Comment Re:And it's a statistics game... (Score 1) 1038
the old double switcheroo trick
That's the second time this week!
Comment Re:X-Files (Score 1) 753
can we still call it 'the tube' or should we switch to 'the panel'?
Hmmmm. Perhaps "boob tube" becomes "channel panel"?
Comment Re:Dollhouse is no Firefly (Score 1) 753
Fringe also has super retarded giant floating text.
Gotta agree with you there - that 3D text is the most idiotic thing ever. The worst part is that they try to make appear to be part of the landscape - I remember one scene in which the letters had snowfall on them. I'm guessing somebody got a new compositing tool and had to use it to go put shinies in every scene because they could.
It kinda reminds me of the early days of the web when everybody had pages littered with blinking text, rainbow line dividers, animated gifs and techno background music. Or, you know, like MySpace.
Comment Re:Duh, what's new? They're Fox (Score 1) 753
Yeah, ok. Thanks Fouad.
Comment Re:Yeah really (Score 5, Funny) 399
Battered wives should talk to abusive husband thru lawyers, police officers and large caliber pistols only.
Fixed that for you
I can't hear you! Don't fire the gun while you're talking!
Comment Re:Different pockets, same taxpayers' money (Score 4, Informative) 1026
Considering that Federal tax revenue in FY2008 was ~$2.5 trillion (source), we could fund a four month federal tax holiday with the $800B+ currently proposed for additional stimulus spending.
Comment Re:It's optional! (Score 1) 664
Ok, so to summarize:
- Amazon is frequently cheaper.
- Ease of use is a tie.
- Search functionality is a tie.
- Amazon is often faster at previewing songs.
Therefore, you always check iTMS first, and only head to Amazon if iTMS doesn't have what you want in DRM-free format.
Ummmm... what?
Comment Re:Quick Calculator (Score 1) 244
it's unlikely they worked a full eight hours every day
As opposed to those of us posting on Slashdot on a Wednesday afternoon.
Submission + - Is Apple making bank on undelivered iTunes songs?
kingpetey writes: "Ever give an iTunes song as a gift? The folks at this blog did an experiment where they sent 20 songs (K-Fed, which is hilarious in itself) to different contacts and tracked how many made it successfully. A few failed, but Apple didn't notify them of the failure. If it happened to me, I'd be — how you say — royally pissed. They describe the experiment here:
a nk-on-undelivered-itunes-songs"
The full article is at http://www.simpletechnology.net/is-apple-making-bSo what happened to the 20 songs we gifted? iTunes had a twenty-five percent failure rate: fifteen of the gifted songs arrived while five never made it. However, Apple took the full price each of the 20 songs without alerting us about the failed deliveries: no refund, no second try, nothing....
This little experiment begs the question, how much money is Apple making on undelivered music? Let's say that only two percent of the one billion songs downloaded last year were "gifted" songs, that would add up to two million songs. Now, that's hardly a drop in Apple's bucket of revenue, but if a twenty-five percent failure rate is the norm, then 500,000 songs go undelivered while Apple makes around $495,000 for failing to deliver songs.
Submission + - Ars Technica rebuts Jobs claim about DRM security
twbecker writes: Ken Fisher at Ars Technica agrees that DRM is bad for business. But in this article, he questions Steve Jobs' claim that licensing it's DRM to other companies would make it less secure. Fisher compares iTunes Fairplay to Microsoft's WMA, and does a fair job of rebutting Jobs' assertion. Is Jobs being sincere about his concerns regarding licensing Fairplay, or is he using it as an excuse to perpetuate a lock-in strategy?
Submission + - University professor chastised for using Tor
Irongeek_ADC writes: "As reported in the The Chronicle of Higher Education, University IT "professionals" came knocking on Professor Censarini's door asking about why he was using the Tor network. While there they also asked that he not teach his students about it, and said it was likely against university policy. An interesting read that goes to show even Universities are turning big brother."
Submission + - Pipes from Yahoo
ahab_2001 writes: "Yahoo has apparently introduced a new product, called Pipes, that seems to be a sort of GUI-based interface for building applications that aggregate RSS feeds, creating Web-based applications from various sources, and publishing those applications. Sounds very cool — though the site's down at the moment; there's a decent write-up here. Has anybody tried this?"
Submission + - U.S. cyber counterattack: Bomb 'em
coondoggie writes: "If the United States found itself under a major cyberattack aimed at undermining the nation's critical information infrastructure, the Department of Defense is prepared, based on the authority of the president, to launch a cyber counterattack or an actual bombing of an attack source. All the military services are preparing for military cyber-response.
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2007/020807-rsa-c yber-attacks.html"
Submission + - Coming in March: Month of PHP Bugs
1wn report writes: Just a few months after resigning from the PHP security response team, Stefan Esser is now planning a Month of PHP Bugs (MoPHPB?) project to expose security holes within the code shipped with the default distribution of PHP. In this SecurityFocus interview, Esser explains the motivation for his frustrations with the PHP Group.
Submission + - A profile of the latest Web sites using AJAX
jbrodkin writes: "This story examines the latest trends related to AJAX. Most large retailers still are not using this innovative technology but some companies have used it to create some pretty interesting Web sites.
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2007/020707-ajax. html"
