Comment timeline (Score 4, Funny) 252
Day 1. OMFG, the smell.
Day 2. I don't know how long I can live on Doritos and Mountain Dew.
Day 3. I think I've made contact, they keep saying Boobs or GTFO.
Year 3. I'm done, going to the spa.
Comment Why not (Score 1, Flamebait) 499
Just have homeless/unemployed people at the intersections with digital cameras?
Comment No Internet but how about homebrew? (Score 1) 139
And if not, is there a price break on the original Wii?
Comment Screwed again (Score 1) 48
So I bought a nice logitech review the month they came out. Lesson learned. Never buy a gen 1 google device.
Comment Re:When will they make a movie about this? (Score 1) 353
Corporate Name change expected. Film at 11.
Intel bought them a while ago.
Comment Job Creation (Score 1) 473
"Hundreds of Billions" over 20 years? That seems to be pretty inexpensive.
Also think of all the jobs for installing/servicing/billing that are being created.
With more adoption of solar/wind/tidal generation, the initial price of the equipment should go down, once
the Chinese market undercutting is "fixed"
Submission + - Is Android a Secure Mobile Operating System? (opentech4u.com)
jishnu001 writes: "Android is celebrating it's 5th Birthday with 1.3 Million activation each day and expecting a billion activation before it's 6th birthday ,a question still remains.
Is Android a Secure Mobile Operating System?.
Unfortunately the latest report from F-Secure says no.The F-Secure Mobile threat report Q3 2012 says that there is an increase of 51447 unique malware samples in Android Platform.The increase in malware occurred even after the release of Google Bouncer,a new layer security for Android Market.Google claimed that bouncer will produce a 40% drop in malicious Android Apps .
One of the reason for this huge increase in the malwares is the growth of Android application in Chinese market.China is now the largest market of smartphone ,in which android handles 81%.These regions are beyond Google Bouncer boundary.
F-Secure Report says that they have found 42 new families of malware in Android and new variants of some of the existing families.
Don't think that Android is the only mobile OS which face treats.As Per F secure there was a 17% increase in Symbian Based malwares in which they have found 21 new families .Most of them were originated from China.When it comes to Blackberry the latest discovery is Zitmo Malware (a variant of zeus Trojan) .This malware steals the bank transaction numbers send to the customers from the bank.Another significant discovery was Finspy Trojan."
Is Android a Secure Mobile Operating System?.
Unfortunately the latest report from F-Secure says no.The F-Secure Mobile threat report Q3 2012 says that there is an increase of 51447 unique malware samples in Android Platform.The increase in malware occurred even after the release of Google Bouncer,a new layer security for Android Market.Google claimed that bouncer will produce a 40% drop in malicious Android Apps .
One of the reason for this huge increase in the malwares is the growth of Android application in Chinese market.China is now the largest market of smartphone
F-Secure Report says that they have found 42 new families of malware in Android and new variants of some of the existing families.
Don't think that Android is the only mobile OS which face treats.As Per F secure there was a 17% increase in Symbian Based malwares in which they have found 21 new families
Submission + - Dragonfly spy drone fits in a hand Georgia Tech (suasnews.com)
garymortimer writes: "The TechJect Robot Dragonfly is a multi-engineering design. It requires everything from aerodynamics, machine design, mechatronics, electronics, communication systems, flight control software, user-interfaces and much more. We’ve put in a lot of work to bring harmony to chaos and bring the dragonfly to life; however, getting something robust enough to endure the elements, strong enough to outlast crashes and accidents; smart enough so everyone can operate them easily; and finally cheap enough so everyone can afford one, we have to professionally manufacture the robot bugs; which is an expensive proposition."
Comment Is this part of (Score 4, Interesting) 119
The UN takeover of the Internet? Or just a portent of the way things will work in the future?
Clippy says "I see you're trying to access a site that we think you shouldn't. Would you like me to report you to the authorities?"
Comment Re:Huffington Post (Score 2) 238
And the Huffington Post is still down! I wonder what sea water flooding implies for the financial district.
Looks like they sort of tried on Wall Street:
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/data?pid=avimage&iid=iB520MWRNVP8
Comment Re:WTF (Score 1) 200
Wait, you need riot police, armed with guns... to recover a lost phone prototype...?
Crazy.
Tenuous Link from the article.
"Shortly after an officer-involved shooting in which a plainclothes officer shot a suspect who pulled a gun on the officer Thursday night, dozens of rioters surrounded San Francisco’s Mission District Police Station while one person vandalized the police station, according to San Francisco police."
14 people were killed in a cafe suicide bominbg in Somalia too, not sure why Google is not being blamed for than too.
No, that was just a bad battery on a Surface tablet.
Comment Re:If Americans cannot compete with non Americans. (Score 4, Informative) 795
So, the H1-B worker, by your calculation, lives of donuts he steals in the break room and sleeps on a park bench? While there are probably some H1-B workers who remit a fraction of their income to their home country, most live in the community like every one else, renting a house, buying a car and groceries, and try to get ahead in the new country. As for the "stealing American's jobs", we graduate some 5,000,000 people a year from US colleges. Compare that to the 85,000 total H1B visa given out annually, less than 2% of the total job market entries.
No actually the ones I worked with were living 5-6 people in an apartment supplied by the company that they were contracting for. I'm guessing there is some kind of company store arrangement which paid back the company out of the wages for rent.
They all would carpool together to their work sites.
Comment Waiting for the reference (Score 1) 107
Comment Re:This shouldn't even be a contest (Score 0) 618
Kirk...was...a CAPTAIN.
Picard is a Manager.
And toss the empath out of the nearest airlock
Comment Advantage (Score 1) 83
Amazon?
