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  1. Toxic Waste on Ask Slashdot: How Are You Haunting Your House This Hallowe'en? · · Score: 1

    I'm in the process of getting the site up, but the details of the project (to be finished this week) are here.

  2. At least they aren't in Italy... on In Bolivia, a Supervolcano Is Rising · · Score: 1
    FTFA:

    "It's not a volcano that we think is going to erupt at any moment, but it certainly is interesting, because the area was thought to be essentially dead," de Silva said.

  3. Re:Antivirus / security companies on Expert: Duqu Is a Custom Attack Framework · · Score: 1

    Or, as the conspiracy theorists have long claimed, are the virus writers and anti-virus writers merely different departments of the same company, which makes coordination inside at least one company pretty easy?

    You're right! The summary mentions Kaspersky... but not Symantec.

  4. Re:Good on New Version of PROTECT IP Bill May Target Legal Sites · · Score: 1

    Youtube is Google.

    And that is why the poster said Google, no YouTube.

  5. What about Sprint source? on Sprint Cutting Unlimited 4G Data Plans · · Score: 2

    I use Sprint at home, and go through quite a bit of data (in both 3G and 4G areas). I checked TFA for a source at Sprint, but it just said the "announcement" was buried in the support pages. Does anyone have a better source than this "article"?

  6. Re:Welcome to the USA... on NASA Sues Apollo Astronaut To Return Moon Camera · · Score: 3, Informative

    On the other, that camera was paid for with US tax dollars and itemized as government property.

    Government property that was meant to remain abandoned on the Moon. What expectation did the Government have they would recover it?

  7. My thoughts on HP Rethinking Wisdom of Spinning Off PC Division · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I won't purchase an HP device (didn't before, either) and don't recommend them to friends and family (didn't then, either). This is just reinforcement of my beliefs. Who wants to own a device, that the manufacturer doesn't want themselves?

  8. Interesting... on The Data Crunching Prowess of Barack Obama · · Score: 1

    Interesting stuff... seems like a waste, though. Manipulating the masses. Especially the last sentence of the summary, which implies everyone will re-elect Obama and he is already the victor.

  9. Re:Just forward your calls to Congress on Congress May Permit Robot Calls To Cell Phones · · Score: 1

    Though, I just wonder if forwarded calls count against your minutes?

    They do with Sprint... we forward employee cell numbers to our office when they leave, and it costs us $0.20 a minute. That's the "Call Forwarding" rate- it doesn't count against the minutes with the plan.

  10. Every System Needs a Touchscreen? on Microsoft Reveals More Windows 8 Details · · Score: 1
    FTFA:

    Microsoft insists that the touch-oriented interface is suitable for any device, regardless of whether it has a touchscreen or not. "We envision an OS that scales from small form-factor, keyboardless tablets, all the way up to servers," said Windows president Steven Sinofsky, at a special press preview of the new operating system.

    What's more, the company believes that every device should have a touchcreen. "The UI is the same UI, whether you use a mouse, keyboard or touch," said Jensen Harris, director of program management for the Windows Experience. "Every screen needs to be touch. A monitor without touch feels dead."

    I, for one, don't want a server with this "Metro" interface and a touchscreen. I look forward to Windows 9, once Windows 8 is out of beta.

  11. Re:This makes it worse! on Diginotar Responds To Rogue Certificate Problem · · Score: 2

    So not only did they hide a break-in from the internet at large, including companies (e.g. Google) which were by extension the target, but they also aren't able to tell how many or what kinds of fake certificates got generated by the break-in?

    The way I hear the quote from the summary

    On July 19th 2011, DigiNotar detected an intrusion into its Certificate Authority (CA) infrastructure

    is "We found out this week that fraudulent certificates were issued on July 19th..."

  12. Re:Email transmission? on Motorola's Most Important 18 Patents · · Score: 1

    How the hell can a 1994 patent cover email transmission?

    Well, the lawyers saw that "on the Internet" was already taken, but not "On the wireless".

  13. Re:Nothing to see here on Google Patents Telling Time · · Score: 1

    You know, Walmart was recently advertising their Pharmacy services in their store... oh, wait. I'm sorry, marketing companies shouldn't market their own services. Google should purchase ad space on Bing and Yahoo, instead.

  14. Re:Relation between MITM and rootkit on 4G and CDMA Reportedly Hacked At DEFCON · · Score: 2

    To make it simple, how about "Network busy: error code 2343" with an "OK" button. In an urban environment, it wouldn't be hard to fathom the network was busy. My Sprint service does that occasionally when I place phone calls, and I have to click "OK" to terminate the call. The MITM attack could cause the appearance of network problems, with the "forced" installation of accepting there were problems, so try again. Who doesn't click "OK" when the network tells them it is busy and to try again later? Of course, now that I think about it, maybe I shouldn't....

  15. Re:Roadless on IBM Plays SimCity With Portland, Oregon · · Score: 1

    I don't recall SimCity having a "biking and walking" roadway on it. How would Portland Planners draw, and monitor, those changes?

  16. Re:But what about non-static pages? on Google Announces Google CDN · · Score: 1

    Somehow, I think Google is probably expecting most pages to be non-static.

    You may be right- but Google crawls the web daily, and would be a good judge (or at least a decent one) of which content changes, and how often.

  17. Re:Will someone please think of the (monkey) child on Can a Monkey Get a Copyright & Issue a Takedown? · · Score: 1

    But in the porno business, it would be like your friend hiring a prostitute to fuck you... the producer pays the girl to have sex with you. So, here's another one: if I cruise main street with a buddy, and he negotiates for a lady to have sex with me, who will go to jail?

  18. Re:Life in the post-Watson world. on Lawsuit Claims LegalZoom Is Practicing Law Without a License · · Score: 2
    FTFA:

    In December 2009 LegalZoom customer Todd Janson, later joined by two others, filed a class-action against LegalZoom in Jefferson City. The plaintiffs don't claim to have suffered any injury from using the software. But Missouri law says that someone who has paid money to a non-lawyer for legal services is entitled to sue the poseur for a sum equal to three times what he paid. So the suit seeks that recovery for every Missouri resident who used LegalZoom since December 17, 2004—regardless of how satisfied they might have been with the service. The lead lawyer is Tim Van Ronzelen of Jefferson City's Cook, Vetter, Doerhoff & Landwehr.

    They weren't harmed... just greedy.

  19. Re:We got in at a good time on Why Johnny Can't Code and How That Can Change · · Score: 1

    I definitely feel that in some way we lucked out in getting to experience computing the past 30 years.

    I agree... growing up we had to learn BASIC and the command prompt to accomplish anything. It became second nature to write batch files to accomplish tasks, and to imagine the directory structure. Today, when I'm using a command prompt on SSH, my co-workers wonder how i keep track of where I'm at- without the GUI, they would be lost.

  20. Re:Offshoring. on Why Johnny Can't Code and How That Can Change · · Score: 2

    Middle school and high school students haven't had to fret about offshoring, I doubt that's a factor...

    It's still a factor, high school students are going to be concerned about what college to attend and their future employment. Middle school students, not so much, but at that point in their lives the children's parents will influence what happens. And parents will see offshoring as a threat.

    Personally, I encourage my 3rd grader to learn programming- things like logic and operators are fun. Especially when we can sit down and work through a problem, all skills that easily translate into a scripting language in the future.

  21. Re:How is that... on Military Drone Attacks Are Not 'Hostile' · · Score: 1

    How's that Hope & Change working out for y'all?

    Personally, I like it. I now get to use my UAV to launch missile strikes at my neighbor's dog when it barks at night... and it's not hostile!

  22. Re:Nitpick on The Most Common iPhone Passcodes · · Score: 2

    Also, I think you meant "successive".

    No, he was just being optimistic about guessing wrong.

  23. Re:Hey, we're learning from the market leaders! on Chinese Spying Devices Installed On Hong Kong Cars · · Score: 1

    That's where they think they can get us- many people don't realize that the price of gasoline already includes taxes. Of course, they claim it's because some of us (like me) drive a 12 MPG SUV, and others a 40 MPG compact, making the fuel taxes unfair. Personally, though, I don't care- I bought the SUV for a reason.

  24. Re:Ugh, polygraphs on New FBI Operations Manual Increases Surveillance · · Score: 1

    Do you mind clarifying? With examples, please.

    Oh, say, waterboarding, tasers, dogs, foreign countries. We just don't tell people about it, and in the press release say the prisoner cooperated.

    Those techniques have been perfected for decades, and our PR department is great at cover stories.

  25. Re:Obligatory Clarification on New MacDefender Defeats Apple Security Update · · Score: 1, Insightful

    So far, I'd disagree with that. The malware detection is built into the system, invisible, automatic, and self updating. So the user doesn't have to do X, Y, or even Z at all. We're still at "It just works."

    If Microsoft had it's way, the malware detection would be built into the system as well (think Microsoft Security Essentials), but anti-trust fears and a huge security software market keep that from happening. And, as with Windows, until Macs are malware-proof (which they aren't) you still need to do X, Y, and Z. Even with the latest Apple updates.