Comment Re:A suspiciously round number. (Score 3, Funny) 153
Little did they know that Anonymous has already upgraded to a 64-bit hacktivist system. Long gone are the days of the 2-bit hacktivist.
Comment Blackberry did the same thing. (Score 1) 601
This appears to be the application in question:
It does speed traps, dangerous curves, school zones, photo enforcement...
Apple Bans DUI Checkpoint Apps 601
An anonymous reader writes "In late March, four US senators banded together and wrote a letter to Apple asking that they remove apps that alert users as to the whereabouts of DUI checkpoints. Now, Apple has revised its app store guidelines to ban those type of 'illegal' apps."
Comment Re:Bad Porn (Score 1) 353
For the record:
[snip]
3) No, I am not homophobic.
...so, how about a date this Friday night?
Comment Re:UPS Rings Doorbells? Fix=Post a note on door (Score 1) 363
I used to have this issue too. If you are expecting a delivery, the only solution I have found to this is to post a large note on the door telling the UPS driver that you are home.
I suspect that most UPS drivers don't expect people to be home so they do a light knock & run before you have a chance to get to the door. They are damn fast too. Before I started posting note it was always race to the front door and out the front yard to try and catch the driver before they left.
Comment is not commercial (Score 2) 203
Now a Utah court has ruled that such suits must fail because the parodic use of the mark is not commercial and is a form of protected speech.
People need to be careful about this distinction. The judge has clearly supported noncommercial parody's. But a for profit company like the Onion may still be at risk.
Comment Perhaps the US Media could boost their credibility (Score 1) 869
Perhaps the US Media could boost their credibility by extending the coverage of the British royal wedding by another week of page to page non stop coverage. We clearly were under informed about something so critical to our daily lives and country.
Comment Distrust in U.S. Media Edges Up to Record High (Score 3, Informative) 869
"Distrust in U.S. Media Edges Up to Record High"
For the fourth straight year, the majority of Americans say they have little or no trust in the mass media to report the news fully, accurately, and fairly. The 57% who now say this is a record high by one percentage point.
http://www.gallup.com/poll/143267/distrust-media-edges-record-high.aspx
Comment Raelians (Score 1) 1251
The Raelians will be excited about this.
Comment Re:If your government isn't strong enough (Score 1) 386
Can you imagine what would've happened if someone funded by the Soviet Union tried to set up communications networks in the US that the Government couldn't monitor?
I hope many people groups, countries, individuals and organizations do this. Look what happens in places like Iran, Egypt and Libya when they shut down the internet. A lot of individuals, nonprofit organizations, businesses and eventually some governments stepped in to help the citizens get safe access to the internet. If the US ever cracks down too hard on a free internet, I certainly hope everyone else out there will pitch in to help us citizens out in our time of need too. And I won't give a damn about the motivations, race, country or creed of whomever is helping me to get access to the internet. Once I get access, I'll figure out what to do myself from there.
Comment Re:Not sure this is the time to work on internet (Score 2) 290
It might be better shipping the rebels AK's, anti tank weapons, man portable SAMS and lots of ammunition. Sat phones would be nice for communications but I'm not sure twitter and facebook are really all that important anymore.
Would you really want to send them AK-47s? I know arms sounds pretty handy right now. But I kind of hope for something better. A big part of modern wars is winning people's hearts and minds. For that, they need fast communication. Yes. Twitter, facebook and other social media sources have their role here. Instead of a top down push of information and ideas for a government or media, ideas can spread better if done on a peer to peer basis.
Comment Re:Knowledge of biochemistry is relevant (Score 1) 103
Without adequate shielding from UV and cosmic radiation, DNA degrades faster than any DNA repair mechanism can keep up with. This pretty much rules out extraterrestrial DNA-based life existing on meteors, comets or small moons.
So you are saying that a small moon could not provide sufficient UV & cosmic radiation shielding no matter how far deep in the center of the small moon a theoretical DNA based life fore might be?
Comment Re:where is the download? (Score 1) 448
Comment Hypervisor Bible Download (Score 3, Informative) 448
The original uploads are missing. Good thing it's now on the Pirate Bay.
Comment Unnecessary X-rays in shoe shops were banned (Score 2) 308
In the US, they used to take X-rays of people's feet at shoe stores until they figured out that all of those unnecessary x-rays were a bad idea.
http://www.museumofquackery.com/devices/shoexray.htm
So what makes Australia think that subjecting innocent people to X-rays that have no medical basis is a good idea? What happens to the poor schmucks to get picked frequently for these types of searches?
