Comment Re:Aristoi (Score 1) 81
Came here for Snow Crash reference, am not leaving disappointed.
Comment Re:Alternatives? (Score 1) 386
Can anyone show me an alternative that isn't getting totally hammered right now? That kind of thing just doesn't inspire confidence...
Comment Re:Did they give him an anal probe? (Score 3, Informative) 328
The NYT article linked from TFA clearly states that the tournament was broadcast live on the internet, and this fellow lost due to a rudimentary mistake in the last round when the organizers switched off the live broadcast, which lends some credence to the OP's suggestion. As another poster stated, a 1 or 2 move delay in the live broadcast would mitigate this issue.
Comment Re:Time to burn some points. HEY MBA STUPID PEOPLE (Score 4, Informative) 347
I sincerely hope you're kidding... the whole reason we have gorilla glass now is because Steve Jobs talked Corning into making it again for the first iPhone.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorilla_Glass
Comment Re:I'm confused about the backups. (Score 1) 458
Posting to undo failed moderation....
Comment Displayport (Score 1) 704
Hopefully MS fixes its frosty piss issues with Displayport hotplug compatibility. We've got some 27" DP monitors here that will disconnect and rearrange all your windows every time the monitor goes to sleep. It's driving us nuts.
Comment Re:Brainflash (Score 5, Funny) 354
Looks like the AC above you has prior art.
Comment Re:Why hello there! (Score 1) 385
My car is almost as old as XP, my wife' is older - both work fine.
I'd certainly hope that your wife is older than XP!
Comment Re:this ban would hurt animals (Score 2) 733
hoooooly apostrophes, batman
Comment Re:Uh no. (Score 1) 555
Firefox is for anyone who does not want to deal with that ingrained in the system bloated piece of crap security nightmare that is IE.
By "IE" are you referring to IE 6 or to IE 8 and 9?
Yes.
Comment Re:Can this possibly be secure? (Score 1) 391
Wrong, Apple will let you download any track that it has "matched" in your library in 256 Kbps AAC, which should be quite abusable. See my response to the OP.
Comment Re:Can this possibly be secure? (Score 1) 391
Assuming it's based on what they purchased from LaLa, it's fairly trivial to get them to give you a good copy of an arbitrary track. I tried this when LaLa debuted their "cloud music service", which would scan your library, matching tracks by, as far as I could tell, tags only. I took a random MP3 file, re-tagged it to a track that I didn't own, and ran the Lala scanner. Sure enough, it showed up on Lala as a track that I owned and could listen to an unlimited number of times online. Of course at that point Lala didn't let you re-download matched tracks as Apple will, so it was limited. But I'm forced to assume that if you have the patience, you could get Apple to give you 256Kbps MP3s of albums you don't actually own.
Comment Re:26% gave their soul's to the devil... (Score 1) 188
Their soul's what?
Submission + - linux is not a crime
An anonymous reader writes: A colleague of mine submitted a personal laptop (macbook) to IT of a department of a major university in the University of California to be checked prior to access being granted to the network. The response was:
"Hi,
I am currently setting up your laptop for xxxxxxxxx department. I noticed you have Ubuntu and Windows running on Virtual Box. We cannot have linux computers on the network , and cannot have any copies of Windows running that aren't joined to the xxxxxxxxx Network. Also, there is Bittorrent software on the computer which isn't allowed.
I can remote the bittorrent and the Virtual machiens and then the computer will be able to be added. Would you like me to do this? Any files or programs that you have installed on them will be lost.
Thanks,
xxxxxxxxx"
I am surprised at the policy against linux, especially given the amount of research that gets done in the University of California using linux and other open source projects. Is this a trend? Do they have a basis for security concerns regarding linux?
The other sad thing is the banning of bittorrent, which is simply a file-downloading program.
"Hi,
I am currently setting up your laptop for xxxxxxxxx department. I noticed you have Ubuntu and Windows running on Virtual Box. We cannot have linux computers on the network , and cannot have any copies of Windows running that aren't joined to the xxxxxxxxx Network. Also, there is Bittorrent software on the computer which isn't allowed.
I can remote the bittorrent and the Virtual machiens and then the computer will be able to be added. Would you like me to do this? Any files or programs that you have installed on them will be lost.
Thanks,
xxxxxxxxx"
I am surprised at the policy against linux, especially given the amount of research that gets done in the University of California using linux and other open source projects. Is this a trend? Do they have a basis for security concerns regarding linux?
The other sad thing is the banning of bittorrent, which is simply a file-downloading program.
Submission + - Internet Access is a Human Right, UN Report Says (discovermagazine.com)
purkinje writes: Disconnecting people from the internet is a violation of human rights and is against international law, says a UN report released yesterday. The report comes just after several governments in the Middle East restricted internet access during unrest there, and a year after France and the UK passed three-strikes laws to disconnect users illegally sharing files. People have a right to both dimensions of internet access, the report says: unfettered access to content and the technology and infrastructure needed to get online in the first place.
