Comment Re:Oblig. XKCD (Score 1) 105
It's all part of scientific outreach: http://xkcd.com/585/
Is it bad that I knew what XKCD you linked to, based on the topic?
Comment Wamu's site works in Lynx (Score 2, Informative) 220
I hope that Chase doesn't change that on me.
Though I normally, just use it on my phone, it's quite nice having access to my accounts from any browser.
Comment Re:Posting in the april fools article (Score 1) 1582
Really?
Comment Re:Hibernation? (Score 0) 440
My Dell inspiron e1505 uses 1 watt per hour in sleep mode.
Comment Malware threat GNOME to KDE (Score 1) 348
I misread the topic and was really scared for a moment there.
Leave my desktop choice alone you evil malware writers!
Comment Re:"and it will be rolled out free of charge. " (Score 1) 170
40 hours / week * 52 weeks / year = 2080 hours / year
Apple Introduces "MacBook Wheel"
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CommonCents noted an Apple announcement a few hours before the anticipated keynote. He says "Apples' latest must have gadget does away with the keyboard. With the new MacBook Wheel, Apple has replaced the traditional keyboard with a giant wheel."
Comment Re:What's wrong with you people? (Score 2, Informative) 341
Wikipedia quotes 1 gallon of gasoline at 33.7kwh.
That puts this car at about 124 mpg.
Comment Cave Story (Score 1) 634
A nice little platformer with a great storyline.
Comment Re:Don't take freedom for granted (Score 1) 521
So he was defenstrated?!
Australia's ISPs Speak Out Against Filtering 262
daria42 writes "The leaders of three of Australia's largest internet service providers — Telstra Media's Justin Milne, iiNet's Michael Malone and Internode's Simon Hackett — have, in video interviews with ZDNet.com.au over the past few months, detailed technical, legal and ethical reasons why ISP-level filtering won't work. Critics of the policy also say that users will have no way to know what's being filtered."
Students Learn To Write Viruses 276
snocrossgjd writes "In a windowless underground computer lab in California, young men are busy cooking up viruses, spam and other plagues of the computer age. Grant Joy runs a program that surreptitiously records every keystroke on his machine, including user names, passwords, and credit-card numbers. Thomas Fynan floods a bulletin board with huge messages from fake users. Yet Joy and Fynan aren't hackers — they're students in a computer-security class at Sonoma State University. Their professor, George Ledin, has showed them how to penetrate even the best antivirus software."
Woz Dumps on MacBook Air, iPhone, AppleTV 360
AcidAUS writes "Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak heaped less than lavish praise on the company's iPhone, MacBook Air and Apple TV products when visiting Sydney this morning. Wozniak said he was puzzled by the lack of 3G support on the iPhone and that he didn't believe the MacBook Air would be a hit."
Maryland Scraps Diebold Voting System 209
beadfulthings writes "After eight years and some $65 million, the state of Maryland is taking its first steps to return to an accountable, paper-ballot based voting system. Governor Martin O'Malley has announced an initial outlay of $6.5 million towards the $20 million cost of an optical system which will scan and tally the votes while the paper ballots are retained as a backup. The new (or old) system is expected to be in place by 2010 — or four years before the state finishes paying off the bill for the touch-screen system."
Submission + - Wikipedia admins go on rampage
joeszilagyi writes: After their passwords got cracked: At least four different Wikipedia administrators have had their weak passwords taken in the past 24 hours. They deleted the home page repeatedly, and one person even put Tubgirl on the "Site notice", which is a global header for all of en.wikipedia.org. How did it happen? Weak logon security measures — there is no CAPTCHA; crappy passwords, and on top of that, while there is an encrypted SSL logon page, it's hard to find. The scariest thing is that people with passwords of "password" are entrusted as sysops and administrators on one of the Top 10 websites on Earth. They even blocked Jimbo Wales repeatedly from his own website!
