BuckaBooBob - Slashdot User

Submission + - Using Hackers and/or Technology as an Excuse (washingtonpost.com) 1

Submitted by Bushwuly on Monday June 06, 2011 @09:20PM

Bushwuly writes: Congressman Anthony Weiner admitted today to lying about posting lewd pictures to women on his Twitter feed. Originally, Weiner insisted that hackers had accessed his account in an attempt to embarrass him. Even commentators on Slashdot pushed the idea that the Congressman's account was hacked. Considering that Sony has made claims that Anonymous was behind the breech of the Playstation Network, it seems like blaming "hackers" is the new "my dog ate my homework". What other examples can you recall of people in the public eye trying to use hackers and/or technology as an excuse for poor behavior?

Submission + - Malware Gangs Run Ads To Hire New Coders (krebsonsecurity.com) 1

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 06, 2011 @08:07PM

An anonymous reader writes: Think crime doesn't pay? Think again: An increasingly common sight on underground cybercrime forums are ads paid for by malware writers who are looking to hire talented new programmers. The most common ads are for "crypters" designed to disguise known malware, and "Web injects," plug-ins made to run alongside crime kits like ZeuS and SpyEye. Salaries range from $2,000 to $5,000 monthly, health benefits not included.

Submission + - MIT Develops Fast Charging Liquid Flow Batteries (inhabitat.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 06, 2011 @05:22PM

An anonymous reader writes: A team of researchers at MIT set out to “reinvent the rechargeable battery” and succeeded by creating a liquid-flow battery, suitable for electric vehicles that can be recharged as quickly as simply pumping gas and could halve the cost of current EV batteries. The new batteries involve a semi-solid, liquid electrolyte material which holds suspended positive and negative electrodes that provide needed electricity.

Comment New Study (Score 1) 271

by BuckaBooBob on Monday May 16, 2011 @08:59PM (#36147894) Attached to: GSM Association Slams Euro Call For Ban On Wireless In School

Someone should Visit a Mensa how to Hack your Cell Phone workshop and do a conclusive study to prove that wireless signals boost your IQ..

Comment Pointless (Score 1) 1002

by BuckaBooBob on Monday May 16, 2011 @04:32PM (#36144168) Attached to: Do Developers Really Need a Second Monitor?

Well.. Like so many people these days... rather than do a wee bit of research you resort to the internet without looking into it yourself... Some situations are a bit different but this one is just too simple. Ask him and observe how he utilizes the second monitor.. Is he using it to be effective? can you justify the cost for the man hours that it will save.. (Which is highly likely the ROI will be rather low unless you are really under paying him at which point you should fire all of your developers and get better ones that work for a good wage and do good work rather than crappy work for crappy pay)

Comment Skype RIP (Score 1) 1

by BuckaBooBob on Thursday May 12, 2011 @07:34PM (#36113576) Attached to: Clearly, Skype On Linux Has No Future

Let it die... Just need a new replacement...

Depends maybe Google Voice will pick up if they do more work on it and make standalone clients..

Comment Re:More than Comcast (Score 1) 230

by BuckaBooBob on Thursday May 12, 2011 @01:39PM (#36109396) Attached to: No Pirate Bay for Comcast Customers

So the more interesting thing here is .. Is it comcast thats blocking it or something else... IANAL but I am pretty sure as long as they do not censor sites they are not liable but the second they start they are liable for everything... This could be a very dangerous situation if it is not backed up by law.

Comment Re:reducing the BSA would generate the most jobs (Score 1) 361

by BuckaBooBob on Thursday May 12, 2011 @12:08PM (#36108082) Attached to: BSA 2010 Piracy Report: $58.8 Billion

You are sadly mistaken.... FULL cooperation with the BSA would only end up lining the pockets of Exec's in massive companies... It wouldn't create any new jobs... Just more revenue from the same amount of work done.. If anything we would see less innovation as there would be even less incentive for companies to produce stable feature rich software to win your hard earned money... Would is likely is that even more money would be dumped into software patents to prevent competition and they would start to work on shortening Product life so that they would have everyone buying ever single new release they put out..

Comment Re:reducing the BSA would generate the most jobs (Score 1) 361

by BuckaBooBob on Thursday May 12, 2011 @12:03PM (#36107998) Attached to: BSA 2010 Piracy Report: $58.8 Billion

A Group like the EFF(not the EFF itself) should be posting reports that show that Overpriced Software and Software Patents are destroying the economy and use actual real credible numbers rather than the fictional numbers the the BSA comes out with.

Comment Re:Simple answer (Score 1) 136

by BuckaBooBob on Wednesday May 11, 2011 @07:41PM (#36100794) Attached to: Google's Honeycomb Source Code Release Is On Ice

Its for the good... They know honeycomb is not acceptable to run on phones and the second they release it to the public people will start to port drivers needed for their phones to it and run it anyways.. After that people will start to download these custom roms and put them on phones and have a poor user experience and possibly get turned off android..

Its probably a good idea overall... The only thing they could have done diffrently is hold off on honeycomb period untill ice cream sandwich was completed and rolled it into a single release... But with the fast pace of tablets they couldn't do that..

Comment Re:Adobe-quality work! (Score 1) 2

by BuckaBooBob on Tuesday May 10, 2011 @05:34PM (#36087808) Attached to: Adobe wants to read your Gmail

But seriously... who wants Acrobat on their android?!?! PDF is defunct... 90% of PDF's are just over sized JPG's only with the ability for malicious software to be injected into them..

But seriously.. Acrobat is slow and bloated to all hell.. I wont even entertain the idea of installing it on PC let alone my phone where resources are scarce.

Submission + - Son Of COICA: PROTECT IP Act (techdirt.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 10, 2011 @04:43PM

An anonymous reader writes: Last year, there were a bunch of stories here about COICA, a proposed bill in Congress that would allow broad powers to the Justice Department to declare certain websites "rogue sites" for being "dedicated to infringing purposes." This would then require various service providers to stop providing services to that site, effectively censoring them off the internet. That bill stalled out, thanks to Senator Wyden blocking it, however it's coming back and it looks much, much worse. Beyond just providing these powers to the government, it expands many of them to the copyright holders directly themselves. On top of that, it includes "search engines," meaning that search engines can now be told that certain sites have to be blocked. The bill also encourages service providers to take voluntary action against sites. It's a bill designed to censor the internet because copyright holders don't want to adapt.

Comment Re:Requires Flash (Score 1) 406

by BuckaBooBob on Tuesday May 10, 2011 @02:08PM (#36085728) Attached to: Google Launching Music Service Without Labels

iOS Serisouly??! You think Apple wants(will let) you to look at or listen to content that they are not getting 30% of??!?! No way will google be able to build an app for iOS that apple will approve of since all your going to be doing is looking/listening to content that you should have gotten from iTunes anyways..

Submission + - Adobe wants to read your Gmail 2

Submitted by

harryk

on Tuesday May 10, 2011 @10:06AM

harryk writes: "Hope I'm not the first to submit this note about the most recent Adobe Acrobat update for Android devices (IOS unaffected?). According to the new permission requirements, "Read Gmail" is required. The only benefit of the new release is reportedly so that Acrobat can open when you want to read PDF files. The only problem with that logic is that Adobe Acrobat can ALREADY do this without needing to read my mail. From the update notes: "Adobe Reader now requires permission to read Gmail and default Email client. This is to enable users to open Gmail and default Email client PDF attachments using Adobe Reader only when users select the application to view PDF files. This permission is required because of a known limitation with the Android platform." ... Just tested this function and it works without the 'update'. What are you trying to do Adobe?"

Submission + - Mozilla Defies DHS, Won't Remove Mafiaa Fire Add-O (computerworld.com)

Submitted by

Batblue

on Monday May 09, 2011 @01:23PM

Batblue writes: "The open-source Mozilla project said Thursday it won't comply with a U.S. Department of Homeland Security request to remove a Firefox add-on that helps redirect Web traffic for sites that have been seized by the government.

At issue is the Mafiaa Fire add-on, designed to reduce the effectiveness of an antipiracy campaign by DHS's Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) division. When users try to visit a website whose Internet domain has been seized by ICE, Mafiaa Fire redirects them to a working site set up to replace the seized domain.

That's a problem for the DHS, which is trying to knock these sites offline permanently. "The ICE Homeland Security Investigations unit alleged that the add-on circumvented a seizure order DHS had already obtained against a number of domains," wrote Harvey Anderson, vice president and general counsel for Mozilla, in a blog post Thursday.

In recent months, ICE has shut down a large number of websites suspected of selling illegally copied music, movies or counterfeit products. Some free-speech experts have said the seizures may violate freedom-of-speech protections in the U.S. Constitution."

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