Comment Re: Some many not notice. (Score 1) 102
makes me miss Quakeworld? Whatever preceded game spy.
Damn. All the mods and servers in one place.
Submission + - 3 Day BlackBerry Outage Spreads to North America (reuters.com)
iONiUM writes: "With increasing pressure on RIM to catch up to the new phones, and the upcoming release of the iPhone 4S, could this three day outage of BlackBerry's service be a nail in the coffin? From the article 'The service disruptions are the worst since an outage swept north America two years ago, and come as Apple prepares to put on sale its already sold-out iPhone 4S on Friday.'"
Submission + - Adobe Warns of Attacks Exploiting Vulnerability (securityweek.com)
wiredmikey writes: Adobe has issued a warning of a newly identified critical vulnerability in its Flash Player, and that the vulnerability is being exploited in targeted attacks via a Flash (.swf) file embedded in Microsoft Excel (.xls) files delivered via email.
According to the advisory, the vulnerability (CVE-2011-0609) could cause a crash and potentially allow an attacker to take control of the affected system. [More]
According to the advisory, the vulnerability (CVE-2011-0609) could cause a crash and potentially allow an attacker to take control of the affected system. [More]
Comment Cell phone? (Score 1) 208
Why a cell phone? Why not just a usb dongle + software?
Comment Re:False assumption (Score 4, Informative) 814
I think this is the joke.
Comment Isn't it obvious? (Score 1) 163
XML for the win
(and for programmers for the next 50 generations)
Comment Re:SYNERGY! (Score 1) 364
synergy(the software, NOT the buzzword) is awesome. I hope it never gets renamed to something I won't be able to find down the road.
Comment Re:General Jabiri is a complete moron (Score 1) 652
Oh.
You said Iraq.
Carry on.
Comment Re:Why this won't fail (Score 1) 109
As $YOUR_DIETY is my witness, I swear to name any illegitimate children I spawn (yeah, yeah, except it really COULD happen in my case) Havoc.
(Winky, Smurfette, and Booger will be very jealous though)
Comment Re:Uh, why just TI? (Score 4, Interesting) 405
Exactly. If the EFF decides to pursue this to the end, it will more than likely give others pause when trying to stop people from USING their PURCHASED electronic devices.
They aren't talking about "hacking IP". They are talking about using hardware, think linux on Intel hardware. If Intel required signed bootloaders, do you think the law would protect them too?
Comment Re:Wait a second... (Score 1) 423
Funny you should ask this during this thread
It applies to the source of much of Led Zepp's music (old bluesmen that never saw a dollar, or credit for their work)
Got shouted down in a most disgusting way when it was brought up.
Comment Re:Wait a second... (Score 4, Interesting) 423
You have to realise that nobody shoots for the middle (workable) ground.
You have to aim for NO copyright to get "reasonable" copyright.
Tell me I am wrong please.
Comment Re:Pavement (Score 3, Insightful) 712
Asphalt has it's issues in cold climates.
Up here in Toronto, highways are concrete (yes concrete) with an asphalt layer on top.
Every summer the asphalt has to be repaired, leading to our two seasons.
Winter, and Road Repair.
Things may be similar in the midwest but I am only speculating.
Comment Re:Led Zeppelin said they weren't signing up, but. (Score 1) 43
*too afraid to comment*
Comment Re:Ummmm..... (Score 1) 144
I may not completely understand graphic cards but,
I think in this case clock cycles actually *DO* mean something.
