Comment Re:Point of Sale Network Access (Score 1) 106
If network access isn't required then all of these PoS attacks are either inside jobs or involve break-ins which hasn't been indicated for any of them.
Comment Point of Sale Network Access (Score 2) 106
There is an easy solution to this problem - don't put point of sale systems on a network with external access. At the minimum one should limit the network addresses these systems are allowed to access.
Comment Correlation With Mobile (Score 1) 338
I wonder if there is a correlation with the rise of the Facebook mobile applications and a decline in people searching for Facebook. My previous experience has been that a big segment of people don't differentiate between searching for something and visiting the URl directly.
Comment Congradulations (Score 1) 692
Now you have hundreds more cars on the roads.
I mean really, what can they possibly hope to gain? Without the buses there would be many more cars on the road, or these people would move and local businesses would lose out on the disposable income.
Comment Re:Mircea Popescu is a criminal... nothing more (Score 3, Insightful) 209
I have no idea who any of these posters are but the PR person's posts certainly have all the hallmarks of a scammer.
Comment Swedish banking prize (Score 5, Informative) 518
Seriously, there is no Nobel prize in economics. There is however a prize setup by the Swedish bank hijacking the prestige of real Nobel laureates. Further members of the Nobel family have spoken out against it.
Comment Re:30 Hz (Score 1) 520
Its more than gaming, any movement (i.e. your mouse pointer, scrolling) will appear to be choppy.
Experiment Shows Caffeine Boosts Long Term Memory 123
An anonymous reader writes "A team of researchers at Johns Hopkins has published results demonstrating that caffeine seems to boost long-term memory. In a double-blind study, participants were shown a series of images soon after taking either a caffeine pill or a placebo; 24 hours later they were tested on a similar, but not identical, series of images. Those who took the caffeine pill were more likely to correctly classify images as being different, identical, or similar to those seen the previous day; researchers refer to this as a 'pattern separation' test. The beneficial effect of caffeine on the long-term memory of honey bees was covered by Slashdot earlier."
Comment 30 Hz (Score 0) 520
Is just painful for use as a monitor as far as I've heard.
Comment Instagram didn't replace Kodak (Score 4, Insightful) 674
Kodak was replaced by a whole slew of companies that make components for digital cameras, cell phones, picture hosting, digital frames, etc.
Comment Hugh Pickens Blog (Score 4, Insightful) 366
Seriously, how many articles per day is Slashdot going to feature from this guy? Recently it feels at least 3 per day.
Comment Easier... (Score 1) 189
Seems like it would have been easier to grab an ethernet cord and plug into the router rather than do a port scan and reverse engineer the firmware....
Comment Only Internet Companies? (Score 1) 236
Why is this only being applied to Internet companies? There many multinationals in every facet of industry avoiding paying taxes, these kinds of laws should not be limited to new industries they should apply to everyone.
All countries sould be moving to a model where companies are taxed on money earned within the country which completely negates the importance of tax havens.
Comment Pyramid Scheme (Score 1, Insightful) 691
Bitcoin is inherently structured as a pyramid scheme. Users who adopted it early had an easy time obtaining BTC, and they're incentivised to recruit others so their stockpile has value.
Comment Not a Security Bug (Score 1) 127
Sorry, but Google filtering is simply doing everyone a favour by helping mitigate credit card fraud. Users of Google products and services were in no way at risk prior to the filtering change.
Why would they acknowledge this? They don't publically acknowledge people flagging inappropriate images and this falls in the same category.
