insidious777 - Slashdot User

Comment It's still there (Score 1) 574

by insidious777 on Tuesday October 18, 2011 @07:01PM (#37756090) Attached to: No Tab Relocation Coming For Chrome

"Google ... today moved to silence dissent and lock comments on the issue."

That's ridiculous; closing a bug doesn't silence anyone's opinion. The dissenting opinion on that bug will now stand forever, for all to see.

Google didn't silence dissent. If anything, they immortalized it.

Submission + - Samsung expands patent attack against Apple (edibleapple.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 29, 2011 @01:24PM

An anonymous reader writes: Samsung recently expanded its patent attack against Apple, bringing suit in the US claiming that Apple infringes upon 10 Samsung patents relating to mobile phones and “fundamental innovations that increase mobile device reliability, efficiency, and quality, and improve user interface in mobile handsets and other products.”

Submission + - What is the best way to leave my router open? (slashdot.org) 4

Submitted by generalhavok on Thursday April 28, 2011 @01:54PM

generalhavok writes: I read the story on Slashdot earlier about the EFF encouraging people to leave their WiFi open to share the internet. I would like to do this! I don't mind sharing my connection and letting my neighbors check their email or browse the web. However, when I used to leave it open, I quickly found my limited bandwidth dissappearing, as my neighbors started using it heavily by streaming videos, downloading large files, and torrenting. What is an easy way I can share my internet, while enforcing some limits so there is enough bandwidth left for me? What about separating the neighbors from my internal home network? Can this be done with consumer-grade routers? If the average consumer wants to share, what's the easiest and safest way to do it?

Submission + - Windows 8 Pre-M3 Build 7955 Leaked (winbeta.org)

Submitted by

BogenDorpher

on Monday April 25, 2011 @04:29PM

BogenDorpher writes: "Yet another leak in the Windows 8 arena. This time, we get to see a Milestone 2 Build 7955 of Windows 8. Compared to the recent leak of 7850 which showcased very little new features, this new build, 7955, has many of the new features we have been seeing in leaked screenshots."

Submission + - Best. Geek. Wedding. Invitation. Ever. (createdigitalmusic.com)

Submitted by

kfogel

on Thursday April 14, 2011 @03:45PM

kfogel writes: "Karen Sandler (a lawyer at the Software Freedom Law Center) and Mike Tarantino (a professional musician) are getting married in May. They've sent out the coolest wedding invitation ever: a beautifully packaged flexidisc record where the invitation itself is the record player. That's right: It's paper! And it plays a record! The song itself was written by Mike, is performed by Karen and Mike together, and FTW is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license. The person who designed the invitations — a friend of the couple's — has blogged about it. It's also made Make Magazine, Mashable, and Geek.com."

Submission + - Why can CGI not create a convincing eye? (shadowlocked.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 14, 2011 @03:10PM

An anonymous reader writes: The latest trailer for this summer's 'Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes' presents us again with a briliantly rendered CGi creature, but which possesses the same 'dead' eyes that were criticised in the recreation of Arnold Schwarzenegger for 2009's 'Terminator Salvation'. It's ironic, since the eyes of the human actors in the original cycle of 'Apes' movies were what brought John Chambers' Oscar-winning make-up to life. This article looks at some possible reasons why the depiction of the human or anthropomorphic eye in CGI has proved such an oft-criticised albatross for VFX artists — and how Digital Domain's Ed Ulbrich arguably is among the very few who have taken a serious and creative attitude to the problem.

Comment Re:Not entirely accurate (Score 1) 213

by insidious777 on Monday April 11, 2011 @05:05PM (#35785940) Attached to: Microsoft Blasts Google For False Claims In Court Documents

Err, I definitely read "Google" in the parent post instead of "Microsoft". Stupid dyslexia.

Comment Re:Not entirely accurate (Score 1) 213

by insidious777 on Monday April 11, 2011 @05:04PM (#35785930) Attached to: Microsoft Blasts Google For False Claims In Court Documents

Right.

Google doesn't have the FISMA certification *for DOI*, which is the only FISMA certification that really matters in this case.

Google *could* argue that they should have been given the certification, since they have FISMA for GSA, but I think that would be a stretch.

Comment Not entirely accurate (Score 2) 213

by insidious777 on Monday April 11, 2011 @04:29PM (#35785564) Attached to: Microsoft Blasts Google For False Claims In Court Documents

If you read the brief, it's actually not quite as simple as Google "does not have FISMA certification." FISMA certification is per-agency, and Google *has* FISMA certification for GSA. Google *does not* have FISMA certification for any other agency. Each agency makes its own determination. It also appears that FISMA is a minimum for information security, so agencies can require more than FISMA if they want to. (Refer to brief pages 37-39 for the details on FISMA.)

Comment Re:Firefox not developed by Google (Score 1) 803

by insidious777 on Monday May 01, 2006 @01:26PM (#15238453) Attached to: Microsoft's IE7 Search Box Bugs Google

If Firefox defaults to Google, it is because the Firefox development team concluded it is a better search engine.

I'm really surprised this hasn't been brought up yet, and maybe not many people know, but this statement is completely false. A BIG part of the financial support for the Mozilla Foundation and Firefox comes from Google. Google pays Mozilla per download for the benefit of being the default search engine in the browser.

Does this change who's right and who's wrong? Maybe not. But it keeps me from having the blind faith in Google's altruism that most of these other posts are littered with.

Slashdot Top Deals