Comment APOD (Score 1) 496
NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day
Comment Gunships? (Score 1) 118
Did the helium ones remind anyone else of the gunships from HalfLife 2?
Comment Re:not free if you can't jailbreak (Score 3, Insightful) 232
Come on people. Pay the $5. This is the exactly kind of behavior we keep asking for! They're releasing the source and not treating us like we're all thieves. Let's reward them for giving us the benefit of the doubt.
Besides, if you could afford to buy yourself an iPhone or iPod touch, you can likely afford it. (Especially considering what ATT charges for data packages.)
Comment Re:If you don't plead, DOJ only has a 30% rate (Score 1) 693
I'm no statistician, but I found this link interesting:
http://www.ojp.gov/bjs/fed.htm
It looks dated, and given the source our resident tinfoil haberdashers will likely discount it, but I find it interesting that a significant portion of the folks charged aren't necessarily prosecuted. I think that would likely skew the conviction rates that some are citing.
Comment Re:Widening gap in first posts (Score 1) 1563
"Some folks are decrying it because kids won't have any male role models left."
Too bad their fathers can't fill that role...
Submission + - Flash script that repeated pastes link to clpbrd (bbc.co.uk)
Blackdognight writes: The BBC is reporting on the use of an Adobe Flash function to contiuously purge the clipboard and replace all text with a website that if followed will link to a nuciance ad for fake security software. The article claims that it is OS independent but Firefox specific and does not as of yet appear to be common in the wild.
