Comment Re:Summary is very misleading (Score 1) 845
Move parent up
Comment It had nothing to do with the pilot's age... (Score 5, Informative) 338
He was 74, not 80, and he held a current 2nd class medical certification from the FAA. Most private pilots only have a 3rd class; his health was fine and almost certainly had nothing to do with it. You can read more about his credentials here: http://www.av8rdan.com/2011/09/before-assuming-age-was-the-cause-of.html
Also, photos are circulating that show control surfaces missing from the aircraft before the crash. Something went wrong mechanically - please do your research before making mindless assumptions. http://corduroyplanet.blogspot.com/2011/09/chilled.html
Comment Re: Wi-fi Testing - MOD PARENT UP (Score 1) 125
I was going to reference the same article from Tom's - they basically have already done what OP is asking for, using hardware including Cisco, Aruba, Meraki, Ruckus, Apple, and HP. The second and third pages "Hardware And Methodology, Explained" might especially be of interest.
Comment Hack? (Score 1) 260
I feel dated, I mean, "back in the day" this was how you used a machine like this...
Comment Mod Parent Up (Score 1) 554
Self hosting your e-mail is going to be a nightmare; primarily due to the spam and security issues noted above. If you do continue to peruse this effort, you will run into the following:
1. Problems filtering incoming spam
2. Problems with outgoing e-mail not being delivered (incorrectly blocked because "they" don't know/care about you)
3. Problems with ensuring proper security (not rocket science, but much more difficult than just setting a good password) ... and you haven't even touched your webmail UI yet.
Personally, if it's the "sandcastle on google's beachfront" problem that you're worried about, simply make sure you have a good backup of your gmail, and an account with a second major email provider that you can fall back on, and you're good to go.
Comment No matter how long it takes, justice will be done. (Score 1) 1855
"This momentous achievement marks a victory for America, for people who seek peace around the world, and for all those who lost loved ones on September 11, 2001. The fight against terror goes on, but tonight America has sent an unmistakable message: No matter how long it takes, justice will be done." - U.S. President George W. Bush 5/1/2011
Submission + - Amazon releases cloud-based music service (amazon.com)
KingRobot writes: Right from the horses mouth: "Cloud Players comes in two verieties: Web and Android. All you need as a computer with a web browser and you can listen to your music with Cloud Player for the Web — no software to install — just a web browser. The Android version is an app that lets you do the same thing from your Android phone or tablet."
Looks like it is paired with a cloud storage system that you can keep anything on — starting with 5GB of free space. Music purchased from Amazon apparently doesn't count toward the 5Gb limit.
Looks like it is paired with a cloud storage system that you can keep anything on — starting with 5GB of free space. Music purchased from Amazon apparently doesn't count toward the 5Gb limit.
Comment Personally, it's not half bad... (Score 1) 2254
It feels quite a bit smoother and somewhat faster too. Nice job.
Comment Re:Loose cannon PR Agency stirs the pot (Score 1) 85
Mod parent up
Submission + - AOL loses their MX records? (aolanswers.com) 1
KingRobot writes: This evening, I attempted to e-mail someone @aol.com, however, I received an immediate permanent failure notice with an error regarding DNS. A quick lookup of their MX records shows there are none. A Google Search says I'm not the only one
Submission + - Google Books New Ngram Tool (wordpress.com)
Martin Hellman writes: Google has a great new tool that allows you to see how frequently a word sequence (an N-gram) occurred in books that they have scanned as a function of time. Naturally, with my focus on reducing the risk posed by nuclear weapons, I input “nuclear weapons” and my most recent blog shows the graph of frequency versus time.
Comment Not the first time. (Score 2) 536
...this isn't the first time that a core part of an OS has been backdoored (at least, almost)
http://kerneltrap.org/node/1584
Submission + - New York Times Quotes Slashdot Comment (nytimes.com)
1yongyorf writes: An article in the New York Times about the ongoing "cyberwar" between Anonymous and sites "hostile toward" Wikileaks quotes a Slashdot comment:
"'Are they disrupting business?' a contributor using the name Moryath wrote in a comment on the slashdot.org technology Web site. 'Perhaps, but no worse than the lunch counter sit-ins did.'"
"'Are they disrupting business?' a contributor using the name Moryath wrote in a comment on the slashdot.org technology Web site. 'Perhaps, but no worse than the lunch counter sit-ins did.'"
Submission + - Anonymous fails to take down Amazon (cnn.com)
KingRobot writes: Of course, we saw this one coming, but CNN is reporting that Anonymous has called off the attack against Amazon. Seems that Anonymous is no match for EC2.
Submission + - How Safe is the Data on Your Smartphone? (zdnet.com)
perlow writes: When I got a review unit, I didn’t realize I was getting the life of a prominent tech journalist.
