Comment Isn't this how a George Romero movie starts? (Score 1) 165
When there's no room left in Hong Kong, the dead will go to mainland China...
Comment Really? (Score 1) 49
How hard is it to detect a riot? Hey look, there's a guy throwing a trashcan through a window surrounded by dozens of other people. Doesn't seem like rocket science.
Comment Note to self (Score 1) 160
Avoid Volvo driverless cars in Australia, around zoos with bad security.
Comment Sheetz and Wawa (Score 1) 632
Anyone in the eastern U.S. who has been to Sheetz or Wawa (don't start that war here, they're both great) knows that kiosks work and customers love them once they're used to them. More efficient, removes a step in the chain, orders get done right more often. Had lots of mistakes at McD's, never gotten the wrong thing at Sheetz or Wawa.
All a $15/hr min wage does is create jobs for robots.
Submission + - Spam-bot intrusion caught! Now what?
An anonymous reader writes: I've recently detected and halted an intrusion on my home computer, taken some actions to prevent further intrusions, and located the software that was running a bot agent. Cursory examination showed that the bot software is intended for acting as an agent for spamming. Configuration files distinctly point at the user/host/domain of several bot-herders — damning evidence. To whom should I disclose this information for appropriate investigation, follow up, and countermeasures? Nothing would please me more than to see this botnet to be caught and dissassembled, I'm sure much of the internet-using community would support this. Thanks in advance for your suggestions.
Pre-Installed Linux Tops Dell Customer Requests 509
dhart writes "Within only a few days of Dell opening a new customer feedback website, they discovered that the feature most requested (by an almost 2-to-1 margin!) is an option on all new Dell PCs: pre-installed Linux. (And the number 3 request is pre-installed Open Office.) I believe they'll have a harder time now with the tired old mantra 'There's no customer demand for Linux.'"
Comment What about solar activity? (Score 1, Interesting) 809
I hate to be the turd in the environmental punchbowl here, but what about increased solar activity, Monder minimum, the little ice age, and all that? How do we know that it's just CO2?
And given the tendancy of the solar wind to strip off the atmosphere and our reversing magnetic field, mightn't some extra gas in the atmosphere be a good thing in the extreme long term, even if some cities get a bit soggy in the short term?
I'm just asking...
