Comment So they could figure out how to use the #5 one? (Score 1) 73
They should also put up a bunch of ladders that people have to walk under and then sneak into people's houses and break their mirrors.
The Real Risks of Obama's BlackBerry 273
An anonymous reader writes "When the mainstream media first announced Barack Obama's 'victory' in keeping his BlackBerry, the focus was on the security of the device, and keeping the US president's e-mail communications private from spies and hackers. The news coverage and analysis by armchair security experts thus far has failed to focus on the real threat: attacks against President Obama's location privacy, and the potential physical security risks that come with someone knowing the president's real-time physical location. In this article, a CNET blogger digs into the real risks associated with the President carrying around a tracking device at all times."
Comment Re:Why bother? (Score 1) 87
It's an MMORPG, of course you're never going to "finish" it!
Whenever my friend tells me about what he's up to in WoW I always ask him if he'll have finished the game when he does that. It never gets old.
Comment Re:Any othetr industry?? ok, maybe a few. (Score 1) 456
Zippo lighters have only sold about 500 million.
As of 2005 Nokia has sold more than a billion phones.
As of 2005 Nokia has sold more than a billion phones.
Comment Re:How about... (Score 1) 456
There are about 15 billion zippers made per year and ykk makes well over 10% of them, so yeah, they've made more than a billion this year.
It's a good analogy, too. Neither mice nor zippers do much on their own, but make other things work much better.
Inside Dean Kamen's Seceded Island of Geekery 187
mattnyc99 writes "The new issue of Esquire has a long, in-depth, intricate profile of Dean Kamen and his quest to invent a better world. Earlier this month, we discussed Kamen's Sterling-electric car, but this piece goes into much more detail about how that engine works — he got the original idea from the upmodded Henry Ford artifact in the basement of his insane island lab — and about how his inventions often go overlooked, including the Slingshot water purifier that Stephen Colbert made famous but that no one has actually bought yet. Quoting: 'To get the Slingshot to the 20 percent of the world that doesn't have electricity, Kamen came up with the idea of splitting it in half. Leaving the Stirling aside, he would try to develop a market for his distiller in parts of the developing world that have electricity but not reliable clean water. "There are five hundred thousand little stores in Mexico," he says. "If we can put one of these in 10 percent of them, that's enough to put it in production." That may be the killer app for the distiller.' So, is this guy all hype with overpriced devices, or is time for someone to take his genius (Segway aside) to the mass market?"
Comment Re:Don't mention age at all (Score 1) 835
no, no! You wait until someone else gets hired before you sue.
Comment What do I know that he doesn't know? (Score 1) 835
I know that if I don't get this job I'm suing you for age discrimination not only for asking this age based question, but if you know the next guy is 23 and seem to care a lot about it, you are likely guilty and I'll finally be able to retire like I've wanted to for the past 15 years.
Comment Well it's about time! (Score 1) 448
It's been ages since the signatures were updated in MSAV. I was sort of hoping they'd just increment the version number on MSAV and see how many people actually remembered the old gem from DOS 6.2.
Microsoft To Offer Free Anti-Virus Software 448
Dynamoo writes "The good news is that Microsoft have announced free anti-virus software for consumers, dubbed Morro, available late next year. The bad news is ... well, exactly the same. Although Microsoft's anti-malware products are pretty good, this move could drive many competitors out of business and create a dangerous security monoculture; major rivals will be lawyering up already. On the other hand, many malware infections could be prevented even by basic software. So is this going to be a good or bad thing overall?"
Comment Anymore? Anymore? (Score 1) 366
Your use of the word anymore in a non-negative construction, combined with your desire to run an AIX desktop system make me question the validity of many of your life choices and decisionmaking abilities.
Comment SeaMan was excellent and non-violent. (Score 1) 329
SeaMan on the Sega Dreamcast was non-violent and encouraged interaction, they even did a good job making the lone character in the game quite passable as a personality and worked out voice recognition fairly well, also.
