Comment Disney's already developed it (Score 1) 157
According to this item at Hackday.com anyway.
Comment Crunchy Spider Surprise - WTF?!?!? (Score 1) 44
What the hell happened to Crunchy Frog?
Praline: Next we have number four, 'crunchy frog'.
Milton: Ah, yes.
Praline: Am I right in thinking there's a real frog in here?
Milton: Yes. A little one.
Praline: What sort of frog?
Milton: A dead frog.
Praline: Is it cooked?
Milton: No.
Praline: What, a raw frog?
Praline: Next we have number four, 'crunchy frog'.
Milton: Ah, yes.
Praline: Am I right in thinking there's a real frog in here?
Milton: Yes. A little one.
Praline: What sort of frog?
Milton: A dead frog.
Praline: Is it cooked?
Milton: No.
Praline: What, a raw frog?
(Superintendent Parrot looks increasingly queasy.)
Milton: We use only the finest baby frogs, dew picked and flown from Iraq, cleansed in finest quality spring water, lightly killed, and then sealed in a succulent Swiss quintuple smooth treble cream milk chocolate envelope and lovingly frosted with glucose.
Praline: That's as maybe, it's still a frog.
Milton: What else?
Praline: Well don't you even take the bones out?
Milton: If we took the bones out it wouldn't be crunchy would it?
Milton: We use only the finest baby frogs, dew picked and flown from Iraq, cleansed in finest quality spring water, lightly killed, and then sealed in a succulent Swiss quintuple smooth treble cream milk chocolate envelope and lovingly frosted with glucose.
Praline: That's as maybe, it's still a frog.
Milton: What else?
Praline: Well don't you even take the bones out?
Milton: If we took the bones out it wouldn't be crunchy would it?
Journal Journal: TWC relents on Usage Caps
ARS Technica reports Time Warner Cable is backing down in the face of consumer revolt over their metered billing tests. From the article: "When Comcast currently offers a 250GB/month cap for around $42.95, and the price of Internet backbone traffic is dropping by 50 percent a year, and DOCSIS 3.0 updates cost only $20-$100 per customer, and TWC's finances showed big upticks in
Comment Marvell's Linux support isn't spectacular (Score 1, Redundant) 464
If they are judged by the OpenWRT's project efforts with the Linksys WRT-350N, Netgear WNR854T, and D-Link DIR-615 are any indication. Two Marvell associates are providing support in their personal time to develop a fully functional open-source driver for Marvell's gigabit switch chip.
Submission + - Comcast Tucson Broadcasts Porn During Super Bowl
VorlonFog writes: Thanks to rob27 at DSLreports.com, we know Comcast apparently broadcast almost a minute of full-frontal male nudity to standard definition viewers in Tucson during the Super Bowl broadcast. According to DSL Reports, 'Instead of Larry Fitzgerald celebrating his fourth quarter touchdown, viewers in Arizona were treated briefly to video of pornographer Evan Stone's anatomy.' The Arizona Daily Star reported a Comcast spokesperson's comment 'Our initial investigation suggests this was an isolated malicious act' in a statement emailed to the Star. Finally, a video capture of the incident (presumably replayed from DVR) was posted to YouTube earlier today, and is now available at (NSFW!) comcastsuperbowlporn.com
Comment 3Com's Audrey internet appliance (Score 1) 123
This futuristic device was one of the earliest commercial uses of the Geode chip. Unfortunately at $400 it was overpriced, and 3Com never supported the firmware developed for it.
Comment Coming soon, to a mobile phone near you (Score 1) 303
So you can watch all your postage-stamp-sized video and hear all your high-bitrate MP3 tracks.
Comment Re:Point-to-Point (Score 1) 95
Comment Re:What type of processor is used (Score 1) 95
Typically, it's MIPS32 R4000 architecture.
Comment I was a Byte subscriber (Score 1) 233
I gave up on print media after my Byte subscription was terminated with the end of their print edition. Bah! Humbug!
Comment Re:Idiots are everywhere (Score 2, Funny) 442
I develop software for a living, but I was a bio-chemistry major with a love of hardware and software. Now instead of fighting bacteria and viruses with genetic engineering research, I'm fighting idiots and morons who seem to think an Oracle database on HP-UX with almost five million accounts is simply an Excel spreadsheet. Please just shoot me now.
Comment Re:Multiple interpretations (Score 4, Funny) 542
From the background article of the same source:
"In regards to billing, we fail to understand what you mean with that!"
Apparently, that question is far too complex and foreign a question for these money-hungry scum to comprehend.
Time for a Vista Do-Over? 746
DigitalDame2 writes "'There's nothing wrong with Vista,' PC Mag editor-in-chief Lance Ulanoff tells a Microsoft rep at this year's CES. 'But you guys have a big problem on your hands. Perception is reality, and the perception is that Vista is a dud.' He goes on to confess that the operating system is too complex and burdened by things people don't need. Plus, Vista sometimes seems so slow. Ulanoff gives four suggestions for a complete Vista makeover, like starting with new code and creating a universal interface table. But will Microsoft really listen?"
Submission + - Did somebody kill SpamHaus? (spamhaus.org)
Panaqqa writes: "It looks as if the SpamHaus website has disappeared. No response to PINGing their server, DNS cannot find their host. Has anyone heard anything about this? Do they have a massive DDoS attack in progress against them, or have the spammers finally convinced someone they have the jurisdiction to kill the domain?"
Submission + - Best Rootkit Eliminator?
BeanBagKing writes: "I've never worried much about rootkits, but now I'm starting to see the light. The question is, whats the best? I've read several reviews, but all of them are months, if not years, old. Blacklight is no longer free, one called RAIDE has been released that's supposed to "revolutionize" rootkit detection. Several of these, such as Rootkit Unhooker, seem to crash Vista every time they're launched. Larger companies (Kaspersky, Symantec, McAfee, etc.) don't focus on this, but with Sony attaching rootkits to everything from games to music to fingerprint readers, this seems like something we should concern ourselves with. What can I put on my Vista machine to detect, eliminate, and optimally, prevent rootkits?"
