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Comment Yet another nonsensical response. (Score 5, Insightful) 495

We all know the deal. If I wanted to compromise said cellular network, I could use the current published, freely, and openly available jailbreaking techniques. If they legalize jailbreaking of the phones, it is not going to legalize hacking cellphone towers, so the people that are going to do it are already trying. This is just a another preemptive strike by Apple. They are going to lose credibility, because too much press in a short ammount of time for a company can be just as bad as flying under the wire. I think it is time they slip back into the ether and keep quiet for a few weeks.
PC Games (Games)

Submission + - Comcast and World of Warcraft

getclear writes: "After a few weeks of constant disconnects and spikes in latency, I wanted to do a little more research. Last night's raids saw group disconnects of 14 of the 25 people, simultaneously, multiple times. After conferring with every single person, Comcast was the common factor yet again. That being said, I was curious if there are any other Comcast users experiencing the same thing? Our server alone noticed this, but there is no decent venue to express this to Blizzard as the forums take forever for a representative to get the point. I think Slashdot is a great venue, as there should be a decent sized tech-savy userbase. This may be a repeat of the October 2008 incident with Comcast. So, did anyone else notice random disconnects last night?"

Comment ...And then Time Warner will come... (Score 1) 375

So how long until Timer Warner comes and tries to seek more legislation since they refuse to complete, or will not compete?

I think we are starting to see the little guys starting to move into the limelight, and the big boys will use bureaucracy to manage their inabilities to compete. Maybe a breakthrough will be made. Lets cross our fingers!
Linux

Getting Inked for Tux at OSCON 108

OSCON isn't just a gathering for talks on topics like Creating Location-aware Web 2.0 Applications on an Open Source Geospatial Platform and fightin' words from the stage; it's also an excuse for some interesting social gatherings, like this year's Community Choice awards (organized and sponsored by the corporate overlords at SourceForge, as you might recall, and with Slashdot's own special category), at which, among other festive activities, attendees were offered the chance to get open-source-related tattoos. There are shots of some of these up on the SourceForge Community pages, and — with some overlap — even more in this set at Flickr. (My pasty bicep^h^h^h^h^h shoulder is the one now adorned with a circled head of a happy Tux ala IBM; I was expecting it to hurt more than it actually did.) Anyone with techie tattoos, please disclose below.

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