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Comment: Re:What the Hell?! (Score 5, Insightful) 206

by Rick Zeman (#38131002) Attached to: Penguin Yanking Kindle Books From Libraries

"Penguin Group is removing Kindle ebooks from libraries using Overdrive citing 'security concerns' as a weak excuse, while most likely taking a shot at Amazon. One more example of DRM being about protecting business models, not content."

(Emphasis mine)
I try not to criticise submissions, but what the hell? I don't care what was done by whom, I thought Slashdot was above such flagrant editorialism.

Are you new here??

Comment: Hijacked (Score 0, Flamebait) 448

by Rick Zeman (#33681026) Attached to: Facebook Is Down

whois facebook.com

Whois Server Version 2.0

Domain names in the .com and .net domains can now be registered
with many different competing registrars. Go to http://www.internic.net/
for detailed information.

FACEBOOK.COM.ZZZZZZ.THE.BEST.WEBHOSTING.AT.WWW.FATUCH.COM
FACEBOOK.COM.ZZZZZ.GET.LAID.AT.WWW.SWINGINGCOMMUNITY.COM
FACEBOOK.COM.ZZZZZ.DOWNLOAD.MOVIE.ONLINE.ZML2.COM
FACEBOOK.COM.MORE.INFO.AT.WWW.BEYONDWHOIS.COM
FACEBOOK.COM

Comment: Re:Have to wonder ... (Score 1) 182

by Rick Zeman (#33250462) Attached to: Blackberry Gives India Access To Servers

"Just using proper English would confuse the fuck out of most Americans"

FTFY

And, I'm more serious than you probably think. I can sit in any public place, and listen to a group of young kids (you know, young kids - twenties and thirties) talking, and not understand a word they've said. Buncha little pricks learned NOTHING in school!

And get off my lawn!

Security

Stand-Alone Antivirus Software? 159

Posted by timothy
from the lonely-job dept.
An anonymous reader writes "I work for a company that repairs specialty devices that have an embedded Mini-ATX motherboard without a CD-ROM drive and run Windows XP Home. And while the USB flash drives we insert into them have a physical write-protect tab, we still encounter a (rather annoying) display dialog from malware/viruses to remove the write-protect so the malware can infect the flash drive. We don't remove the write-protect, obviously, but would like to offer our customers the option of removing the malware/virus without having to install any software. We would rather not install/uninstall antivirus software even for one-time use, due to various licensing issues, nor do we want to connect to the Internet to use web-based online scanners. Is there any stand-alone anti-virus/anti-malware software for Windows that can be run directly from the write-protected flash drive itself?"
Microsoft

"Hypnotizing Chickens"

Submitted by Rick Zeman
Rick Zeman writes "PowerPoint goes to war as told by the New York Times, saying 'The amount of time expended on PowerPoint, the Microsoft presentation program of computer-generated charts, graphs and bullet points, has made it a running joke in the Pentagon and in Iraq and Afghanistan.'

'It’s dangerous because it can create the illusion of understanding and the illusion of control,' says one General officer, but, 'There’s a lot of PowerPoint backlash, but I don’t see it going away anytime soon,' says a Captain.

Senior officers say the program does come in handy when the goal is not imparting information, as in briefings for reporters. 'The news media sessions often last 25 minutes, with 5 minutes left at the end for questions from anyone still awake. Those types of PowerPoint presentations, Dr. Hammes said, are known as “hypnotizing chickens.”'"

Weinberg's Second Law: If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization.