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You ask what the gain is. By not moving to a cloud-based service, you're denying some hard-working entrepreneur millionaire the chance to market to you.

Seems like a pretty insipid non-story to me:

"We'll slowly phase out Motorola and focus on Moto."
Motorola's iconic M "batwing" logo will still be used.
Motorola said it removed its name from the packaging in 2013.

They've already been using the "Moto" naming for years, with the Moto X, Moto G, Moto E being their big products the past several years.

Sounds like one tech writer (with nothing else to report that week) is bemoaning the downfall and sale of Motorola's phone division, at 3+ years after the fact.

And FWIW, Lenovo has been pretty successful since buying Motorola, with those phones I listed above selling quite well the past several years, much better than Motorola or Google managed to do with the brand in recent years.

There are innumerable stories of programmers in Silicon Valley earning 6 figure salaries, yet homeless as they still can't pay local rents. Rent/mortgage is the biggest expense most of us have, and off grid homes can drop that to a pittance. How long could you live on a year of your salary if housing was nearly free? You might find a few short term contract gigs provide you with enough money to sustain your lifestyle. Of course that's not true for a decent number of people who just waste every extra dollar they earn on frivolous luxuries.

Living off the grid USED TO be hard, but PV solar panels and cheap turbines, along with energy-efficient appliances (e.g. LED TVs, heat-pumps, phones/tablets, etc.) have made it far more practical these days. The same goes for cellular or satellite internet access, digital OTA or satellite TV, improved and inexpensive water pumps, low flow toilets & clothes washers, etc, etc.

Slower internet. Less privacy violation.

Dimensionally speaking, yes, it is 3D. Structurally speaking however, it is a 2D arrangement. Just like a matrix.

My (quite old) parents haven't and won't. They use Picasa (the desktop application) only to organize and tag their photo collection, but they don't even have a google (or picasa) account and don't intend to. Backup is on two USB hard drives.

Hopefully, the desktop app will keep working "as is" for many years down the Windows versions line. Otherwise I'd be interested to hear from whoever tested other Windows applications doing a good-enough job at this (opensource, if possible, but not limited to)

Other than permanent assured backup

That is the biggest reason for most people. Keeping backups is tough.

A google employee lived in the carpark for a year

http://m.canberratimes.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/split-up-and-sell-off-the-nbn-infrastructure-australia-20160217-gmw72v.htmlhttp://m.canberratimes.com.au/business/nbn-worth-27-billion-despite-56-billion-construction-cost-says-pwc-20160217-gmwbd5.htmlFFS it isn't even finished yet!

I am not keen on moving over a TB of photos to a cloud.Other than permanent assured backup what is the gain?I used to share photos with people online. Back in the dark old days when you coded HTML by hand.

Yes users will move photos to the cloud ( or rather most people that used picasa have already moved to photos), and yes this is an attempt to remove the importance of local systems to online services.

Please. Atoms have a size. They are three dimensional. Things made of atoms are not two dimensional.

Its not tough. I've done it for other reasons in the past.Just don't distribute to anyone else, cause that would violate GPL. Also, boo for using proprietary drivers!! Is this so you can turn any computer into a steam box with decent performance on the fly? Still Boo.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LiveCDCustomizationFromScratch

Being that I make 100% of my living being on the grid, I cannot see myself off the grid to sustain my expected living comforts. Living off the grid is one of those romantic views that is glamed up. The reality is it's dirty and hard living.

$40k? Yikes! A used mobile home or travel trailer cost a tiny fraction of that...

capable of using a itanium, stainless steel, and nickel super alloy

All you'd need to do is run Prime95 on the Itanium without a heatsink for awhile and it'd melt itself into its own super alloy.

Ha! So I did miss something - the last few years. Thanks!

No doubt this couple was surprised

Android is pulling ahead in the race to win mobile device domination. The Apple interface is slick, pretty and works well. But. Pulling this crap, no expansion slot, cost along with their walled garden is wearing thin. Fanbois unite to watch Apple falter stumble and lose. IMOHO

How does the FTTH rollout changing to FTTP affect hooking up satellite for rural?

It is The Thing to do around here. Buy some land near a lake or stream. Get a shipping container fitted out for ~$40K. Water via a tank. Electricity from solar cells. Thunderbox. Net via mobile. Garden with veggies. Peaceful life.

If you lived in a rural area in Australia you would be thanking the Coalition for their decision. Many such areas now have access to 25Mbps WiMax broadband, which blows all other available options right out of the water, we're talking 3/4G, satellite and dialup, in increasing order of crappiness.

If Labor had insisted on FTTP for everyone, these guys would still be waiting for a decent broadband option.

Bartman12345

The situation may be improving. A study showed that if they just got on with the job and installed fiber they would be on schedule. With Netflix ans the like increasing in popularity Australia needs a decent fiber network.

Email Brian or submit a bug report? http://bugs.pipedot.org/

I think 2016 has exceeded 2015?

Also, I can't log in to pipedot.

Go incognito in Chrome
name
password
enter/button:

error: invalid value - method [post] type [string] name [username] value [kurt@CircleW.org]

It's worth noting that the article, itself, says this isn't the first time. I mention this because the first sentence of the summary kinda implies that it was.

Many times, the "Live CD" is actually a flash drive. Ubuntu and the like can even create a separate partition on a live CD flash drive for a persistent /home storage area.

The number of known people who have entered Europe to claim asylum in 2015 exceeded 2015.
2014?

He might be vindicated but it changes nothing, if you don't win you didn't win.

Screw the cost. Destroy this tracking model. It doesn't affect normal canvas processing.

Excellent. What else could it detect?

Exactly! The US collecting people's fingerprints and full credit history etc etc has no impact at all

Usually a government department just keeps screwing things up forever.

I wonder what else will be moved to the DTO. All online government services?

When a large percentage of the population is complaining about a government service, what can they do?

It's not like having a large central database of biometrics with this detail would be a liability and have potential for endless abuse. Hackers would surely leave it alone just like the SSN database in the USA.

How many generations until every person on the planet is ID'd at birth?

Would make crime harder.

Would make claiming you are from a different country much harder.

Would make entering a country easier. If it is easy to prove who someone is there could be a higher level of trust.

Back in 2005 Barnaby Joyce and Fiona Nash declared copper to be redundant. Given the election in Australia is coming up this could be a swinging vote election point given that no one is going to open up the borders after the sexual assaults by migrants in Germany

I see it as a new level of surveillance. Just imagine, hundreds of devices all capable of uploading data to the internet. A crime scene where they can tell where a person walked around a room by when a person was detected.

Our printers now wake up when someone stands in front of them. They can detect user identity from our work pass. Just add internet!

The read-only aspect of livecds was solved long ago. They'll use something like overlayfs [1] or unionfs to provide a transparent writable layer (using RAM via tmpfs [2]) on top of the read-only root. That way you can "modify" files or install new packages. The modifications will be copied into or made directly in the higher tmpfs layer.

[1] https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/filesystems/overlayfs.txt
[2] https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.txt

I think I've missed something. You've asked about "apt-get install" on WORM media?

The problem with the Internet of Things is all the shit connected to it that just doesn't need to be connected to it. It's not progress, it's just a marketing opportunity in disguise.

The problem with the proprietary NVIDIA driver is that linking the final .ko violates the GPL-2. When you do it on your own system, it's not a problem because you aren't redistributing, and who are you going to sue: yourself? This is why there are no distros that contain a prelinked .ko. When you install it on any distro, including Ubuntu, you get a package that compiles and links it on the fly.

In the past there were livecds that would include the proprietary NVIDIA driver by downloading, compiling, and linking it while you waited. Can you not `apt-get install` it on an Ubuntu livecd still?

Volunteers are always welcome. :)

The daughter of the 'Father of the family of surfing' avoided sex until she was 18 because her mother and father had frequent nightly sex while they and the kids slept in the same camper van, for years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorian_%22Doc%22_Paskowitz

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/feb/10/fair-accurate-and-balanced-the-abc-of-the-nbn-reporting-saga

They are still going on about this

it's still better than Beta!

I'd do that, actually. The Amish have a decent community, nice lifestyle, quite relaxed, hard working people, friendly and rich. Besides not having a laptop and the internet, what's there not to like

where we're commenting on unpublished/FP articles in the pipe.

this smells like kuro5hin. stick a fork in it!

to me, off the grid means living in a community like the Amish or some tribe in the bush in some obscure place in another country other than 1st world.