BMonger - Slashdot User

Comment Re:time to delivery not longer that important (Score 1) 287

by BMonger on Thursday August 13, 2009 @02:16PM (#29056111) Attached to: Yahoo Revives Pay-Per-Email, With Charitable Twist

That sounds eerily like Google Wave... :)

Comment Re:Seriously (Score 1) 422

by BMonger on Wednesday March 18, 2009 @11:08AM (#27242781) Attached to: Did Bat Hitch a Ride To Space On Discovery?

As for the idea of contaminating something like Mars and having it end up overrun with earth bacteria, I guess it's impossible to prove that it couldn't happen, but I don't it's very likely. Mars is more like the earth than anywhere else in the solar system, but it's still very different. You might be able to find a few organisms here that could potentially survive on Mars, but it's doubtful that any would thrive, particularly to the point of overrunning the planet.

I hope you don't have to eat those words when our giant bat overlords come back down in 30 years.

Comment Just cut it off (Score 1) 71

by BMonger on Tuesday March 17, 2009 @09:02AM (#27224537) Attached to: Best Practice For Retiring RSS Feeds?

If it's that old and no updates are going to be made to it, just stop providing it. Or throw one last update that says the feed is terminated and point them to a newer version of it. I doubt your users will cry foul.

Comment Re:huh? (Score 2, Insightful) 606

by BMonger on Monday March 16, 2009 @12:01PM (#27212489) Attached to: What Features Should Be Included With iPhone 3.0?

Yeah let's remove DRM from the Apple Apps so we can run the Apps on.... on... ummmm....

Comment Re:Before people say that Illinois is stupid (Score 1) 512

by BMonger on Friday March 06, 2009 @09:20AM (#27090907) Attached to: Illinois Declares Pluto a Planet

http://fora.tv/2009/02/04/Neil_deGrasse_Tyson_The_Pluto_Files#chapter_04 Planets are more defined than that. At least as of when the Pluto decision was voted on.

Comment Re:No Ads (Score 3, Insightful) 375

by BMonger on Thursday February 19, 2009 @09:47AM (#26916345) Attached to: Boxee Drops Hulu Support

Boxee plays the ads. Boxee goes directly to Hulu to get the content whereas I think XBMC is served from your computer which goes to Hulu. Not to familiar with XBMC myself though. Regardless the worst part is is that on my computer I have an ad blocker. On Boxee I do not. I saw more ads on Boxee than I ever saw on my computer. Even if I disabled ad blocking on my computer I was more prone to "do something else" for those 15-30 seconds. At the TV, not so much.

Comment Re:Another Bomb Here to Stay (Score 2, Interesting) 414

by BMonger on Thursday January 22, 2009 @02:53PM (#26564553) Attached to: Microsoft Brings Back DRM

I use a Mac at home and one day finally remembered that Amazon had a service. So I decided to go their first as I knew they were cheaper. I went to go fill up my cart with some albums but as far as I could tell you could only buy one album per purchase. Even worse if I went to buy singles I had to make a new transaction per song. Has the service improved since then? After I bought one single I went back to my DRM laden and slightly more expensive iTunes store. Although maybe there is an easier way to do it on a Windows machine. I'm actually just curious, not trying to be secretly inflammatory.

Comment Re:No more DRM on music, but... (Score 1) 1079

by BMonger on Tuesday January 06, 2009 @04:39PM (#26349313) Attached to: Apple Intros 17" Unibody MBP, DRM-Free iTunes

MacrumorsLive didn't crash. They took the site offline along with Macrumors.com to assess what happened instead of trying to fight 4Chan. Once they determined only MacrumorsLive was cracked they kept it offline (no chance of fixing the security issue in that time frame) and brought Macrumors.com back up as the servers are separate entities. Macrumors.com was only brought down just to be safe.

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