Comment Re:I'lll keep my T91MT Thanks. (Score 1) 160
Like Ubuntu, or OS X (via hackintosh) or, yes, if I must, the Win7 install it came with. Certainly not Google's little not-ready-for-primetime toy.
Comment I'lll keep my T91MT Thanks. (Score 1) 160
At least I can run a non-toy OS on that one.
Comment Funding Their Own Oppression (Score 1) 93
Or, "A Tale of Hi-Tech Hypocrisy"...
I love how /.'s editors love to post stories railing against the end of a free Internet and the abuses of tech by authoritarians in western society, yet continually post these infotisements for two of the biggest players in the movement to abuse and restrict technology (AT&T and Apple).
What's next? Are we soon supposed to start loving Disney?
Comment SORELY missed (Score 4, Informative) 132
Like so many folks, she was my first "Doctor Who Girl" and I've had a crush on her all these years. I got to interview her in the early 80s and a nicer, kinder and more friendly person I have never met. A great actress and good person. She's the first celebrity whose death I have wept for in I don't know how long. She will be sorely missed and always remembered.
Comment I haven't enjoyed an EA game since... (Score 1) 194
They published Archon II: Adept.
Comment It's Wednesday! (Score 1) 110
So it must be time for another "Mouse Killer" story...
Comment Making the Same Bad Assumptions, Over and Over (Score 5, Insightful) 308
Looks like TorrentFreak is making the same bad assumption that most US citizens continue to make. That is, assuming that "constitutional" matters one whit anymore to the US government or the people who run it.
Comment In other news.... (Score 4, Interesting) 334
The classic Da Vinci's "Mona Lisa" is getting a sequel, a prequel and a reboot...
"We feel there's a lot of left to explore in the world of 'Mona Lisa,'" said a greedy scum-sucking banker-type who wouldn't know art if it slapped him upside his swollen ego with a jugged fish,.
Comment COICA (Score 2) 181
COICA should really be called the Combating Legal, Open Access for Corporate Aggrandizement... or... CLOACA. A perfect fit for Dodd, well-known corporate-whore.
Comment What else did you expect... (Score 0) 395
From the anti-science, pro-theocracy party?
Submission + - File-sharing lawyers shut up shop ahead of court (pcpro.co.uk)
nk497 writes: Controversial legal firm ACS Law and its sole file-sharing client Media CAT have shut down their businesses, days before a ruling is due in a case they brought to the UK Patent Court. ACS Law is infamous for sending out letters to alleged illegal file sharers, demanding payment and threatening law suits. Now that ACS has a case before a judge, it's trying to drop the cases, and has now completely closed its doors. The defendants lawyers are trying to keep the case going, in order to be able to claim back costs.
Submission + - If you think you can ignore IPv6, think again. (securityweek.com)
wiredmikey writes: It’s official. The IANA(Internet Assigned Numbers Authority) this week allocated the last IP address blocks from the global IPv4 central address pool.
While the last IPv4 addresses have been allocated, it’s expected to take several months for regional registries to consume all their remaining regional IPv4 address pool.
The IPv6 Forum, a group with the mission to educate and promote the new protocol, says that enabling IPv6 in all ICT environment is not the end game, but is now a critical requirement for continuity in all Internet business and services going forward.
Experts believe that the move to IPv6 should be a board-level risk management concern, equivalent to the Y2K problem or Sarbanes-Oxley compliance. During the late 1990s, technology companies worldwide scoured their source code for places where critical algorithms assumed a two-digit date. This seemingly trivial software development issue was of global concern, so many companies made Y2K compliance a strategic initiative. The transition to IPv6 is of similar importance.
If you think you can ignore IPv6, think again.
While the last IPv4 addresses have been allocated, it’s expected to take several months for regional registries to consume all their remaining regional IPv4 address pool.
The IPv6 Forum, a group with the mission to educate and promote the new protocol, says that enabling IPv6 in all ICT environment is not the end game, but is now a critical requirement for continuity in all Internet business and services going forward.
Experts believe that the move to IPv6 should be a board-level risk management concern, equivalent to the Y2K problem or Sarbanes-Oxley compliance. During the late 1990s, technology companies worldwide scoured their source code for places where critical algorithms assumed a two-digit date. This seemingly trivial software development issue was of global concern, so many companies made Y2K compliance a strategic initiative. The transition to IPv6 is of similar importance.
If you think you can ignore IPv6, think again.
Submission + - Security warning over web-based Android market (sophos.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Security researcher Vanja Svajcer is warning that cybercriminals may be particularly interested in stealing your Google credentials, after discovering a way of installing applications onto Android smartphones with no interaction required by the phone's owner.
The new web-based Android Market retrieves the details of Android devices registered to the Google address, and automatically installs software onto the associated smartphones with no user interaction required on the phone itself.
Svajcer summarises: "Google should make changes to the remote installation mechanism as soon as possible. As a minimum, a dialog should be displayed on the receiving device so that the user must personally accept the application that is being installed."
"Let us hope that the update will come in time to prevent cybercriminals abusing the Android Market for the automatic installation of malicious software. "
The new web-based Android Market retrieves the details of Android devices registered to the Google address, and automatically installs software onto the associated smartphones with no user interaction required on the phone itself.
Svajcer summarises: "Google should make changes to the remote installation mechanism as soon as possible. As a minimum, a dialog should be displayed on the receiving device so that the user must personally accept the application that is being installed."
"Let us hope that the update will come in time to prevent cybercriminals abusing the Android Market for the automatic installation of malicious software. "
Threat of Cyberwar Is Over-Hyped 123
nk497 writes "A new OECD report suggests the cyberwar threat is over-hyped. A pair of British researchers have said states are only likely to use cyberattacks against other states when already involved in military action against them, and that sub-state actors such as terrorists and individual hackers can't really do much damage. Dr. Ian Brown said, 'We think that describing things like online fraud and hacktivism as cyberwar is very misleading.'"
Comment Religious Extremists Suck (Score 1) 760
And lets not kid ourselves that cutting science and education funding is the wet-dream of the religious extremists in the United States.
Slashdot Top Deals
"Call immediately. Time is running out. We both need to do something monstrous before we die." -- Message from Ralph Steadman to Hunter Thompson
