Comment Deperately seeking Apple? (Score 1) 262
Seeing as how ms has lost the most valuable member of their creative team, they must be getting desperate.
Comment Prior Art? (Score 1) 347
Which portion of the linux kernal supposedly infringes? Does prior ary mean anything here?
Comment Re:I don't understand how this is 'orchestrating' (Score 1) 160
Why 'or' and not 'and/or'?
Because if he had a cisco login id, he didn't break in.
Submission + - Google Loses Bedrock Suit, All Linux May Infringe (cnet.com)
blair1q writes: cnet reports that Google has lost the lawsuit brought by Bedrock, is infringing on Patent 5,893,120 "Methods and apparatus for information storage and retrieval using a hashing technique with external chaining and on-the-fly removal of expired data," and has exposed the Linux kernel, in which the infringing code reportedly appears, to liability for patent-license fees. RedHat also participated in the suit, arguing that the patent was invalid, but the court decided otherwise.
Submission + - 6 Upcoming Dual-Core Android Smartphones (i4u.com)
i4u writes: This year has seen the explosive birth of a new kind of mobile device. Dual-core superphones are almost impossibly powerful compared to even the immediate previous generation of handsets. There's a reason the Atrix launched with a laptop dock as a key feature. 'Mobile' doesn't mean 'underpowered' anymore. If you want more out of your smartphone, you want one of these six behemoths.
But which?
But which?
Submission + - Amazon outage shows limits of failover "zones" (networkworld.com)
jbrodkin writes: "For cloud customers willing to pony up a little extra cash, Amazon has an enticing proposition: Spread your application across multiple availability zones for a near-guarantee that it won't suffer from downtime. "By launching instances in separate Availability Zones, you can protect your applications from failure of a single location," Amazon says in pitching its Elastic Compute Cloud service. But the availability zones are close together and can fail at the same time, as we saw today. The outage and ongoing attempts to restore service call into question the effectiveness of the availability zones, and put a spotlight on Amazon's failure to provide load balancing between the east and west coasts."
Submission + - Neowin's Facebook page taken offline by bogus comp (neowin.net) 1
An anonymous reader writes: The trouble with Facebook and DMCA take down orders is that one can anonymously take down any facebook page without any proof.
Submission + - NYTimes.com Reports 100k Subscribers (google.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Despite Slashdot (and much of the internet) ridiculing the New York Times for its archaic and overpriced paywall, the newspaper has reported an excess of one hundred thousand subscribers so far. Even as loopholes are offered, the New York Times has some support which they will need as print revenues dwindle (falling a staggering 57.6 percent during the year's first quarter).
Submission + - Security firm founder Kaspersky's son kidnapped (computerworld.com)
fysdt writes: "Several news services are reporting that the son of Eugene Kaspersky, founder of the Moscow-based security firm Kaspersky Labs, has been kidnapped for ransom in Russia."
Submission + - Apple is going to introduce video site in June (incometricks.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Apple is planning a youtube killer. There is a solid proof for it. Check the link source.
Comment to the cloud! (Score 1) 247
just like the ad...
Submission + - Photo speed tickets challenged based upon photos (washingtontimes.com)
SEWilco writes: "A businessman has challenged automated tickets of his vehicles by calculating the vehicle speed based upon the tickets, which include timestamps of two photos."
Submission + - ASUS EeePad Transformer review | Android Central (androidcentral.com)
timothy writes: Android Central has taken a close look at the new Transformer tablet from Asus, giving it an overall positive review, with minor points deducted for a "plasticy" feel. The Transformer joins the Motorola Xoom in the world of Honeycomb (Android 3.0), and has very similar, high-end specs (though it's Wi-Fi only) with one big difference: the Transformer is marketed with a not-included-in-the-price attachable keyboard that adds a battery. I wonder what other OSes will eventually be hacked onto this device; 16 hours of battery life in a netbook-sized computer sure sounds good to me, but I might want that to be with standard Linux apps instead of only with Android.
Comment Re:I don't understand how this is 'orchestrating' (Score 1) 160
Were they really broken into? Or did he download bugfixed IOS images for redistribution to his customers with cisco gear?
Comment Re:As much as I love Cisco gear... (Score 2) 160
Cisco warranties are strange creature indeed. In order to get a bug fix on warrantied products, you must have a TAC login. In order to have a TAC login, you must have a smartnet contract. Technically, the warranty is a temporary smartnet contract (I've searched their database using the serial # of new equipment under warranty but not smartnet net, not found it, then called cisco and they pull a smartnet contract number up)
Its really messed up, but what it boils down to is that if you want to get a bug fix and you don't have smartnet, you must go through the reseller you bought from - which is not good because it means without any smartnet you are vulnerable to the next thing that arises. No smartnet, no security, warranty notwithstanding.
Of course, if you do have a TAC login, you can get warrantied equipment added to your userid, but its a manual process and annoying at best. You still need a TAC ID from another smartnet contract though.
Its really messed up, but what it boils down to is that if you want to get a bug fix and you don't have smartnet, you must go through the reseller you bought from - which is not good because it means without any smartnet you are vulnerable to the next thing that arises. No smartnet, no security, warranty notwithstanding.
Of course, if you do have a TAC login, you can get warrantied equipment added to your userid, but its a manual process and annoying at best. You still need a TAC ID from another smartnet contract though.
