BEA told Phillips that its board of directors believes BEA 'is worth substantially more to Oracle, to others and, importantly, to our shareholders than the price indicated in your letter.'
I agree. I mean, Bea was a total powerhouse in Golden Girls.
Swiss officials are using quantum cryptography technology to protect voting ballots cast in the Geneva region of Switzerland
Bah, we hace somnething similar in the U.S. Diebold has been using quantum encryption technology on their voting systems for years. That is to say, attempting to examine the vote count, alters the count.
AT&T this evening has issued new terms of use language that it hopes will cap a firestorm of protest over the original version that appeared to give the company freedom to pull the plug on anyone who had the temerity to criticize AT&T or its affiliates.
This is a clever marketing ploy, but honestly, they don't care. They don't have to. They're the phone company.
So, if this cost them $3 million, and they took a week's vacation away, his yearly salary must be $156 million. I think I know where I should be looking for a job now.
I wouldn't be so sure. It took them four months of deliberation to make that determination. From that, I'm guessing they're using some kind of magic-8-ball-fueled-fractal-algorithm to come up with these figures, which means you very well could end up earning a salary in turkish lire, if you're not careful.
Security accounted for 20 percent of technology spending last year and it's expected to rise, according to a report released Tuesday... That's up from the 15 percent of IT budgets spent on security in 2005, and the 12 percent spent in 2004.
That makes sense. I mean, nerf weapons count as a security expense, right?
Mozilla has announced a new initiative to bring Mozilla to the mobile web, including a fully functional mobile version of Firefox (yes, with extensions).
The thing I like about Firefox, is it's something people can really embrace, and extend.
After 3 months, Linus has released Linux 2.6.23. This version includes the new and shiny CFS process scheduler, a simpler read-ahead mechanism, the lguest 'Linux-on-Linux' paravirtualization hypervisor, XEN guest support
Yes, what they don't mention is that the XEN "guest support" is in the form of a crowbar.
As computers become more adept at extrapolating data of different types, your identity isn't safe unless you completely cover all those identifying features.
Yes, or you could just stop molesting children and photographing it.
Scientists believe that initially dark material on one side of Iapetus may have come from other moons orbiting Saturn in the opposite direction... As it absorbed more sunlight, its surface water evaporated, and vapor was transported from the dark side to the white side of Iapetus.
that's not a scientifically-described result of synchronous rotation. That's apartheid.
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Macworld reports that Universal Music Group has enlisted the help of Sony to join forces in a new music service.
Initial reports indicate this offer is really "heating up", but that's only because the music players use Sony batteries.
For the past 2 weeks there has been an uproar on the Sims 2 forums concerning the inclusion of Sony's SecuROM DRM software
I think they just transposed the "e" and the "u" in the name of that software. It should read "Suc e ROM".
BEA told Phillips that its board of directors believes BEA 'is worth substantially more to Oracle, to others and, importantly, to our shareholders than the price indicated in your letter.'
I agree. I mean, Bea was a total powerhouse in Golden Girls.
mlbtaz writes to mention that techs working on Air Force networks will soon be getting "cyber sidearms"
Don't tase me bro!
Dr Bussard, the man behind the Bussard Collector and inventor of the Polywell fusion device, passed away last Sunday in the morning.
He didn't simply pass away. He was a victim of entropy.
The orbiter has sent back some 26 terabytes of data, equivalent to about 5,000 CD-ROMs.
How much is that in Libraries-of-Congress, or maybe football-fields?
Swiss officials are using quantum cryptography technology to protect voting ballots cast in the Geneva region of Switzerland
Bah, we hace somnething similar in the U.S. Diebold has been using quantum encryption technology on their voting systems for years. That is to say, attempting to examine the vote count, alters the count.
After months of insisting there is nothing to patch, Microsoft has done a complete 180 on the URI protocol handling vulnerability
If it took them that many months, it sounds like they did a 1260.
'Solid state pretty much puts hybrid in an obsolete class right now.'
Yes, well, as a graduate of Solid State, I'm really getting a kick out of his reply.
AT&T this evening has issued new terms of use language that it hopes will cap a firestorm of protest over the original version that appeared to give the company freedom to pull the plug on anyone who had the temerity to criticize AT&T or its affiliates.
This is a clever marketing ploy, but honestly, they don't care. They don't have to. They're the phone company.
So, if this cost them $3 million, and they took a week's vacation away, his yearly salary must be $156 million. I think I know where I should be looking for a job now.
I wouldn't be so sure. It took them four months of deliberation to make that determination. From that, I'm guessing they're using some kind of magic-8-ball-fueled-fractal-algorithm to come up with these figures, which means you very well could end up earning a salary in turkish lire, if you're not careful.
Security accounted for 20 percent of technology spending last year and it's expected to rise, according to a report released Tuesday ... That's up from the 15 percent of IT budgets spent on security in 2005, and the 12 percent spent in 2004.
That makes sense. I mean, nerf weapons count as a security expense, right?
The big question is where it goes from here -- NASA? DARPA? The new ARPA-E? Or something new?
By "something new", I'm sure you mean the formation of D.O.O.P.
Once I become one though, well, I imagine MY data center will have a golf course. And blackjack. And possibly hookers.
And don't forget the full stock of Olde Fortran malt liquor.
Would you house a data center in a diamond mine or an old chapel?
Only if I had enough bunk space for my horde of minions, but yes, probably.
Dell said it was merited by customer demand.
In other words, "No, Microsoft, we haven't been talking to other OS vendors. It was the customers' fault. honest. Put down that chair."
Mozilla has announced a new initiative to bring Mozilla to the mobile web, including a fully functional mobile version of Firefox (yes, with extensions).
The thing I like about Firefox, is it's something people can really embrace, and extend.
After 3 months, Linus has released Linux 2.6.23. This version includes the new and shiny CFS process scheduler, a simpler read-ahead mechanism, the lguest 'Linux-on-Linux' paravirtualization hypervisor, XEN guest support
Yes, what they don't mention is that the XEN "guest support" is in the form of a crowbar.
The north pole of the moon is chosen as a location because of its access to sunlight and useful resources.
Yes, and by "useful resources", they mean moon-elves.
As computers become more adept at extrapolating data of different types, your identity isn't safe unless you completely cover all those identifying features.
Yes, or you could just stop molesting children and photographing it.
Scientists believe that initially dark material on one side of Iapetus may have come from other moons orbiting Saturn in the opposite direction ... As it absorbed more sunlight, its surface water evaporated, and vapor was transported from the dark side to the white side of Iapetus.
that's not a scientifically-described result of synchronous rotation. That's apartheid.
I nominate this guy
An anonymous reader sends in a link to a blog posting by Con Zymaris
Wasn't he defeated by Zapf Brannigan?
MS's Hilf's Named Windows Server Marketer
Ok, I know what MILF stands for, but HILF? You've lost me.
In fact, neither of us needed an internet connection and a subscription-based DRM system either.
What, you don't welcome your new subscription-based DRM overlords?