Comment Obama's Blackberry (Score 1) 185
If anybody didn't understand why the secret service took away Obama's crackberry, it should be pretty clear now.
Comment Preprint (Score 2, Interesting) 76
Submission + - Judge rejects SCO's motion for a new trial (arstechnica.com)
An anonymous reader writes: A judge has rejected SCO's motion for a new trial in the company's dispute over UNIX intellectual property ownership. The ruling validates a verdict that was issued in April by a jury which determined that Novell, and not SCO, is the rightful owner of the UNIX SVRX copyrights. This means that SCO cannot continue to pursue its litigation against IBM and other Linux users. "There was substantial evidence that Novell made an intentional decision to retain ownership of the copyrights," the Judge wrote in his decision. "The Court finds that the verdict is not clearly, decidedly, or overwhelmingly against the weight of the evidence. Therefore, SCO is not entitled to a new trial."
Comment Re:reproducibility (Score 1) 395
While this new technique may improve security, it seems to lack one important property of pseudo-random numbers that is required by many applications: reproducibility. Good luck finding the bug in your program with a stream of randoms you'll never be able to reconstruct again.
Oh, come on people. This is a JOKE. It's Funny, not, fercrissakes, Insightful.
Comment Google helps Wikimedia, a first! (Score 1) 181
I can see how the submitter might be surprised that Google would help Wikipedia, which competed with its own Knol, because Google has certainly never tried to do this before
Comment OMG PONIES!!!1! (was Re:Results and flash cookies) (Score 1) 265
If you know what sites every computer visits you could say, for example, that computers that visit Slashdot are unlikely to visit mypinkpony.com
There is, however, a very, very high correlation between Slashdot visits and cuteoverload.com on single-user computers over 3 years old. Not sure what that says about your thesis.
Comment News Flash: (Score 0, Troll) 186
New WoT book released; nobody notices for 3 days.
Comment Don't Worry, Fox News is safe (Score 1) 881
The primary purpose of Fox News is to manipulate the electorate to the greatest extent possible. You can't do that behind a paywall. Murdoch's other properties will subsidize it so you'll always have your O'Reilly.
Comment Ah, 1989, I remember Clarinet (Score 3, Interesting) 94
1989 was also the year I got out of the IBM360 / Bitnet ghetto and got a real unix account with real IP/TCP connections.
Clarinet. The was always the server I kept seeing references to, but never found out what was there because they expected me to pay to look.
Comment IMAZ (Score 1) 461
The most important lesson learned from Star Trek is that if an IMAX transfer is part of your business plan, you don't shoot your movie shakey-cam quick-cut MTV style.
Ugh.
Submission + - The decline and fall of Infinum
Samty writes: Just when you thought Infinium's shenanigans were over (/. coverage of their most famous stunt), Ars dug up a load of dirt on the company's continued questionable dealings. Phantom Entertainment, as they are now called, hasn't been able to pay its bills for years, its CEO is embroiled in a pump and dump fax scheme, and they keep issuing more stock to fund the operation despite having no real revenue. The company has blown $73 million and has nothing to show for it.
