Comment 12 hour factory shifts? (Score 1) 201
12 hour factory shifts are/were common in the U.S. as well, before all the factory jobs got moved overseas.
Comment Books vs Apps (Score 1) 88
How is setting the minimum price of books different than setting the minimum price of apps?
Comment Re:Oh noez, it's teh Google (Score 1) 195
I can assure you I could buy a whole fleet of Google Glass if I wanted to. The class argument is laughable.
Also, unlike you, I've actually tried Google Glass and I can say that the only worthwhile feature was the ability to record video by taping the side of it. The very small display (it's like 8 lines max, maybe 5 words per line) and constant looking up and to the right do not make for a good user experience for any real information, imho.
Comment Re:Oh noez, it's teh Google (Score 0) 195
The barrier is getting fired from your job.
Comment Re:Oh noez, it's teh Google (Score 2, Insightful) 195
So if I walk up to you and point my cell phone camera in your face - No problem? I think you'd get annoyed rather quickly.
Also, let's be honest, the security camera argument is a false argument, since we all know how crappy the footage from security cameras are and that there are more controls over the purpose and use of that footage.
With Glass you may become part of some weirdo's "art project" or have your image stored with Google in perpetuity for them to eventually add to their facial recognition database and who knows what else.
Comment Welcome to the Botnet (Score 5, Insightful) 176
Occam's razor would suggest that she got pwned by a drive-by exploit on some site she visits. In the same way anyone else might. She just happened to be of some level of importance.
Comment Re:Would you hit a man with a shirt button? (Score 2) 74
Ah, but those folks are already on the fringes of society. The "punching" reaction is a form of intimidation in the hopes that this will not become a mainstream activity.
Comment Survey Suggests (Score 2) 186
Survey suggests P2P Users lie through their teeth. Who is going to answer a survey about illicit activity honestly?
Comment Isn't there a fallacy in this? (Score 2) 104
How often do you listen to your friends recommendations right now? How often are they right for you?
You can be friends with a lot of people, and have different tastes in all kinds of things: music, food, movies, doctors, cars, clothing,
Comment PDF eh? (Score 5, Funny) 54
I think everyone is afraid to click on that link.
Comment Re-packaging what is already free (Score 1) 55
I'm sure most of this will come from metasploit, packetstorm, and exploit-db.
Directly selling exploits is shady, no matter what company is backing it.
Comment Oh yeah, that ... (Score 5, Insightful) 434
Until this article, I forgot it was ever announced.
Submission + - The Inventor of Ramen, Momofuku Ando Dead at 96
Walter Wart writes: "The founder of Nissin Foods, Momofuku Ando is dead at the age of 96. He is recognized as the inventor of instant noodles, Staff of Life for geeks and starving students the world over."
Submission + - The birth of vi
lanc writes: "Bill Joy, co-founder of Sun, contributor to BSD Unix, the UltraSparc technology, NFS and even Java, tells the story in an article at TheRegister about how he wrote vi and what the motives were. In the interview he says:
"It was really hard to do because you've got to remember that I was trying to make it usable over a 300 baud modem. That's also the reason you have all these funny commands. It just barely worked to use a screen editor over a modem. It was just barely fast enough. A 1200 baud modem was an upgrade. 1200 baud now is pretty slow."
...and so my son begun The Holy Editor War."
"It was really hard to do because you've got to remember that I was trying to make it usable over a 300 baud modem. That's also the reason you have all these funny commands. It just barely worked to use a screen editor over a modem. It was just barely fast enough. A 1200 baud modem was an upgrade. 1200 baud now is pretty slow."
...and so my son begun The Holy Editor War."
Submission + - Is there room for another blogging platform?
StephanTual writes: "Now that Terapad.com is free and offers 2GB of space, as well as most features usually found in 3rd party packages, will Wordpress and 6apart integrate further features such as shopping cart and image gallery?"
