Comment Re:too much change! (Score 1) 255
My kingdom for mod points!! I agree wholeheartedly :)
Comment Re:Male companion (Score 1) 255
Original Doctor Who is the best, I actually enjoy it more than the new take (and I am indeed a woman). Of course, my parents were big enough fans that they named me after one of the female companions, so I may have grown up with a bit of a bias.
Submission + - RIP - Dick Teufeld (nytimes.com)
solitas writes: Dick passed away on Sunday 1/25/2011 and he did the voice of The Robot on 'Lost in Space'. Bob May passed away 1/18/2009 — he operated the 'body' of The Robot.
How many of us here grew up watching the show? While it was scientifically inaccurate (wildly), we all had a good time with its campiness.
RIP Bob, RIP Dick.
How many of us here grew up watching the show? While it was scientifically inaccurate (wildly), we all had a good time with its campiness.
RIP Bob, RIP Dick.
Submission + - IRS helps bust 105 people in ID theft crackdown (networkworld.com)
coondoggie writes: "The Internal Revenue Service and the Department of Justice teamed up for a coast-to-coast crackdown on identity thieves this week. The coast-to-coast law enforcement onslaught arrested 105 people in 23 states and included indictments, arrests and the execution of search warrants involving the potential theft of thousands of identities and taxpayer refunds, the IRS stated. In all, 939 criminal charges are included in the 69 indictments and information related to identity theft."
Submission + - Linux Vendors Need To Sell More Than Linux (itworld.com)
jfruh writes: "Mandriva, a venerale Linux distro, is on the verge of shutting down. One of its main problems is that it never grew into more than just an OS vendor. The big players in the commercial Linux space — Red Hat, SuSE, Canonical — all built Linux into their larger computing visions. Is there any room in the marketplace for just a straight-up Linux distro anymore?"
Submission + - Send web pages from a PC to Google TV with Chrome (wesleytech.com)
An anonymous reader writes: If you're a Google TV owner, you have probably wondered if it is possible to easily share & send links, websites & web pages to your Google TV from a laptop or PC. After all, if you've got a huge HDTV staring back at you from a living room wall, why watch that new YouTube video on the small screen? Well now you don't have to!
Submission + - FBI Sentinel Is In Trouble (chc-3.com)
cconnell writes: "The FBI has been trying for twelve years to modernize its case file computer system. The current system was antiquated when it was introduced in 1995 and has been widely criticized as one of the reasons the FBI was not able to "connect the dots" in its terrorism investigations in 2000 and 2001.
The first modernization effort, Virtual Case File, ran from 2000 to 2005, cost $170 million and failed completely.
In March 2006, the FBI started the Sentinel project to try again. The original target completion date was December 2009. The target slipped to June 2010, then September 2010, then September 2011 and then January 2012. Recently, the completion target slipped again to May 2012. The cost has also risen, from $425 million to $451 million, dwarfing VCF.
Sentinel will not succeed, given its current definition, budget and schedule. Even allowing for some missing features, an additional 10% budget increase, and another four-month slip to September 2012, Sentinel will fail. I strongly suspect that in May 2013 it still will not be fully operational with high quality."
The first modernization effort, Virtual Case File, ran from 2000 to 2005, cost $170 million and failed completely.
In March 2006, the FBI started the Sentinel project to try again. The original target completion date was December 2009. The target slipped to June 2010, then September 2010, then September 2011 and then January 2012. Recently, the completion target slipped again to May 2012. The cost has also risen, from $425 million to $451 million, dwarfing VCF.
Sentinel will not succeed, given its current definition, budget and schedule. Even allowing for some missing features, an additional 10% budget increase, and another four-month slip to September 2012, Sentinel will fail. I strongly suspect that in May 2013 it still will not be fully operational with high quality."
Submission + - Cystic Fibrosis gene correction drug approved by t (go.com)
tguyton writes: "The good news: the FDA just approved the distribution of the first drug to treat the underlying cause of Cystic Fibrosis, called Kalydeco by Vertex Pharmaceuticals. The bad news: this drug will only affect 4% of patients with the disease in the US. From the article:
[Affected patients] with the so-called G551D mutation have a defective protein that fails to balance the flow of chloride and water across the cell wall, leading to the buildup of internal mucus. The vast majority of cystic fibrosis patients have a different genetic defect, in which the protein does not reach the cell wall. Vertex is developing another drug to try and address that problem. Study data for that drug is expected later this year.
Hopefully the research involved will be applicable to finding treatments for other genetic diseases."
Submission + - Assembling A Touch-Screen All-in-One Desktop 1
adeelarshad82 writes: Stepping away from their usual desktop build-it articles, PCMag attempts to explore the idea of assembling a touch-screen all-in-one desktop. With the help of a bare-bones kit they were able to assemble the PC that runs on Intel Core i3-2120 with 2TB WD hard drive and 8GB DDR3 RAM for less than $850.
Submission + - Elephants Were Once the Size of a Mouse: Study
An anonymous reader writes: A new study has shown that elephants took 24 million generations to get to their current size and that they were once the size of a mouse.
Researchers from Monash University in Melbourne, Australia analyzed 28 groups of mammals, including elephants, primates and whales, as reported in the Telegraph.
Researchers from Monash University in Melbourne, Australia analyzed 28 groups of mammals, including elephants, primates and whales, as reported in the Telegraph.
Submission + - Trials and errors: Why science is failing us (wired.co.uk)
Lanxon writes: An in-depth feature in Wired explores the reason science may be failing us. "For too long, we've pretended that the old problem of causality can be cured by our shiny new knowledge. If only we devote more resources to research or dissect the system at a more fundamental level or search for ever more subtle correlations, we can discover how it all works. But a cause is not a fact, and it never will be; the things we can see will always be bracketed by what we cannot. And this is why, even when we know everything about everything, we'll still be telling stories about why it happened. It's mystery all the way down.
Comment Re:SOPA not dead (Score 1) 273
Wow, thanks very much for sharing that. I suppose I shouldn't be, but I'm really surprised that hasn't been more widely reported. What dirtbags.
Submission + - Apple sues Samsung in Germany again (latimes.com) 1
tguyton writes: "Looks like Apple is going after Samsung again in Germany, this time over 10 phones including the Galaxy S II. It should come before the courts in August, a month before their tablet case in September."
Comment Re:Prevention (Score 5, Informative) 88
The entire email from Trion:
We recently discovered that unauthorized intruders gained access to a Trion Worlds account database. The database in question contained information including user names, encrypted passwords, dates of birth, email addresses, billing addresses, and the first and last four digits and expiration dates of customer credit cards.
There is no evidence, and we have no reason to believe, that full credit card information was accessed or compromised in any way. We have already taken further action to strengthen our systems, even as we, with external security experts, continue to research the extent of the unauthorized access.
You will notice on your next log in to our website that you will be required to change your password, and existing Mobile Authenticator users will also need to reconnect their Authenticator. When you log in, you will be prompted to provide a new password, security questions and answers, and be given the option to connect your account to our Mobile Authenticator to enhance your account’s security.
If you have used your username and password for other accounts, especially financial accounts or accounts with personal information, we suggest you change your passwords on those accounts as well. We recommend that you carefully review your statements, account activity, and credit reports to help protect the security of those accounts. If you need information on how to obtain your credit report or believe any such accounts have been breached, please visit www.trionworlds.com/AccountNotification for more information.
You should have continued, uninterrupted access to RIFT, and we do not anticipate any disruptions to your playing time.
Nevertheless, if you own the RIFT game, you will be granted three (3) days of complimentary RIFT game time once you update your password and security questions.
Additionally, once you update your account and set a new password, your account will be granted a Moneybags’ Purse, which increases your looted coin by 10%, even if you have not yet purchased RIFT.
Please log in to https://rift.trionworlds.com/ (and we recommend that you copy and paste this link into your browser to access the site) to update your password, security questions and Authenticator.
We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused you. If you have further questions, please visit our website, www.trionworlds.com/AccountNotificationFAQ.
– The Trion Worlds Team
Trion's been pretty good about security from what I've seen, and I definitely appreciate them being upfront about the breach. Giving people a few days of game play and shinies will probably generate some good will as well.
Comment Re:Discounts (Score 1) 353
Thanks very much for sharing! My domains are now successfully transferred.
