Follow Slashdot blog updates by subscribing to our blog RSS feed

 


Forgot your password?
Close
typodupeerror
×

Comment Re:sigh. (Score 1) 150

by colesw (#35578290) Attached to: USPTO Gives Google Patent For Doodles
Well to be fair the PLATO system didn't modify their logo, they just added a "heart" to the top of the screen. Google actually makes custom logos.
A better example of prior art would be Blue's News
http://www.bluesnews.com/cgi-bin/logos.pl
As you we can see the first christmas logo was for 2000, a few months before google submitted their application.

Comment Re:Baen Books (Score 1) 304

by colesw (#34829116) Attached to: Book Piracy — Less DRM, More Data
How many people download mediocre top 40 music? A lot of people. Just because some cover band doesn't get downloaded doesn't mean people don't download thousands of albums just because.
I have a friend who has terabytes of music, do you honestly want to tell me he listens to all of it? I don't think he has enough years left in his life ;)

Comment Re:and we should also... (Score 1) 515

by colesw (#34643544) Attached to: Recording the Police
I don't know about other places but when I worked at a gas station with a Tim Hortons in it, I would always give a free coffee to the cops that showed up on the night shifts. The cops who patrolled this area knew it, and well it made me feel just a little bit safer.
Google

Google Bans Sale of Android Spying App 415

Posted by samzenpus from the what-are-you-writing-there dept.
dbune writes "Google is not letting a handset application that spies on someone's text messages be sold at its Android App Store. The Secret SMS Replicator developed by DLP Mobile to help lovers find out if their partners are cheating on them violates company policy, according to Google. The app works by secretly duplicating incoming text messages and forwarding these to another mobile phone number."
Privacy

75% Use Same Password For Social Media & Email 278

Posted by CmdrTaco from the my-password-is-trustno1 dept.
wiredmikey writes "Over 250,000 user names, email addresses, and passwords used for social networking sites can easily be found online. A study of the data collected showed that 75 percent of social networking username and password samples collected online were identical to those used for email accounts. The password data was gathered from blogs, torrents, online collaboration services and other sources. It was found that 43 percent of the data was leaked from online collaboration tools while 21 percent of data was leaked from blog postings. Meanwhile, torrents and users of other social hubs were responsible for leaking 10 percent and 18 percent of user data respectively...."
The Almighty Buck

EVE Player Loses $1,200 Worth of Game Time In-Game 620

Posted by Soulskill from the sorry-about-your-luck dept.
An anonymous reader writes "Massively.com has reported that an EVE Online player recently lost over $1,200 worth of in-game items during a pirate attack. The player in question was carrying 74 PLEX in their ship's cargo hold — in-game 'Pilot's License Extensions' that award 30 days of EVE Online time when used on your account. When the ship was blown up by another player, all 74 PLEX were destroyed in the resulting blast, costing $1,200 worth of damage, or over 6 years of EVE subscription time, however you prefer to count it. Ow."

Comment Re:You cant hand an ebook to your friend... (Score 1) 247

by colesw (#32968648) Attached to: eBook Sales Outpace Hardbacks
Seems pretty easy to me. Amazon has already shown it can remove content from your device right?
I think it'll be pretty easy, you log into Amazon, enter friends e-mail address, he now owns the book and it is no longer on your device.

If you mean letting someone borrow the book, well you could do it the same way, except add a time limit, and durning that time it would no longer be on your device.

Seems pretty simple to me.

Slashdot Top Deals

How can you do 'New Math' problems with an 'Old Math' mind? -- Charles Schulz

Close