Comment Re:BZOD (Score 4, Funny) 785
Kneel before iZOD!
Comment Honestly... (Score 3, Insightful) 315
PJ takes one week off, and everybody moves back to Slashdot.
Comment Snowball, hell (Score 1, Redundant) 648
That argument has surely got no chance of flying. The OSX splash screen says that Apple own the copyrights on the software as does the pretty box the disks come in and all you need to assert copyright ownership is a mark on the product that says so.
That restricting OSX to apple approved hardware is anti-competitive might have a chance but even with a little hat that first snowball ain't gonna last long.
That restricting OSX to apple approved hardware is anti-competitive might have a chance but even with a little hat that first snowball ain't gonna last long.
Comment Re:Bring on the lawsuits! (Score 1) 272
Excellent point. So if you find any website you dislike, anywhere in the world, as long as it might violate a Kentucky state law you can get it's domain name pwnd by the court.
Shudder. I hope this gets overturned soon.
Shudder. I hope this gets overturned soon.
Submission + - SPAM: Are We In a Post-Brand Era?
Amy Bennett writes: "The personal technology industry has changed a lot in recent years. Consumers today put great time and effort into Internet-based research and seem to have come to realize that 'just because a product has a familiar name attached to it, it may not be the best one available,' says Don Reisinger in a recent article. 'Years ago, the name Dell actually mattered to people and in case we're keeping score, so did Gateway too.' There are, of course, notable exceptions to the rule: 'Generally speaking, people are still devoted to buying Apple products just because the company's name is painted on it and Sony still harbors customer trust even though many of its products don't stand up to its competitors,' says Reisinger."
Link to Original Source
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Journal SPAM: Spooks Looking for Terrorists in MMRPG 1
In another bogglingly absurd and potentially abusive reach of surveillance by military and intelligence agencies, it appears that US spies believe that Osama Bin Laden may have fled caves in Tora Bora, to a secret base in World of Warcraft. After the US Congress mandated the Director of National Intelligence to submit a public re
Submission + - Virtual Burglary Leads to Arrest (bbc.co.uk)
G0rAk writes: "The BBC is reporting that a 'Virtual theft' has lead to an arrest in the Netherlands. A Dutch teenager who scammed people out of their Habbo Hotel usernames and passwords allegedly used the information to steal virtual designer furniture from his victims and moved it to his own virtual home. The police have become interested because, although the furniture was bought with "Habbo Credits", these have a cash value.
From the article:
Can't wait to see this come to court and the judge asking the prosecution to show the jury some of the swag...""It is a theft because the furniture is paid for with real money. But the only way to be a thief in Habbo is to get people's usernames and passwords and then log in and take the furniture. "We got involved because of an increasing number of sites which are pretending to be Habbo. People might then try and log in and get their details stolen."
Dutch Teen Arrested for Virtual Property Theft 183
vuo writes "A story on the BBC website reports that Dutch police have arrested a teenager for robbery of virtual furniture worth roughly $5900. The crime took place in the virtual world/social network Habbo Hotel, a website run by Sulake Corporation. Sulake has 80 million registered users of its sites in 31 countries. ' Habbo users can create their own characters, decorate their own rooms and play a number of games, paying with Habbo Credits, which they have to buy with real cash. "It is a theft because the furniture is paid for with real money. But the only way to be a thief in Habbo is to get people's usernames and passwords and then log in and take the furniture. We got involved because of an increasing number of sites which are pretending to be Habbo. People might then try and log in and get their details stolen."'"
Submission + - Vint Cerf on the Past and Future of the Internet (bbc.co.uk)
G0rAk writes: "Vint Cerf, founding father of the internet and Chief Internet Evangelist at Google has an interesting piece on the BBC's The Tech Lab on the past, present and future of the internet. From the article:
He discusses the amazing rate of expansion of the medium, compared to say the telephone or TV, and addresses upcoming infrastructure concerns and comments on the increasing power of the Internet to affect all of our lives:The internet, however, stands poised to become the greatest communications platform humanity has ever known. It has profoundly increased access to information around the world, and it has likewise provided a platform for free expression on a scale unimaginable a generation ago.
"The idea that all the world's knowledge could be discoverable not just by humans but by programs acting on their behalf at speeds well beyond the superhuman, is one of this century's most exciting opportunities.
Submission + - Why the Windows ecosystem is broken (chron.com)
Christopher Blanc writes: "Windows, although a proprietary operating system, is the hub of an open computing system. Anyone can build a computer that runs it, using off the shelf parts. This open system has worked well so far; it's what has driven the growth of the personal computing industry for decades. With each successive version of Windows, hardware makers and developers must decide whether to support their older products on the new operating system. They can throw resources at writing drivers for hardware and patches for software, but as time goes on, they have more and more legacy products in the mix. As I wrote in Tuesday's entry, what Microsoft needs to do is start over.
http://blogs.chron.com/techblog/archives/2007/08/h eres_why_the_windows_ecosystem_is_broken.html#more "
http://blogs.chron.com/techblog/archives/2007/08/
Submission + - Personal LASER Weaponary for the Masses (lifehacker.com)
G0rAk writes: "From the Argh!-My-eyes! department
You've always wanted one and now you can have one. Your own, personal, handheld LASER gun!
You've always wanted one and now you can have one. Your own, personal, handheld LASER gun!
Watch the demo video, grab a DVD burner and follow the instructible. Normal safety warnings apply: this probably isn't safe."DIYer Kipkay extracts the laser from a DVD burner and mounts it in a small flashlight to create a handheld laser burner that can light matches and burst balloons.
