Comment Re:You don't know shit. (Score 1) 427
what happened in 85? run out of bullets or something?
Submission + - Yahoo puts Altavista to death 2
An anonymous reader writes: Remember Altavista from the late 90s? Yahoo is finally pulling life support and letting Altavista die a noble death after over 15 years of hard service.
Comment Re:Just make patents full ownership (Score 2) 135
they'll just blame people making illegal copies and sue their next of kin
Comment Re:Never Underestimate 'em (Score 1) 272
some scooters are more dangerous than others
Comment at least googles eric schmidt (Score 1) 173
at least googles eric schmidt will be able to ditch his old blackberry for a new one.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2013/mar/21/eric-schmidt-blackberry-user
Submission + - Conroe company still using computers museums want to put on display (chron.com)
concealment writes: Sparkler Filters up north in Conroe still uses an IBM 402 in conjunction with a Model 129 key punch – with the punch cards and all – to do company accounting work and inventory.
The company makes industrial filters for chemical plants and grease traps.
Lutricia Wood is the head accountant at Sparkler and the data processing manager. She went to business school over 40 years ago in Houston, and started at Sparkler in 1973. Back then punch cards were still somewhat state of the art.
The company makes industrial filters for chemical plants and grease traps.
Lutricia Wood is the head accountant at Sparkler and the data processing manager. She went to business school over 40 years ago in Houston, and started at Sparkler in 1973. Back then punch cards were still somewhat state of the art.
Submission + - Thousands of SCADA, ICS Devices Exposed Through Serial Ports
Trailrunner7 writes: Serial port servers are admittedly old school technology that you might think had been phased out as new IT, SCADA and industrial control system equipment has been phased in. Metasploit creator HD Moore cautions you to think again.
Moore recently revealed that through his Critical IO project research, he discovered 114,000 such devices connected to the Internet, many with little in the way of authentication standing between an attacker and a piece of critical infrastructure or a connection onto a corporate network. More than 95,000 of those devices were exposed over mobile connections such as 3G or GPRS.
“The thing that opened my eyes was looking into common configurations; even if it required authentication to manage the device itself, it often didn’t require any authentication to talk to the serial port which is part of the device,” Moore told Threatpost. “At the end of the day, it became a backdoor to huge separate systems that shouldn’t be online anyway. Even though these devices do support authentication at various levels, most of the time it wasn’t configured for the serial port.”
Moore recently revealed that through his Critical IO project research, he discovered 114,000 such devices connected to the Internet, many with little in the way of authentication standing between an attacker and a piece of critical infrastructure or a connection onto a corporate network. More than 95,000 of those devices were exposed over mobile connections such as 3G or GPRS.
“The thing that opened my eyes was looking into common configurations; even if it required authentication to manage the device itself, it often didn’t require any authentication to talk to the serial port which is part of the device,” Moore told Threatpost. “At the end of the day, it became a backdoor to huge separate systems that shouldn’t be online anyway. Even though these devices do support authentication at various levels, most of the time it wasn’t configured for the serial port.”
Comment Re:A smart watch? (Score 1) 260
when squashed on public transport for a few hours a day and not enough space to take out a large phone? as a watch a flick could change the page while still holding onto a handrest.
also a way to communicate with said device via morse would be nice. niche but nice.
Comment Re:A smart watch? (Score 1) 260
my palms had 160x160 pixels and i read ebooks on them fine. played simcity and other games.
instead of a wrist watch maybe they could aim at a 21st century pocket watch. smaller than a phone aimed to sit in palm of hand. make it small enough and you could add a wrist strap like the early wrist watches
Comment Re:It's Sony... (Score 1) 344
in the same way the tobacco industry needed to recruit new young smokers to replace those killed by their products sony needs to replace those that are driven away by restricted hardware.
the kids and parents that buy the ps3 are those that haven't experienced the lockouts and restrictions enough to realise there are better companies to support.
on the plus side sony stores around dublin seem to be closing and their sales are slumping so maybe the message is filtering down.
Comment Re:Excellent Idea (Score 4, Funny) 81
screw that. it could reduce the repair costs on vending machines when if the machine is attacked for swallowing money it turns off the wifi (a pinball tilt switch should do). angry nerds will rush to defend the vending machine to get their wifi back.
Comment Re:Wait for Top Gear (Score 2) 426
he also has a podcast called fully charged that's worth watching. it's about electric/hybrid technology.
Comment so good apple tried to ban it! (Score 5, Insightful) 137
so good apple tried to ban it!
you can't buy advertising that good!
disclaimer-very happy with the 7" tab
Comment Re:Real Question (Score 1) 127
one
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lots
yeah i'm trollin'
Comment Re:I guess it was inevitable... (Score 1) 335
video chat?
i was using video chat on a nokia n70n when they came out 2005-2006? worked fine on 3g with other nokia devices. even when i was surrounded by granite at my home location. only made a few test calls as video calls then and now hold no interest for me. always saw it as technology in search of a market that doesn't really exist.
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