Comment Re:Slashdot... (Score 1) 851
I loved that Apple's antenna issue affected lefties more than right handed folks.
Comment Slashdot... (Score 5, Funny) 851
News for luddites?
Comment Blame the phones... (Score 1) 1003
By their nature, bad drivers can't self-identify. It's the other driver, not them, right?
Comment Re:This also means... (Score 1) 566
I'm waiting to see if they drop the 4's price after the announcement or release. Hell, even an 8gig model might suit my needs for the thing.
Comment Re:Landmines. (Score 1) 183
That's horrible. Mod up please.
Google Chrome To Have Real-Time Communications 121
kai_hiwatari writes "Last month, Google released an open-source project called WebRTC which aims to enables Real-Time Communications capabilities in the web browsers through simple JavaScript APIs. Now, they have taken the first step towards having WebRTC built into Chrome. With WebRTC, developers will be able to build voice and video applications using nothing more than HTML and JavaScript. This is a powerful technology which can challenge services like Skype."
Comment Re:Being in NZ (Score 1) 334
I was going to rant and rave about people complaining about their phone costs, but your post has inspired me. Thank you. I have family going out of the country pretty soon :)
Comment Re:Why does encryption never work? (Score 2) 208
Good encryption requires a good "key". Forget password, think passphrase.
Encryption is great when it's somebody intercepting your messages or data, but not so useful when they have access to an endpoint.
The effectiveness of a good lock is severely reduced if you can't remove the keys from it. Most hardware like this has a copy that can be gotten at by the diligent. It's how bluray ended up losing it's DRM.
Oh, and this.
Encryption is great when it's somebody intercepting your messages or data, but not so useful when they have access to an endpoint.
The effectiveness of a good lock is severely reduced if you can't remove the keys from it. Most hardware like this has a copy that can be gotten at by the diligent. It's how bluray ended up losing it's DRM.
Oh, and this.
Comment Re:Serves you right. (Score 1) 455
The tech savvy Linux geek cares only if you don't make it OSS ;)
The Internet's New Alternate Reality 869
Hugh Pickens writes "Tim Rutten writes in the LA Times that when President Obama released his long form birth certificate last week, one of the striking things about the reaction to the president's calm and — to reasonable minds — entirely persuasive appearance in the White House briefing room Wednesday was the rapidity and ease with which so many leading birthers rejected the evidence he presented. 'Until very recently, if every professional news organization in the nation examined a charge and found it baseless, it was — for all intents and purposes — dropped,' writes Rutten. 'Today, the growth of the Internet has drained the noun "news" of its former authority. If you don't like the facts presented on the sites of established news organizations, you simply keep clicking until you find one whose "facts" accord with your beliefs.'"
Comment Re:Story may not be right (Score 1) 387
Both options probably cost $10 and a stamp per citizen.
Vatican Warns That Internet Promotes Satanism 585
Hugh Pickens writes "The Telegraph reports that the Roman Catholic Church has warned that the internet has fueled a surge in Satanism that has led to a sharp rise in the demand for exorcists. 'The internet makes it much easier than in the past to find information about Satanism. In just a few minutes you can contact Satanist groups and research occultism,' says Carlo Climati, a member of the Regina Apostolorum Pontifical University in Rome who specializes in the dangers posed to young people by Satanism. Organizers of a six-day conference that has brought together more than 60 Catholic clergy as well as doctors, psychologists, psychiatrists, teachers and youth workers, co-sponsored by the Vatican Congregation for Divine Worship and the Sacraments and the Congregation for Clergy, say the rise of Satanism has been dangerously underestimated in recent years."
Comment Re:Why are they against the domain? (Score 2) 257
Exactly. If you lived in those countries, porn access wasn't allowed anyhow (pretty much unenforceable, though). It won't change anything. Porn sites will keep their .com/net/sheep TLD names and have a .xxx one. Countries or networks with filters in place will still have circumvention by whatever means are needed. The politicians and folks in power can now make empty boasts about cleaning up the internet and the rest of us can still enjoy the things from the pre-.xxx world like nothing happened.
Wake me up when the US Bible belt states try to ban access to a certain classic that has a part where two daughters get their father drunk specifically so they can have sex with him.
Wake me up when the US Bible belt states try to ban access to a certain classic that has a part where two daughters get their father drunk specifically so they can have sex with him.
Comment Re:Unclear (Score 1) 164
Free healthcare, the same pay amongst peers (regardless of the profession), food and shelter paid for by the government. The military is socialist, you insensitive capitalist pig!
Gawdz, I miss it some days. Mostly while doing my insurance forms >.>
Gawdz, I miss it some days. Mostly while doing my insurance forms >.>
Comment Re:Everybody but me? DOH! (Score 1) 316
That'd work if they mothers had good examples of his fingerprints, though...
