Comment Re:my life sucks (Score 1) 488
Not in Haiku form? srsly?
my life is a sham
two day wait makes my wrists itch
please pass me a knife
Is Bill Gates the Cure For What Ails Microsoft? 337
theodp writes "After reading the recent call for Steve Ballmer to step down, gdgt's Ryan Block concludes that it's time for Bill Gates to come back to Microsoft. 'I've long seen it as a foregone conclusion that Ballmer isn't the guy to be running what was until quite recently the world's preeminent technology company,' writes Block. 'The more pressing question is: who should replace him? I think we all know damn well who — but I'm not so sure he's available. Yet.' Block adds: 'I'm not saying Bill's going to leave his new gig as the world's greatest living philanthropist with aplomb, but the multi-billion dollar wheels at The Gates Foundation have been set in motion — and lest we all forget, the Foundation's endowment is tied directly to Microsoft's long-term success. It may just happen that Bill can help the Foundation more by securing Microsoft's future.'"
Comment Re:Just asking (Score 4, Informative) 93
It is MIT Kerberos, so yes. This came out last week.
http://web.mit.edu/Kerberos/advisories/MITKRB5-SA-2011-002.txt
Microsoft Seeks Do-Let-The-Bed-Bugs-Bite Patent 176
theodp writes "In its just-published patent application for Adapting Parasites to Combat Disease, Microsoft lays out plans to unleash 'altered parasitic organisms' on humans, including mosquitoes, fleas, ticks, bed bugs, leeches, pinworms, tapeworms, hookworms, heart worms, roundworms, lice (head, body, and pubic), and the like. 'Irradiated mosquitoes can be used to deliver damaged Plasmodium to individuals,' explains Microsoft. 'Instead of contracting malaria, an individual receiving the damaged Plasmodium develops an immune response that renders the individual resistant to contracting malaria.' Don't worry about runaway breeding, advises Microsoft — 'a termination feature [that] can include programmed death' makes this impossible. As David Spade might say, I liked this movie the first time I saw it — when it was called Jurassic Park."
Apple Support Company Sues Customer For Complaint 292
tekgoblin writes "An Apple authorized Service Provider called System Graph is suing a customer who complained online about poor service from them. The customer Dimitrios Papadimitriadis took his iMac to them because he was seeing gray spots on his LED panel. The Greek company System Graph recommended a full interior cleaning of the iMac and performed the service for Dimitrios. He then got his iMac back and noticed moisture behind the screen and that it still did not work properly and took it back to the repair center. System Graph then told him that they needed to keep his iMac to replace the LED screen and he would be without it for another week.
Comment you have all been trolled by this bill (Score 1) 794
Shame on you, you think that internets people would know better.
Comment Re:Alternative way in (Score 1) 177
Except for the fact that they revamped their website for about 4 million dollars. So to get 35 paid subscribers from that web redesign and have their traffic fall from 2.2m to 1.5m (per month)
Comment Re:Ginko has a different effect on me (Score 2, Funny) 403
in fact, forget the motivation
Comment Re:Father Tim Jones of England (Score 1) 86
Agreed, although Jonathan Swift was Irish. I'm American, so close enough as far as I am concerned.
Comment freeloader's debt (Score 2, Informative) 802
So if the defendant is trying to get back pay, then aren't they just going to pull the "freeloader's debt" thing, and sue him for unpaid auditing?
Comment Re:I don't think I get it... (Score 2, Interesting) 549
I think they are trying to separate themselves to state that if you want the news, come to us and do it properly.
Riiighhht. When I want news done properly, I'll PAY FoxNews to do it properly. Just think about that for a second. The only reason anyone should be remotely concerned about this is because he now controls the WSJ.
Have you ever searched for some information, and Google gave a hit where the surrounding text of the query already answers your question? And then not clicked the website?
No, not for news. Try searching for "2009 election results" or "apple earnings 2009" and see if you can make sense of it (although "who beat rihanna" actually kind of worked). Nobody can use that crap. Even Google News doesn't provide usable news in their largest digest. FoxNews.com charging would be fun to watch, glad to see them go first.
Comment Re:Nice job... (Score 1) 145
The worst thing is, I think that I may remember that number for the rest of my life. What a waste of space.
And if you didn't get the joke,
Comment Re:So? Just download it? (Score 1) 541
WOOSH
Comment Re:Security through obscurity works. (Score 1) 225
It is trivial to write a script (on Windows or Unix) to simply attack the default gateway. Hopefully, that is what they do as opposed to using the default configuration, but maybe they aren't so cl3v4r.
Huge Unidentified Organic Blob Floating Around Alaska
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Z80xxc! writes "The Anchorage Daily News reports that a 15 mile-long blob of unknown, 'gooey,' probably organic material is floating past communities on Alaska's North Slope. The US Coast Guard sent pollution experts to investigate, who determined that it was not an oil spill or other type of pollution, but were unable to determine what it is. A sample is currently being analyzed by experts in Anchorage, while the blob is following the current northwards."
