Comment Re:Early Detection Trumps Everything. (Score 0) 204
Show me your proof! Troll.
Comment Re:Still Running Like a Champ (Score 1) 558
How much of your HDD can you actually use?
Comment Just Canada? (Score 1) 408
Just Canada? And the rest of the modern world...
Comment Re:PLEASE MOD UP (Score 1) 366
sorry, my points ran out yesterday, bugger. How could it be labeled as Troll?
Comment Offs (Score 1) 445
A special interest group rigging search results? Oh, gosh, how could this ever happen? OFFS.
Comment 3.0? (Score 1) 387
The original release was rubbish, it wasn't unti 3.1 that windoze started to really work. And at that time it was still tagged as a 'graphical interface for MSDOS'
Submission + - Bank Of England Accidentally E-mails Top-Secret Brexit Plan to the Guardian (theguardian.com)
schwit1 writes: The first rule of "Project Bookend" is that you don't talk about "Project Bookend."
In retrospect, maybe the first rule should have been "you don't accidentally e-mail 'Project Bookend' to a news agency", because as the Guardian reports, one of its editors opened his inbox and was surprised to find a message from the BOE's Head of Press Jeremy Harrison outlining the UK financial market equivalent of the Manhattan project.
Project Bookend is a secret (or 'was' a secret) initiative undertaken by the BOE to study what the fallout might be from a potential 'Brexit', but if anyone asked what Sir Jon Cunliffe and a few senior staffers were up to, they were instructed to say that they were busy investigating "a broad range of European economic issues."
In retrospect, maybe the first rule should have been "you don't accidentally e-mail 'Project Bookend' to a news agency", because as the Guardian reports, one of its editors opened his inbox and was surprised to find a message from the BOE's Head of Press Jeremy Harrison outlining the UK financial market equivalent of the Manhattan project.
Project Bookend is a secret (or 'was' a secret) initiative undertaken by the BOE to study what the fallout might be from a potential 'Brexit', but if anyone asked what Sir Jon Cunliffe and a few senior staffers were up to, they were instructed to say that they were busy investigating "a broad range of European economic issues."
Comment Battery savings (Score 1) 313
too many variables. If you choose a big name provider then there are more cell towers and lower power required by the phone, thus longer battery life, and put it into flight mode at night, or turn it off, for even longer battery life. No-one ever calls while you are asleep.
Submission + - Universe's dark ages may not be invisible after all
StartsWithABang writes: The Universe had two periods where light was abundant, separated by the cosmic dark ages. The first came at the moment of the hot Big Bang, as the Universe was flooded with (among the matter, antimatter and everything else imaginable) a sea of high-energy photons, including a large amount of visible light. As the Universe expanded and cooled, eventually the cosmic microwave background was emitted, leaving behind the barely visible, cooling photons. It took between 50 and 100 million years for the first stars to turn on, so in between these two epochs of the Universe being flooded with light, we had the dark ages. Yet the dark ages may not be totally invisible, as the forbidden spin-flip-transition of hydrogen may illuminate this time period after all.
Submission + - California votes to ban microbeads (inhabitat.com)
Kristine Lofgren writes: The California Assembly just passed a vote to ban toxic microbeads, the tiny flecks found in toothpastes and exfoliants. Microbeads cause a range of problems, from clogging waterways to getting stuck in gums. The ban would be the strictest of its kind in the nation.
Submission + - 25 Years today - Windows 3.0 1
An anonymous reader writes: Windows 3.0 was launched on 22 May 1990 — I know, coz I was there as a SDE on the team. I still have, um, several of the shrink-wrapped boxes of the product — with either 3.5 inch and 5.25 floppies rattling around inside them — complete with their distintive 'I witnessed the event' sticker!
It was a big deal for me, and I still consider Win 3 as *the* most significant Windows' release, and I wonder what other /.ers think — looking back on Win 3?
It was a big deal for me, and I still consider Win 3 as *the* most significant Windows' release, and I wonder what other
Comment Morons (Score 1) 82
only a moron would include 'Unknown Code Words' and 'references to surveillance technologies and projects' in a resume. Seems to be over 27,000 of them.
Submission + - Bill Gates Owes His Career to Steven Spielberg's Dad. You May, Too.
theodp writes: On the 51st birthday of the BASIC programing language, GE Reports decided it was finally time to give-credit-where-credit-was-long-overdue, reporting that Arnold Spielberg, the 98-year-old father of Hollywood director Steven Spielberg, helped revolutionize computing when he designed the GE-225 mainframe computer. The machine allowed a team of Dartmouth University students and researchers to develop BASIC, which quickly spread and ushered in the era of personal computers. BASIC helped kickstart many computing careers, include those of Bill Gates and Paul Allen, as well as Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs.
Comment shut down your apps (Score 1) 484
Shut down the apps that you are not using or else the iPhone gets slower and slower. That's why there is a difference between older non multitasking phones and new ones. Double click the button and see how much crap is still running. Better than restarting every few days.
Comment Power (Score 2) 350
The average smartphone will die in a day if you run FM radio, a real battery powered FM radio is the thing to have when things go to Sh!t
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