Comment Re:As long as you really really OWN it! (Score 2) 317
We *should* own all of those things. EULA's are a joke, you should either own it or lease it (or rent it), there should be no middle area.
Also your sig makes no sense whatsoever.
Comment Re:Actually... I'm glad. (Score 5, Interesting) 321
I'm thinking "embedded" actually means "included", like how chrome included flash player instead of using the plugin version.
This is a good thing since updates to flash player happens at the same time as updates to the browser (in the case of IE, it's handled by windows update) and it's easier to update and therefore more likely for critical flash updates to be applied.
Not sure how different "embedded" vs plugin is for security.
Comment Easy target first (Score 2) 305
If they have a problem with their TOS being violated, then they should take it up with the people that are actually violating it. (Class action lawsuit anyone? Piriform vs All PC users: importing ini files stored in the clear. Yeah that will work.) It looks like this has nothing to do with you.
This feature annoyed them and they figured, what the heck, if you were weak kneed about it then sending you a pansy email would be the easiest solution.
Open Source ExFAT File System Reaches 1.0 Status 151
Titus Andronicus writes "fuse-exfat, a GPLv3 implementation of the exFAT file system for Linux, FreeBSD, and OS X, has reached 1.0 status, according to an announcement from Andrew Nayenko, the primary developer. exFAT is a file system designed for sneaker-netting terabyte-scale files and groups of files on flash drives and memory cards between and among Windows, OS X, and consumer electronics devices. It was introduced by Microsoft in late 2006. Will fuse-exfat cut into Microsoft's juicy exFAT licensing revenue? Will Microsoft litigate fuse-exfat's developers and users into patent oblivion? Will there be a DKMS dynamic kernel module version of the software, similar to the ZFS on Linux project? All that remains to be seen. ReadWrite, The H, and Phoronix cover the story."
Comment The name is trademarked (Score 1) 143
So they *will* get it back. Eventually.
https://plus.google.com/u/0/103583939320326217147/posts/A8mtUUpdEH8
Comment Re:So... (Score 4, Insightful) 167
If there's enough snow on the road to cover up the paint, I really hope that drivers don't need a snowflake graphic to know that there is snow on the roads.
SHA-3 Winner Announced 100
An anonymous reader writes "The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has just announced the winner of the SHA-3 competition: Keccak, created by Guido Bertoni, Joan Daemen and Gilles Van Assche of STMicroelectronics and Michaël Peeters of NXP Semiconductors. 'Keccak has the added advantage of not being vulnerable in the same ways SHA-2 might be,' says NIST computer security expert Tim Polk. 'An attack that could work on SHA-2 most likely would not work on Keccak because the two algorithms are designed so differently.' For Joan Daemen it must be a 'two in a row' feeling, since he also is one of the authors of AES."
Police Probing Theft of Millions of Pounds of Maple Syrup From Strategic Reserve 399
An anonymous reader writes with this bit from the Globe and Mail: "Quebec police are on the hunt for a sticky-fingered thief after millions of dollars of maple syrup vanished from a Quebec warehouse. The theft was discovered during a routine inventory check last week at the St-Louis-de-Blandford warehouse, where the syrup is being held temporarily. The Federation of Quebec Maple Syrup Producers, which is responsible for the global strategic maple syrup reserve, initially kept the news quiet, hoping it would help police solve the crime quickly."
Comment Don't (Score 2) 454
Just don't set up a filter. Done!
Comment Re:My Single Sign On (Score 2) 446
Or LastPass.
Comment Re:This cannot possibly be efficient (Score 1) 248
They overlap some.
Comment This cannot possibly be efficient (Score 5, Informative) 248
When your compress air it heats up, increasing the pressure and making it harder to compress more air.
After it's been in the ground for a while it cools back down to ambient temperatures.
Then when you're extracting it the air is expanding which makes it cool down and reduces the pressure, therefore reducing the practical energy you can get out of it.
This is basic stuff you learn in Chemistry I.
Tackling Open Source's Gender Issues 589
angry tapir writes "Women's participation in open source development is at a far lower level than women's participation in proprietary software development. One of the groups that aims to change this is the Ada Initiative: A non-profit organization formed last year. I recently caught up with its two founders, Linux kernel developer Valerie Aurora and comp sci PhD student Mary Gardiner, to discuss the project."
Comment Re:This just makes sense (Score 1) 1345
Or what if there was an angry mob outside your house, about to rape some guy? If you instead convinced the mob to rape your own daughters, and let the guy go, am I supposed to look at you like a role model?
Good points but I would argue this one.
1. The mob became confused and dispersed and did *not* end up raping his daughters.
2. It's an angry gay mob, they wouldn't have had any interest in women in the first place.
3. Since Lot's family had lived there for years, and they were the nicest people in the city, they obviously would have had many close acquaintances, some of which were likely to be in the mob. Also the daughters were of marrying age and likely had suitors lined up around the block. Both of these groups, friends and suitors, would have been very opposed to raping his daughters.
What is the best way to disperse a mob? Tactic #1 from "101 Best Methods to Disperse Mobs": Divide and confuse. A mob only exists because they all have the same goal. What if suddenly 1/4 of the mob decides they really don't want to do this? Also, offering women in the first place came from left field and confused them. I imagine it went something like this: Mob: "I want gay sex, now!", Lot: "Here have some women...", Mob:"...wait, what?". Not only do they no longer all have the same goal, they're now questioning why they're there in the first place.
Divided? check.
Confused? check.
Mob dispersed.
The dude was a damn genius.
Submission + - CyanogenMod 6.0 Released In To The Wild 8
Jeagoss writes: CyanogenMod is the leading open source replacement ROM for Android based phones. With the 6.0 release, a targeted 8 models of phones have been hit with version 2.2 (Froyo) of Google's Android operating system for mobiles. Have a rooted phone? Been wanting a reason for rooting your phone? Head on over to http://www.cyanogenmod.com/ and check out the forums. I think you'll be quite surprised.
