Comment: Seen in the manual for a T-Mobile G2 smartphone: (Score 1) 143
"If your phone rings and you discover it's in the back seat, do NOT crawl over the seat to answer it while driving."
Comment: There's Gandhicam... (Score 4, Informative) 983
Comment: Re:Hardly (Score 1) 362
That's the thing - it's more fun to play with friends than with random Internet assholes, whether the game is deathmatch or co-op.
Play co-op with random people on the Internet, and you'll get some douchebag griefers who'll do things like team-killing just to screw with people.
I have better things to do than deal with griefers.
Nmap 5.20 Released 36
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from the more-and-better dept.
from the more-and-better dept.
ruphus13 writes "Nmap has a new release out, and it's a major one. It includes a GUI front-end called Zenmap, and, according to the post, 'Network admins will no doubt be excited to learn that Nmap is now ready to identify Snow Leopard systems, Android Linux smartphones, and Chumbies, among other OSes that Nmap can now identify. This release also brings an additional 31 Nmap Scripting Engine scripts, bringing the total collection up to 80 pre-written scripts for Nmap. The scripts include X11 access checks to see if X.org on a system allows remote access, a script to retrieve and print an SSL certificate, and a script designed to see whether a host is serving malware. Nmap also comes with netcat and Ndiff. Source code and binaries are available from the Nmap site, including RPMs for x86 and x86_64 systems, and binaries for Windows and Mac OS X. '"
Comment: Building artificially intelligent killing machines (Score 4, Funny) 258
What could possibly go wrong?
I mean, we've had a whole 150,000 years since the last time we built Cylons and they rebelled, attempting genocide against the human race.
Surely it can't happen again...
Pushing Linux Adoption Through Gaming 269
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Soulskill
from the year-of-games-on-the-linuxtop dept.
from the year-of-games-on-the-linuxtop dept.
An article on CNet questions the viability of using games as part of a strategy to increase Linux adoption. It points out a blog post by Andrew Min which suggests:
"... Linux companies also need to start paying attention to the open source gaming community. Why? It's lacking. However, gamers can get excited about free games. They just have to be up to par with commercial games. The problem is, commercial companies pay hundreds of employees to build a game for several years, while many competing gaming projects only last several years before the developer moves on. It's time for open source developers to start getting paid for their jobs. Who better to pay them than the companies that benefit most?"
White House: E-mail on Fired Lawyers was Deleted
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narramissic writes "In another apparent case of 'oops that incriminating e-mail was deleted,' officials for President Bush have claimed that an unknown number of e-mails regarding the firing of eight government lawyers have gone missing. White House spokesperson Scott Stanzel said that the authors of those e-mails may have used accounts maintained by the Republican National Committee to discuss official government business. Here's the rub: The Republican National Committee has a policy of deleting e-mails from its accounts approximately once a month — although e-mails from nonpolitical White House accounts are automatically archived."
White House E-mails Deleted
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kidcharles writes "The Washington Post reports that in the midst of an investigation by the U.S. Congress into the firing of eight U.S. Attorneys by the Department of Justice, numerous White House e-mails have been lost. Among them are communications from presidential adviser Karl Rove. Parallels are being drawn with the infamous "18 minutes" missing from the Nixon Watergate tapes. Also at issue is the use of Republican National Committee e-mail domains (such as gwb43.com and georgewbush.com) rather than the official White House domain. This is a violation of the Presidential Records Act."
GWB43.com -- Now Disappearing
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CompaniaHill writes "Blogger winstnsmth writes, "With the latest news of RNC hosted email archives being "mishandled" by the White House, I decided to take a trip around the cyberblock to see what's new. To my surprise, I wasn't able to ping gwb43.com."
"The nameservers responsible for giving the definitive answer as to gwb43.com are no longer responding to requests for that domain. The email servers are still there, but I'm not able to pin down the IP for the domain itself. It appears to me that steps are being taken to 'disappear' gwb43.com." Geeky Bonus: Dig query showing no "A" record for the domain."
"The nameservers responsible for giving the definitive answer as to gwb43.com are no longer responding to requests for that domain. The email servers are still there, but I'm not able to pin down the IP for the domain itself. It appears to me that steps are being taken to 'disappear' gwb43.com." Geeky Bonus: Dig query showing no "A" record for the domain."
RNC Emails Lost! How believable is that?
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ionFreeman writes "Senator Leahy is suspicious that the RNC could have lost the emails White House Aides sent. But, it seems to me the whole idea was to have those emails unsubpoenable. Why would they be retained? Our clients work pretty hard to retain their emails — it seems like that would be a pretty easy thing to do if you wanted to not do it."