Mizled - Slashdot User

Comment: Re:Holy crap! People can see me? (Score 1) 109

by Mizled on Saturday July 21 2007, @04:52AM (#19936655) Attached to: Your Own Mini-Stalker

Way to contribute to the very same problem you are complaining of being treated with (prejudice and irrelevant facts being taken into account).

Someone mod this guy up. If I had mod points to give you...I would give you all of them because you just served the parent thread his ass on a silver platter.

I can't agree with you more. They also will give an 18 year old female cheaper insurance than an 18 year old male because studies show males are more likely to have wrecks and speed. Did they ever think that maybe guys drive more often than females? Think about this, when you go out with your girlfriend or wife...Who drives more often? That's what I thought.

iPhone Not Compatible With any Windows 64 bit-> 0

Submitted by

Mizled

on Saturday June 30 2007, @06:33PM

Mizled writes "After buying a new iPhone yesterday and bringing it home to sync and activate it, I found out that Windows 64 bit is NOT supported. I get the message "The software required for iPhone is not installed. Run the iTunes installer to remove iTunes, then install iTunes again." I do a bit of research on the Apple forums and I found out I'm not the only one. Neither XP 64bit nor Vista 64bit works with the iPhone. Luckily, I do have a Windows XP SP2 32bit version installed on a computer so I can activate and sync my new phone. Some iPhone users are left with no way to activate their phone and use it due to only having 64bit Windows. I called the Apple support line and one of the support representatives said I needed to DOWNGRADE my computer from a 64bit Operating System because Apple will NOT be supporting 64bit Windows on the iPhone. Why should I have to downgrade from 64bit? Why can't they get with the times and upgrade their software to work and function properly? This article on Engadget talks about it briefly. I even spoke with several AT&T employees yesterday who stated the iPhone would be supported on any XP SP2 or Vista editions. I also made a post about my concerns on the Apple iPhone discussion forums which was then removed."
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iTunes tracks embed all your personal account info

Submitted by Jaknet on Friday June 01 2007, @05:55AM

Jaknet writes "The BBC http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6711215.stm today reported that the new DRM free music available from iTunes contains embedded within them the full name and account information, including e-mail address, of who bought them.

The BBC goes on to speculate... It suggested that this information could be an anti-piracy measure as it could help work out who was putting downloads on file-sharing sites. But it also added that the user information was found on all the tracks that people buy on iTunes whether free of DRM or not.

The BBC has contacted Apple seeking comment but so far the company has not responded.

Other websites said it was only a matter of time before a utility program was produced that which stripped out the identifying information. At this point it is not yet clear how deeply the user data is buried in the track or how easy it is to remove. Lets hope it's soon"

Mozilla patched six bugs

Submitted by

Kurtz'sKompund

on Friday June 01 2007, @05:43AM

Kurtz'sKompund writes "Mozilla has patched its flagship Firefox browser with fixes for six vulnerabilities, one of which was stamped"

Can forensics software detect Linux LiveCD usage?

Submitted by Scruffynerf on Friday June 01 2007, @05:42AM

Scruffynerf writes "Regarding the recent thread today on /. regarding forensics software, and with the advent of online document storage systems, such as private Yahoo or MSN groups etc (or even GMail's systems), I'm wondering if forensics software can detect the use of LiveCD's to access illegal content that exists online. I guess that i'm wondering if forensics tools could detect evidence of illegal actions from the following situation: Laptop with a native XP (or Vista (with bitlocker on)) installation. User uses a sufficiently developed LiveDVD or LiveCD (say, Knoppix/Whoppix/Helix or even Ubuntu Ultimate) to access content online piggybacking across unsecured, or minimally secured wireless networks. How would/could investigators firstly locate the malicious user, and secondly that he may have been doing illegal activities? cheers Scruffy"

Ubuntu Goes Ultraportable->

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 01 2007, @12:40AM

An anonymous reader writes "The growing number of ultraportable notebook computers has caused many people to reevaluate their choice of an operating system. These systems are small, lightweight, and generally have long battery lives, but their limited processing power presents a problem for newer operating systems and graphic-intensive applications. This article goes over the use of Ubuntu 7.04 in order to optimize the performance of Fujitsu's P7230 notebook. This notebook has a 10.6" LED-backlit LCD and is under 3 pounds, but uses a 1.2GHz Intel Core Solo U1400 processor that has some problems dealing with its stock operating system, Vista Business, especially during multitasking."
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1500 students facing legal threat from P2P

Submitted by

hwojtek

on Friday May 25 2007, @03:22AM

hwojtek writes "After a recent police raid to the campus of Poznan University of Technology (Poznan, Poland), the police has arrested six 'network administrators' who allegedly have run an internal P2P network. More than 2TB of software, movies and music have been found and secured. Now, while this is not a really impressive amount of 'illegal' data, the police now seeks a way to bring charges against... 1500 students who live on the very campus. This might be the biggest-ever one-time legal action against software piracy (?) in Central and Eastern Europe.

Links (in Polish): http://gospodarka.gazeta.pl/gospodarka/1,33181,415 6894.html
http://miasta.gazeta.pl/poznan/1,36001,4174449.htm l
http://di.com.pl/news/16617,GW_Poltora_tysiaca_stu dentow_z_Poznania_pod_sad.html

This is another big police action in Poland after last weeks' action of arresting a sysadmin and three voluntary subtitle translators of www.napisy.org due to alleged copyright infringement. (Link: http://www.idg.pl/news/110528.html)"

Dells: choose wisely and save 25% with Ubuntu

Submitted by

1336

on Friday May 25 2007, @03:21AM

1336 writes "Yesterday's article erroneously reported that the Ubuntu systems Dell would be selling at "little or no price differential" (note in the comments to the referenced article that the savings for using Ubuntu on equivalent hardware was $50-$100 US off the base system). I just discovered however that for the Dimension E520 vs E520N, if you select "No Monitor" in the options, the price difference jumps from $80 to $140. For such inexpensive systems, that represents just over a 25% savings by selecting Ubuntu instead of Windows ($549 vs $409). At that kind of discount, would you consider Ubuntu for yourself or others (e.g. relatives) even if you hadn't before? Can Microsoft effectively compete in the low-end market?"

Bush To Be Dictator In A Catastrophic Emergency

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 25 2007, @03:08AM

An anonymous reader writes ""The Bush administration has released a directive called the National Security and Homeland Security Presidential Directive. The directive released on May 9th, 2007 has gone almost unnoticed by the mainstream and alternative media. This is understandable considering the huge Ron Paul and immigration news but this story is equally as huge. In this directive, Bush declares that in the event of a "Catastrophic Emergency", the President will be entrusted with leading the activities to ensure constitutional government. The language in this directive would in effect make the President a dictator in the case of such an emergency." — Center for Research on Globalization, Canada"

Is Your Date of Death Too Much Information?

Submitted by on Friday May 25 2007, @02:04AM

An anonymous reader writes "I came across a Google gadget, Life Clock, that tells you when you will die and counts down the years, months, days, minutes and seconds until your demise. I find it strangely motivating to see my life trickling away each time I see me home page. Would you want to know your time of death, or is it better not to know?"