Comment Re:But it makes perfect sense to them. (Score 1) 246
But why would Superman need YOU?
Perhaps he's from Soviet Russia?
Comment Re:not protects (Score 1) 1066
There's a difference between (a) there isn't a football dispenser in my new car, and (b) my new car actively prevents me from putting a football dispenser in it, and the car manufacturers actively working to make it illegal for me to do so.
Comment Re:Long Live Crony Capitalism (Score 1) 133
Common use/misuse aside...
If I know you, then you're the person whom I know.
If you know that I know you, then you're the person who knows whom I know.
If it can be replaced by "him/her", then it's "whom".
If it can be replaced by "he/she", then it's "who".
Comment Re:Long Live Crony Capitalism (Score 3, Informative) 133
As always - it's not who you know, it's whom you know.
Woman Wins Libel Suit By Suing Wrong Website
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An anonymous reader writes "It appears that Cincinnati Bengals cheerleader Sarah Jones and her lawyer were so upset by a comment on the site TheDirty.com that they missed the 'y' at the end of the name. Instead, they sued the owner of TheDirt.com, whose owner didn't respond to the lawsuit. The end result was a judge awarding $11 million, in part because of the failure to respond. Now, both the owners of TheDirty.com and TheDirt.com are complaining that they're being wrongfully written about in the press — one for not having had any content about Sarah Jones but being told it needs to pay $11 million, and the other for having the content and having the press say it lost a lawsuit, even though no lawsuit was ever actually filed against it."
Comment Re:Well... (Score 1) 366
"Fuck doing business with India or Indian corporation/nationals," does not, by itself, mean "Fuck India, I'm only doing business with the US / China where they don't do this." If anything, it carries with it the implication that it's also not OK for the US, China, or any other governmental entity to do this either. You've created a false dichotomy.
Submission + - "Do-it-Yourself" Botnet Kits Gain Momentum (securityweek.com)
wiredmikey writes: "do-it-yourself" botnet kits provide malware creators the tools required to build and administer a their own botnet. These botnet kits are by no means new to the market, but have gained serious momentum recently. The botnet kits even include an easy to use control panel application to maintain/update the botnet, and to retrieve the captured information. A configurable builder tool allows the author to create the executables that will be used to infect victim's computers.
These ZeuS/ZBot trojans are typically spread via spam and black hat SEO poisoning, appearing to come from legitimate sources, asking recipients to click on a link which installs the malware and then sits silently, waiting for users to enter in their credentials to particular sites such as an online banking site
These ZeuS/ZBot trojans are typically spread via spam and black hat SEO poisoning, appearing to come from legitimate sources, asking recipients to click on a link which installs the malware and then sits silently, waiting for users to enter in their credentials to particular sites such as an online banking site
Submission + - Target to sell Facebook "credits" as gift cards (gigaom.com)
Julie188 writes: Target will begin selling Facebook's virtual currency as gift cards on September 5, becoming the first brick-and-mortar retailer to do so. Facebook Credit gift cards will be available in $15, $25 and $50 denominations at the retailer’s 1,750 stores. That's right, you can now spend real dollars to get fake ones so you can buy imaginary items for games like FarmVille, Bejeweled and 150 other FB games or apps. If that interests you, please contact me. I have some swamp land in Florida I'd like to show you ...
Submission + - Poll suggestion: Missing /. Moderation option 1
tomtomtom777 writes: Missing /. moderation option:
+1 Cool sig
-1 Disagree
-1 Redundant
-1 Bad grammer
-1 Lame joke
-2 Hand in your geek card
+1 Cool sig
-1 Disagree
-1 Redundant
-1 Bad grammer
-1 Lame joke
-2 Hand in your geek card
Comment Re:I work at an international litigation consultin (Score 1) 315
If the fact is unambiguously true you'll also be able to find it somewhere other than Wikipedia.
Yes, but Wikipedia is a great place to find information that's unambiguously true. Such information is usually worded plainly there, unlike many other sources I find myself having to use (often published journal articles that define the term within the context of the research). If no parties object to the use of Wikipedia (or, rather, "this piece of information retrieved from this URL on this date at this time") then there is no problem, and it's probably just a stepping stone for both sides to use in performing contentious dissemination anyway (otherwise, you wouldn't be in court, you'd be sitting there agreeing on definitions and such).
Comment Re:Brains... (Score 1) 148
When parts of your body are potentially valuable to society, they're lost unless you donate them, which is what this story is about.
So, in this case, nothing of value was lost.
What's "Troll" about that?
Comment Brains... (Score -1, Troll) 148
And nothing of value was lost.
Comment Re:No app for that? (Score 1) 345
Comment Re:Are computers a convenient place to make calls? (Score 1) 114
Flawed by design for this purpose. I can see all the words I typed without hitting "Preview", so "Preview" does not add value here.
It's best used to make sure that formatting works and to make sure you know how slow Slashdot is.
Comment Re:Somewhat off-topic... (Score 1) 212
You're not selling a product.
