Comment Re:As Annie once said... (Score 1) 251
I loved the sign I saw in a bar once that said "Free Beer Tomorrow!" ;)
Comment Re:Silly rabbit. (Score 1) 230
Reminds me of the Onion article, Black Guy Asks Nation For Change
Comment Re:Orange and purple are more professional? (Score 1) 683
Hmmm, so you've never built a site for FedEx or the LA Lakers then?
Comment Re:Tape (Score 1) 941
paranoia is a healthy adaptation to reality
Mobile Operators Fight App Store Fragmentation 178
angry tapir writes "Twenty-four mobile network operators have formed the Wholesale Applications Community to avoid fragmenting the apps market and to give developers one point of entry to all the members. The Wholesale Applications Community members include: AT&T, China Mobile, Deutsche Telekom, NTT DoCoMo, Orange, Telefónica, Telenor Group, Sprint, Verizon Wireless, and Vodafone." The vision seems to be eventually to create one unified app market in addition to Google's and Apple's. The article quotes an analyst noting that the mobile operators have "a poor track record with this type of industry consortium."
Comment MITTM? (Score 1) 228
This sounds like a man in the middle attack to me.
Comment sounds like he needs to... (Score 1) 19
take a cooking class - you know he's still in the dorms because he's too lazy to cook for himself.
Comment Re:That was pretty fast... (Score 5, Funny) 129
sarchasm - the gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it.
Comment Re:News to me (Score 1) 309
A) this is 2001 you're talking about (8 years ago)
B) I know that lots of IT personnel wear pagers since they need to receive one-way messages sent by a machine to report downtime, and you don't really need to respond with "OK, hang on - I'm on my way!"
B) I know that lots of IT personnel wear pagers since they need to receive one-way messages sent by a machine to report downtime, and you don't really need to respond with "OK, hang on - I'm on my way!"
Comment Re:Buy a cheap CRT (Score 1) 367
You're right - and I think our roads, military, firefighters, police and water systems are run so poorly that we need to find someone else to run them for us... Only through competition will we have the choice of who to hire to spray water on our houses and chase down the arsonists who did it. I just hope they offer frequent buyer's cards.
Comment Re:Read FootFall (Score 1) 803
c) kinetic energy ... or as Neil Stephenson put it recently in Anathem, "getting rodded".
Comment Re:Sounds good... (Score 1) 451
These are tack-on penalties, like not wearing a seatbelt is to traffic offenses. You're not going to get pulled over for not wearing a seat belt, but if you get pulled over for breaking the speed limit and the cop doesn't like your attitude, they'll tack on the "no seatbelt" penalty as well.
So if you're in the slammer for some crime, they can tack-on "oh, hey neglected to pay taxes for his ill-begotten gains".
Comment unwrap me, let me be your XXXmas present (Score 1) 115
I thought this was uniquely funny
Comment Re:Is that a Canary? (Score 1) 148
I think there's a reason they call people who send those messages twits.
Comment Re:Someone should be fired! (Score 2, Informative) 139
Not quite - you're thinking of older versions. Modern versions of Peakflow are teamed with TMS (Threat Management System), which allow you to mitigate DDoS attacks.
From their website, "Surgical Mitigation Arbor Peakflow SP TMS enables you to automatically detect and surgically remove only the attack traffic while maintaining legitimate business traffic â" thereby ensuring the highest level of customer satisfaction."
http://www.arbornetworks.com/en/threat-management-system.html
