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Comment Re:Fantastic first impressions (Score 1) 368

by eedwardsjr (#40832901) Attached to: Microsoft Unveils Outlook.com, Hotmail's Successor
Dude most of that is configuration. Mailbox sizes are dictated by your Exchange administrators. Syncing your mainframe password with your Active Directory account has nothing to do with Exchange/Outlook. While you can use it to change your password, you should be doing it through the OS through either Ctrl-Alt-Delete or old school (like me) through the command line.

Comment Re:Fantastic first impressions (Score 1) 368

by eedwardsjr (#40832643) Attached to: Microsoft Unveils Outlook.com, Hotmail's Successor
You can still use the Labels as folders. With Labs you can set them to have a parent/child relationship to look like traditional folders. The Outlook.com looks slick and they are including intergration to several sources. It should be really nice and I'm sure people will love it. It might be a good Grandma/non-techie solution. I am not giving up my gmail though.
Biotech

Submission + - 10,000 Germs and a Few Pounds of Bacteria is Healthy (foxnews.com)

Submitted by eedwardsjr
eedwardsjr writes: From the article "
Now scientists have mapped just which critters normally live in or on us and where, calculating that healthy people can share their bodies with more than 10,000 species of microbes.
They live on your skin, up your nose, in your gut — enough bacteria, fungi and other microbes that collected together could weigh, amazingly, a few pounds."
Some of our little friends have some rather big name names: Lactobacillus crispatus, Streptococcus mitis, Corynebacterium accolens

Comment Misread (Score 0) 118

by eedwardsjr (#39856861) Attached to: Global Broadband Speeds Dropped At the End of 2011
"New Jersey now also dominates the top 5 list of fastest broadband cities" could easily be viewed as "The state New Jersey now also dominates the top 5 list of fastest broadband cities". This does not imply New Jersey's clasification as a city, but moreso that the list is is a classification of cities. The state dominates the list as containing more cities with broadband than other states. Key words: "New Jersey now...dominates...the...list" and "list of...fastest...cities"
Games

Submission + - Star Wars Game's Relationships in Jeopardy (tekgoblin.com)

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tekgoblin
tekgoblin writes: "Bioware is apparently planning to introduce same-sex relationships within The Old Republic Star Wars MMORPG, but Family Research is up in arms over the issue. Family Research is a nonprofit organization based in Washington D.C., and claims itself to be "the leading voice for the family in our nation's halls of power." Family Research has issued a statement condemning Bioware's use of homosexuality in the Star Wars gaming universe.

A representative for Family Research came out to say the following below in a public broadcast:

"In a new Star Wars game, the biggest threat to the empire may be homosexual activists! Hello, I'm Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council in Washington, D.C. In a galaxy not so far far away, Star Wars gamers have already gone to the dark side. The new video game, Star Wars: The Old Republic, has added a special feature: gay relationships. Bioware, the company that developed the game, said it's launching a same-sex romance component to satisfy some complaints. That surprised a lot of gamers, since Bioware had made it clear in 2009 that "gay" and "lesbian" don't exist in the Star Wars universe. Since the announcement, homosexuals have been celebrating the news, but parents sure aren't. On the game's website, there are more than 300 pages of comments–a lot of them expressing anger that their kids will be exposed to this Star Warped way of thinking. You can join them by logging on and speaking up. It's time to show companies who the Force is really with""

Submission + - Judge orders defendant to decrypt laptop (cnn.com)

Submitted by eedwardsjr
eedwardsjr writes: A judge on Monday ordered a Colorado woman to decrypt her laptop computer so prosecutors can use the files against her in a criminal case.

The defendant, accused of bank fraud, had unsuccessfully argued that being forced to do so violates the Fifth Amendment's protection against compelled self-incrimination.

"I conclude that the Fifth Amendment is not implicated by requiring production of the unencrypted contents of the Toshiba Satellite M305 laptop computer," Colorado U.S. District Judge Robert Blackburn ruled Monday
Businesses

Submission + - Malls track shoppers' cell phones on Black Friday (cnn.com) 2

Submitted by
antdude
antdude writes: "CNNMoney report that "... your cell phone may be tracked this year. Starting on Black Friday and running through New Year's Day, two United States/U.S. malls ... will track guests' movements by monitoring the signals from their cell phones.

While the data that's collected is anonymous, it can follow shoppers' paths from store to store.

The goal is for stores to answer questions ...

While U.S. malls have long tracked how crowds move throughout their stores, this is the first time they've used cell phones.

But obtaining that information comes with privacy concerns..."

Seen on Blue's News."
Security

Submission + - Can Rogue Web Browsers Make A Comeback? (net-security.org)

Submitted by Orome1
Orome1 writes: Before the survey scams, there were rogue web browsers. They were very popular in 2006 and 2007, when old-school ad vendors were at their peak. The majority of such browsers are actually skins wrapped another web browser, written in Visual Basic. They were a way to make a lot of cash from affiliate programs and a way to make users install additional malware on their machines. GFI's Christopher Boyd talks about how rogue web browsers changed through the years, the dangers lurking behind them and the likelihood of them making a comeback — this time on mobile platforms.

Submission + - The Light Stuff (bbc.co.uk)

Submitted by ackthpt
ackthpt writes: A team of engineers claims to have created the world's lightest material. Made from a lattice of hollow metallic tubes, the material is less dense than aerogels and metallic foams, yet retains strength due to the small size of the lattice structure. Projected as useful for insullation, batteries electrodes, sound dampening.
Security

Submission + - Brit Police Shut Down 2,000 Fraudulent Sites (itpro.co.uk)

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twoheadedboy
twoheadedboy writes: "The UK's Met Police have shut down over 2,000 fraudulent websites. They were purportedly flogging gear from the biggest names in design, like Nike and Ugg. Yet all consumers got were counterfeit goods, or nothing at all. The PCeU worked in conjunction with registrars like Nominet to find and close the websites, which were generating criminals "millions of pounds," the Met said today. No arrests were made, however."

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