Comment News (Score 2, Funny) 425
Because newspapers and the like are faring so well. This is a great idea. It will simply kill off the industry. No wonder that Chinese blogger is investigating murders.
AP Considers Making Content Require Payment 425
TechDirt is reporting that the Associated Press is poised to be the next in a long line of news organizations to completely bungle their online distribution methods by making their content require payment. While this wouldn't happen for a while due to deals with others, like Google, to distribute AP content for free, even considering this is a massive step in the wrong direction. "Also, I know we point this out every time some clueless news exec claims that users need to pay, but it's worth mentioning again: nowhere do they discuss why people should want to pay. Nowhere do they explain what extra value they're adding that will make people pay. Instead, they think that if they put up a paywall, people will magically pay -- even though the paywall itself is what takes away much of the value by making it harder for people to do what they want with the news: to spread it, to comment on it, to participate in the story. Until newspaper execs figure this out, they're only going to keep making things worse."
Comment Re:Monitors (Score 3, Insightful) 172
Also, why don't vendors include stickers for all OS' a piece of hardware will function with. My HP laptop shipped with a Vista-capable sticker but it works wonderfully with Debian/Ubuntu and it even works with my non-Vista-compatible digital camera!
Comment Monitors (Score 1) 172
What about Vista-capable monitors? Never understood the point of that sticker on the base of my 22" LCD monitor.
Comment Re:Looks like the privacy paranoiacs win this roun (Score 1) 93
What if they implemented something along the lines of 1 time credit card numbers. Imagine you could be assigned a very random set of characters associated with your identity that would allow you to register for services and only trusted sites had access to the 'true' information.
Then again, using a service such as this implies a central server with all the information and that is scary just by itself.
Then again, using a service such as this implies a central server with all the information and that is scary just by itself.
Comment Re:Alternatives (Score 2, Funny) 208
But did he get the combination number to her chastity belt? I haven't actually seen the thing but it must exist since I can't get anywhere near there...
Comment Re:Alternatives (Score 5, Funny) 208
It's called a shotgun.
Comment Re:Alternatives (Score 1) 208
First off, SSL isn't broken and Marlinspike doesn't say that, either. What is broken is how users perceive a secure Web session from an insecure one.
Apparently this only affects those who don't pay attention...nothing to see here.
Comment Alternatives (Score 4, Interesting) 208
I guess the question then is, what do we use as an alternative? What can we even do?
Comment Re:Freebies (Score 1) 205
Maybe YOUR president. Get out of your bubble!
Comment Re:Does Anyone Remember the Star Wars Defence Prog (Score 3, Funny) 131
G.W.B., is that you sir?!
Comment Re:Freebies (Score 0, Troll) 205
She's Chinese, in her mind my skinny little-white man wang is as big as it gets...
Comment Re:Freebies (Score 3, Funny) 205
Note: She's real, I swear. Please don't revoke my geek cred/card!
Comment Freebies (Score 5, Funny) 205
So...you're saying we should charge for EVERYTHING to maintain interest?
/me charges girlfriend $20 for sex...
Comment I bet (Score 5, Funny) 114
that this wouldn't fly with Windows. They always get top of the line drivers delivered promptly...
/jealous
