Comment Re:Average -20C day in Canada (Score 3, Funny) 290
Average -20C day in Canada
Yes. But it is a "dry cold."
Comment Re:The problem is MUCH, much wider ... (Score 1) 473
yet sites like
I know! Slashdot could remake it's format in new and interesting ways in order to attract lots of new younger readers, and call it beta!
FBI Has Tor Mail's Entire Email Database 195
An anonymous reader writes "Tor Mail was an anonymized email service run over Tor. It was operated by a company called Freedom Hosting, which was shut down by the FBI last August. The owner was arrested for 'enabling child porn,' and the Tor Mail servers suddenly began hosting FBI malware that attempted to de-anonymize users. Now, Wired reports on a new court filing which indicates that the FBI was also able to grab Tor Mail's entire email database. 'The filings show the FBI built its case in part by executing a search warrant on a Gmail account used by the counterfeiters, where they found that orders for forged cards were being sent to a TorMail e-mail account: "platplus@tormail.net." Acting on that lead in September, the FBI obtained a search warrant for the TorMail account, and then accessed it from the bureau's own copy of "data and information from the TorMail e-mail server, including the content of TorMail e-mail accounts," according to the complaint (PDF) sworn out by U.S. Postal Inspector Eric Malecki.'"
Comment Look before I go (Score 3, Interesting) 635
I check a store's inventory and maybe make a call before I drive off. Olden days I would need to travel around to different stores to find a special item. More often than not I also mail order supplies I would have bought locally. Sorry Radio Shack. Well, not really.
Comment I can tell you what it's gonna find (Score 4, Funny) 67
You know that ice that's in the corner of the parking lot covered in black dirt and is the last piece of ice to melt? That's what's that probe is going to find.
Comment It's a symptom (Score 1) 366
The problem is that the SEC is truly powerless against the big bank wall street criminals, who they don't want to prosecute anyway to protect their jobs. So in order to justify their existence and feel special they have to clamp down on the small fry.
Comment Not really by a mile (Score 1, Flamebait) 162
The political consequences will last for years. Coming soon: the doctor shortages.
Spoken like a true TeaParty ideologue. While the initial rollout of healthcare.gov was an unmitigated mess, the recovery will in time be recognized as one of the greatest tech successes. The initial design goal was for the website to be able to accommodate 50,000 simultaneous visitors. On Monday December 23rd the website was supporting 83,000 concurrent users. About 2 million people have enrolled into healthcare plans, 1.1 million through healthcare.gov. Quite a substantial number from those six people that enrolled the first day!
Regardless of what you think of the individual mandate or health care reform, that is a remarkable tech turn around - taking millions of lines of pre-alpha code in October to production status by the end of the year. Here is a short video interview with New Relic, one of the companies behind the turnaround.
For all the bad politics our government might have, do not underestimate its propensity to solve a technical problem.
Comment Re:Non-commercial purposes only? (Score 1) 211
Comment Non-commercial purposes only? (Score 4, Funny) 211
Because it could be a competent competitor to current Apple products?
I know I want an Apple II smartphone that I could play Oregon Trail on and make phone calls back to the '70s with!
Comment Obligatory (Score 1) 177
who (as usual) broke the latest story about life inside Mayer's Yahoo, Mayer's curve may more similar to the elaborate evaluation system used by her old employer, Google."
Stack rank for grammar = 0.
Comment Ok then (Score 0) 134
When can I buy an OS for a future "hackintosh" that I might build?
Comment Re: EXO my ASSO! (Score 2) 48
All the world's not worth your rage.
Don't you mean EXORAGE?
Comment Silly rabbit! (Score 1) 122
MIPS are for kids!
Comment Re:Alternatives?? (Score 1) 516
I haven't been following the marketplace (and why I asked the question in the first place), so I would not know who would be the best to go with. But clearly there are services that can handle the load.
Comment Alternatives?? (Score 2) 516
Why can't they just drop a contract in Oracle's lap to handle the website from start to finish? There has to be more than one CRM platform out there.
