Dox96 - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Minimum wage in the US (Score 1) 224

by Dox96 on Wednesday January 07, 2009 @01:30AM (#26354127) Attached to: Phishing Is a Minimum-Wage Job

Actually the article does address this - it states that statistics show that about 66% of the population have already been attacked by phishers (section 4.1.1), and that therefore there is limited scope for the expansion of the phishing industry.

Comment Re:Minimum wage in the US (Score 2, Insightful) 224

by Dox96 on Wednesday January 07, 2009 @01:25AM (#26354083) Attached to: Phishing Is a Minimum-Wage Job

I know you're trying to be funny, but logic dictates the exact opposite. Assuming that phishers would rather do ordinary work if it pays better, then the higher the minimum wage, then the number of phishers would be reduced until the amount received from phishing increases above the minimum wage.

Eliminating the minimum wage does the opposite - the number of phishers would increase until the return is reduced to such a level that they can't eat. At some point the amount of new phishers entering the phishing industry balances out with the number of phishers dying from starvation and you achieve equilibrium.

So there you have it - the higher the minimum wage, the lower the phishing; and conversely the lower the minimum wage, the higher the phishing. QED. :-)

Distributed "Nuclear Batteries" the New Infrastructure Answer? 611

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday January 05, 2009 @04:59PM from the not-in-my-backyard dept.

thepacketmaster writes "The Star reports about a new power generation model using smaller distributed power generators located closer to the consumer. This saves money on power generation lines and creates an infrastructure that can be more easily expanded with smaller incremental steps, compared to bigger centralized power generation projects. The generators in line for this are green sources, but Hyperion Power Generation, NuScale, Adams Atomic Engines (and some other companies) are offering small nuclear reactors to plug into this type of infrastructure. The generator from Hyperion is about the size of a garden shed, and uses older technology that is not capable of creating nuclear warheads, and supposedly self-regulating so it won't go critical. They envision burying reactors near the consumers for 5-10 years, digging them back up and recycling them. Since they are so low maintenance and self-contained, they are calling them nuclear batteries."

Comment Re:anti-globalism? (Score 1) 229

by Dox96 on Monday January 05, 2009 @07:22AM (#26328235) Attached to: How Web Advertising May Go

You've got to be kidding me! It's not socialist, it's 'nihilist', which, judging from its 'Goal' page, is a form of fascism. socialistworker.org would not associate itself with their views at all!

The Exact Cause of the Zune Meltdown 465

Posted by kdawson on Sunday January 04, 2009 @07:05PM from the off-by-one-every-four dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The Zune 30 failure became national news when it happened just three days ago. The source code for the bad driver leaked soon after, and now, someone has come up with a very detailed explanation for where the code was bad as well as a number of solutions to deal with it. From a coding/QA standpoint, one has to wonder how this bug was missed if the quality assurance team wasn't slacking off. Worse yet: this bug affects every Windows CE device carrying this driver."

Amtrak Photo Contestant Arrested By Amtrak Police 675

Posted by kdawson on Sunday January 04, 2009 @03:22PM from the what-we-have-here-is-a-failure-to-communicate dept.

Photographer Duane Kerzic was standing on the public platform in New York's Penn Station, taking pictures of trains in hopes of winning the annual photo contest that Amtrak had been running since 2003. Amtrak police arrested him for refusing to delete the photos when asked, though they later charged him with trespassing. "Obviously, there is a lack of communication between Amtrak's marketing department, which promotes the annual contest, called Picture Our Trains, and its police department, which has a history of harassing photographers for photographing these same trains. Not much different than the JetBlue incident from earlier this year where JetBlue flight attendants had a woman arrested for refusing to delete a video she filmed in flight while the JetBlue marketing department hosted a contest encouraging passengers to take photos in flight." Kerzic's blog has an account of the arrest on Dec. 21 and the aftermath.

Comment Capitalist hell (Score 1) 296

by Dox96 on Saturday January 03, 2009 @07:57PM (#26315323) Attached to: Protection From Online Eviction?

Of course AOL get absolutely nothing in exchange for their munificent free hosting that they provide? They're just doing it all out of the goodness of their hearts and can withdraw at any time, hey? And that's their right is it?

Wrong! "Free hosting" websites get traffic in exchange for content from their users. This traffic can be used for generating advertising revenue. I'm willing to bet that if these AOL services were as popular as Facebook, MySpace or Flickr they wouldn't be shutting them down. AOL was trying to build a valuable asset for themselves out of their users' blood, sweat and tears and when it didn't work out, coldly cut them off.

"Free" websites aren't free. It's a hosting for content type arrangement. Sure the hosting company provides free hosting, but the users provide the host free content. There's a two way street here.

Some of the comments here are so insensitive it's shocking. It's as if the company/landlord has all the rights and the users/tenants have absolutely none. Did you guys even read the comments associated with the OP? All these users, suddenly cut off, with no way to recover their data trying in desperation to get some help, all coldly ignored. AOL even ignored requests from the site developers to move the code to a non-profit organisation.

Seriously, why do you guys whinge and complain about Microsoft/Wall St/Enron/insert other ar$ehole company here when it's clear you all support a capitalist hell?

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