Comment Another fine investment decision... (Score 4, Insightful) 125
Are Twitter at any point going to get a revenue stream?
Submission + - \Windows 7 reintroduces remote BSoD (seclists.org) 8
David Gerard writes: "Remember the good old days of the 1990s, when you could teardrop attack any Windows user who'd annoyed you and bluescreen them? Microsoft reintroduces this popular feature in Windows 7, courtesy the rewritten TCP/IP and SMB2 stacks. Well done, guys! Another one for the Windows 7 Drinking Game."
Comment Re:It's the carriers, not the technology (Score 1) 113
If you've got the kind of issues described in the article summary, your carriers stink.
Yes, they do. Why do the carriers in
The UK has always had ridiculously high bandwidth prices and ridiculously low traffic caps, on all Internet services - I've hosted numerous UK-specific websites on US servers over the last ten years, purely for cost reasons.
Comment Traffic caps are a problem... (Score 1) 113
My girlfriend has mobile broadband through Vodafone because BT couldn't figure out how to install a line in her property (which didn't stop an engineer claiming he'd done it, and them billing her for most of a year before it all got sorted out - but I digress).
I've been surprised at how good the speed and stability of her connection is, but the traffic cap is crippling. She's a fairly heavy 'net user (she's a freelance web designer, so has to upload new sites and drafts for her clients to see), but she's not a filesharer, and she runs up against her 5GB cap most months. Going over it gets very expensive very quickly.
The worst thing about the cap is that it discourages her from downloading updates for her OS and software... meaning that she's probably more open to virus/worm infections.
Submission + - Ecommerce with Catalyst - a post-project analysis
Denny writes: "Perl is Alive has published a 'six months later' analysis of a Perl ecommerce project which used the popular Catalyst framework at its core. It's a well-written look at how, by choosing various components from CPAN, you can build up a complex custom-tailored system without having to write everything end-to-end yourself. The author concludes that they would "undoubtedly" make the same technology decisions again, given the success of this project, and the quality of 'modern' Perl libraries and frameworks which are now available from CPAN."
Submission + - The tech of Star Trek: here today, or on its way (technologizer.com)
Harry writes: "J.J. Abrams' Star Trek movie is only a month away, and while it may be a promising reimagining of the the Trek universe, there are plenty of ways in which the old Trek universe is reminiscent of our own 21st century. Abrams' film is the eleventh Star Trek movie, so we've compiled a look at eleven technologies from Star Trek that foreshadowed stuff that's actually happening today."
Submission + - Finnish E-voting Results Invalidated
An anonymous reader writes: Finland's Supreme Administrative Court has ordered new elections to be held in the municipalities of Kauniainen, Karkkila and Vihti, due to a failed e-voting trial that resulted in a 2% loss of votes. The election and a previous court decision to accept the results have been discussed on Slashdot before.
Submission + - Worst privacy invasion in the world, by the UK (telegraph.co.uk) 1
Anonymous Coward writes: "A European Union directive, which Britain was instrumental in devising, comes into force which will require all internet service providers to retain information on email traffic, visits to web sites and telephone calls made over the internet, for 12 months.
Police and the security services will be able to access the information to combat crime and terrorism.
Hundreds of public bodies and quangos, including local councils, will also be able to access the data to investigate flytipping and other less serious crimes.
It was previously thought that only the large companies would be required to take part, covering 95 per cent of Britain's internet usage, but a Home Office spokesman has confirmed it will be applied "across the board" to even the smallest company."
Police and the security services will be able to access the information to combat crime and terrorism.
Hundreds of public bodies and quangos, including local councils, will also be able to access the data to investigate flytipping and other less serious crimes.
It was previously thought that only the large companies would be required to take part, covering 95 per cent of Britain's internet usage, but a Home Office spokesman has confirmed it will be applied "across the board" to even the smallest company."
Comment Their patent policy is worth reading... (Score 3, Informative) 191
Comment Speaking of prior art... (Score 1) 191
Bricolage had a command-line SOAP utility in 2002:
http://viewsvn.bricolage.cc/bricolage/trunk/bin/bric_soap?view=log
Comment Re:Apple (Score 1) 264
This is
Submission + - Screenshot for Cisco post (they've fixed the site)
Comment Re:Google myself? (Score 1) 388
Winnar :)
Submission + - No T for Cisco (cisco.com)
Denny writes: "Actually that's not entirely accurate — they have the odd 'T' here and there, but no 't'. I assume this is a fairly surreal case of being 0wn3d, given their earlier downtime, although it could be a weird publicity gimmick. Amusingly, Cisco are already in the news today for releasing info on various security vulnerabilities... I wonder if they applied their own patches?"
