Comment: They Live... (Score 1) 310
You could potentially help Rowdy Roddy Piper stop the alien invasion!
Comment: Re:Greed (Score 1) 130
The movie made money. Not a truckload, but it did make a profit in theaters. Factor in DVD sales and they did alright.
Comment: Um, the Mythbusters busted #2... (Score 2) 219
2) Biometrics is not authentication, it's identification. Any system pretending otherwise is ripe for abuse.
Comment: Re:methodically and late into the night (Score 4, Insightful) 424
What if you got really sick?
I call this the 'Hit By A Bus' scenario. If you're hit by a bus in the next five minutes can the business carry on without you? If the answer is no for any reason then the business has major problems.
Comment: IPv6 once again... (Score 3, Interesting) 109
Greetings. Once upon a time I was fortunate enough to ask you about IPv6, way back in 2002. The phrase '6 by 6' (for IPv6 by 2006) was the goal, but it seems we've missed that target. Do you ever foresee mandatory widespread adoption of IPv6 happening? Should IPv6 have been designed to be interoperable with IPv4?
Yahoo Censoring Occupy Wall St ->
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bs0d3 writes "Yahoo email has been blocking all emails with a link to occupywallst.org When trying to send an email containing a link to the mentioned site and also certain phrases about occupying Wall Street people were greeted with a spam filter error message. Yahoo has apologized and claimed it to be a spam filter error, and lifted the ban on many accounts that were being tested for the block, but is still blocking it on most other accounts."
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SETI funds the ATA (for now)->
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Ransak writes "It looks as if SETI has met it's short term funding goal to restart the Allen Telescope Array. Is long term crowd sourcing the future of pure research projects?"
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Comment: This already exists. (Score 1) 431
This already exists to some extent, just working in the other direction.
When you drop a 'physical package' off in the toilet, it's routed to a specific location which in many places is miles away from where it originated. I could see something like this working (and perhaps even utilizing part of the same infrastructure) in many cities in the US.
BitTorrent only movie denied listing on IMDB->
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Ransak writes "The Tunnel (a publicly funded movie being paid for a frame at a time) movie is currently in production and despite pleas from the makers, IMDb won’t allow it on their site. The creators of this horror movie believe that because they have shunned an official distributor and chosen a BitTorrent model instead, this has put them at a disadvantage with the Amazon-owned site."
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'Pre-crime' Comes to the HR Dept.->
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storagedude writes "Like something out of the Steven Spielberg movie Minority Report, a startup called Social Intelligence is mining social media to weed out job applicants based on their potential for violence, drug abuse or just plain bad judgment. The startup also combs sites like Facebook and Twitter to monitor current employees, presumably to monitor compliance with company social media policy, but as the criteria are company-defined, anything's possible. Just one more reason to watch what you post, folks."
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