Comment Good, now arrest them! (Score 1) 390
These people are arguably cyber-terrorists (but more realistically, 30+ year old obese men living in their parents basements)
Comment Can victims opt out of this settlement? (Score 2, Interesting) 58
It's ridiculous to think we won't even get a dime.
Comment Don't cripple your PC games, then, Activision! (Score 3, Insightful) 344
Ex. Modern Warfare 2:
"Criticism has arisen of changes made to the PC version of Modern Warfare 2 including the lack of dedicated servers, latency issues of the listen server-only IWNET, lack of console commands, lack of support for matches larger than 18 players, and inability to vote towards kicking or banning cheating players immediately"
Remove the benefits of PC gaming, and gamers won't game on a PC..
Comment The kin is dead! Long live the kin! (Score 1) 351
nt
Comment Next tweet (Score 1) 556
Inmate electrocuted. For some reason, I've got a craving for some BBQ rite now..
Comment iPhone didn't have cut-and-paste either.. (Score 4, Insightful) 319
Just sayin'..
Honestly, I don't understand why such a simple, useful feature could be missed by both companies..
Comment Need a new Dell battery - HELP! (Score 1) 454
Only about an hour now. Time for a new battery, but OEM ones from Dell are overpriced.
Anyone know a reputable seller of high quality Dell Inspiron 1520 batteries?
Comment Mac.. open? (Score 1, Troll) 348
Wait.. what?!
NASA's Space Balloon Smashes Car In Australia 174
Humunculus writes "Of more worldly issues, NASA's latest multimillion-dollar stratosphere-bound balloon launch has gone horribly wrong and crashed into a car, turning it over and narrowly missing two elderly people who were observing the launch. The payload fared worse, reportedly being smashed into a 'thousand pieces.'"
Google Street View Shoots the Same Woman 43 Times 106
Geoffrey.landis writes "Terry Southgate discovered that his wife Wendy appears on the Google Street View of his neighborhood not once or twice but a whopping 43 times. From the article: 'It seems as if the Street View car simply followed the same route as Wendy and Trixie. However, Wendy was a little suspicious that the car was doing something on the "tricksie" side. Several of the Street View shots show Wendy looking with some concern towards the car that was, well, to put it politely, crawling along the curb. "I didn't know what it was doing. It was just driving round very, very slowly," Wendy told the Sun.' The next best thing to being a movie star — a Street View star!"
Comment Re:WTF are they thinking? (Score 3, Insightful) 949
People who are illegally downloading and distributing their works are not a part of their customer base. You have to *buy* something to be a customer.
Comment It does everything (Score 1) 739
Well.. not any more it doesn't.
Comment So use the proprietary driver (Score 0, Flamebait) 412
Problem solved.. with only the fanatical FSF zealots still up in arms..
Comment Ridiculous decision (Score 1) 363
Did anyone commenting here actually read TFA (specifically, the court ruling)?
The reasoning for why the conviction was quashed had absolutely nothing to do with cached images. It was quashed because the police were ruled to have conducted an illegal (as per the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms) search, despite having a search warrant to search for possession of child pornography.
Essentially, this is what happened:
1) Technician shows up to install an Internet connection on accused computer.
2) Technician notices probable child porn links in IE favourites (along with other legal porn links), and sees (legal) porn image, either on browser homepage or desktop. Technician also notices webcam hooked up to VCR (turned off at the time) directed at accused's 3 year old child.
3) Technician returns next day to finish work, and finds computer had been formatted.
4) Technician reports to social worker about possible child abuse. Social worker in turn informs RCMP.
5) Police obtain search warrant based on technician's observations.
6) (Four months after technician's initial visit) Police search accused's home, and find child pornography.
The court essentially ruled that the technician's observations did not legally justify a search. And I find this patently ridiculous.
After Learning Java Syntax, What Next? 293
Niris writes "I'm currently taking a course called Advanced Java Programming, which is using the text book Absolute Java, 4th edition, by Walter Savitch. As I work at night as a security guard in the middle of nowhere, I've had enough time to read through the entire course part of the book, finish all eleven chapter quizzes, and do all of the assignments within a month, so all that's left is a group assignment that won't be ready until late April. I'm trying to figure out what else to read that's Java related aside from the usual 'This is how to create a tree. This is recursion. This is how to implement an interface and make an anonymous object,' and wanted to see what Slashdotters have to suggest. So far I'm looking at reading Beginning Algorithms, by Simon Harris and James Ross."
