofcom, the British telecom regulator, raised £2.3 billion in the 4G spectrum auction when the government had hoped for £3.5 billion. Now Ofcom's auction is being investigated by the National Audit Office over whether it provided value for money for the British taxpayer. Ironically, the auction resulted in a low price but spread the bandwidth amongst rival firms, and so provided better value than if the auction had created a partial monopoly or (as happened in the 3G auctions in 2000) gouged as much money as possible from the operators leaving them unable to actually build a network.

Submission + - The Internet Archive is now the Largest collection of Historical Software (paritynews.com) 1

Submitted by hypnosec
hypnosec writes: The Internet Archive has a great collection of books, music, visual items and websites but, it had one thing lacking up until now – archive of software. This has changed recently as The Internet Archive now holds the largest collection of software in the world and has challenged everyone to find a bigger one. The expansion at the Internet Archive has come through collaboration with other independent archives like that Disk Drives collection, the FTP site boneyard, Shareware CD Archive, and the TOSEC archive. The archive doesn’t hold just the software – it also holds documentation as well.

Comment Re:Obvious troll (Score 4, Interesting) 187

by bLanark (#43114611) Attached to: Did Google Tip Off EU About Microsoft Browser Ballot?

In what way do you have to fight WMP? You can set the default player by file type (and all video players give you the option to make their program the default). Plus you can go into "Turn Windows features on or off" and remove Windows Media Player completely in standard Windows 7.

Well, I'm not the person you are replying to, but I installed the N version of Windows 7, and everything was cool and froody. I installed my favourite mp3 player, foobar2000, and all was well. Then I needed to get a Windows Performance Index for my PC, and for that I needed to install WMP. And, crazily, I lost the context menus in Explorer for "Play in foobar2000" and "Enqueue in foobar2000." After trying many registry tweaks I researched, I uninstalled WMP and got my menus back. I suspect that's the kind of fighting that the person you are replying to experienced.

I think I only got the full Aero UI experience once I'd installed WMP and calculated my WPI, but I might be wrong on that front.
Privacy

Submission + - EU Data Protection proposal taken word for word from US lobbyists (computerworlduk.com)

Submitted by Qedward
Qedward writes: Computerworld UK open enterprise blogger Glyn Moody looks at the proposed EU directive on Data Protection — and how some of the proposed amendments seem to be cut and pasted directly from the American Chamber of Commerce — that well-known European organisation...

You might ask, Glyn writes, who are these MEPs representing — some 500 million EU citizens that pay their salary or a bunch of extremely rich US companies intent on taking away our privacy?

Comment Re:Don't even USE the word "MAN", BOY (Score 0) 145

by bLanark (#42517035) Attached to: Astronauts Could Get Lazier As Mars Mission Progresses

P.S.=> Jeremiah Cornelius is a KNOWN troll -> http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2238996&cid=36457426

This is lame. I think JC is one of the better contributors. And I'm not afraid to put my name to this, Mr Coward.

(I'll be taking a note of my haters at this point in time, and seeing who adds me, to try to find your identity.)

Submission + - Boeing Dreamliner catches fire in Boston (bbc.co.uk)

Submitted by 19061969
19061969 writes: The BBC reports that a Boeing 787 Dreamliner caught fire in Boston. Carter Leake, an analyst at BB&T Capital Markets in Virginia, said, "I don't want to be an alarmist, but onboard fires on airplanes are as bad as it gets." This represents bad news for Boeing especially after the FAA identified errors in the assembly of fuel line couplings in the Dreamliner.
Social Networks

Submission + - The Web We Lost - Anil Dash (dashes.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Anil Dash has an insightful post about cutting through the social media hype to see all of the social functionality that we've lost on the web over the past decade. 'We've lost key features that we used to rely on, and worse, we've abandoned core values that used to be fundamental to the web world. To the credit of today's social networks, they've brought in hundreds of millions of new participants to these networks, and they've certainly made a small number of people rich. But they haven't shown the web itself the respect and care it deserves, as a medium which has enabled them to succeed. And they've now narrowed the possibilites of the web for an entire generation of users who don't realize how much more innovative and meaningful their experience could be. ... We get bullshit turf battles like Tumblr not being able to find your Twitter friends or Facebook not letting Instagram photos show up on Twitter because of giant companies pursuing their agendas instead of collaborating in a way that would serve users. And we get a generation of entrepreneurs encouraged to make more narrow-minded, web-hostile products like these because it continues to make a small number of wealthy people even more wealthy, instead of letting lots of people build innovative new opportunities for themselves on top of the web itself.'
The Internet

Submission + - U.S. Refuses to Sign ITU Treaty Over Internet Provisions

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: The United States said today that it will not sign an international telecommunications treaty thanks to the inclusion of Internet-related provisions. According to the BBC, the U.K. and Canada have also pledged not to sign the treaty in its current form, while delegates from Denmark, the Czech Republic, Sweden, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Costa Rica, and Kenya also have reservations.

Comment Re:Wrench != spanner (Score 1) 65

by bLanark (#42189437) Attached to: Fiber Optic Spanner (Wrench) Developed

"Wrench" is the British term for an adjustable spanner.

I disagree. An adjustable spanner is called an "adjustable spanner" where I come from. I only ever heard the term "wrench" on tv/movies.

I also think that the article summary should say ...

(the correct term for a wrench)

. :-)

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