Comment Re:Refreshing (Score 3, Informative) 133
referer
Comment Re:Analogy (Score 1) 107
Sure thing.
It would be like somebody selling Softlanding Linux System floppies.
Comment Re:How? (Score 2) 128
They won't send such a notice unless they're told to by a court (or the lawsuit vs. recall formula).
Comment How? (Score 1) 128
How would a manufacturer force people to upgrade the unlock mechanism in the cars?
Comment Why? (Score 4, Insightful) 272
In other news - batteries have firmware.
Fired IT Worker Replaces CEO's Presentation With Porn 316
An anonymous reader writes "52-year-old Walter Powell wanted revenge when he was fired from his position as an IT manager at Baltimore Substance Abuse System Inc. So, he hacked into their systems — installing keyloggers to steal passwords. Then, when his CEO was giving a presentation to the board of directors he replaced the slides with pornographic images. Powell has now been given a 2 year suspended sentence, and 100 hours community service."
Mobile Browsers Alternatives Compared 47
snydeq writes "InfoWorld's Peter Wayner provides a look at 10-plus mobile browsing alternatives, from Firefox, to Opera, to SkyFire, to Mercury, and more — a rapidly evolving area fraught with confusion, especially for developers seeking to target the mobile Web. 'All of this turmoil is creating opportunities. On the iPhone, the formerly unknown browsers are quite nice. They run quite well and sometimes offer the ability to run Flash content directly because they have compiled Flash into the stack. There are a surprisingly large number of new names appearing, and some are beginning to be mentioned in the same breath as the big browsers that dominate the desktop,' Wayner writes. 'The turmoil is also changing the definition of what a browser might be. A number of small applications such as Instapaper, Flipboard, and Evernote never set out to be browsers, but people are using them to read Web pages.'"
Comment Every upgrade. (Score 1) 249
Where is the "When Mark Shuttleworth force-fed Unity down my throat" option?
Comment Re:Summary is misleading (Score 1) 336
Except in this case, they aren't giving you a CD-R to replace the one they damaged. They're giving you an unwritable CD, that only costs $0.12
The issue is that the replacement system is of *lesser* spec than some of the models that were replaced. We're not even talking equivalent models that have since been upgraded. In my case, I lose 2GB RAM, 1 entire core, and the quality/(comparative real-world) speed of the CPU is lower.
Comment Re:Why should they care now? (Score 1) 204
It's almost like there's some kind of Application Programming Interface layer there. Wouldn't that be new and interesting?
Comment worth every penny (Score 1) 213
I've watched a good deal of the calculus videos. They are very good. He does a great job explaining things.
I even donated a few bucks. I suggest doing the same. It's well worth it.
Comment Re:Legal? What about the new caller ID law... (Score 2, Insightful) 139
Plus the whole breaking into voicemail boxes thing.
Wikipedia Explains Today's Global Outage 153
gnujoshua writes "The Wikimedia Tech Blog has a post explaining why many users were unable to reach Wikimedia sites due to DNS resolution failure. The article states, 'Due to an overheating problem in our European data center many of our servers turned off to protect themselves. As this impacted all Wikipedia and other projects access from European users, we were forced to move all user traffic to our Florida cluster, for which we have a standard quick failover procedure in place, that changes our DNS entries. However, shortly after we did this failover switch, it turned out that this failover mechanism was now broken, causing the DNS resolution of Wikimedia sites to stop working globally. This problem was quickly resolved, but unfortunately it may take up to an hour before access is restored for everyone, due to caching effects."
Comment Proof he owns the moon. (Score 4, Informative) 193
At one point, Richard Garriott declared himself to be ruler of the moon, based on him being the only non-government entity to own anything physically on the moon.
It's a shame he doesn't make that claim more public.
Comment Stylish? Really? (Score 1) 109
No, that is not stylish. It looks like every other watch/gadget combination.
It's ugly. Just like all the others ever have been.
