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Comment: Re:Yeah, I want a Sony Pony too (Score 0) 386

by Gresyth (#36111776) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: How Should Sony Compensate PSN Users?
Your 2 free games will be 8-bit releases from the late 1970's. WE think McDonalds is a FINE restaurant. We at Sony are pleased to announce we have just hired Jocelyn Wildenstein as our new Social Events representative. There is a fine mansion that has just become available in Abbottabad Pakistan. Take your pick of these fine yachts. http://madmariner.com/files/images/NEW_ORLEANS_KATRINA_MARINA_DAMAGE_011008_AP-P0.jpg (salvage costs are your responsibility). Your Thai play toy is eager to meet you. ( she has AIDS, herpes and Hepatitis )
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The Boom (or Bubble) in Federal Cybersecurity

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Hugh Pickens
Hugh Pickens writes "The Washington Post reports that the increasing number and intensity of cyberattacks has attracted the attention of the Obama administration and Congress, which have begun steering dollars to the problem and much of that new spending, estimated at $6 to $7 billion annually just in unclassified work, is focused on the Washington region, as the federal government consolidates many of its cybersecurity-focused agencies in the area. "I think it is a real growth opportunity in coming years," says David Z. Bodenheimer, a partner at law firm Crowell & Moring in Washington who leads the firm's homeland security practice and specializes in government contracts. "The market is still rather fragmented and in flux, but is developing with a speed that it is attracting both the major defense and homeland security contractors who are establishing independent business units to pursue these opportunities, and it is also a real opportunity for the smaller players who have niche products." One reason the field is attracting so many companies is that the barriers to entry are low — at least relative to other defense industries but as start-ups and others rush to stake claims, some wonder if a bubble of sorts is beginning to inflate and recall that many venture firms in the early 2000s chased similar prospects. "A lot of the early people made significant money," says Roger Novak, founder of Novak Biddle Venture Partners. "but there were [also] a lot of 'me too' companies.""
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Volvo Safety Demo Goes Poorly 34

Posted by samzenpus
from the that-wasn't-supposed-to-happen dept.
Lanxon writes "At a demonstration of Volvo's new collision warning system in Sweden this week, Wired got first-hand experience (and video) of what happens when it goes badly wrong. The new Volvo S60, due for release later this year, was fired out of Volvo's testing tunnel at around 30MPH, and the collision detection system should have kicked in, bringing the car automatically to a halt before hitting the truck in its path. It didn't. Instead, the brand new car ploughed into the back of the truck in front of us, and indeed the world's press who had gathered in Sweden to see the collision detection system in action."

Comment: Up to Xbps (Score 1) 454

by Gresyth (#31454164) Attached to: FCC Asks You To Test Your Broadband Speeds
The thing everyone misses when they gripe about their ISP and the down/up speeds is that the ISPs all advertise bandwidth "up to" the rate they are selling. NO ISP can guarantee bandwidth as there are too many factors beyond their control that affect it. No ISP advertises a set value, its always, "up to" Xbps. The "up to" is usually in the fine print or an * but that is our responsibility to notice under current laws.

Let's organize this thing and take all the fun out of it.