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Comment Re:Let's not mince words (Score 1) 292

by chuckugly (#45371417) Attached to: Stephen Elop Would Pull a Nokia On Microsoft
The only thing that prevented me from buying Nokia phones was the Symbian OS; I've worked with it, even done a tiny bit of consulting for Sony-Ericsson getting some bits shoveled into a new "Symbian Smartphone" back just before the iPhone hit. If the Nokia devices run a remotely competitive OS their overall hardware quality is hard to ignore. Until the new MS Phone platform takes off or they go to something else, that's just not good enough for me though.

Submission + - Youtube revamps comment system

Submitted by Smauler
Smauler writes: Youtube are changing their comments system Whilst no one denies the current system results in obnoxious chaos some of the time, the solution seems to be a tie-in with Google+. The number one selling point is that "Comments you care about move to the top".

Submission + - Researchers dare AI experts to crack new GOTCHA password scheme (networkworld.com)

Submitted by alphadogg
alphadogg writes: If you can’t tell the difference between an inkblot that looks more like "body builder lady with mustache and goofy in the center" than "large steroid insect with big eyes," then you can't crack passwords protected via a new scheme created by computer scientists that they've dubbed GOTCHA. GOTCHA, a snappy acronym for the decidedly less snappy Generating panOptic Turing Tests to Tell Computers and Humans Apart, is aimed at stymying hackers from using computers to figure out passwords, which are all too often easy to guess. GOTCHA, like its ubiquitous cousin CAPTCHA, relies on visual cues that typically only a human can appreciate. The researchers don’t think that computers can solve the puzzles and have issued a challenge to fellow security researchers to use artificial intelligence to try to do so. You can find the GOTCHA Challenge here. http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~jblocki/GOTCHA-Challenge.html

Submission + - 'War Room' notes describe IT chaos at Healthcare.gov (computerworld.com)

Submitted by dcblogs
dcblogs writes: U.S. Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), who chairs the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, has released 175 pages of "War Room" notes — a collection of notes by federal officials dealing with the problems at Healthcare.gov. They start Oct. 1, the launch day. The War Room notes catalog IT problems — dashboards weren't showing data, servers didn't have the right production data, third party systems weren't connecting to verify data, a key contractor had trouble logging on, and there wasn't enough server capacity to handle the traffic, or enough people on the help desks to answer calls. To top it off, some personnel needed for the effort were furloughed because of the shutdown. Volunteers were needed to work weekends, but there were bureaucratic complications. According to one note: "Donna's comp time approver is furloughed."

Comment I don't see the downside so far (Score 4, Interesting) 545

Asking a 10 year old to get naked isn't a gray area, this isn't a case where a 16 or 17 (or even 15) year old "looked old enough"; this is absolutely a (virtual) child these turkeys are trying to use for their own thrills. More like this and fewer child porno cases against cartoons are what is needed.

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