Elite Override - Slashdot User

Comment We're still calling DDOS a hack? (Score 1) 86

by Elite Override on Sunday January 04, 2015 @12:14PM (#48730381) Attached to: Hackers Leak Xbox One SDK Claiming Advancement In Openness and Homebrew

"Days after a major hack took its servers offline on Christmas day"
Why is it such a difficult concept to grasp? Or is it simply exaggeration to get attention?

Comment Re:Fucking fucking fucking fucking shitbags (Score 1) 688

by Elite Override on Tuesday April 29, 2014 @02:34PM (#46870565) Attached to: Firefox 29: Redesign

My Firefox (Nighly 31) has View Page Source as a top-level menu.

Submission + - Linode hacked, CCs and passwords leaked 6

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 15, 2013 @11:45AM

An anonymous reader writes: On Friday Linode announced a precautionary password reset due to an attack despite claiming that they were not compromised. The attacker has claimed otherwise, claiming to have obtained card numbers and password hashes. Password hashes, source code fragments and directory listings have been released as proof. Linode has yet to comment on or deny these claims.

Comment How... (Score 1) 215

by Elite Override on Monday March 04, 2013 @02:31PM (#43070547) Attached to: DRM Chair Self-Destructs After 8 Uses

...is this useful?

Comment Re:"...for the flagship Lumia 820 handset..." (Score 3, Insightful) 129

by Elite Override on Friday January 18, 2013 @12:14PM (#42626049) Attached to: Nokia To Release Lumia Case Design Files For 3D Printers

I'll probably get downvoted for this, but the US is not the only country in the world. If its the flagship everywhere else, we should consider it THE flagship. I'm curious, does the carrier exclusivity expire in the US? Or will the 920 only ever be available from one carrier? This kind of practice has always seemed to me like it should be illegal...or severely limited.

Comment "...for the flagship Lumia 820 handset..." (Score 3, Interesting) 129

by Elite Override on Friday January 18, 2013 @11:39AM (#42625735) Attached to: Nokia To Release Lumia Case Design Files For 3D Printers

I'd rather say the 920 is their flagship, having better features and all that.

Comment Not quite an iPhone (Score 1) 184

by Elite Override on Sunday April 15, 2012 @10:15AM (#39692861) Attached to: Microsoft Passed On iPhone-Like Device In 1991

It doesn't look all that much like an iPhone...although the feature set is similar. He was way ahead of his time though.

Comment Re:For more please see... (Score 2) 256

by Elite Override on Monday April 09, 2012 @01:55PM (#39620909) Attached to: IT Calls of Shame

Not directly related to tech support, but www.notalwaysright.com is also pretty amusing.

Comment No surprises here (Score 1) 278

by Elite Override on Monday April 09, 2012 @11:52AM (#39619443) Attached to: Major Textbook Publishers Sue Open-Education Textbook Start-Up

Who didn't expect this to happen?

Submission + - Flashback Trojan Hits 600,000 Macs and Counting (techweekeurope.co.uk)

Submitted by

twoheadedboy

on Thursday April 05, 2012 @07:23AM

twoheadedboy writes: "A Flashback variant dubbed Backdoor.Flashback.39 has infected over 600,000 Macs, according to Russian security firm Dr Web. The virulent Flashback trojan infecting Apple machines sparked interest earlier this week after it was seen exploiting a Java vulnerability, although it was actually first discovered back in September last year. The Trojan has a global reach after Dr Web found infected Macs in most countries. More than half of the Macs infected are in the US (56.6 percent), while another 19.8 percent are in Canada. The UK has 12.8 percent of infected Macs."

Submission + - Next Great Depression? MIT researchers predict 'global economic collapse' by2030 (yahoo.com)

Submitted by suraj.sun on Thursday April 05, 2012 @05:52AM

suraj.sun writes: A new study from researchers at Jay W. Forrester's institute at MIT says that the world could suffer from "global economic collapse" and "precipitous population decline" if people continue to consume the world's resources at the current pace(http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/next-great-depression-mit-researchers-predict-global-economic-190352944.html). The study's researchers created a computing model to forecast different scenarios based on the current models of population growth and global resource consumption, different levels of agricultural productivity, birth control and environmental protection efforts. Most of the computer scenarios found population and economic growth continuing at a steady rate until about 2030. But without "drastic measures for environmental protection," the scenarios predict the likelihood of a population and economic crash.

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