Comment Re:Micro-USB? (Score 1) 220
Dumbass. Totally wrong. Go back to electronics 101
Comment Re:ITU, the folk who should run the WWW. (Score 1) 220
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
SIP. Understood from a single RFC? A few hundred lines of code? HAHAHAHAHAH BWAHAHAHAHAHA. Are we talking about the same SIP here?
Comment Re:white balance and racial implications (Score 1) 512
Sheesh, first he's running the Treasury and now he's making attack ads?
Comment Re:3 Days Turnaround (Score 1) 244
Please Elaborate
Comment Bullet Ball (Score 1) 79
Bullet Ball FTW!
Comment Re:Tethering (Score 1) 619
Stop bitching about AT&T. Most other carriers in the world have even shitter data pricing. Generally not unlimited.
Comment Re:Mac reliability (Score 4, Informative) 450
Sleep Mailing 195
Doctors have reported the first case of someone using the internet while asleep, when a sleeping woman sent emails to people asking them over for drinks and caviar. The 44-year-old woman found out what she had done after a would be guest phoned her about it the next day. While asleep the woman turned on her computer, logged on by typing her username and password then composed and sent three emails. Each mail was in a random mix of upper and lower cases, unformatted and written in strange language. One read: "Come tomorrow and sort this hell hole out. Dinner and drinks, 4.pm,. Bring wine and caviar only." Another said simply, "What the......." If I had known that researchers were interested in unformatted, rambling email I would have let them read my inbox. They could start a whole new school of medicine.
Microsoft Exploit Predictions Right 40% of Time 182
CWmike writes "Microsoft today called its first month of predicting whether hackers will create exploit code for its bugs a success — even though the company got its forecast right just 40% of the time for October. 'I think we did really well,' said Mike Reavey, group manager at the Microsoft Security Research Center (MSRC), when asked for a postmortem evaluation of the first cycle of the team's Exploitability Index. 'Four of the [nine] issues that we said where consistent exploit code was likely did have exploit code appear over the first two weeks. And another key was that in no case did we rate something too low.' Microsoft's Exploitability Index was introduced last month."
Comment Re:Electric Cars (Score 1, Funny) 491
Obviously we need massive government subsidies and laws that compel people to buy their products.
Comment Re:Good! (Score 1) 404
setup RPC over HTTPS. Also now known as "Outlook Anywhere".
(Obviously) proxies the RPC traffic over HTTP. Much nicer then screwing with VPN's.
Feed New York Times: Privacy Lost: These Phones Can Find You (nytimes.com)
If G.P.S. made it harder to get lost, new cellphone services that track whereabouts are now making it harder to hide.
Free IMAP On Gmail 440
A number of readers are writing in to tell us that Google is rolling out IMAP support for Gmail accounts. Several people say that some of their gmail accounts offer the IMAP option (in Settings, Forwarding and POP/IMAP) and others do not.
Submission + - Free IMAP on GMAIL? (google.com)
Demaratus writes: "It looks like Google is rolling out free IMAP service on select GMAIL accounts. One one of my gmail accounts, IMAP is now available in addition to POP in the settings for the account. I checked several of my other accounts, but it appears that only one of them has this new feature available. I can't find any information on this anywhere else after a few brief search engine queries, so I figured I'd share this great news with other \.ers. How long until Google rolls out free IMAP to all Gmail accounts?"
Comment Hahahahahaaaaaa. (Score 1) 8
The successful modbombing of this account shows both the strength and futility of astroturfing. The troll community has dedicated dozens of accounts and several people's worth of full time effort to harass, smear and downmod me.
The troll community. Yes. Right. Whatever you say, twitter.
It's amazing how one person can so easily tie up the resources of one of the world's wealthiest and most powerful companies.
OK, twitter, let's play this one for laughs: what evidence do you have that any negative reaction to your posts is orchestrated by Microsoft, and is not simply a response to you talking unfounded bullshit about things you have absolutely no usable knowledge of? Do you have any evidence of that? You don't, do you? Because you're pulling it out of your ass, isn't that right?
Bruce Perens is one of the leading lights in not only the Debian developer community, but the F/OSS community as a whole. He posts on Slashdot about free software, a field he is closely associated with, and somehow manages to escape what you so charmingly call "M$ astroturfing". Why is this so? Maybe it's because he can present opinions rationally without resorting to namecalling, and in such a way that they are at least a worthwhile contribution to debates whether you agree with them or not.
You do none of these things. You bluster in, regardless of the debate, start with "M$ sucks" and work backwards from there to make the rest of your comment. Put simply, you talk utter bollocks half the time, about things you have no idea about. And then, the icing on the paranoia cake, you not only believe but regularly claim that anyone who disagrees with this bizarre method of posting is somehow being bribed by Microsoft to harass you.
Distilled down: if someone who has made numerous material contributions to free software and is one of its most valuable figures isn't the target of an "M$" "campaign", why on earth would someone who has little to no influence on anything be the subject of their attentions? Can you give a coherent reason for that? I think not.
Do what you're doing now. Quit while you're ahead. You've preached to the choir, and the choir told you to fuck off. Do so.
Even if they could discover all of my accounts by asking my ISP, I could always create new ones and continue saying what I think.
Um... yeah. Asking your ISP. Right.
It's obvious someone does not like the things I think and the way I express myself, but they are powerless to do anything about it. People who offer to "clean" the web are selling snake oil.
There's very little wrong with what you think, really, however it's the way you express yourself that people don't like. Calm down, quit with the "M$ Windoze" shit and people might take you a little more seriously.
The real answer is to quit doing things that are wrong, that make people angry and need to be covered up with massive lie campaigns
Yeah, you should give that a go.
The troll community. Yes. Right. Whatever you say, twitter.
It's amazing how one person can so easily tie up the resources of one of the world's wealthiest and most powerful companies.
OK, twitter, let's play this one for laughs: what evidence do you have that any negative reaction to your posts is orchestrated by Microsoft, and is not simply a response to you talking unfounded bullshit about things you have absolutely no usable knowledge of? Do you have any evidence of that? You don't, do you? Because you're pulling it out of your ass, isn't that right?
Bruce Perens is one of the leading lights in not only the Debian developer community, but the F/OSS community as a whole. He posts on Slashdot about free software, a field he is closely associated with, and somehow manages to escape what you so charmingly call "M$ astroturfing". Why is this so? Maybe it's because he can present opinions rationally without resorting to namecalling, and in such a way that they are at least a worthwhile contribution to debates whether you agree with them or not.
You do none of these things. You bluster in, regardless of the debate, start with "M$ sucks" and work backwards from there to make the rest of your comment. Put simply, you talk utter bollocks half the time, about things you have no idea about. And then, the icing on the paranoia cake, you not only believe but regularly claim that anyone who disagrees with this bizarre method of posting is somehow being bribed by Microsoft to harass you.
Distilled down: if someone who has made numerous material contributions to free software and is one of its most valuable figures isn't the target of an "M$" "campaign", why on earth would someone who has little to no influence on anything be the subject of their attentions? Can you give a coherent reason for that? I think not.
Do what you're doing now. Quit while you're ahead. You've preached to the choir, and the choir told you to fuck off. Do so.
Even if they could discover all of my accounts by asking my ISP, I could always create new ones and continue saying what I think.
Um... yeah. Asking your ISP. Right.
It's obvious someone does not like the things I think and the way I express myself, but they are powerless to do anything about it. People who offer to "clean" the web are selling snake oil.
There's very little wrong with what you think, really, however it's the way you express yourself that people don't like. Calm down, quit with the "M$ Windoze" shit and people might take you a little more seriously.
The real answer is to quit doing things that are wrong, that make people angry and need to be covered up with massive lie campaigns
Yeah, you should give that a go.
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