Comment: Re:You get what you pay for. (Score 1) 311
The open source java implementation (OpenJDK) is a separate project. http://www.sun.com/software/opensource/java/
Comment: Re:They'll sell (Score 1) 104
to sit next to their 360.
That would be my PS3, sir! I've never been this insulted!
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Just kidding. I don't own any console. Just my Sony Vaio laptop
Comment: Re:Lack of Hacker Ethics (Score 1) 222
One could use a botnet to execute the DOS attack in that case.
A strategy which might prove a bit more effective is to present the user with a captcha after three failed password attempts. This will not be overly annoying for real users, but it will significantly increase the cost of an attack.
Comment: Re:interestingly the text message device could be (Score 2, Funny) 242
Biblically Forbidden Fornication?
The City of the Future 274
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from the heads-up-display-sounds-good-to-me dept.
from the heads-up-display-sounds-good-to-me dept.
Ponca City, We Love You writes "One century ago, many Americans still had not seen a movie or ridden in an automobile. The New York World greeted its readers on January 1, 1908 with a stirring rumination about the past and future of America: 'We may have gyroscopic trains as broad as houses swinging at 200 miles an hour up steep grades and around dizzying curves,' the newspaper said. 'We may have aeroplanes winging the once inconquerable air. The tides that ebb and flow to waste may take the place of our spent coal and flash their strength by wire to every point of need.' Today the NY Times asked ten knowledgeable New Yorkers to imagine New York City a century from today. Their visions include archaeological excavations at the Fresh Kills landfill, the waterfront at Third Avenue and Seventh Avenue, a dome over Central Park, and a virtual reality grid superimposed over the city."