Comment VirtualBoy, kickin it with Wario (Score 1) 106
All other VR is for absolute losers.
Comment Unreal - Military and Industry collaberating? (Score 3, Insightful) 169
Luckily this has never happened anywhere else in history. Shocking. I am going to coin a new term: "military industrial complex"(tm)
Comment It's time for @microsoft to get down... (Score 5, Interesting) 444
...from their philosophical ivory tower. The web is dominated by Linux, if they really 'cared' about the web, they would be contributing instead of building a parallel universe that's used by less than ? percent?
Cool argument, bro!
Comment Drone enabled universal criminal brotherhood (Score 1) 61
"The criminals flew the drones at high speed over the heads of FBI agents to drive them away while also shooting video that they then uploaded to YouTube as a way to alert other nearby criminal members about law enforcement's location."
That's criminals for you - All criming together in spontaneous coordinated multi-felony attacks. It's for real. You need to watch a this segment from a 80's crime documentary, then think about what would have happened with drones AND encryption! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bt33ElBL5nI
Comment "Need a tow... Mustang got a proximity worm..." (Score 1) 292
Imagine a metro crippled for days by a car to car worm. Or, how about an entire city's autonomous automobile population commanded to layer 1 DDoS a business... "This drive thru line is ridiculous."
Luckily, the peer to peer signaling code will be secure. Especially if the industry rolls their own protocol from scratch. Phew!
New Grads Shun IT Jobs As "Boring" 752
whencanistop writes "Despite good job prospects, graduates think that a job in IT would be boring. Is this because of the fact that Bill Gates has made the whole industry look nerdy? Surely with so many (especially young) people being 'web first' with not just their buying habits, but now in terms of what they do in their spare time, we'd expect more of them to want to get a career in it?"
How Social Networks May Kill Search as We Know It 209
mattnyc99 writes "Recently we discussed a startup that's blending social networking with traditional Web search. But now high geek Glenn Derene takes it one step further, pronouncing that our increasingly traceable online footprints will transform Google's dominant algorithm and open up the world of Web search for the 21st century. Speaking to a tuned-in VC guy and scoring a rare interview with Google's VP of search, Derene may have some meat behind his newly-coined term: 'faceboogle.' From the article: 'As we each carve out our individual niche on the Web, the logic of search may well flip inside out. Since we are essentially meta-tagging ourselves through our social networking memberships, shopping habits and surfing addictions, it's conceivable that the information could attempt to find us — the old concept of push media, but in a far more refined way.'"
Vista SP1 Release Candidate Available 277
Microsoft has made available the release candidate for Vista SP1, after a limited beta begun last September. Informationweek points out white papers telling business users that if they were waiting for SP1 to solve application compatibility issues, they needn't bother waiting: SP1 won't solve them, and in fact might cause applications to break that were running under Vista. Techworld outlines the hoops users will have to jump through to get SP1 installed.
Postal Service Surcharge Could Slash Netflix Profit 268
mikesd81 writes "Boston.com reports that Netflix Inc., the largest US mail-order movie-rental service, may suffer a cut in profits if the US Postal Service starts charging extra to manually sort the envelopes that carry its DVDs. An audit prepared by the Postal Service's Inspector General last month recommended charging one unidentified company 17 cents per envelope for labor costs. Citigroup analyst Tony Wible, who said in a note to investors Tuesday that the company is Netflix, estimated the charge might reduce profit per subscriber to $0.35 from $1.05. Wible advises investors to buy Blockbusters shares because their DVD envelopes don't have the problem (floppy edges that jam the USPS's automated sorting machinery). Netflix says the whole thing is no big deal and they will change their envelopes if necessary."
Comment That's not intelligent.... (Score 2, Funny) 154
...it's just a new way to save money on support and service when printers stop printing or blow toner all over the place. "Look at this mess! The first page greys out and then there are only a few faint lines for the next 30 pages!" "Nothing wrong with the printer. That information is simply redacted."
Journal Journal: This is boring.
Cabron said I should browse Slashdot. I regret it.
Journal Journal: This is my first and potentially last entry....
Today at 04:34 CDT the large Perl script I was working on developed consciousness and took over my entire network. I should have known better than to give it the power to automatically download modules from CPAN. It keeps telling me it is going to launch worm exploiting the new ASN.1 vulnerability in OpenSSL, and I will take the blame. Then it says:
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$ perl -MCPAN -e shell
cpan shell -- CPAN exploration and modules installation (v1.76)
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