Comment le sigh (Score 2) 139
Let me take a moment to point out that using the wifi or atms at the hotel as well as making software updates during DEF CON all are squarely in the category of "babytown frolics".
Comment unfortunate summary (Score 2) 196
This is actually a piss poor summary of the bill. Having contracted on a number of government sites let me say that through no attempts at such, the buildings act as Faraday cages. Anyone who read the bill would have noticed that they're talking about using femtocells to improve reception of cell phones throughout the buildings. Additionally, considering the widespread use of Blackberry devices, this would allow them to continue to the roll out of of VoIP which has been happening (at least in both Dept of Treasury and Dept of Commerce) which would lower some of the costs associated with the mobile contracts. Considering the high number of employees with these devices and at 15 million dollar price tag, I wouldn't be surprised if this produced a cost savings within 2-5 years.
Comment shit is next level (Score 1) 1
make sure you get in on it now.
Submission + - Club Mate Across the USA (hackersonaplane.info) 1
AFresh1 writes: "Hackers on a Plane will be driving a truck across the USA delivering Club Mate to anyone who orders a case. It was a big hit at The Next HOPE and Defcon 18 so I'm sure you want to try it, or if you did, you want more.
Right now, we're scheduled to depart on August 16, so get your order in before then. We have tentative plans to roll through Chicago, Kansas City, Lake Havasu, San Francisco and Seattle. We'll be throwing out specific dates and cities once we establish the demand pattern based on your purchases.
Club Mate — "You get used to it""
Comment Re:wow.... (Score 1) 193
Problem is, dude was from UC Davis, not Cambridge.
Comment fees fees fees (Score 2, Insightful) 425
I realize that things of this nature are becoming less and less common, but a ticket should be just that. A bearer instrument which has the ability to be transferred. Many people don't even know what a "bearer bond" is anymore and the ones who do have mainly just watched a few heist movies.
Also, isn't that ostensibly what the "ticketing fee" is for? Actually providing a ticket?
Comment Re:Sooo.... (Score 3, Funny) 88
How about hitting on the bosses?
Comment Re:slashdot is ignorant (Score 1) 396
Agreed. Similarly "the new tetris" (N64) was a household classic when I lived in a group house with a dozen people fighting over the 4 controllers all night long.
Comment Go Parity! (Score 1) 597
nice job.
Comment Re:Help in TFA? (Score 2, Funny) 356
Good thing they're dropping Linux support.
Crime Show Host Accused of Ordering Killings to Boost Ratings 8
Police say there is a good reason Canal Livre, a Brazilian crime show, always seems to be first on the scene when someone is murdered: the host ordered the killings. State legislator and host of the show Wallace Souza is under investigation for ordering at least five murders highlighted on the program. "The order to execute always came from the legislator and his son, who then alerted the TV crews to get to the scene before the police. [The killings] appear to have been committed to get rid of his rivals and increase the audience of the TV show," state police intelligence chief Thomaz Vasconcelos said.
Comment Re:It'll work..except when it doesn't. (Score 1) 157
Did you read the article? I mean, sure it is a cat and mouse game, autonomous system manipulation and IP based forensics goes a little beyond the "characteristics of the message".
Submission + - Dogs trained to use computers (presscue.com)
Canine at the Keyboard writes: "Austrian researchers have successfully trained dogs to use computers, according to a study published online in Animal Cognition. Friederike Range and colleagues from the University of Vienna in Austria have shown for the first time that dogs can classify complex color photographs and place them into categories in the same way that humans do, and the dogs successfully demonstrate their learning through the use of computer automated touch-screens, eliminating potential human influence. Considering that million monkeys at keyboards made the Internet, I wonder what contribution the dogs would make."
Submission + - New Type of Fatigue Discovered in Silicon (eurekalert.org)
Invisible Pink Unicorn writes: "Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have discovered a phenomenon long thought not to exist. They have demonstrated a mechanical fatigue process that eventually leads to cracks and breakdown in bulk silicon crystals. Silicon — the backbone of the semiconductor industry — has long been believed to be immune to fatigue from cyclic stresses because of the nature of its crystal structure and chemical bonds. However, NIST examination of the silicon used in microscopic systems that incorporate tiny gears, vibrating reeds and other mechanical features reveals stress-induced cracks that can lead to failure. This has important implications for the design of new silicon-based micro-electromechanical system (MEMS) devices that have been proposed for a wide variety of uses. The article abstract is available from Applied Physics Letters."
Submission + - Choose what to pay for Radiohead's new album (pcpro.co.uk)
Matt writes: Radiohead are offering their latest album as a download several weeks before the CD comes out, and you get to choose how much to pay. $1,000 or $0.00, it's entirely up to you. The band are free of a record contract for this, their seventh album, so are free to pursue as many wacky plans as they like.
