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Comment Re:And the ongoing infestation of hackers and bots (Score 2, Informative) 108

by Get on the boat (#32278726) Attached to: <em>Aion</em> Servers To Merge, XP Grind Softened

One might suggest keeping such indignant retorts and demands (addressed directly to the game producer no less) to the Aion website News comments section.

As completely ignored as that comment section is by the GMs, to say nothing of Chris Hager himself, it's at least a degree of separation closer than posting a reply on slashdot.

Just saying.

Comment Re:Ironic, the whole article IS an AD! (Score 1) 417

by Get on the boat (#28974783) Attached to: Will Mainstream Media Embrace Adblockers?

It's idiocy...a major paid-content provider, a company that with absolute certainty has innumerable inseverable ties with advertisers, would publicly advocate blocking advertisement?

Author should have just stuck to the technical aspect of ad blocking, not wildly postulate about business models he clearly has no understanding of.
Patents

Submission + - Small East Texas Companies Targeted by Patentees

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: In a sign that patent trolls are getting desperate to keep their cases in East Texas, some have taken to suing tiny, no-name companies that are run by East Texas residents. The hope is that the judge will keep the entire case in East Texas if at least one defendant is located there. Nate Neel, a Longview, Texas resident with a small open source software company called CitiWare, was sued by Bedrock Computer Technologies in June despite (he claims) having no customers or other meaningful operations of any kind. In response, Mr. Neel has posted a strongly worded letter to Bedrock's attorneys on his website. It will be interesting to see how East Texas judges respond to this abuse of process perpetrated against their own residents.
Patents

Submission + - USPTO Gives Microsoft Credit for Lotus' Homework

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theodp
theodp writes: "On Tuesday, the USPTO granted Microsoft a patent for 'Email Emotiflags' despite ample evidence of a circa-1996 Lotus Notes precedent called Mood Stamps, sender-chosen emoticons that appear next to inbox messages. Among those seemingly aware of the existence of Mood Stamps is Microsoft Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie, who appears to have fielded questions about the feature while at Lotus. While simply Googling for 'Email Emotiflags' would have turned up evidence of this prior art (including a /. discussion), the USPTO came up empty after instead going with the more-upscale Google Scholar and patent databases for its search effort. Can we count on Ozzie to do-the-right-thing and give the USPTO a heads-up?"
Security

Submission + - Hacking Nuclear Command And Control

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The Walking Dude
The Walking Dude writes: "The International Commission on Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament (ICNND) has released an unclassified report exploring the possibility of cyber terrorists launching nuclear weapons. Ominous exploits include unreliable early warning sensors, unsecure nuclear weapons storage, transportation blunders, breaches in the chain of command, and the use of Windows on nuclear submarines. A traditional large-scale terrorist attack, such as the 2008 Mumbai attacks, could be combined with computer network operations in an attempt to start a nuclear war. Amidst the confusion of the traditional attack, communications could be disrupted, false declarations of war could be issued on both sides, and early warning sensors could be spoofed. Adding to this is the short time frame in which a retaliatory nuclear response must be decided upon, in some cases as little as 15 minutes. The amount of firepower that could be unleashed in these 15 minutes would be equivalent to approximately 100,000 Hiroshima bombs."

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