Comment Another duplicate article (Score 1) 229
Another duplicate article:
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/08/07/0847201/Comcast-Launching-995-Low-Income-Broadband-Plan
Comment Uhhh (Score 5, Insightful) 543
This article is from 2009. Why is this now hitting the front page?
Comment "The last deuce ever dropped (Score 1) 108
on the shuttle Atlantis".
I sense this being a future article that will appear on Slashdot in the next few days!
I sense this being a future article that will appear on Slashdot in the next few days!
Submission + - 1.8M websites to disappear. (geocities.com) 1
FAT-BOY88 writes: "The following has appeared on geocities.com home page.
"After careful consideration, Yahoo! has decided to close GeoCities later this year. You can continue enjoying your GeoCities service until then — we just wanted you to let you know about the closure as soon as possible. We'll share more details this summer. For now, please visit the help center for more information."
No new accounts are accepted. Geocities has about 1.8 million users. It usually ranks between 100-110 on traffic. There are over 20,000,000 links to it according to several search engines."
"After careful consideration, Yahoo! has decided to close GeoCities later this year. You can continue enjoying your GeoCities service until then — we just wanted you to let you know about the closure as soon as possible. We'll share more details this summer. For now, please visit the help center for more information."
No new accounts are accepted. Geocities has about 1.8 million users. It usually ranks between 100-110 on traffic. There are over 20,000,000 links to it according to several search engines."
Submission + - iPhone Contains Secret Keylogger (tuaw.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Not quite a keylogger, but still disturbing. It's been discovered that a file on the iPhone automatically stores new words that are typed on the phone for its auto correction feature. So far, so good, but unfortunately it also appears to store passwords in plain text within the file. With all the methods of accessing the iPhone filesystem, this is bad news for people who lose their iPhones or sell them without a full wipe.
Submission + - Black Monday: Twenty Years Ago Today (wikipedia.org)
The Living Fractal writes: "On October 19th, 1987, the world stock markets endured a drop so large that it would eventually be known as Black Monday. Today is not Monday, though there is certainly a similarity between what happened today in the US stock markets and what happened on the Friday before Black Monday back in 1987. Can we expect that the same thing that happened twenty years ago happens again at the open of the markets on Monday? What are the causes of this potential recession, and what, if any, is the light at the end of the tunnel?"
Submission + - Use a surge protector, Void your PS3 Warranty
Direwolf20 writes: A friend of mine called Sony Customer Support when his 4 month old Playstation 3 bricked one night (while sitting idle). Customer support tried to tell him that it probably got hit by an electrical surge. When he told the CSR that the PS3 was connected to a surge protector, the CSR informed him that connecting his PS3 to a surge protector voids the warranty, and therefore he'll have to shell out $150 to get it fixed.
Submission + - Japanese Wikipedia 'editors' rapped by employer (scotsman.com) 1
sufijazz writes: "JAPAN'S agriculture ministry has reprimanded six bureaucrats for shirking their duties after an internal inquiry found that they had spent many work hours contributing to the Wiki-pedia website — including 260 entries about cartoon robots.
The ministry verbally reprimanded each of the six officials, and slapped a ministry-wide order to prohibit access to Wikipedia at work, while disabling access to the site from the ministry."
The ministry verbally reprimanded each of the six officials, and slapped a ministry-wide order to prohibit access to Wikipedia at work, while disabling access to the site from the ministry."
Submission + - MediaDefender gets source code cracked!
Submission + - Coop Discourages Notetaking in Bookstore (thecrimson.com) 1
mikesd81 writes: "The Harvard Crimson reports that the Harvard Coop asked Jarret A. Zafran to leave the Coop after writing down the prices of six books required for a junior Social Studies tutorial he hopes to take. The apparent new policy could be a response to efforts by Crimsonreading.org — an online database that allows students to find the books they need for each course at discounted prices from several online booksellers — from writing down the ISBN identification numbers for books at the Coop and then using that information for their Web site. The coop claims the prices are their intellectual property. Crimson Reading disagrees. "We don't think the Coop owns copyright on this information that should be available to students," said Tom D. Hadfield, co-creator of the site. According to UC President Ryan A. Petersen, discussions with an intellectual property lawyer have confirmed Crimson Reading's position."
Submission + - Order a burger at McDonalds using your cell phone
Matt writes: "McDonald's and SK Telecom Korea showed a new ordering system using mobile phones and infra-red sensors which let customers make orders from their table and sends them a phone message when the meal is ready. The "Touch Order" menu is the first in the world to utilize the radio-frequency identification (RFID) technology in a self-ordering system at a restaurant."
Submission + - 700mb of Media Defender e-mails leaked (torrentfreak.com)
Lonin writes: "It appears Media Defender, the company behind the supposed honeypot trap video sharing website MiiVi.com, and friend to the MPAA, is going to have a very bad week.
Some 700mb of e-mails, some as recent as September '07, were leaked onto the net and are being uploaded to various torrent sites as we speak. The e-mails have only been skimmed so far, but it appears to show the inner workings of a company dedicated to lying and entrapping people in the name of copyright.
This should be interesting."
Submission + - 700MB of MediaDefender internal emails leaked (torrentfreak.com) 2
qubezz writes: The company MediaDefender which works with the RIAA and MPAA against piracy (setting up fake torrents and trackers and disrupting p2p) had earlier set up a fake internet video download site designed to catch and bust users. They denied the entrapment charges. Now 700MB of internal emails from the company from the last 6 months leaked onto BitTorrent trackers detail their entire plan, how they intended to distance themselves from the fake company they set up, future strategies, and reveal other company information such as logins and passwords, wage negotiations, and numerous other aspect of their internal business! torrentfreak.com details some of the jems!
Submission + - New cellphone bill will clarify contracts (senate.gov)
theorem4 writes: From
TFA:
"Washington, D.C. — Senators Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) and Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) today unveiled legislation aimed at empowering the 200 million cell phone customers nationwide to make informed choices about a wireless service that best fits their needs and their budget.
The Cell Phone Consumer Empowerment Act of 2007 will require wireless service providers to share simple, clear information on their services and charges with customers before they enter into long-term contracts; a thirty-day window in which to exit a contract without early termination fees; and greater flexibility to exit contracts with services that don't meet their needs."
It goes on to explain that the bill will tell the FCC to inquire about the practice of "locking" phones.
Submission + - Charter Claims Big SMTP Outage Due to Microsoft
Pissed Off Charter Communications Customer writes: People I know who use Charter Communications in the upper Midwest have been unable to send email from their home clients (Outlook, Thunderbird, Eudora, etc.) since Saturday. All get a "connection refused" message from Charter's mail server. When pressed by irate customers on day 4 of this ridiculous outage, a Charter supervisor blamed "incompatible Microsoft software" and said that it could be "a month" before any service might be restored.
I didn't want to sign up for Charter in the first place out here in the hinterlands (AT&T seemed to be the only other choice), but I'm thinking they're going to lose a few thousand customers just like me this month.
I can't help but wonder if this is related to Charter's recent company-wide roll-out of Vista. This "Vista Bug Costs Users In Swedish Town Their Internet" article may also be related:
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/09/02/122320 9
Sorry — no official URL; I haven't gotten anyone at Charter to put the "we blame Microsoft" bit in writing yet and they sure haven't told anyone who doesn't pry about the massive and sustained outage.
I didn't want to sign up for Charter in the first place out here in the hinterlands (AT&T seemed to be the only other choice), but I'm thinking they're going to lose a few thousand customers just like me this month.
I can't help but wonder if this is related to Charter's recent company-wide roll-out of Vista. This "Vista Bug Costs Users In Swedish Town Their Internet" article may also be related:
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/09/02/12232
Sorry — no official URL; I haven't gotten anyone at Charter to put the "we blame Microsoft" bit in writing yet and they sure haven't told anyone who doesn't pry about the massive and sustained outage.
