Comment The IT Dept should be able to choose its uniforms (Score 3, Funny) 837
Original Series, NextGen, DSN or Voyager.
Seems reasonable to me.
Comment Re:Terrible article (Score 1) 447
Blame the lawyers who specialize in patents, trademarks and copyrights. Ever since they invented the term "Intellectual Property" folks have become increasingly confused. This has benefited "IP" lawyers and those rights holders who try to overreach by playing on the public's confusion.
Comment Which UN policy did the poster contravene? (Score 4, Interesting) 409
That's not made clear in the article.
Also, it was very odd the way everyone stood around the poster on the floor, not touching it or picking it up, as though it were a diseased, dead body which no one was willing to touch. So they called the police to come an take it away.
Why didn't the folks promoting the book just stand it up again, I wonder?
Also, it was very odd the way everyone stood around the poster on the floor, not touching it or picking it up, as though it were a diseased, dead body which no one was willing to touch. So they called the police to come an take it away.
Why didn't the folks promoting the book just stand it up again, I wonder?
Comment Re:Use the master password feature and stop worryi (Score 1) 1007
There's also an add-on called Master Password Timeout. You set a period of time after which it will again ask for your master password when you log in somewhere. The security feature here is that if you get a password prompt without expecting it, you'll know that there's some background code on the page poking into places it shouldn't be.
It is also good in a workplace if you happen to leave your browser open while away from your desk. Keeps co-workers from checking your webmail, or bidding for you on ebay.
I usually set mine for 15 minutes. You can set it to a really short period if your particularly paranoid.
Submission + - Element 114 Verified (physicstoday.org)
ExRex writes: "A team at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has confirmed the results of researchers at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in Dubna, Russia, who first reported producing the superheavy element 114 in 1999. Such independent verification is important, particularly given evidence of fabricated results for other superheavy elements.
If you're a subscriber to Physical Review Letters you can download the full article."
If you're a subscriber to Physical Review Letters you can download the full article."
Comment Re:Needs a new name (Score 1) 344
Much closer to tenugui, those nice little towels the Japanese use for all sorts of applications. Me, I always know where my towel is.
Comment Old SF Fan saying... (Score 2, Insightful) 809
What's the difference between fans and trekkies?
Fans read.
Comment A blow struck for Toons everywhere! (Score 1) 413
It's about time someone broke through the acetate ceiling. Now, if Disney would just let them profile Jessica Rabbit.
Comment Re:Drunk meaning...? (Score 1) 9
Judging from this guy's history, I suspect he'll give himself away. Of course, if he starts to verbally abuse people and piss on shop windows when he's sober he may be able to confuse the issue.
Hmm, maybe he'll have more fun pissing about when sober than he did when drunk. He might stop drinking entirely. Though, it does help to refill the reservoir.
Comment California impersonation laws (Score 1) 339
Some excerpts:
CALIFORNIA CODES
PENAL CODE
SECTION 528-539
529. Every person who falsely personates another in either his private or official capacity, and in such assumed character either:
1. (stuff about marriage)
2. Verifies, publishes, acknowledges, or proves, in the name of another person, any written instrument, with intent that the same may
be recorded, delivered, or used as true; or,
3. Does any other act whereby, if done by the person falsely personated, he might, in any event, become liable to any suit or
prosecution, or to pay any sum of money, or to incur any charge, forfeiture, or penalty, or whereby any benefit might accrue to the
party personating, or to any other person;
Is punishable by a fine not exceeding ten thousand dollars ($10,000), or by imprisonment in the state prison, or in a county jail not exceeding one year, or by both such fine and imprisonment.
538a. Every person who signs any letter addressed to a newspaper with the name of a person other than himself and sends such letter to the newspaper, or causes it to be sent to such newspaper, with intent to lead the newspaper to believe that such letter was written by the person whose name is signed thereto, is guilty of a misdemeanor.
Once the principal has been convicted in court for criminal impersonation the family will have an excellent chance of recouping something.
Of course, they should probably move for a change of venue.
Comment Re:Bunch of Wank (Score 1) 339
Sliced! That's not the default for bread. That's an option.
Comment Re:Maybe keep the landline? (Score 4, Interesting) 635
When the blackouts come only the landlines keep working. When the cell tower batteries run down, after 4 hours or so, there goes your phone.
Here in NYC we get a major blackout every decade or so, even if the larger region does not, so I always keep a landline at the cheapest rate.
Redundancy isn't just for hard drives.
Why IT Won't Power Down PCs 576
snydeq writes "Internal politics and poor leadership on sustainable IT strategies are among the top reasons preventing organizations from practicing proper PC power management — to the tune of $2.8 billion wasted per year powering unused PCs. According to a recent survey, 42 percent of IT shops do not manage PC energy consumption simply because no one in the organization has been made responsible for doing so — this despite greater awareness of IT power-saving myths, and PC power myths in particular. Worse, 22 percent of IT admins surveyed said that savings from PC power management 'flow to another department's budget.' In other words, resources spent by IT vs. the permanent energy crisis appear to result in little payback for IT."
Comment Industrial Espionage (Score 4, Informative) 132
Unfortunately, while such activities fall under the Economic Espionage Act of 1996, according to our friends at Wikipedia:
"The Act authorizes civil proceedings by the Department of Justice to enjoin violations of the Act, but does not create a private cause of action. Thus, victims or putative victims must work with the U.S. Attorney in order to obtain an injunction."
And we all know how eager the DOJ is to chastise the MPAA.
Comment Big Surprise (Score 1) 222
This is a nation in which it was illegal to sell condoms until 1978.
