Comment Lies! (Score 5, Funny) 165
Angry Birds will be running the country.
Comment In this context (Score 1) 229
I find it slightly creepy that the term 'Permanent Employment' is being used.
Comment Dat name (Score -1, Troll) 76
Because your online persona is always more important than real life security!
Comment I wonder... (Score 1) 938
Who decided not to pay off the NTSB?
Comment Re:Que the fandroids... (Score 0) 74
U jelly?
Comment 3d (Score 1) 132
FTA: "Don't just add depth for the sake of it." Bad dum tsss!
Comment Re:Microsoft-Novell Exorcist Moment is Coming! (Score 0) 348
In the grand scheme of things Microsoft simply doesn't offer a product that truly competes with GNU/Linux. They bank on implementing proprietary methods and protocols to do things that people have already been doing. If it's put in a nice package and accompanied by some sort of guarantee that it will work (relying largely on clout) out of the box on a level where you don't need actual programmers or systems analysts to make it work, the execs will approve the purchase. Unfortunately what turns out to be a FUD over Functionality sales model ends up making sales.
The SCO vs. IBM debacle was merely an experiment (also in part funded by Microsoft) to see what one could get away with by exploiting a flawed patent system. Why should a company pay indemnity fees (extortion, protection money) to use technology that doesn't contain anything that actually belongs to Microsoft? This is IMPLIED risk if you don't pay up. The stigma and FUD benefits only the ones who continue to push it and in turn impedes technological development through fear and exploitation. In the end the lawyers win, the sharks win, and progress is stifled.
If you want to theorize on a tail wags the dog theory, just look at the multitude of work that is being contributed to the open source community by Google and Microsoft alike. Are they using Monsanto's 'Roundup Ready' business model to poison the genome of their rivals? I'm just going to shut up and put my tinfoil hat back on now.
Submission + - Road kill "toad jerky" is highly toxic (sciencemag.org) 1
sciencehabit writes: In their relentless invasion of Australia, poisonous cane toads often hop along roads, where their flattened, desiccated husks are a familiar sight during the long dry season. Nobody gave much thought to the fate of the little mummies' toxic compounds—months baking in the sun should render them harmless, researchers assumed. Not so, according to a new study, which shows that, like murderous ghouls, road kill cane toads can haunt the wilderness long after death.
Comment Meh (Score 5, Insightful) 123
GeoHot != Criminal
The Lesson of Recent Hacktivism 159
itwbennett writes "LulzSec says they're retired, which may or may not be true. But one thing the world has learned from their 'frightening yet funny escapades is that 'the state of online security stinks,' writes blogger Tom Henderson. LulzSec (and Anonymous) have 'demonstrated that an awful lot of people are either asleep at the switch or believed in arcane security methods like security through obscurity.'"
A related story at the Guardian suggests that governmental attempts to control the internet are spurring these activities.
Comment Re:Yawn, says OSX. (Score 5, Funny) 510
You must live in a VERY small basement.
Comment Re:Think Twice? (Score 2) 218
You won't mind me remotely exploiting your systems and downloading personal files from your devices then would you? I mean, no biggie if you're not doing anything wrong. Right?
Comment su (Score 1) 153
su-su-sudIO!
Steve Ballmer's Head On the Block? 410
mix77 writes "Influential hedge fund manager David Einhorn has called for Microsoft Corp Chief Executive Steve Ballmer to step down, saying the world's largest software company's long-time leader is stuck in the past."
French Hacker Arrested After Bragging On TV 134
Orome1 writes "A French hacker has effectually tied a noose around his own neck when he bragged about hacking into the systems of a big government contractor on national TV. He participated in a television program called Further investigation, and he said — and demonstrated — that he has gained access to computers belonging to the French Army and Thales Group, a French company that provides information systems and services for the aerospace, defense, and security markets. He was arrested 6 days after the program was aired. The police discovered on his computer a great number of compromised credit card and bank account data."
