Comment Re:Wow (Score 1) 234
Not only that, but it allows the wireless NIC to both connect to another WAP as well as act as a WAP (ie, you only need one wireless card, not two).
Comment They are doing you a favor! (Score 1) 803
This isn't crippling. They are doing you a favor by not letting you "upgrade". Whoever thought that upgrading was a good idea should be taken out back and shot.
Comment Re:Reading is FUNdamental! (Score 2, Informative) 424
Except that it is moving with the current. It probably moved 3 miles in the time it took him to go 15.
Comment Re:Not all lost (Score 1) 414
Besides, they'll write it all off as a loss and get a tax credit.
Comment Re:Loses your passwords.. (Score 1) 338
Your passwords are utterly useless to you when they are saved. Pretty sad that you can't remember your passwords.
Comment Re:Call a tow truck (Score 1) 160
No, they just need to get a New Englander (well, one of the ones that knows how to drive) to get it unstuck. We have lots of experience getting stuck in deep snow.
Disable the traction control and rock it back and forth.
Comment Re:Huh. (Score 1) 1297
A bullet to the head is a lot more gruesome than being hanged (namely for the people having to watch). Also, the family of the person being executed might appreciate an intact body.
Comment Re:Ants (Score 4, Funny) 329
I would inform them of your insults, but apparently their site is slashdotted.
Comment Re:Whoosh (Score 1) 858
Exactly what I was about to point out. The cheapest macbook starts at $1000. You can find low-end pc notebooks for under $500.
Comment Re:Now if only the UN... (Score 1) 252
Except they'll probably retain the trademark they have on the name.
Comment Re:What about 6,7 and 8? (Score 1) 87
The question then would be, is 6 vulnerable to this? Or any of the vulnerabilities since it's last patch (early 07 I think). I don't have 6 to test with, but I have to wonder when they say previous versions may be vulnerable.. Sounds like they just want you to upgrade a product that may be working fine (and at a cost of $99 for a standard upgrade copy, multiplied by the number of employees in your corp that may have it.. that's not cheap).
Submission + - AMD Phenom Processor Underwhelming (pcper.com)
SizeWise writes: "The Barcelona core is the first major update to AMD's CPU line up since the introduction of the Athlon 64 back in 2003 and is intended to keep the company going for several more years. While the server-based Barcelona launch was met with lukewarm results, the desktop Phenom processor was just launched and seems to be even more underwhelming. Running at only 2.2 GHz and 2.3 GHz, much lower than the 2.8 GHz anticipated back in June, AMD's new flagship quad-core CPU has trouble keeping up with any Intel quad-core processors and even some dual-core parts. AMD will be cutting pricing to stay competitive but can an already financially unstable corporation keep this up?"
Submission + - Samba's GPLv3 sparks a heated debate in Fedora (fedoraproject.org)
yalsaif writes: "A heated debate is ongoing in fedora-devel mailing list about the implications of including the GPLv3 licensed version of Samba in Fedora 9. The discussion is centered around two topics. First, the effects of Samba's decision on KDE (specifically the licensing implications on the GPLv2 only kdebase and kdebase4). Second, whether Samba should reconsider it's decision to move to GPLv3. While some suggested that SMB support should be dropped temporarily, others suggested a compat-libsmbclient as a temporary replacement to libsmbclient (the SMB library used by kde). Introducing a compatibility package raised some concerns on package maintenance issues. Some argued that a compatibility package would only defer resolving the issue until something critical forces GPLv2 only projects to adopt a GPLv3 compatible license; however, others expressed optimism and argued that a transitional period would ease transition to GPLv3 and would give open source developers more time to make a decision regarding this issue."
Submission + - Linux devicemaker sued in first U.S. test of GPL
An anonymous reader writes: For the first time in the U.S., a company is being taken to court for a GPL violation. The Software Freedom Law Center has sued Monsoon Multimedia over alleged GPL violations in the Hava, a place- and time-shifting TV recorder similar to the SlingBox. Interestingly, Monsoon Multimedia is run by a highly experienced international lawyer named Graham Radstone. According to his corporate biography, Radstone has an MA in Law from the University of Cambridge, England, and held the top legal spot at an unnamed "$1 billion private multinational company." He also reportedly held top management positions with Philip Morris, Pfizer, and DHL. Sounds like the makings of a good old legal donnybrook ahead.
Submission + - First New Dismissal Motion Against RIAA Complaint
NewYorkCountryLawyer writes: "Several weeks ago it was discovered that a California federal judge, in rejecting an RIAA application for default judgment, had dismissed the RIAA's standard complaint for failure to state a claim, calling it "conclusory" "boilerplate" "speculation" in Interscope v. Rodriguez. In the wake of that decision, a Queens, New York, woman being sued in Brooklyn federal court, Rae J Schwartz, has told the Court that she is making a motion to dismiss the complaint in her case, Elektra v. Schwartz. This is the first post-Interscope challenge to the RIAA's boilerplate, of which we are aware. This is the same case in which the RIAA had sent a letter to the Judge falsely indicating that AOL had "confirmed that defendant owned an internet access account through which copyrighted sound recordings were downloaded and distributed". Ms. Schwartz suffers from Multiple Sclerosis, but the RIAA has pressed the case against her."
