Comment Re:Response from Lulu (Score 1) 260
While you're at it, you might also remove "his" other book that's available, since it appears to just be the second half of the book.
Inmates Escape As Guard Plays Plants Vs. Zombies 87
dotarray writes "Everybody knows that there's a certain risk one takes when playing addictive, engrossing games can be trouble when you're meant to be doing something else. The prevalence of awesome games on the iPhone hasn't helped that risk. A Plants Vs. Zombies loving police officer has learned this the hard way after an escape."
Comment Re:How would that work (Score 1) 550
> The guy continued to send out tweets that he was signing autographs after the giant crowd dispersed.
I didn't see that in a single post about this. Every post I saw said "Cops asked him to tweet that the kid wasn't coming, he refused, he got arrested".
(The kid and his people *did* post that it was shut down on his own twitter account. And whose tweets would you be following - the artist, or some record exec?)
Can you show me an article saying "he kept tweeting that the kid would be there even after the event got shut down" ?
Comment PasswordSafe (Score 5, Interesting) 1007
I first saw the link to PasswordSafe from Bruce Schneier's site. If I have to take advice from someone on keeping something secure, it's Bruce.
uTorrent To Build In Transfer-Throttling Ability 187
vintagepc writes "TorrentFreak reports that a redesign of the popular BitTorrent client uTorrent allows clients to detect network congestion and automatically adjust the transfer rates, eliminating the interference with other Internet-enabled applications' traffic. In theory, the protocol senses congestion based on the time it takes for a packet to reach its destination, and by intelligent adjustments, should reduce network traffic without causing a major impact on download speeds and times. As said by Simon Morris (from TFA), 'The throttling that matters most is actually not so much the download but rather the upload – as bandwidth is normally much lower UP than DOWN, the up-link will almost always get congested before the down-link does.' Furthermore, the revision is designed to eliminate the need for ISPs to deal with problems caused by excessive BitTorrent traffic on their networks, thereby saving them money and support costs. Apparently, the v2.0b client using this protocol is already being used widely, and no major problems have been reported."
Comment Seen this before... (Score 2, Informative) 386
... when Joel Spolsky wrote "Human Task Switches Considered Harmful".
Comment Re:Release it anyway (Score 1) 229
Totally agreed. However, they've now had 8 months since Juniper notified them about the issue. If they aren't in step 3 right now, they totally deserve the public shaming (and loss of stock share value) they would receive.
Comment I can write it in under 140 characters. (Score 2, Funny) 88
"Tweet" what you're thinking about. Reply to other people's tweets. Follow interesting people. Don't be a douche.
(Wait, scratch that. Obviously "don't be a douche" has no place in social networks.)
Comment Re:The wrong issue (Score 2, Informative) 339
From this article, it appears that it was Pond who took it upon herself to publish the rant as a "letter to the editor", appearing to be signed by the original author. (As an aside, since Moreno asked Pond not to publish it, and Pond did so against Moreno's wishes, that reinforces my belief that Moreno's claim of copyright infringement should hold water.) However, the original post was more vague as to who made the decision to attribute the letter to the original author.
Pond *was* fired for her actions. So if you read this (as I originally did) with the belief that Campbell participated in the decision to represent the letter as a submission from Moreno, it stands to reason that Campbell should be fired as well.
Comment Re:The wrong issue (Score 3, Insightful) 339
Did he do those things? If the message he sent the editor said, in preface to the copy of the rant 'look what so and so said on her blag', then he didn't make a false representation or impersonate anybody.
The gist seems to be that the principal talked to a friend who worked at the paper and said "why don't you post this as a letter to the editor?" The friend published it, but rather than saying "I got this from the principal", the letter to the editor was "signed" with the girl's name, as if she had submitted it herself.
It may not have been the principal's suggestion; it may have been the editor's idea, or some combination of the two, but to readers of the paper, the letter appeared to be submitted by the girl, not the principal. The girl then sued because the principal and his friend at the paper conspired to post something that makes the girl look bad and incited violence against her family.
Unfortunately, the court disagreed.
Have there been any further legal proceedings regarding this case?
Conficker Downloads Payload 273
nk497 writes "Conficker seems to finally be doing something, a week after hype around the worm peaked on April Fool's Day. It has now downloaded components from the Waledac botnet, which could contain rootkit capabilities. Trend Micro security expert Rik Ferguson said: 'These components have so far been missing, but could this finally be the "other boot dropping" that we have all been been waiting for?' Ferguson also suggested that people behind Conficker could be the very same who are running Waledac and created the Storm botnet. 'It tallies with some of the assumptions people have made about Conficker — that the first variant was actively trying to avoid the Ukraine because Waledac was Eastern European,' Ferguson added."
Playing Tetris Is Good For You 132
An anonymous reader writes "Some UK researchers found out that playing Tetris is actually good for people with post-traumatic stress disorder, by interfering with memory. I wonder if playing Minesweeper is effective against boss-inflicted stress."
Breaking Down the Dropping Parts Cost for Sony's PS3 302
will_die writes "The people at iSuppli have taken apart an October 2008 version of the PlayStation 3 to create a bill of materials, along with providing a comparison to original PS3. The article provides information about the changes Sony has made. One of the big ones was that the hardware has gone from costing $690.23 to the current price of $448.73. This was done using a combination of removing parts (currently 2,820 vs. the original 4,048), cutting the cost of the CPU ($46.46 vs. $64.40), and cutting the cost of the graphics processor to $58.01 from $83.17."
100 Years Ago, No Free Broadband Pneumatic Tubes 293
TheSync writes "The Division of Labour blog spotlights a report written 100 years ago by a commission appointed by the Postmaster General, that came to the conclusion: 'That it is not feasible and desirable at the present time for the Government to purchase, to install, or to operate pneumatic tubes.' Here is a scan of the original NYTimes article. If only we had gotten the free government Intertubes in 1908!"
Comment Re:Use comments only when needed (Score 1) 464
How about this then?
/* status 1 indicates that the user's password has been locked out by the administrator */
if (status == 1) {
I'm fairly certain that Joe Bob will really appreciate that comment when he comes along and takes a look at the code for the first time. Yes, after he's been working with the program for a long time, he'll have all the statuses memorized, and this comment will be fairly useless to him. But until then?
if (status == 1) {
I'm fairly certain that Joe Bob will really appreciate that comment when he comes along and takes a look at the code for the first time. Yes, after he's been working with the program for a long time, he'll have all the statuses memorized, and this comment will be fairly useless to him. But until then?
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