Pennycook - Slashdot User

Comment Re:UPS Rings Doorbells? (Score 5, Interesting) 363

by Pennycook on Sunday June 05, 2011 @11:42PM (#36346986) Attached to: English Teenager Invents a Better Doorbell

We've actually caught delivery guys posting us "You weren't in" cards in the past. Some of them are just really lazy and don't want to get your package out of the van if they can avoid it.

Comment "Strong passwords useless"? Hardly... (Score 1) 615

by Pennycook on Sunday June 05, 2011 @04:58PM (#36344794) Attached to: Cheap GPUs Rendering Strong Passwords Useless

From TFA: "It gets worse. Throw in a nine-character, mixed-case random password, and while a CPU would take a mind-numbing 43 years to crack this, the GPU would be done in 48 days."

Microsoft Sued Over Vista-To-XP Downgrade Fees 479

Posted by Soulskill on Friday February 13, 2009 @08:22PM from the can't-win-for-losing dept.

Krojack writes with this excerpt from Computerworld: "Los Angeles resident Emma Alvarado charged Microsoft with multiple violations of Washington state's unfair business practices and consumer protection laws over its policy of barring computer makers from continuing to offer XP on new PCs after Vista's early-2007 launch. Alvarado is seeking compensatory damages and wants the case declared a class-action suit. ... Irked at having to pay a fee for downgrading a new Lenovo notebook to XP, Alvarado said that Microsoft had used its position as the dominant operating system maker to 'require consumers to purchase computers pre-installed with the Vista operating system and to pay additional sums to "downgrade" to the Windows XP operating system.'"

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