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Comment Re:Bonuses? (Score 2) 30

by BrianMulholland (#64831595) Attached to: Sonos Unveils Overhaul Plan After App Debacle

Agreed. I can't believe they're trying to show how serious they are about changing, by threatening to take away their own bonuses "unless the company succeeds in improving the quality of the app experience and rebuilding customer trust". How much do you want to bet that the Sonos leadership team will decide that they've met those goals by the time bonuses are due??

Comment Sonos CEO Patrick Spence is Lying (Score 3) 24

by BrianMulholland (#64691860) Attached to: Sonos Delays Two New Products As It Races To Fix Buggy App

He's trying to claim that the issue is "stubborn bugs" they "had not discovered in our testing", but which they found as they "rolled out the new software to more and more users"?? I call BS. They released the new version in May; yes it was somewhat buggy, but the main problem was that this version was completely MISSING a ton of core features that the previous versions of the app used to have. They shoved this down everyone's throats, way before the new app was ready.

I suspect what really happened is that they wanted to launch their new headphones in May, and they built the headphone functionality into the new app only, hoping it would be ready by May. When May came around and the new app was only half-finished, they released it anyway so that they didn't have to delay the headphone launch. But as a result, it completely disrupted the vast majority of their users. Either way, it's been very frustrating... and unfortunately, myself and many other Sonos users have invested hundreds or thousands of dollars on their hardware, so we're effectively stuck with them, even when they screw everything up like this. But I wouldn't suggest Sonos to anyone at this point, after what they did here.
Biotech

Geneticist Claims Human Evolution Is Over 857

Posted by samzenpus from the flame-on dept.
GogglesPisano writes "UK geneticist Steve Jones gave a presentation entitled Human Evolution Is Over. He asserts that human beings have stopped evolving because modern social customs have lowered the age at which human males have offspring, which results in fewer of the mutations necessary to drive evolutionary change. Apparently the fate of our species now depends upon older guys hooking up with younger woman. I, for one, welcome this development."
Encryption

Google's Obfuscated TCP 392

Posted by kdawson from the shake-hands-when-you-say-that dept.
agl42 writes "Obfuscated TCP attempts to provide a cheap opportunistic encryption scheme for HTTP. Though SSL has been around for years, most sites still don't use it by default. By providing a less secure, but computationally and administratively cheaper, method of encryption, we might be able to increase the depressingly small fraction of encrypted traffic on the Internet. There's an introduction video explaining it."
Caldera

SCO Loses 643

Posted by Zonk from the finish-him dept.
An anonymous reader writes "The one summary judgement that puts a stick into SCO's spokes has just come down. The judge in the epic SCO case has ruled that SCO doesn't own the Unix copyrights. With that one decision, a whole bunch of other decisions will fall like dominoes. As PJ says, 'That's Aaaaall, Folks! ... All right, all you Doubting Thomases. I double dog dare you to complain about the US court system now. I told you if you would just be patient, I had confidence in the system's ability to sort this out in the end. But we must say thank you to Novell and especially to its legal team for the incredible work they have done. I know it's not technically over and there will be more to slog through, but they won what matters most, and it's been a plum pleasin' pleasure watching you work. The entire FOSS community thanks you for your skill and all the hard work and thanks go to Novell for being willing to see this through."

Portrait of an Identity Thief 335

Posted by ScuttleMonkey from the getting-off-easy dept.
Ant writes to tell us that the New York Times has a closer look and an interview with an identity theft addict. From the article: "As far back as 2002, Mr. Sharma began picking the locks on consumer credit lines using a computer, the Internet and a deep understanding of online commerce, Internet security and simple human nature, obtained through years of trading insights with like-minded thieves in online forums. And he deployed the now-common rods and reels of data theft -- e-mail solicitations and phony Web sites -- that fleece the unwitting."

Malware Installed by LiveJournal Ad 199

Posted by CowboyNeal from the egg-on-face dept.
Jamesday writes "LiveJournal recently introduced an ad-supported level. Over the last few days an advertiser used an ad to install the ErrorSafe malware that tried to trick people into believing they had a fault on the computer that needs them to purchase a fix. The ad used a server-side setting and targetted only those outside the US, to prevent LiveJournal's own checks from noticing it. LiveJournal has apologized for the ad and slow response." Even our readers have had to endure more than one browser-crashing ad campaign from time to time. Thanks for sticking around.

Intel's 3D Transistors One Step Closer to Reality 69

Posted by ScuttleMonkey from the closing-your-leaks dept.
An anonymous reader writes "Reducing power consumption is the name of the game in today's semiconductors and Intel today described its tri-gate transistor technology as one of the key technologies that could free the company from the trap of thinner gate insulators and increasing current leakage. Tri-gate (three gates instead of only one) could reduce the power consumption of transistors by 35% right now and drops off-voltage - one of the main sources of current leakage - by 50%. These results are the good news. The bad news is that tri-gate won't be available until 2009."

Rain Drops Signal Cell Phones 86

Posted by Zonk from the re-using-technology dept.
An anonymous reader writes "Signals from mobile phone masts have been used to measure rainfall patterns in Israel, scientists report. From the BBC article: 'The University of Tel-Aviv analyzed information routinely collected by mobile networks and say their technique is more accurate than current methods used by meteorological services. The data is a by-product of mobile network operators' need to monitor signal strength. If bad weather causes a signal to drop, an automatic system analyzing the data boosts the signal to make sure that people can still use their mobile phones. The amount of reduction in signal strength gave the researchers an indication of how much rain had fallen.'"

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