Comment Re:Missing option (Score 1) 618
...and, of course, Tim Allen easily simulated Shatner's Kirk. No way could he have pulled off Stewart's Picard.
He'd have had an easier time pulling off Mulgrew's Janeway than Picard, for that matter...
Comment 19 VirtualBoy Games... (Score 1) 149
...in other words, all of them. Wow.
Comment Lasers! (Score 1) 202
Lasers! Lasers! Lasers!
A nuclear drone really should have laser cannons.
Pew! Pew! Pew!
(Sorry, couldn't resist)
Submission + - Websites can detect what Chrome extensions you've installed (kotowicz.net)
dsinc writes: A Polish security researcher, Krzysztof Kotowicz makes an worrisome entry in his blog: with a few lines of Javascript, any web site could list the extensions installed in Chrome (and the other browsers of the Chromium family).
Proof of concept is provided here: http://koto.github.com/blog-kotowicz-net-examples/chrome-addons/enumerate.html
As there are addons which deal with very personal things like pregnancy or religion, the easiness of access to those very private elements of your life is really troubling.
Proof of concept is provided here: http://koto.github.com/blog-kotowicz-net-examples/chrome-addons/enumerate.html
As there are addons which deal with very personal things like pregnancy or religion, the easiness of access to those very private elements of your life is really troubling.
Comment Marie Callender's (Score 1) 196
Chicken Pot Pie or Shepherd's Pie
Salad
Slice of Pie (Your Choice)
$11 in the bay area.
Went there for lunch today
Comment Re:Virgin Mobile & other pre-paid vendors (Score 1) 134
Second. I have VM service on my LG Optimus V that I occasionally use as a hotspot with my Linux laptop no problems. It's not teh awesum bandwidth, but it's usable.
Sprint's network (which VM piggybacks on in the US) is pretty good in the bay area and they're not nearly as price-gougy as VZW or AT&T.
$130 for the mifi, $50 for "unlimited" data (throttled after 2.5G) for a month. Resell the device on eBay if you want when you're done. VZW is at least 2x for the device...
Comment Re:cue the forbidden stuff (Score 3, Insightful) 343
...and the one that gets you busted is the Mickey Mouse ears.
5 years for pirating a Michael Jackson CD
4 years for killing Michael Jackson
Seriously
Comment Re:But wait. (Score 1) 137
The guy who staged out the Bible in Legos would have had an easier time of it for sure:
He clearly needed to hax0r a bunch of Legos to tell many of the stories...
Comment From a Silicon Valley Hiring Manager... (Score 1) 435
If you're in Silicon Valley (or planning to move here), I'd love to chat with you.
bj #at# wjblack.com
Comment Re:Reflections (Score 4, Insightful) 960
+1 +1 +1, for the love of God, +1
Disk space is cheap (modulo the current supply problems); disk management is expensive. RAID, index time, backups all conspire to make that $100 Fry's special cost 10x as much in reality.
Comment Almost Useful... (Score 1) 350
...though "ability to see into the UV part of the spectrum" is not quite as useful as "ability to smell into the future" (my personal fave).
Comment Good for the Target Demo of ~2 People (Score 1) 409
For everyone else, it's:
1. Get on coaster.
2. Break a hip/rib; dislocate a shoulder on turn 1.
3. Be in horrible, horrible pain until passing out from pain and/or dying from acceleration.
Awesome. I wouldn't even call this a nice thought experiment--it's just stupid.
Comment Fresh Pumpkin FTW (Score 1) 312
Dang it. Now I want to bake a pie.
Mmm. Pie.
Comment Booting from CD/USB (Score 1) 622
Actually, getting a relative newbie to get BIOS to boot from something other than a hard disk is way worse than learning a VM environment IMO. I'm all for the VM idea, whether VMware Player or VirtualBox. VirtualBox can import OVFs, too, so it's fairly easy to get just about anything that has been made as a virtual appliance to work.
In Australia, Censorship vs. DNS, and Porn As Network Driver 96
daria42 writes "Remember how Australia's planning to censor its Internet? Well, it looks as though the country's second-largest ISP, Optus, has made a stumble right out of the gate. Optus today confirmed you could circumvent its filtering technology simply by setting your PC to use a different DNS server than the default. Yup, it's really that easy. Oops."
And why would anyone want to change their DNS settings? angry tapir writes "While the Australian Government has extolled the virtues of its currently under construction National Broadband Network (NBN) in delivering e-health and government agency services to every Australian, adult content will be the major driver of consumer adoption."
