Comment !First (Score -1, Offtopic) 117
Cheap AND easy??
You can count me in!
Comment Re:Yay! Transporters for all! (Score 1) 160
Watch Out!
Paramount might feel the need to sue over your unlicensed use of their intellectual property.
Journal Journal: My Little Journal, My Little Journal, My Little Journal and me... 1
So, was torturing my neighbors kid's girlfriend about her little tirade about her pony being moved, and felt the need to find the theme song for "My Little Pony" and text it to her.
Comment Re:uhhh (Score 0, Redundant) 545
Hey, that's the combination on my luggage!
Comment Re:Vectrex (Score 2, Insightful) 492
Ok, that thing is awesome!
Mod parent up!
Mod parent up!
Comment Re:Mechanical failure (Score 4, Funny) 223
And thus the obligatory "Slashdot automobile analogy" requirement is fulfilled.
Comment Re:This is clearly a hoax (Score 2, Informative) 989
It was a case in Dover, PA.
The "Intelligent Design" folks had their collective asses kicked.
Comment Doomed from the start (Score 1) 366
The phone had virtually no in-store presence, and the staff at the two (corporate) T-Mobile stores I tried basically said that since they don't have one to show and cannot give accurate advice on it, there was no reason for anyone to buy one.
Also, apart from the Blackberries they sell and a few other random (non-smart) phones, none of them offer UMA, which is a deal-breaker for me. Without the UMA option, my signal strength in the two places I use it most (at home and at work) is essentially zero. So, I'm a long-time (going on 10 years now) T-Mobile customer (and was a VoiceStream one before Deutche Telecom bought them and renamed them T-Mobile) kept in place by "Golden Handcuffs", namely a plan they do not offer anyone but that is too good to pass up.. I pay $45/month for 1000 Minutes/Unlimited Texts/Unlimited Data (Via the Blackberry data plan) and free nights and weekends.
Submission + - NJ Police must speak language of the suspect (nj.com)
nj_peeps writes: "New Jersey's Supreme Court ruled today that police must inform drunken driving suspects in a language they speak or understand that they are legally required to take a Breathalyzer test. The 4 to 3 decision written by Chief Justice Stuart Rabner, stemmed from the case of German Marquez, who was charged with driving drunk when he rear-ended another car near a Plainfield intersection on Sept. 20, 2007.
Comment Re:Read Articles Second Comment ! (Score 1) 306
But wait, isn't the Earth only 6000 years old?
White House Tackling the Economics of Cybersecurity 47
GovTechGuy writes "White House Cybersecurity czar Howard Schmidt will be hosting a meeting Wednesday with the Secretaries of DHS and Commerce in which he is expected to discuss the administration's new attempt to change the economic incentives surrounding cybersecurity. Right now, launching attacks on private companies is so cheap and relatively risk-free that there's almost no way that industry can win. The White House could be considering things like tax incentives, liability and insurance breaks, and other steps to try and get companies to invest in protecting their networks. It's also likely to dovetail with a step up in enforcement, so hackers be wary."
Comment Re:Coo (Score 3, Funny) 232
Stage a coo? As in a pigeon call?
Submission + - Roman Polanski: The Fearless Child Rapist (cnn.com)
Binkleyz writes: Roman Polanski, critically acclaimed Writer, Actor and Producer, has successfully fought extradition to the United States from Switzerland. The United States requested his extradition to allow him to be sentenced on his 1978 conviction for "Statutory Rape", in which he admitted to drugging and molesting a 13-year old. Switzerland has rejected the request, on several grounds, including not sending along some required paperwork.
Comment Re:Not sure that is a correct reading of the opini (Score 1) 263
hit the wrong button, so continuing my thought..
If I read the opinion correctly, the fact that the messages were examined for a non-disciplinary reason (in this case, to ascertain if the upper limit on characters sent per month was sufficient to encompass all of the required official communications) made it legally "ok" for them to do so. If the rationale behind the examination was for a disciplinary or other reasons, the search would not have been reasonable.
