I don't mind the article stream. It makes it easier to deal with cross posts from users that belong to both communities, but "piping" the comments over and disintegrating the discussion is not so good. Can't we just have the articles without the comments?

I'm not familiar enough with twitter to know if you are forced to see all responses or tweets directed @ you. Do they offer tweet filtering, can you filter out foul language, or is it left up to the individuals to block or filter certain accounts? I'm not saying everyone is this way, and I'm not directing this towards Zelda in any way, but it seems a lot of people who might be drawn to twitter and other social media are really self absorbed, and thus more likely to be assholes. These assholes then get to broadcast towards others whether those other users deserve it or not.

I agree, the road ahead may be a little bumpy, but the movement forward is better than ending back at where we started. That service startup sequence was a pain in the ass.

DEFCON 22!

DEFCON 21 was last year.

I still won't connect to or use Facebook on my tablet, but Tinfoil sounds interesting. I refuse to install any social media app. They're like glitter of the app world, and glitter is like herpes of the art world.

I didn't know about the RAM. Relying on others to supply parts while not bringing anything new up to the plate sounds like a mediocre-bad idea.

Well, time to fork again! MS Office can keep their ribbon of crapulence.

Since they split, is the relationship amicable? Are the projects contributing and benefiting from one another? If not, I guess I'll start recommending LibreOffice vs OpenOffice, though I've been using Open since before it was Open (Star Office). Sounds as if LibreOffice has cleaned up a lot of mess. Is it just coincidence that openSSL was forked as libreSSL as well?

1. Fork project
2. Clean up code
3. Rename project Libre*
4. ???
5. PROFIT!!!

They could and I think they should offer a better desktop version for the masses, but CentOS (I'm not willing to pay for RHEL) works fine for me. I've used Fedora off and on over the years, but in my opinion it breaks too much.

I said SOME Blurays due to the copy protection employed, specifically BD+ discs I own. I was not aware, but it appears libbdplus has been released since December 2013. It looks like MakeMKV is also using BD+. I'm impressed.

I hadn't thought of that, but ya they do!

I think our society has gotten to the point where they think everything is useless unless it's new, and that simply isn't the case. I've got a desktop I built in 2004 which I somehow coaxed to accept a 1TB drive and had to replace the PSU. But it runs Linux very well. My other box is from 2009. Why throw either of them away when there is still potential for legit use? The newest tech I bought was my tablet back in 2012. But what do I know...I'm just using a dumb phone.

Ya, perhaps he will be able to turn the company around. I think the whole phone/tablet/mobile OS was a waste and unwelcome effort as well. They seriously just need to focus on their desktop, and fix it's many problems and security holes. If they slimmed that down and secured it well, they would have a real gem to work with. I hate to admit this because I run Linux on everything I use except my desktop at work as I have no choice, but Microsoft does hold the largest share when it comes to what OSs people run. The only thing I can't do on my Linux boxes is run some of my Bluray movies. For an OS that is completely free, Linux has come a long way. Microsoft needs to get its act together, or the majority will leave like I have.

Floppy hat, wire, and lots of good music on *gasp* audio CDs!!!


Do other people still buy CDs? I do, because I want something tangible.

With the latest style changes and cleanup, I think they can be taken more seriously. I'm fairly impressed after watching the videos. Now the only question is how's performance on older hardware. They stated they rewrote some major pieces. Hopefully it's leaner and meaner.

It looks like they may have finally removed that dragon. I've got nothing against mascots, but I must say it didn't really fit the rest of the UI. He'd show up randomly at shutdown/logout.

I haven't used KDE very much since 3.5. When KDE 4 came out it seemed more sluggish and bloated on one of my now well aged systems. I switched to XFCE for all systems, and have been quite pleased. I may give KDE 5 a try on one of my newer boxes.

I agree it's not good to put all of your eggs in one basket. Look at the huge target society has developed that is Windows. No matter who the hackers may be, if we focus on using one single OS or software bundle, we are making their lives easier, and the target larger. There needs to be competing or at least different, friendly, options in OS and software. For a distribution that touts security and anonymity, they really dropped the ball. Zero-days are no joke. Diversity here will help by offering other, possibly more secure alternatives.

This also reminds me of a change they made in Android not too long ago where they randomized the place in memory where running applications were stored. Prior to that I think it was some standard location that allowed for easier exploitation.

I've got a coworker that routinely takes smoke breaks outside at least twice a day, and every time he enters our lab he reeks of smoke. So, not only does he smell like an ash tray, but we are subjected to breathing in the harmful residual particles...great. They already make them smoke outside under a car port type shelter at least 100ft away from the office building entrance. How can you remove the residue from a smoker before they enter the building? I think we are all just subject to some degree of health degradation due to their unhealthy habit.

By "outsourced employee", do you mean the Nokia workers that were laid off, or the foreigners that will be hired? Or Both? ;)

I prefer to pronounce it like bilge.

We had the white on blue IBM 386s for keyboarding...man I hated that class. It was so pointless, yet mandatory.

Apparently Aereo is asking that, since the Supreme Court declared it a "cable company", it should immediately receive cable company status, which the FCC has been previously reluctant to grant to internet-only companies.

The Supreme Court and FCC should have to eat their words now and grant the cable status. Don't give them ketchup either!

I still use it for Dell BIOS updates on my Linux systems :)

an expensive pipedream distraction, not a solution.

While I respect your opinion, I believe the same sentiment was shared by some members of society about computers back in the day. If we had stopped using them or trying to innovate when computers still relied on vacuum tubes, where would we be today?

Pretty much what I voted for. Also what I donate to...And just in case any new pipers haven't seen it, or maybe you just live under a rock or in your parent's basement:

http://www.solarroadways.com/donations.shtml

Exactly! And they haven't taken money from a bailout in order to stay afloat, unlike some other companies.

Survival of the fightest!!!

I appreciate the option to use images from stories, and I think it has merit. I'm also thankful that the icons may still be utilized. I prefer the icons, and I'm not too picky about the variety or if they exactly match the article. On the flip side, the accompanying article images chosen by the other sites' original posters or whoever may not accurately reflect the news either. Perfection in anything may never be reached, options are excellent. :)

It would be nice to get native HTML5 DRM Netflix support into Chrome or Firefox so I can torch any incarnation of silverlight from my box. I'm using pipelight, but it still loads some silverlight dlls. :(

WTF type of holidays do you take AC?

Or in the case where these are perhaps innocent baby pictures, the kind most parents have of their baby with it's cloud** up in the air, which they shall use to embarass their future adolecent when of the dating age, then perhaps I should say to the marking individual, WTF.

** See previous article of the week

The first company to change their factory to market plan and deliver to market with an unbroken, documented, chain of custody might make some decent money while securing the nation's infrastructure. It kills me to hear about this stuff. If the good guys know about this stuff and use it, the bad guys could as well.

Yez, u can haz funy pointz

Seriously, that was very funny and clever sir. I tip my hat to you AC.

I cut it 4 tears ago, and it is amazing. I don't care about cable tv. I will not go back. I don't care if they even start to offer a-la-carte. They've lost me for good.

10 easy steps to a firmer cloud!!!

They are determined to be the death of a once great, nerdy news site.

I'm using Chrome with pipelight . The only other issue is that I need to open the chrome dev console and spoof as a Windows Chrome browser agent right before starting the Netflix stream. It has worked amazingly well. I've never had it crash, kill the stream, or anything.

If someone cares to develop some bastardized version of pipelight for elinks, I'd test the hell outta that.

Ha, I hadn't actually clicked that! Maybe this works...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HnwhGgsgXc

This is probably the most amazing thing I've seen in a very long time. I just watched the YERT video, and if everything they stated is accurate, I'm sold. We need to invest in this.

• Prevents icy roads with built in heaters
• Eliminates fading road paint which can make it difficult to see at night along with the waste of money and chemicals to create and reapply said paint
• Eliminates a large dependancy on petrolium for use in asphalt
• Enables us to harness energy from the sun to do all of this while giving us the possibility of powering the entire country via our roads...things that just sit there year after year and cost us money can now pay for themselves and offer us energy in return!
• Reduction or elimination of Coal/Nuclear power for something clean

They have an Indigogo campaign: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/solar-roadways , and I am contributing. Why can't we have more selfless, forward thinkers in our society? We are too focused on our immediate self gratification and pointless desires rather than making an effort to help the rest of the world and future generations.

Ok, definitely need to preview next time before attempting the WYSIWYG linking :c

You COULD have an army of lying death machines, or you could have an army of flying https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HnwhGgsgXc">cats !

Wonder if they took into account recent news and/or did some basic research before investing in their solution:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/05/12/hackable_solar_systems_spurt_free_money/
http://www.solar-log.ro/fileadmin/BENUTZERDATEN/Downloads/Firmware/ReleaseNotes_3.1.1-66-20140414-EN.pdf

I for one welcome our new bicolored comment overlords.

I've used openSUSE off and on over the passed decade or so v9.1-12.x. I was once a much bigger fan of theirs. I just ran into too many broken dependencies in their repos, and went elsewhere. I think the use of CentOS at work also contributed to the shift. Maybe I got tired of the bleeding edge. openSUSE isn't bad. I just think it needs some more polishing.

If we could get enough people to stop using their services, we could shift that feeling of helplessness to them. They can't make us pay for internet access like other utilities or health insurance...yet.

It is rather sad that we let things like this continue to happen. It's even sadder that society won't utter a single cry until they miss the new episode of Honey Boo Boo. I'm already tied to Comcast with a damned iron ball and chain. I'm already paying more money to get a faster tiered connection. I already cancelled my TV 3 years ago because they were charging a MST, I can't just pay for 1 channel, and the only show or channel I cared about was AMC. Screw Honey Boo Boo and the rest of the garbage that litters the cable spectrum. They don't offer channels a-la-carte because of all the deals that make up the packages they shovel at us. So I went with NetFlix, and was happy until recently. Then ISPs started throttling the streaming traffic and whining because nobody wants their services, cable TV or XFinity on Demand.

It makes no sense talking about fast lanes, slow lanes, and different types of packets, shaping, throttling, etc. As I mentioned, I'm ALREADY PAYING FOR HIGHER TIERED SPEEDS!!! I love Pipedot, but if this shit continues, I may very well quit Comcast and home internet completely.

I feel your pain. I've got FF7 CDs somewhere I've not been able to use since I switched from 3DFX to Nvidia. :(

In the mid-late 90's I found this beast for $5. It just continued to boot loop for no apparent reason, so I opened it up and tinkered with it. I was never able to fix it, though it helped me learn about the internals of a computer. I ended up taking the hard drive out and putting it in a 386. I kept the 80286 AMD processor as well. I think I still have it somewhere.

Congrats on the 1337 comment by the way! :D