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Comrade, You Are So Not Getting a Dell 600

Posted by kdawson on Friday January 30, 2009 @01:37PM from the touchy-touchy dept.

theodp writes "At the World Economic Forum, Michael Dell's pitch to help Russia with its computers got the cold-as-Siberia shoulder from Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. 'We don't need help,' shot back Putin. 'We are not invalids. We don't have limited mental capacity' (video — rant starts at 1:24). 'Our programmers are some of the best in the world,' Putin continued. 'No one would contest that here — not even our Indian colleagues.'"

No More Space Tourists After 2009, Russia Says 105

Posted by timothy on Wednesday January 21, 2009 @03:38PM from the after-gathering-up-all-of-these-box-tops dept.

mknewman writes with disappointing news for anyone with the money that it would have cost to fly as a space tourist, excerpting a story that says "Russia's space chief says there won't be any more tourists headed to the international space station after this year. Anatoly Perminov told the government newspaper Rossiiskaya Gazeta that there will be no room for paying tourists because the space station's crew is expanding from three members to six."

Comment Re:RIP Micron (Score 1) 137

by Eclipse5302 on Friday January 02, 2009 @08:40PM (#26306893) Attached to: MPC Computers Shutting Down

They bought Gateway's business line...

Comment Re:Open by choice? (Score 1) 209

by Eclipse5302 on Monday August 11, 2008 @08:14AM (#24554117) Attached to: Defcon "Warballoon" Finds 1/3 of Wireless Networks Unsecured

From what I've read, the search for the culprit typically stops at the ISP...when they get their name-to-ip mapping.

So it's then up to the internet connection owner to prove that he wasn't downloading / uploading. And from what I've read, no one seems to be able make that argument properly.

The smart people know that thanks to a little thing called NAT, there is almost no way to track users in a situation like that, unless the router is question is keeping DHCP, MAC, and access logs...to which your standard Linksys isn't doing.

Oh and I found out about it when I was working on their PC; one of them mentioned something about the connection being down and not being able to download music. I was really happy to hear that...

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