Comment Re:Can't wrap my head around (Score 1) 321
Wow. Way to make a shitty analogy.
Comment Re:No Drivers for Windows (Score 1) 702
I have a 4 year old HP All in One Printer. Windows 7 will not install drivers for the scanner or fax portion of the printer. Since printing is by far the least used portion of the 'All In One' part of this printer I have an almost useless machine sitting on my desk. Pretty disappointing, because it scans very well.
Comment Pooping (Score 1) 171
Maybe someday, some historian will care how often we all pooped. Without our saved tweets, how would they know this important information?
Best Man Rigs Newlyweds' Bed To Tweet During Sex 272
When an UK man was asked to be the best man at a friend's wedding he agreed that he would not pull any pranks before or during the ceremony. Now the groom wishes he had extended the agreement to after the blessed occasion as well. The best man snuck into the newlyweds' house while they were away on their honeymoon and placed a pressure-sensitive device under their mattress. The device now automatically tweets when the couple have sex. The updates include the length of activity and how vigorous the act was on a scale of 1-10.
Comment Cows (Score 1, Offtopic) 560
Anyone seen any cows recently? I always love when they go 'Moo'.
Comment Re:Heh, simple. Don't update. (Score 1) 351
Not turning it on is probably safer.
Comment Re:How was life possible without it? (Score 4, Funny) 249
Same with zippers. What would life be like without zippers?
A lot more drafty?
Comment Re:This is stupid (Score 3, Interesting) 451
Sadly, this isn't illegal in Illinois. We got lucky and our home inspector caught it before we got to far in the process. Moral of the story - get a home inspector that comes highly recommended and is very thorough.
Comment Re:Putting it in perspective. (Score 1) 222
I wish I had a mod point for you. This picture is very helpful in seeing what two years of dust will do to a rover.
Submission + - How badly is CentOS hurting Red Hat? (interopnews.com)
AlexGr writes: "Jeff Gould raises an interesting question in Interop News:
Why does Red Hat tolerate CentOS? The Community ENTerprise Operating System is an identical binary clone of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (minus the trademarks), compiled from the source code RPMs that Red Hat conveniently provides on its FTP site. It is also completely free, as in beer. CentOS provides no paid support, but it does track Red Hat updates and patches closely, and usually makes them available within a few hours or at most a few days of the upstream provider, which it refers to for legal reasons as "a prominent North American Enterprise Linux vendor." Free support for CentOS can be found in numerous places around the web, and a few third parties offer modestly priced paid support for those who want it.
http://www.interopnews.com/news/how-badly-is-centos-hurting-red-hat.html"
Submission + - Ticketmaster claims hacking
FlopEJoe writes: Ticketmaster claims that RMG Technologies is providing software to avoid security measures including the Captcha. Even to the point of utilizing bots to get large blocks of tickets. RMG says it just "provides a specialized browser for ticket brokers." Personally, I don't miss the days of camping out for tickets and believe technology should make things easier and fairer. But it seems only the speculators win when tickets sell out in minutes and they can put them up on eBay for 10 times the face value. TFA is a good read for anyone interested in how tickets are allocated. "A hearing on Ticketmaster's suit is scheduled for Oct. 15."
Submission + - Why RIAA Legal Win is a Really a Loss
An anonymous reader writes: The RIAA gets the big win in the Capitol v. Thomas trial, but if you ask Paul Resnikoff of the record industry trade mag Digital Music News the major labels would be much better off if they lost this case. The reason is because all of the big legal wins by the record industry, from Napster to MGM v. Grokster to Capitol v. Thomas have done nothing to stem file sharing, while creating an incredible amount of consumer badwill and the continued support of consumer hostile products. According to Resnikoff "If suing file-swappers curbed illegal sharing, propped CD sales, and directed traffic towards paid digital channels, then the strategy would make sense. But the exact opposite is happening. For starters, file-sharing volumes have been multiplying for years. And morality trips have had little effect on music fans — in fact, many consumers are hostile towards major labels as a result. Meanwhile, CD sales are dropping precipitously — more than 18 percent this year in the United States alone." Resnikoff says time is running out for the major labels and simple mathematics says they cannot keep up these expensive suits in the face of double digit declines. If the labels are to survive "resources must flow out of money-losing, resource-draining strategies like individual infringement lawsuits".
Submission + - RIAA Trying to Hide Info on Download Expenses
NewYorkCountryLawyer writes: "The RIAA is refusing to provide defendant's attorneys with the record companies' expenses-per-download in UMG v. Lindor, in Brooklyn. Although the Court ruled last November that Ms. Lindor is permitted to prove her allegation that the damages sought by the RIAA are "unconstitutionally excessive and disproportionate to any actual damages that may have been sustained", the RIAA is refusing to turn over any information about its expenses, needed to calculate the "actual damages". Ms. Lindor's attorneys have filed a motion to compel (pdf) the RIAA to turn over the information. Although the record companies had similarly tried to hide their revenue figures, they later conceded in papers their lawyers had publicly filed with the Court that the revenues were in the range of 70 cents per download, and eventually entered into a stipulation relating the to the actual numbers, which were kept confidential."
