Comment Uhm, this is legal content, so.... (Score 1) 254
I could see the consumer protection factor involved (i.e. preventing some MPAA official from spying in) were the content illegal. But seriously, wtf?
Comment Re:I never thought I'd see the day. (Score 1) 262
About it being the only compatible free license, this is, unfortunately, very true. It's the only reason why I don't like using it. I don't think it's right to suck up code. Then again, recycling code... Gah, I don't know. BSD license makes me feel all conflicted inside!
Comment I never thought I'd see the day. (Score 0, Troll) 262
Heaven forbid we use the GPL. Let's go for the BSD license! It's worse!
Go Microsoft, you're finally growing up!
Go Microsoft, you're finally growing up!
Comment LEGO (Score 1) 1
Lego was my childhood. It r0x0rz mah b0x0rz
Comment Re:First? (Score 1) 717
The sad thing (apart from hey! I go to the University of Kentucky!) is that I do this to people all the time. Even down to google maps of their houses >.>
Comment Re:As per "Flamebait Story" (Score 3, Informative) 271
Yea, my ASUS g1sn has a BIOS bug that ASUS won't be fixing in the forseeable future, where it maps memory addresses wrong so if I get all 4GB of RAM in here, I can't install my nVidia drivers in Linux (it works in Windows, but Linux trusts the computer more).
Really makes you wish hardware manufacturers would step it up.
Really makes you wish hardware manufacturers would step it up.
Comment Re:Screw the statistics... (Score 1) 501
It's not that bad. I like to hang out in there and help out with problems. It seems to me a lot of problems are kernel/video interfacing really. Just if those n00bs would learn tab completions and addressing people by name when replying.
Comment Where's the Jurassic Park tag? (Score 1) 292
Slashdot, you are letting me down!
Comment Seriously? (Score 1) 120
This just up and slashdotted already?
Comment I believe it (Score 1) 233
I accompanied my brother to the unemployment office multiple times before he just went online. Eventually it went though, but they're like waaayyyyyy backed up and the paperwork took at least two weeks longer than usual. Sign of the times.
Comment Maybe they're new to this but... (Score 1) 250
it's not April Fools day...
Comment The Internet is a series of tubes... (Score 1) 206
What if their blogs are hosted outside of Vietnam? Say, a webserver in Sweden or something?
Can't they still just use IRC or something?
Can't they still just use IRC or something?
Comment Re:What a fucking stupid idea! (Score 1) 540
Why do you think I bought my eeepc?
FTC Kills Scareware Scam That Duped Over 1M Users 329
coondoggie writes "The Federal Trade Commission today got a court to at least temporarily halt a massive 'scareware' scheme, which falsely claimed that scans had detected viruses, spyware, and pornography on consumers' computers.
According to the FTC, the scheme has tricked more than one million consumers into buying computer security products such as WinFixer, WinAntivirus, DriveCleaner, ErrorSafe, and XP Antivirus. The court also froze the assets of Innovative Marketing, Inc. and ByteHosting Internet Services, LLC to preserve the possibility of providing consumers with monetary redress, the FTC stated."
Air Force To Re-Open Pursuit of Cyber Command 142
GovTechGuy writes "Top Air Force leadership has decided to pursue forming a Cyber Command to defend Defense Department networks and to launch cyberattacks against foes, after putting the project on hold in August."
