Comment Glitch? GLITCH? (Score 3, Funny) 309
That's a little more than a "glitch" when the unit don't play games, display output, or otherwise do what it's supposed to do.
Comment Re:too little, too late (Score 5, Insightful) 196
Quit being such a drama queen. The company screwed up. He screwed up. Everybody apologized. Life goes on. One mistake does not a Microsoft make.
Comment Re:Yeah, right ... (Score 1) 734
That's no damned excuse. This kind of behavior by children is unacceptable. If the parents neglect their duties then law enforcement has to step in. So now my tax dollars are paying for your neglectful parents.
Comment Re: Not News to Fox (Score 1) 330
Nonsense. Rosen reported that the DPK was going to detonate another nuke. That isn't sensitive material. Rosen didn't go into the means and methods in his reporting. Just that a detonation was coming up. BFD..
Comment Re:The Slashdot Trifecta (Score 1) 140
You've got my vote. Where can I send my slashdot subscription fee?
Comment Did Snapchat write this story? (Score 5, Insightful) 140
This "stories" has all the hallmarks of some marketing dribble written by Snapchat. It has the right buzzwords, is full of itself, and touts some silly app as the future of the Internet.
When did Slashdot sell its soul and start accepting stories from companies?
Why We Should Celebrate Snapchat and Encourage Ephemeral Communication 140
An anonymous reader writes "Within a few months of launching, Snapchat has made an enormous and lasting impact on the culture of communication on the Internet – and we should all be grateful. They have simplified a security process enough to the point that anybody can use it, while validating the market of the next generation of privacy-preserving ephemeral communication. Most importantly, we may finally get a break from the forced permanence of the Facebook and Google world, where everything you do and share is a data point to be monetized and re-sold to the highest bidder."
Comment Re:Brain Dead Action Trumps Philosophy & Ethic (Score 3, Insightful) 514
JJ Abrams tell Jon Stewart that "he never liked Star Trek" on The Daily Show. Well, now he's had a chance to kill it by turning it 100% into a modern day blockbuster action flick and shirking any attempt to tackle an interesting philosophical or ethical dilemma as the main plot. As the modern reemergence of comic book and super hero movies have shown, those films are a dime a dozen that anyone can do. Tackling something deeper while still holding our attention is the hard part. The Watchmen was a good candidate for it but fell short. I'm sure JJ Abrams would rather cover up the complicated parts that question good versus evil with another lens flare.
Where are the mod points when you need them? You hit the problem squarely on the head with the JJ Abrams reboots. Star Trek has been reduced to an action flick. Something that will be forgotten in a month. A lot of action, pretty visuals, with a big fat void in the middle. I've seen both now and they are utterly forgettable.
Comment Re:Okay, enough is enough (Score 1) 249
Ok, so you can buy a portable EMP that can impact electronics 1-2M away. Assuming you upped the power source enough to reach that Reaper drone at anywhere from 10k to 50k high, you might be good to go. Of course, you'd probably need a full-sized tractor trailer to haul the power supply.
As for shooting them, if a drone is flying at 100m, yes, it might be vulnerable to small-arms fire. Though, with your shotgun, you'd probably only get one shot before the drone, moving at an average of 200mph, is out of range.
Then again, most drones, at least the ones the public has seen in combat, aren't stupid enough to fly so low.
Comment Re:Okay, enough is enough (Score 1) 249
The problem is the average citizen can't, legally, get his/her hands on some SAMs. Plus, do you know how much a Stinger costs on the second-hand market? There is the whole import problem too. A directional EMP (if there is such a thing) would probably rank in the top ten list of weapons Joe Citizen is NOT allowed to own. Shooting them isn't an option either. Most are too high, too fast, and shooting at them with automatic weapons would draw massive amounts of attention.
Passive measures are probably the best we've got for now. Safety in numbers. Do your naughty business in cities or underground.
Comment Hard pressed to disagree (Score 4, Interesting) 457
Cue the flamebait accusations....
I'm can't disagree with the U.S. Government's position on this one. If data is sent via the Internet, the world's biggest public network, and isn't encrypted, then why should anybody need anything to read it? Unreasonable search and seizure doesn't apply when one person is talking to another person on a street corner...or on the world's biggest public network.
Encrypt your messages and then an argument can be made for 4th Amendment violations.
Comment The ultimate slap in the face (Score 1) 180
When Joe User exceeds his monthly data plan, he has to pay more just for the privilege of viewing a video ad...to access his own Facebook page.
Comment Re:Progress and Innivation (Score 1) 234
You're probably more right than you realize. Fedora Project has taken an odd turn over the last 2-3 releases. This password masking issue is only the latest of "change because we can" versus "change because it's broken" attitude.
Comment Re:Arrogant maintainers... (Score 1) 234
How the hell did you get marked Insightful? Go install Fedora while sitting at your desk in your cubicle at work...the same cubicle where people can walk up behind you and YOU WONT EVEN KNOW IT. Sysadmins don't have to live in the server room just to install an OS these days. .
Comment Bizarro World (Score 3, Interesting) 286
So, profits are down and the answer is to lay off the people who bring in the profits? Or the people who build the products that make the money?
How is this right in any sense of the word? Instead of spot layoffs to raise the stock price a few cents, AMD should be focusing on beating the tar out of Intel, Nvidia, and ARM manufacturers. Or wondering why AMD doesn't have a chip that can drive a tablet?
