Comment Not laundry? (Score 1) 277
Did they only poll nudist colonies? Everyone I know would much rather have a laundry robot that sorts/washes/dries/folds than a dish robot. Dishwashers already do 90%+ of what I want done with dishes.
Comment Swearengen (Score 4, Funny) 98
all five actually work for the law firm Brydon, Swearengen & England in Jefferson City, Missouri.
Cocksuckers!
Comment Re: JuiceSSH is a nice terminal app (Score 1) 352
I'll put in another nod to JuiceSSH on the phone. Minimalistic for the most part, but that secondary keyboard that pops up has exactly what you need that phone keyboards don't while being easily hidden when you don't need it.
Comment Doing the math... (Score 5, Funny) 100
That's what? 10 Macbooks?
Comment New ranged weapon (Score 1) 368
When do they add the throwable chair?
Comment Re:In nearly 15 years, I've never done this... (Score 1) 347
If this joke goes over someone's head who's sufficiently dense, does that affect it's arrival time?
Comment Re:Bah, we already said goodbye to CTRL-S years ag (Score 1) 521
Derr, nevermind. You were saying the same thing. The - threw me off.
Comment Re:Bah, we already said goodbye to CTRL-S years ag (Score 1) 521
:w
Comment Re:painted into a corner... (Score 1) 403
Ah, the Machete Order http://static.nomachetejugglin...
My favourite is actually a slight variation:
4 - A New Hope
5 - Empire Strikes Back
1 - The Phantom Edit (Fan edit version with lots of the hokey crap taken out. Actually makes it a decent movie. It's mentioned in the link above).
2 - Attack of the Clones
3 - Revenge of the Sith
6 - Return of the Jedi
Comment Re:Don't worry, NSA will still buy American (Score 1) 208
Maybe 200 years in the future they managed to make flash memory ultra thin and flexible, and decided to string them end to end to be read or written sequentially?
Comment Re:Range is the issue (Score 1) 258
Why did you even mention gasoline?
Wait... so you're saying there's times when using a car analogy on slashdot ISN'T appropriate?
Submission + - iOS 7 Updates Silently Removes Encryption for Email Attachments (thehackernews.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Apple has removed encrypted email attachments from iOS 7. Apple said back in June 2010 in regards to iOS 4.0: "Data protection is available for devices that offer hardware encryption, including iPhone 3GS and later, all iPad models, and iPod touch (3rd generation and later). Data protection enhances the built-in hardware encryption by protecting the hardware encryption keys with your passcode. This provides an additional layer of protection for your email messages attachments, and third-party applications." Not anymore.
Comment Re:Triple dipping? (Score 1) 135
Oh wait, that's right, you keep going on and on about their monopoly.
Seriously? I never once mentioned monopoly. None of the 3 articles I linked mentioned monopoly once. So... never constitutes going on and on. Idiot.
Seriously? I never once mentioned monopoly. None of the 3 articles I linked mentioned monopoly once. So... never constitutes going on and on. Idiot.
Comment Re:Triple dipping? (Score 2) 135
Older article, but talks about how ISPs are making huge margins while actually reducing their capital investments:
http://arstechnica.com/tech-po...
Two more recent articles looking at the margins ISPs make:
http://techcrunch.com/2011/07/...
http://gigaom.com/2011/05/12/n...
True revenue and profit reports aren't easy to get ahold of for the big ISPs. Yes, I'm sure the profits are higher in higher density areas. No, I never made any comparisons to prices paid in North America vs. Europe and Asia. The fact remains that the big ISPs took huge amounts of money SPECIFICALLY to provide broadband to rural areas. They can't then turn around and say they couldn't do it because the cost was prohibitive due to population density. They knew the populations when they took the money. You make a statement like the big providers are going bankrupt and tell me I have no idea what I'm talking about, without providing any sources?
http://arstechnica.com/tech-po...
Two more recent articles looking at the margins ISPs make:
http://techcrunch.com/2011/07/...
http://gigaom.com/2011/05/12/n...
True revenue and profit reports aren't easy to get ahold of for the big ISPs. Yes, I'm sure the profits are higher in higher density areas. No, I never made any comparisons to prices paid in North America vs. Europe and Asia. The fact remains that the big ISPs took huge amounts of money SPECIFICALLY to provide broadband to rural areas. They can't then turn around and say they couldn't do it because the cost was prohibitive due to population density. They knew the populations when they took the money. You make a statement like the big providers are going bankrupt and tell me I have no idea what I'm talking about, without providing any sources?
Submission + - AOL finally admits they were hacked
pdclarry writes: Anyone managing email servers or lists has suspected for several weeks a major hack of AOL's servers, based on a sudden spurt in spam ostensibly from AOL email addresses (but actually spoofed) and sent to the contact lists of those AOL accounts. Of course, there is a steady stream of such spam from hacked individual accounts on many services, but the magnitude and suddenness of the most recent spam attack argues against individual account invasions.
Well, AOL has finally come clean. Apparently individuals unknown accessed AOL's servers and took screen names, account information including mailing addresses, contact lists, encrypted passwords and encrypted answers to security questions. And possibly credit card information. AOL claims that it affects "only" 2% of their members, but recommends that everyone change their passwords and security questions.
Well, AOL has finally come clean. Apparently individuals unknown accessed AOL's servers and took screen names, account information including mailing addresses, contact lists, encrypted passwords and encrypted answers to security questions. And possibly credit card information. AOL claims that it affects "only" 2% of their members, but recommends that everyone change their passwords and security questions.
