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Comment Just fix the damn transcoding nightmare (Score 1) 108

by forged on Wednesday April 06, 2022 @05:01AM (#62421688) Attached to: Plex Wants To Become the First App You Open on Your TV Every Day

PLEX is losing track of why they even have paying customers in the first place. My Smart TV does the multi-platforms content search quite well ,thank you very much. I no longer care for other platforms' content when I open PLEX; I want to browse and then stream my local content FAST and with no excuses for transcoding especially on LAN.

Comment In the same boat. Take ownership of the accounts. (Score 1) 565

by forged on Sunday July 23, 2017 @07:43AM (#54861559) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Someone Else Is Using My Email Address

My wife and I were both very early Gmail users (our lastname@gmail.com) and we both get a ton of accounts signup email this way. First, reset the passwords, and then go to lengths to lock them out of their own accounts. As the final blow, once you've modified all detail about their account, just change the account email address to something else entirely. The last step is to fend-off any recovery attempt. Even if they gave any details to customer service by phone (supposedly), by the time they do their old account has zero identifiable data that they can latch on to recover it.

Comment Sad no one mentioned the French TGV (Score 2) 189

by forged on Wednesday April 22, 2015 @02:58AM (#49525813) Attached to: Maglev Train Exceeds 600km/h For World Record

- Has been operating on conventional rail (cost $ vs. $$$ for maglev) since 1981.
- Is holding the world record of 574,8 km/h on conventioanl rail since 2007.
- Is linking all major cities in France and some abroad (Belgium, Germany, Netherlands, UK).
- Has commercial speeds of 280km/h for the oldest ones, to 320km/h for the current generation.
- Costs a fraction of the price of the maglev.

But, YMMV. And by all means go Japan !

Comment Let's allkeep in mind the penultimate release name (Score 2) 110

by forged on Friday October 24, 2014 @02:38AM (#48218839) Attached to: Ubuntu 14.10 Released With Ambitious Name, But Small Changes

This is the perfect time to remind everyone of this comment made by Linus back in 2008: "...Digg users - you're all a bunch of Wanking Walruses".

To which Ubuntu forum users massively agreed that this would make a great release name !

Plan 9 From Bell Labs Operating System Now Available Under GPLv2 223

Posted by Soulskill on Sunday February 16, 2014 @03:12AM from the still-kicking dept.

TopSpin writes "Alcatel-Lucent has authorized The University of California, Berkeley to 'release all Plan 9 software previously governed by the Lucent Public License, Version 1.02 under the GNU General Public License, Version 2.' Plan 9 was developed primarily for research purposes as the successor to Unix by the Computing Sciences Research Center at Bell Labs between the mid-1980s and 2002. Plan 9 has subsequently emerged as Inferno, a commercially supported derivative, and ports to various platforms, including a recent port to the Raspberry Pi. In Plan 9, all system interfaces, including those required for networking and the user interface, are represented through the file system rather than specialized interfaces. The system provides a generic protocol, 9P, to perform all communication with the system, among processes and with network resources. Applications compose resources using union file systems to form isolated namespaces."

Comment Good... (Score 2) 177

by forged on Thursday April 25, 2013 @03:35PM (#43548931) Attached to: Ubuntu Releases 13.04, Sticks To 6-Month Release Rhythm

I was frightened that Wanking Walrus would never see the light. Now, I can confidently wait another 2.5 years for it. Mr. Torvalds probably made one of the longest running joke in Linux's history when he posted his original comment on July 2008 !

Comment Re:Does the new macbook support Sata6 (3) (Score 1) 495

by forged on Thursday February 24, 2011 @07:06PM (#35307004) Attached to: Quad Core, Thunderbolt In New MacBook Pros

A couple of USB2 (!) ports, make that one only on the 17", for a brand-new, supposedly top-of-the-line machine in 2011 ? I'm feeling like if Apple were spitting in my face.

The Big Technical Mistakes of History 244

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday April 27, 2010 @05:19AM from the seemed-like-a-good-idea-at-the-time dept.

An anonymous reader tips a PC Authority review of some of the biggest technical goofs of all time. "As any computer programmer will tell you, some of the most confusing and complex issues can stem from the simplest of errors. This article looking back at history's big technical mistakes includes some interesting trivia, such as NASA's failure to convert measurements to metric, resulting in the Mars Climate Orbiter being torn apart by the Martian atmosphere. Then there is the infamous Intel Pentium floating point fiasco, which cost the company $450m in direct costs, a battering on the world's stock exchanges, and a huge black mark on its reputation. Also on the list is Iridium, the global satellite phone network that promised to make phones work anywhere on the planet, but required 77 satellites to be launched into space."

Why the First Cowboy To Draw Always Gets Shot 398

Posted by timothy on Thursday February 04, 2010 @04:00PM from the more-guns-less-crime dept.

cremeglace writes "Have you ever noticed that the first cowboy to draw his gun in a Hollywood Western is invariably the one to get shot? Nobel-winning physicist Niels Bohr did, once arranging mock duels to test the validity of this cinematic curiosity. Researchers have now confirmed that people indeed move faster if they are reacting, rather than acting first."

Comment Missing handheld consoles (Score 1) 172

by forged on Monday January 05, 2009 @12:01PM (#26330595) Attached to: PS2 the Most Played Console In 2008

Would be interesting to see just how much the NDS is trouncing the PSP. Just in this household me & my wife own one each; my in-laws have 2 more; and virtually in every home with teens that we visited last summer, there was 1 for every 2 kids on average or possibly more.

Hasbro Finally Drops Scrabulous Lawsuit 51

Posted by Soulskill on Wednesday December 17, 2008 @07:15AM from the triple-word-score dept.

The Associated Press reports that Hasbro Inc. has now dropped the lawsuit it launched earlier this year against Rajat and Jayant Agarwalla, the creators of Scrabulous, a Scrabble clone that found a sizable following on Facebook. We previously discussed Scrabulous' return to Facebook under a different name, as well as the "official" Scrabble client, which was not exactly well received. Hasbro's IP rights to the game are limited to North America, and the AP story adds: "Mattel, which owns the rights to Scrabble outside of North America, filed a lawsuit against the brothers in India claiming violations of intellectual property. It was not immediately clear what the status of that lawsuit is."

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