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Comment Trust the major players, not bargains. (Score 0) 50

Being heavily invested in home automation including Phillips Hue, it's been my experience that you can trust only the major IoT players when it comes to pushing frequent security updates, something Hue does well. So does Ring.

I wish non-techie people knew about routers that can isolate the IoT stuff to its own network, or that buying cheap IoT stuff is no bargain in the long term.

The Internet

The History of Sex.com, the Most Contested Domain On the Internet 72

sarahnaomi writes On its face, sex.com looks like a no-frills Pinterest for porn, but behind the site lies an ongoing grudge match between the man who invented online dating and a con artist who stole the crown jewel of the internet out from under him. The history of the domain is well documented, with two books and dozens of articles written on the subject. It was first registered in 1994 by Gary Kremen, the entrepreneur who founded Match.com and was savvy enough to buy up several generic domains, including jobs.com and housing.com, in the early days of the internet.
Books

Japanese Publishers Lash Out At Amazon's Policies 113

Nate the greatest writes: Amazon is in a bitter contract fight with Hachette in the U.S. and Bonnier in Germany, and now it seems the retail giant is also in conflict with publishers in Japan. Amazon has launched a new rating system in Japan which gives preference to publishers with larger ebook catalogs (and publishers that pay higher fees), leading to complaints that Amazon is using its market power to blackmail publishers. Where have we heard that complaint before?

The retailer is also being boycotted by a handful of Japanese publishers who disagree with Amazon offering a rewards program to students. The retailer gives students 10% of a book's price as points, which can be used to buy more books. This skirts Japanese fixed-price book laws, so several smaller publishers pulled their books from Amazon in protest. Businesses are out to make money and not friends, but Amazon sure is a lightning rod for conflicts, isn't it?
Electronic Frontier Foundation

Submission + - A Piece of Internet History Lost: IO.com Sold (prismnet.com)

An anonymous reader writes: The former Illuminati Online domain, IO.com, has been sold, and all existing customers will lose all services associated with the domain. A 1990 Secret Service raid on Steve Jackson Games, then owner of the Illuminati Online BBS and later the IO.com domain led to the creation of the EFF and was an important milestone in the fight for online rights. While the domain has been sold in the past, the services offered to customers always remained unchanged. However, this most recent sale, to an unnamed party, will result in all services being dropped on July 1, and people will lose email addresses, web pages, and shell accounts that many have had for 15+ years.

Comment The smart phone got him off? (Score 5, Insightful) 254

Guy gets a ticket, goes to court dressed respectfully, treats the judge with deference, geeks out to a clueless judge about his nifty new GPS toy, asks the cop something he heard a previous defendant's lawyer ask about lack of evidence that worked, and is found not guilty. The judge goes out of his way to note the GPS evidence played no part in the decision. How is this a story about a smart phone getting someone out of a ticket?

User Journal

Journal Journal: Who shot Cowboy Neal?

Call it nostalgia, but I miss Cowboy Neal. It's been ages since he's showed up in a poll and I feel like there is a lack of options beyond the usual lack of options. Because of this I have deducted that Cowboy Neal was shot and is now being held cryogenically frozen somewhere in Illinois, perhaps next to The Duke. IF he was shot, I presume it must have been someone who wanted revenge, and perhaps this was a bully back when Cowboy Neal was known as Little Neal. Perhaps this bully saw just how

Comment Re:Dear Mozilla (Score 1) 284

If so, please type in 'yes, I'd like to be inundated with ads and malware please' in the box bellow."

It wouldn't make any difference. My sister would still just as blindly type YES as she does click OK. I love her dearly, but I've stopped trying to change her habits because this way I wind up with a fairly new free laptop about once a year.

Comment Re:Thieves (Score 1) 845

If the disk/screen/battery/whatever was part of the original purchase, and if they won't give it back to me after I pay for a new one, then yes, I would technically consider it theft. In reality I probably wouldn't want it back, so it's not an issue.

Comment Re:Not gonna work.. (Score 2) 76

Plunkett should be sacked because he is ultimately responsible for his team.

Right now Gawker needs him because he (probably) knows more about their systems than anyone. I'm sure in time there will be an announcement that he's decided to resign to spend more time with his family.

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