Aboot time!
I have been wanting this tech for most of a decade. Finally someone with some resources has done it. Cool. Servers aside, with appropriate desktop/palmtop OS support, this could make a whole new level of instant-off/on capability.
Posts by LaeMing
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New RAM shunts data into flash in power cuts
Hundreds of Mr A N OTHERs discovered on payrolls
FSF takes Win 8 Secure Boot fight to OEMs
Tuesday 18th October 2011 20:11 GMT
"suddenly you have a machine on which you can't "downgrade" (e.g. Vista->XP) or update the version of Windows installed or, indeed, install anything else."
In other words the PC becomes a consumer appliance.
Does Europe still give tax breaks on compuers? Would removing such breaks on appliance-ised equipment be a good incentive to keep the platforms open?
Hackers expose Citibank CEO's privates
NBN Co outlines next year of target sites
OMG! Berners-Lee has an iPhone
Friday 14th October 2011 22:42 GMT
A bit like my city's free bus service
My uni, the local and state governments put 1/3 each into providing a free bus loop around the uni, hospital, beach and city centre. It saves them more on managing roads and building more parking than they are putting in. It has become very popular so they had to bump the busses to every 10 min all day (from 10 min mornings+evenings and 20min through the day).
Then some bright-arse politicians with too many dollar signs stuck in their eyes to see the ends of their own noses decided 'hey, lets charge for this'. Luckily there was an election coming up and they were kicked out on their fat money-grubbing arses before they could enact 'tragedy of the commons (priveledged arses wreck it for everyone variation)' yet again.
The moral: there is always some unimaginative arsetard who's answer to everything is to try to charge money for it. Even if it is the lack of a charge that is the whole point.
Hubble snaps dark matter warping spacetime
Oz tech retailer threatens parallel import strategy
Would you trust a dot-bank site more than a dot-com?
Future Firefox to slurp updates silently
Thursday 6th October 2011 19:21 GMT 
What a headache!
Due to being nailed to IE7 for back-end-system compatibility, I had to get FF added to the student labs image where I work, so students could actually use modern course-necessary web-standard content. FF has been a huge headache for me and our IT people from about a week after it went in.
I am actually looking forward to the IE8 upgrade this break (we only upgrade teaching labs between academic sessions to avoid disrepencies with in-use teaching materials) in the hope that we can get FF off the systems for next year. That just says it all, really!
Apple TV owners lost legal movie playback this weekend
Anonymous Twitter alternative developed for rioters
Journo register gaffe a boon for media overlords
Friday 30th September 2011 00:10 GMT
You mean like a Bachelor of Journalism?
Like my (and I am sure plenty of other universities worldwide) already offer?
While having such courses available is certainly good, requiring them - as discussed in the article - is problematic: do you need a Journalism degree to blog? Or only to blog if your readership goes above a certain threshold number - what should that number be? Do you need one to write puff-pieces for your local rag? For the parish/school newsletter? To write for small-distribution online news chanels? What exactly is 'small' distribution? There is no clear line as to what 'Journalism' is.
Zombie mobile Linuxes mate
2009 game footage appears in ITV show as 1988 IRA vid
Second-hand E-m@iler spews old emails, passwords
Spotify tethers future to Facebook
Neil Armstrong: US space program 'embarrassing'
Friday 23rd September 2011 21:27 GMT
And please,
add in the RTIs on both types of expenditure too.
Also: To all the "we can't afford it in these times"; "we need to fix this planet first" whiners, I have this to say: "Six thousand billion dollars". That is how much we - as a global species - are quite happy to blow on warefare each year. We CAN afford to fix it all AND do much much more at the same time and much more to boot. We (in aggregate) simply don't want to.
Lady Gaga loses squatting complaint
Bot spanking for social network ranking
Faster-than-light back with surprising CERN discovery
Friday 23rd September 2011 03:39 GMT
As Carl Sagan said,
"Extrordinary claims require extrordinary evidence."
It is good (and likely significant) your friend's research was eventually accepted, but that sort of thing is pretty necessary in science. It marks the difference between a scientist with controversal data and a crackpot, and it is a painstaking and time-consuming line to mark. Your friend should be extra proud in this case and deserves full kudos!
Facebook suggests sharing everything all the time
Memo to open source moralists: Put a sock in it
Virtual and real worlds collide in gamers' minds
Stallman: Android evil, Apple and Microsoft worse
Microsoft faces fresh antitrust probes in Ireland and Spain
Microsoft 'paid over £1m to silence UK exec over sexism'
Google reveals 'leap smear' NTP technique
Tuesday 20th September 2011 04:47 GMT
If you do as suggested above, in order to interpret a set number of seconds since the zero-date as a human-readable time/date would then require you to reference a table of every leap-second prior to the time being requested from the system, updating the list every time a new leap-second. This is because, unlike leap-days, there is no rigid formula for calculating when a leap-second will be required - it's chaotic.
Blue Screen of Death gets makeover for Windows 8
Sixty-seven WIMPs spotted in the wild, maybe
Monday 19th September 2011 03:20 GMT
@Philip Clarke
The problem is not your trying to have an open debate, but trying to drag in your personal hobby-horse opinions on therories and people that have no direct relevance to the article being commented on (research on nature of dark matter vs. theories on open/closed nature of the universe - a bit like posting about chalk on a cheese forum because they both contain calcium!). It's a free world (and comments section), so I am not going to claim you can't post what you damned well like... but you have to expect to be called out when you post OT.
Smut domain scores big bucks for not handling smut
Saturday 17th September 2011 03:09 GMT
@only a 1-time fee
until the next negatively-connotated TLD comes along.
And the one after that.
And...
There is a reason you don't bend to extortion.
It is a pity that industry as a whole didn't just get together and completely ignore it - their opinion of their customer base shows as rather poor since they clearly feel said customers can't work out that a reputable company won't be the holder of the xxx tld. But we keep buying from their intelectually insulting marketing people, so possibly they have a point afterall.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
