Comment Re:That was the article's intent. (Score 1) 426
Thanks for the info, Slashdot. If I can get an adequate salary working from home, I'm outta here.
The point of the article is you don't get a "salary". You also don't get benefits.
Comment Re:Come on! (Score 2) 180
They originally had "Twilight" in the title but had to remove it after receiving a DMCA take down notice from the movie studio that holds the copyright on the Twilight movies.
Comment The Unincorporated Man (Score 3, Insightful) 215
A great read by Dani Kollin and Eytan Kollin about the distant future where everyone is incorporated and the one man who isn't. It might have been helpful if this guy had read that before his IPO.
Comment Re:Three letters.. (Score 1) 1121
I fail to see what Wesley Snipes has to do with this. I'm assuming you are referring to the Cash Money Brothers from New Jack City.
Wait, are you saying Wesley Snipes is God?
Comment MIT is doing it wrong (Score 1) 382
The time to reflect on their actions was before their actions contributed to the "death of this promising young man". Now they're just trying to save face.
Comment Get rid of the phone but keep the number (Score 1) 445
We use Lync as a phone system at my company. I have both a wireless headset for use at my desk and a USB for when I'm traveling. My phone number follows me wherever I go. Anybody can call the number and it rings wherever I'm signed in.
Comment XP is almost 4 times older than a 3 year old... (Score 1) 537
...and I've been using it that long. No kidding it might take me longer to adapt than a 3 year old. I've been using vi for decades too. Does that mean I'm not that bright if it takes a little longer for me to get used to emacs than someone who's brand new. The premise of this argument is more than flawed. It's asinine.
Submission + - Mozilla yanks Firefox 16 one day after release (computerworld.com)
wompa writes: Critical vulnerability overlooked or introduced by previous patching; fix due Thursday
"Mozilla is aware of a security vulnerability in the current release version of Firefox (version 16). Firefox version 15 is unaffected," said Michael Coates, Mozilla's director of security assurance
"Mozilla is aware of a security vulnerability in the current release version of Firefox (version 16). Firefox version 15 is unaffected," said Michael Coates, Mozilla's director of security assurance
Comment Soft Apocalypse (Score 1) 1365
by Will McIntosh. The slow death of society. Some staggeringly depressing reading at times. Great story though.
Comment Not very surprising results (Score 2) 211
As the article mentions, IE6 is still used by millions of users. Website designers still try to retrofit at least some of their functionality to work w/ this ancient scourge. You don't hear anybody trying to make sure their website will work with Netscape.
Comment Re:I wonder what are housing prices like in NH... (Score 1) 416
You're describing instant runoff voting: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant-runoff_voting
This is a great way to allow you to vote for third party candidates without "throwing your vote away". If we had used IRV in the 2000 elections Gore would have won by a mile as most of the Greens would have ranked Nader first and Gore second.
Submission + - McAfee Reporting false positives with latest DAT (mcafee.com)
wompa writes: From the KB entry: McAfee is aware of a w32/wecorl.a false positive with the 5958 DAT file that was released on April 21, 2010. Blue screen or DCOM error, followed by shutdown messages after updating to the 5958 DAT on April 21, 2010.
HTTPS Cookie Hijacking Not Just For Gmail 128
mikepery writes with a followup to last month's mention of a security vulnerability affecting Gmail accounts, which it seems understated the problem.
"I figure the Slashdot readership is the best place to reach a large number of
slacking admins and developers, so I want to announce that it's been 30 days
since my DEFCON presentation on HTTPS
cookie hijacking, and as such, it's now time to release the tool to a much
wider group. Despite what was initially
reported, neither the attack nor the tool
are gmail-specific, and many
other websites are vulnerable. So, if you maintain any sort of reasonable
looking website secured by
any SSL certificate (Sorry Rupert, you lose on both counts), even if it is just self-signed, you can contact me and I will provide you with a copy of the tool. Be sure to put 'CookieMonster' in the subject, without a space." (More below.)
The Copyright Crusade a Lost Cause? 253
A. Smith writes "Ars Technica is exploring the relationship between property rights and copyright, arguing that copyright holders are making a mistake by stressing similarities between property rights and copyright. They compare P2P users to 18th-century squatters in North America: 'Like squatters of old, many ordinary users find copyright law bewildering and are frustrated by the arbitrary restrictions it imposes. Customers wanting to rip their DVD collections to their computers, download music they can play on any device, or incorporate copyrighted works into original creative works find that there is no straightforward, legal way to do these things.' They conclude by offering that more reasonable, understandable copyright restrictions would result in a user base friendlier to publisher interests."
Comment Skype did not blame Microsoft (Score 5, Informative) 286
I am not a MS fanboy but it needs to be pointed out that Skype blamed a flaw in their self-healing algorithm that was highlighted by patch Tuesday. They took responsibility.
