Comment Re:Yeah, no... (Score 1) 323
Pretty sure he didn't mean we should start doing this tomorrow.
Comment Misleading (Score 2) 557
The vote had 30% turnout. ~50% voted to be annexed. Thus 15% of the population voted yes, but ~50% of the VOTE was for annexation.
Of course, going to go vote no while the russians are sitting around in your country with guns and amassed on the border couldn't be an easy decision.
Comment Re:First "Me too"? (Score 1) 103
Hey, man, ever put a CD in a microwave? It's good fun.
Comment Actually (Score 4, Informative) 170
The DMCA does not require that Flickr take the images down. Only that they respond appropriately to the DMCA takedown notice. A perfectly reasonable response would be to pass on that notification to the user, and allow them to challenge it BEFORE you take it down.
Comment Re:Do you americans tolerate that? (Score 1) 172
Comment What classified information? (Score 3, Insightful) 172
Can anyone honestly pretend that information which has been leaked and posted on the internet still qualifies as classified?
Also, hasn't the Govt. ever heard of the streisand effect?
Also, hasn't the Govt. ever heard of the streisand effect?
Comment Only one way to be sure. (Score 4, Interesting) 1016
Drive slagging.
http://eecue.com/c/driveslag
Comment Re:Recycle some of it! (Score 2) 572
Comment Re:It's prison time (Score 5, Funny) 361
Sounds like you hate America, son.
LulzSec Suspect Arrested By UK Police 361
An anonymous reader writes "The UK's Police Computer e-Crime Unit (PCeU) has arrested a 19-year-old man in Wickford, Essex, in connection with the series of LulzSec attacks against organizations including the CIA, PBS and Sony. The man, who has been arrested under the Computer Misuse and Fraud Act, has had his house searched and a significant amount of material taken away by police for forensic examination. The PCeU worked with local Essex police and the FBI on the investigation."
Comment Re:Ridiculous (Score 1) 199
People have been forever. Shakespeare was a pirate. As were most playwrites of that age. They would literally sit in the audience and copy the play down as it was being performed.
Comment Re:I Can Has Subject Title? (Score 4, Funny) 199
I get enough pun threads on Reddit. I come to slashdot because there's usually some semblance of intelligence.
Comment Then again... (Score 0) 384
The openness of Android is a big part of why Android has better marketshare than iOS, so maybe they shouldn't look a gift horse in the mouth.
Green Crystal 'Rain' Discovered Near Infant Star 43
An anonymous reader writes with this quote from a NASA press release:
"Tiny crystals of a green mineral called olivine are falling down like rain on a burgeoning star, according to observations from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. This is the first time such crystals have been observed in the dusty clouds of gas that collapse around forming stars. Astronomers are still debating how the crystals got there, but the most likely culprits are jets of gas blasting away from the embryonic star. ... The crystals are in the form of forsterite. They belong to the olivine family of silicate minerals and can be found everywhere from a periodot gemstone to the green sand beaches of Hawaii to remote galaxies. NASA's Stardust and Deep Impact missions both detected the crystals in their close-up studies of comets. ... The findings (abstract) might also explain why comets, which form in the frigid outskirts of our solar system, contain the same type of crystals."
Comment Just be careful with that (Score 5, Insightful) 520
It can get you in to trouble
That said, I leave my wifi router open as well, but if you're going to do it you have to do it knowing the risks. Being accused of kiddie porn, for instance, is going to stick with you forever, regardless of guilt or innocence.
That said, I leave my wifi router open as well, but if you're going to do it you have to do it knowing the risks. Being accused of kiddie porn, for instance, is going to stick with you forever, regardless of guilt or innocence.
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