Comment Re:Why can't someone come up with a secure service (Score 1) 36

by ecsyle on Thursday November 01, 2018 @10:26AM (#57574277) Attached to: Flickr is Ditching Yahoo Account Requirement and Giving Pro Subscribers Unlimited Storage

Sounds like a great service that you should build.

Comment Stop Using Chrome (Score 5, Insightful) 150

by ecsyle on Monday May 14, 2018 @02:01PM (#56610160) Attached to: Chrome Tests Picture-in-Picture API To Show Floating Video Popups Outside the Browser

Stop using a web browser developed by an advertising company. This is all of our fault, for making Chrome popular.

Comment Re:Wrong. (Disclaimer: I do LAMP & WP for a li (Score 1) 64

by ecsyle on Tuesday March 06, 2018 @10:47AM (#56216643) Attached to: WordPress Now Powers 30% of Websites

Wish I could mod you up!

Comment Re:A little late. (Score 1) 52

by ecsyle on Friday December 16, 2016 @11:53AM (#53497829) Attached to: Evernote Reverses Course On Opt-out Privacy Policy That Would've Exposed Users' Content To Employees

yeah, same here.

Comment Re:Why is anyone still running Firefox? (Score 1) 88

by ecsyle on Tuesday August 18, 2015 @11:44AM (#50340183) Attached to: Multiple Vulnerabilities Exposed In Pocket

I would love to use Firefox for more than web dev. At this point I consider all web browsers to be crap and look forward to the next Firefox-like browser to shake things up.

Air Force Planning New Drone Fleet For Pakistan 240

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday June 17, 2009 @05:39PM from the hunter-killers dept.

mattnyc99 writes "With tensions high on the border, a new commander in Afghanistan, and complaints of civilian deaths from robotic US strikes in Pakistan raising anti-American sentiment, the Air Force is sketching out concepts for new robotic hitmen, reports Esquire.com. Among the new drones (which are all very small) are the Suburb Warrior (loaded with four or five mini missiles for semi-urban environments), the Sniper targeting system ("that can lock on to multiple targets, allowing a single drone pilot to coordinate the attacks of a squadron of robots"), and a backup fleet of flying buggies that act as suicide-bomber snipers. From the article: 'Picking through the dozens of systems in this briefing, many of which will be flight-tested within five years, there's a clear set of goals: build smaller, even microscopic drones with smaller weapons that can hunt in swarms and engage targets in the close quarters of urban battlefields. And hunt as soon as possible.'"

Triangular Buttons Make On-Screen Keyboards More Usable 287

Posted by timothy on Tuesday June 02, 2009 @12:04PM from the anything-that-helps dept.

As someone targeted for perpetual failure by the designers of most keyboards, I'm happy to read The Register's report that "A British inventor has submitted a patent application for a wacky touchscreen keyboard design which, he claims, could spell the end for accidental key presses."

EPIC Urges FTC To Investigate Google Services 111

Posted by Soulskill on Wednesday March 18, 2009 @11:20AM from the might-as-well-set-up-shop-at-the-googleplex dept.

snydeq writes "The Electronic Privacy Information Center filed a 15-page complaint asking the FTC to force Google to stop offering online services that collect data until the presence of adequate privacy safeguards is verified. The EPIC also wants Google to disclose all data loss or breach incidents, citing several incidents where data held by Google was at risk, the most recent of which occurred earlier this month with its Google Docs. The EPIC complaint [PDF] also listed other security flaws in Gmail and Google Desktop, a desktop indexing program, and urged Google to donate $5 million to a public fund that will support research into technologies such as encryption, data anonymization and mobile location privacy." EPIC has raised privacy concerns about Google before, and about Windows XP as well.