RootWind - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Happened to one my accounts as well (Score 1) 139

by RootWind on Tuesday April 20, 2010 @08:10PM (#31917296) Attached to: Escalating Gmail/Spamming Attacks

This is what was in the details before I changed the password last week:
Mobile Algeria (41.103.164.236) Apr 14 (6 days ago)
Mobile Serbia (94.189.168.76) Apr 14 (6 days ago)
Mobile Saudi Arabia (77.64.47.176) Apr 9
Mobile United States (TX) (208.54.171.181) Apr 7

From people describing that they see Texas and Serbia activity. It sounds almost like it's all the same "entity"?

Comment Happened to one my accounts as well (Score 3, Interesting) 139

by RootWind on Tuesday April 20, 2010 @07:54PM (#31917188) Attached to: Escalating Gmail/Spamming Attacks

This happened to a gmail account that I use specifically just to auto-forward e-mails. I never log-in to it since all it does is forward, and it had a pretty secure password. I would imagine a spammer wouldn't just brute-force random accounts?

Comment Re:I don't get it? (Score 5, Informative) 226

by RootWind on Friday April 02, 2010 @12:48PM (#31707572) Attached to: Android's "Flea Market" Needs Urgent Attention

http://www.cyrket.com/ http://www.androlib.com/ http://www.appbrain.com/ http://www.androidzoom.com/ Just to name a few... Sure, one by Google might be nice.

Comment On the Flip Side (Score 2, Interesting) 349

by RootWind on Monday September 07, 2009 @12:51PM (#29341589) Attached to: Placebos Are Getting More Effective

Placebo also has the most side effects of any drug on record.

Comment Actually GOO enables a second hand market (Score 5, Informative) 232

by RootWind on Thursday March 26, 2009 @12:31PM (#27343791) Attached to: Stardock, Microsoft Unveil Their Own New Anti-Piracy Methods

With GOO, you are able to decouple your e-mail from the game and transfer ownership.

Comment Not correct (Score 2, Informative) 273

by RootWind on Thursday February 12, 2009 @05:27PM (#26833899) Attached to: The Real Risks of Obama's BlackBerry

He most likely has both, as Obama has been seen using a blackberry while president: http://i.gizmodo.com/5144129/the-secrets-of-obamas-email

Comment The answer to reducing illegal file-sharing (Score 4, Insightful) 309

by RootWind on Sunday February 01, 2009 @12:35PM (#26684875) Attached to: Will the New RIAA Tactic Boost P2P File Sharing?

How about producing music people actually want to buy?

Comment Re:It freaks me out... (Score 4, Informative) 358

by RootWind on Sunday January 25, 2009 @12:01PM (#26598423) Attached to: Obama To Launch Website For Tracking Tax Expenditures

You might want to revisit that story. Somewhere a long the way, the Obama administration putting a stay on all pending cases (including wiretapping) somehow means he "supports" warrantless wiretapping. You might notice Obama has yet to get his Attorney General pick confirmed. So Obama has yet to actually support warrantless wiretapping. Whether he will or will not will be a story for another day.

Comment Looks like it is Launch Exclusive (Score 1) 617

by RootWind on Friday January 09, 2009 @11:19AM (#26386667) Attached to: Palm Announces Killer New Phone

Looks like Sprint only has a launch exclusive, so you can be sure the Verizon and U.S. GSM iterations will soon follow a few months after.

Comment Discuss/Consider = Action? (Score 1) 491

by RootWind on Sunday January 04, 2009 @11:41AM (#26320213) Attached to: Obama Moves To Link Pentagon With NASA

I'm not entirely sure whether Obama will actually pursue this, but I notice a trend going on. Maybe it's just me, but it seems like every time any idea is discussed, the press seems to make the assumption that the Obama administration is actually going to pursue it (and unmodified). Are they just not use to the idea of actual discussion about choices?

Submission + - Nintendo holds 20 best selling games in Japan

Submitted by moderatorrater on Thursday May 10, 2007 @12:18PM

moderatorrater writes: Further evidence of Nintendo's dominance comes from Japans sales charts for last week. The top 21 games were all for either the Wii or the DS and all but 6 were published by Nintendo themselves.

Submission + - Safeguards Set for RIAA Hard Drive Inspection

Submitted by

NewYorkCountryLawyer

on Saturday April 21, 2007 @04:28PM

NewYorkCountryLawyer writes: "In SONY v. Arellanes, an RIAA case in Sherman, Texas, the Court entered a protective order (pdf), which spells out the following procedure for the RIAA's examination of the defendant's hard drive: (1) RIAA imaging specialist makes mirror image of hard drive; (2) mutually acceptable computer forensics expert makes make 2 verified bit images, and creates an MD5 or equivalent hash code; (3) one mirror image is held in escrow by the expert, the other given to defendant's lawyer for a 'privilege review'; (4) defendant's lawyer provides plaintiffs' lawyer with a "privilege log" (list of privileged files); (5) after privilege questions are resolved, the escrowed image — with privileged files deleted — will be turned over to RIAA lawyers, to be held for 'lawyers' eyes only'. The order differs from the earlier order (pdf) entered in the case, in that it (a) permits the RIAA's own imaging person to make the initial mirror image and (b) spells out the details of the method for safeguarding privilege and privacy."

Journal Journal: Safari Attack Worth $10,000

Journal by twitter on Friday April 20, 2007 @10:18PM

In an article with scant details, The Register reports a successful Mac attack:

Submission + - SCO vs. IBM Leaks Exposed

Submitted by

Xenographic

on Sunday April 08, 2007 @12:18AM

Xenographic writes: "Remember all the fuss about SCO subpoenaing PJ of Groklaw, where they allege that she's funded by IBM because she once got a publicly available document from a volunteer at the courthouse a little before it hit the Court's website? That's nothing. Groklaw has a story evidence that other materials have been leaked in this case — but they weren't leaked to Groklaw, and they weren't leaked by IBM. Information about the sealed materials in question made its way to Maureen O'Gara, who wrote a story based on inside information, displaying a positively uncanny insight into what SCO was planning, including far more than just the sealed document a SCO lawyer read out loud in open court. Interestingly, several witnesses report that Maureen O'Gara did not even attend that hearing, leaving us to speculate about her source."

Journal Journal: April Fool's Submissions Overboard and Underfunny 2

Journal by evought on Sunday April 01, 2007 @08:08PM

I agree with some of the comments and submissions I have seen today that the yearly stupidity on Slashdot is just plain dumb. Unfortunately, these comments are drowned out. One or two good hoaxes would have made my day. ("Google Paper" was actually quite good). A score of idiotic and unbelievable posts just ruins the site and real news is buried. Having looked through the Firehose at several points today, there have been several serious submissions that have been voted up but have never made

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