xeno314 - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Citation please (Score 1) 938

by xeno314 on Tuesday December 13, 2011 @04:00PM (#38359732) Attached to: NTSB Recommends Cell Phone Ban For Drivers

I don't know that this is what the GP is referring to, but I see police talking on their cell phones (not their radios) while driving on a regular basis.

OTOH, the rest of your post seems pretty angry in general, so maybe your post isn't really so much about phones and radios....

Submission + - Facebook Worm Spreads, Installs Zeus Bot (threatpost.com)

Submitted by Trailrunner7 on Tuesday November 29, 2011 @10:30AM

Trailrunner7 writes: A new worm has popped up on Facebook, using apparently stolen user credentials to log in to victims' accounts and then send out malicious links to their friends. The worm also downloads and installs a variety of malware on users' machines, including a variant of the Zeus bot.

The worm is making the rounds now, and detection of the malicious file that's being used to drop the malware on victims' machines is quite low. Researchers at CSIS in Denmark analyzed the worm's behavior and found that it appears to be using stolen Facebook credentials to log in to user accounts. It then sends out messages to the victim's Facebook friends with a link that's supposedly to a photo file.

Comment Re:They better stop advertising it as "unlimited". (Score 1) 325

by xeno314 on Monday October 24, 2011 @10:32AM (#37817422) Attached to: Sprint Cutting Unlimited 4G Data Plans

The important thing being that, at the end of the day, you as a consumer still get choked and logjammed...

Comment Re:A warning (Score 1) 301

by xeno314 on Thursday October 13, 2011 @02:02PM (#37704192) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Is Reverse DNS a Worthy Standard For Fighting Spam?

Out of all people, why would a Windows person mind? Hell, Microsoft made the DNS MMC snap-in idiot-proof when it comes to reverse DNS -- it will ask to create the PTRs for you! Perhaps your DNS isn't on Windows, but still...there are plenty of UIs for DNS control that handle reverse DNS automatically.

Comment Re:...and this has to do with /. ... how? (Score 1) 395

by xeno314 on Wednesday October 12, 2011 @02:38PM (#37693604) Attached to: NASA Sues Apollo Astronaut To Return Moon Camera

You could argue that the money NASA is blowing on lawyers to chase after one of the heroes of the Apollo program for selling a camera which was going to be thrown away anyway could be better spent developing new technology.

As those of us in government well know, "that's another department's budget." It's extremely foolish and wasteful, but the money spent prosecuting this guy would have been spent on some equally foolish legal issue if not for this.

Comment Re:"government is not bound by" (Score 1) 395

by xeno314 on Wednesday October 12, 2011 @02:33PM (#37693550) Attached to: NASA Sues Apollo Astronaut To Return Moon Camera

How dare you slander our good and noble corporate overlords!

Comment Re:Those that don't do well should be embarassed (Score 1) 406

by xeno314 on Monday October 10, 2011 @08:56AM (#37661082) Attached to: High School Kills Color-Coded ID Program

Wouldn't want to miss the opportunity to address potential overpopulation issues, so the latter.

Submission + - Trouble in the Tubes for Senator Ted Stevens

Submitted by

MillionthMonkey

on Tuesday May 29, 2007 @02:46PM

MillionthMonkey writes: "Internet star Sen. Ted Stevens (R-AK), has been implicated in scandal: according to the Anchorage Daily News the senator had the first floor of his house lifted off the ground and a new floor put underneath it with the help of a top executive from Veco Corporation, a local oil company. The addition doubled the size of the house (assuming the honorable gentleman from Alaska can still make it up the stairs). The FBI and a grand jury are still investigating- although the Senator's role is still somewhat murky in the scandal, which had previously ensnared his son, Ben Stevens, an Alaskan State Senator. The initial inquiry surfaced last year in August when the younger Stevens' legislative office was raided by the FBI along with five other state-level offices. Four politicians have been charged and Veco executives have already pled guilty- testifying that Ben Stevens received $242,000 in illegitimate consulting fees. Ted has remained clean until now."

Submission + - Why Guitar Tabs Don't Fall Under Fair Use

Submitted by kaliphonia on Tuesday May 29, 2007 @02:38PM

kaliphonia writes: Over the past few years guitar tab sites have been shutting down after receiving cease-and-desist letters asserting they are violating copyright law. MXTabs.net is coming back this summer as the first licensed tab site and has posted a letter from a New York copyright attorney explaining why guitar tabs require licenses to be posted online, and do not fall under "fair use." The full letter is available here. Why Guitar Tabs Don't Fall Under Fair Use"

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