Comment Re:Statistics! (Score 1) 1142
Fingers, since the average must be slightly below 10 due to finger loss.
Comment Re:The same should be done (Score 2, Funny) 141
Liberals want the government out of people's lives, smaller government, and no deficit budgets.
Wait....What?!?!?!?!?!?!?!? Are you serious?
Comment Re:speaking of bullshit (Score 2, Insightful) 312
The MSNBC cite shows a video of MSNBC. Ignore the blog, ignore the comments and let the video speak for itself. The GGP seemed to not believe that the WH was a "war" with Fox News and asked for Non-Fox sources. The Guardian link also shows this and it is certainly NOT a Republican, conservative or Fox News site, as you clearly pointed out.
I didn't comment on the Guardian at all. I noted that the article said the opposite of what you claimed. I didn't even load the video on that Freedom Whatever blog, thank you Flashblock, because I'm already familiar with the arguments.
So, first you try to rebut by saying that my first source does not agree with Fox News, which is not what I was trying to show, and then you complain that my second link is conservative and it agrees with Fox News. The point was to show WH attacks towards Fox News, which both sites did. For more, please use Google. Search terms, "Anita Dunn" "Fox News", with quotes.
BTW, challenging the WH and reporting on the stuff they do does not make you "an arm of the Republican party". It makes you a news organization.
What Fox "News" broadcasts is not a "challenge" to the White House. It's made-up accusations, like this Anita Dunn nonsense, like the fuss about ACORN, like the association between the President and Bill Ayers, that make it an arm of the Republican party. These stories are simply specious, having no purpose beyond allowing the talking heads to call President Obama a socialist over and over on national TV.
Comment speaking of bullshit (Score 1) 312
Give me a break. The Guardian article you quoted leads with
"Fox News is clearly an arm of the Republican party. Obama is right to throw caution to the wind and treat it as such."
The MSNBC cite isn't even from NBC, it's a wingnut blog!
Comment Re:improbable (Score 1) 319
The first graph is prefaced by "...Here, for instance, is what I get if I run the numbers for all Senate and Presidential polls -- more than 3,000 (!) of them -- in my 2008 database:"
Nate might have been more explicit about the difference in datasets, but I think this indicates that he analyzed similar data from other pollsters.
Comment Macs, malware, and the status quo (Score 1) 306
I've gotten very comfortable with the total lack of malware affecting my Mac, but I am not under the illusion that this will last for ever (in fact, I recall cleaning out a WDEF infection out of System 6 many moons ago). For this reason, I run Firefox with Noscript and Adblock; and my user account is not admin enabled.
Neither of these really cripples the system's usability; blocked content is only ever a few clicks away, and I find I don't miss wasting all the bandwidth. My account privileges chiefly mean that I don't have write access to /Applications, but since 10.4 or thereabouts I am prompted to enter the admin user/pass.
Secure computing and browsing is possible on a Mac, even given Apple's lackadaisical approach to updates, thanks to free software like NoScript. If anything, this is the message here.
Neither of these really cripples the system's usability; blocked content is only ever a few clicks away, and I find I don't miss wasting all the bandwidth. My account privileges chiefly mean that I don't have write access to
Secure computing and browsing is possible on a Mac, even given Apple's lackadaisical approach to updates, thanks to free software like NoScript. If anything, this is the message here.
Comment Re:worry in october, not now (Score 1) 695
Then you haven't seen how it is up north in Octoberish - flu incidence rises sharply.
Comment Sony PS3s used to crack root CA (Score 0) 302
If Sony can't make it go as a game machine, it turns out it works good as a cluster computer, esp. wrt to cracking keys and finding MD5 collisions:
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/12/berlin.html
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/12/berlin.html
Comment Re:Light on details. (Score 3, Insightful) 281
I don't think statutory damages are supposed to be punitive. Punitive damages are something extra that you sue for, in addition to being made whole.
Right. The contention here is that the statutory damages in question, $750 per song, are so large as to be punitive.
Submission + - HTML5 now officially devoid of Ogg Vorbis / Theora (rudd-o.com) 4
Rudd-O writes: "It's official. Ogg technology has been removed from the HTML5 spec, after Ian caved in the face of pressure from Apple and Nokia. Unless massive pressure is exerted on the HTML5 spec editing process, the Web authoring world will continue to endure our modern proprietary Tower of Babel.
Note that HTML5 in no way required Ogg (as denoted by the word "should" instead of "must" in the earlier draft). Adding this to the fact that there are widely available patent-free implementations of Ogg technology, there is really no excuse for Apple and Nokia to say that they couldn't in good faith implement HTML5 as previously formulated."
Note that HTML5 in no way required Ogg (as denoted by the word "should" instead of "must" in the earlier draft). Adding this to the fact that there are widely available patent-free implementations of Ogg technology, there is really no excuse for Apple and Nokia to say that they couldn't in good faith implement HTML5 as previously formulated."
Submission + - Open Network Management Storming the Castle?
austingaijin writes: It seems like another tower of commercial software may be starting to fall: Network Management. Once the purview of companies like IBM/Tivoli, HP, and Computer Associates, a number of Open Source projects like Nagios, ZipTie, OpenNMS, and others seem to be hammering away at the foundations. In past years network management tools in the Open Source realm tended to be command-line tools, homegrown Perl scripts, or point solutions. These new offerings seem to be full featured, are more polished, and are building active communities. Are open source Network Management solutions going be to snuck through the back door and into the Enterprise like Linux was? And why has it taken so long for serious open source Network Management solutions to appear?
Submission + - IBM biggest buy ever: Pays $5 billion for Cognos
Stony Stevenson writes: IBM has snapped up Cognos in an all-cash transaction priced at approximately $5 billion. The acquisition seeks to build on IBM's push into information integration, content and data management and business consulting services, further bolstering its software portfolio. Ottawa-based Cognos provides software for building business reports and performance management dashboards. The buyout, IBM's largest, would also move the company a step closer to reentering the end-user applications business — a market it abandoned years ago save for its Lotus Notes franchise. The acquisition is expected to close in the first quarter of 2008 and is subject to Cognos shareholder approval, regulatory approvals and other customary closing conditions.
Submission + - Military to have Invisible Tanks by 2012 (news.com.au) 1
lewko writes: "New technology that can make tanks invisible has been unveiled by Britain's Ministry of Defence.
In secret trials last week, the army said it had made a vehicle completely disappear and predicted an invisible tank would be ready for service by 2012.
The new technology uses cameras and projectors to beam images of the surrounding landscape onto a tank."
Submission + - In India, click fraud is an occupation (freenetjobs.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Are you in India?
Would you like to earn lots of money by clicking through ads and staying on a page for a minute or two?
Do you have access to an internet connection?
If you answered yes to these questions, you are in luck — Advertisers are waiting for you to come and click through all their ads.
I saw this page and I could only think of one term, click fraud.
Would you like to earn lots of money by clicking through ads and staying on a page for a minute or two?
Do you have access to an internet connection?
If you answered yes to these questions, you are in luck — Advertisers are waiting for you to come and click through all their ads.
I saw this page and I could only think of one term, click fraud.
Homeland Security Funds LED Light That Blinds, Disorients 455
katzmeow writes "Ryand Singel's Wired blog notes that Homeland security has developed an LED flashlight that uses 'powerful flashes of light to temporarily blind, disorient and incapacitate people.' The idea is to use it to incapacitate people — 'arrest them' — on airlines, borders, etc. without using traditional weapons.
The company's president Bob Lieberman says the tool is perfect for confronting 'border jumpers.'
'You don't want to hurt or kill them, just take them into custody,' says Lieberman. 'With this, they don't need to know English to comply.' The 'light saber' can even be scaled up to bazooka size for subduing crowds."
