Comment The song (Score 1) 179
It's clear more countries should've had a song to explain the situation.
Comment Re:So wait... (Score 0) 140
The NSA's SELinux?
Comment Re:Windows 7 (Score 0) 965
I routinely use both OpenVPN and Junos Pulse on my Android. What are you talking about?
Comment Re:Is the story correct? LG says no. (Score 3, Insightful) 83
Apple's cheapest phone is $650. Google's is $299. You'd have to be a fool to expect that they would be treated the same with that price delta. Also just how much is Apple paying for their goddamn radio that a 32GB iPod Touch is $299, but it's $650 for 16GB iPod Touch + Phone capabilities (iPhone)?
Comment It is 4G (Score 1) 306
Guys, I dunno how to break it to you but at least on AT&T it is 4G as it has been redefined. A 3G phone is incapable of doing more than 128kbps upstream on AT&T's network. When you negotiate your network connection, you set a hspa version. The iPhone 4 and the 4G Android phones negotiate the same way. They get the same transfer speeds.
Blame the FCC for allowing this to become so goddan murky. Reminds me of the old days when USB 1.1 got relabeled USB 2.0 Full-Speed, vs USB 2.0 Hi-Speed which was way faster than Full-Speed.
Comment Re:Meanwhile, in Japan (Score 1) 611
bzzt, wrong. 'Broadband' is a technical term that does not change in meaning. "[Broadband is] a term used to describe a network that can transmit a wide range of signals, including audio and video. Broadband networks are especially useful in the Networked World, as they can carry many signals at once, resulting in faster data transmission"
Words get new meanings over time. Organic has been supplanted to mean something other than "life". Get with it, because as much as I hate organic it is here to stay. So is broadband as a synonym for "big pipe"...
Comment Re:What the article doesn't mention (Score 1) 312
You're just holding it wrong!
That's what she said!
Comment Re:Wow! (Score 1) 153
Nah, its standard practice.
$ host download.microsoft.com
download.microsoft.com is an alias for download.microsoft.com.nsatc.net.
download.microsoft.com.nsatc.net is an alias for mscom-dlc.vo.llnwd.net.
mscom-dlc.vo.llnwd.net has address 208.111.161.113
mscom-dlc.vo.llnwd.net has address 208.111.161.89
Comment Re:A pretty good one, actually (Score 1) 821
Warehouse or No, UK's Expensive Net Spying Plan Proceeds 134
Vincent West writes with this excerpt from The Register: "Spy chiefs are already spending hundreds of millions of pounds on a mass internet surveillance system, despite Jacqui Smith's announcement earlier this week that proposals for a central warehouse of communications data had been dumped on privacy grounds. The system — uncovered today by The Register and The Sunday Times — is being installed under a GCHQ project called Mastering the Internet (MTI). It will include thousands of deep packet inspection probes inside communications providers' networks, as well as massive computing power at the intelligence agency's Cheltenham base, 'the concrete doughnut.'"
Comment Re:Let's flip the question.... (Score 3, Insightful) 340
There is more than one protocol than http. Try ftp, imap, smtp, irc and https on for size.
Comment Re:Content Management System is not a design progr (Score 1) 318
I use Drupal Joomla and Wordpress fairly regularly for different jobs/projects and most of my time is spent making the sites looks different from every other cms site out there
How about you learn to use a comma?
Comment Re:Removing IE poses one very significant problem (Score 1) 827
The Windows ftp client doesn't support passive mode. This makes it practically useless if you're behind nat.
Virus Infection Hits UK's Ministry of Defense, Including Warships 290
Retrovirus writes with a link to a Register story which says that the UK's "Ministry of Defence confirmed today that it has suffered virus infections which have shut down 'a small number' of MoD systems, most notably including admin networks aboard Royal Navy warships."
FOSS Development As Economic Stimulus 365
heybus writes "Economist Dean Baker, best known for calling the housing bust and warning of the ensuing economic collapse, has just published his recommendations for how to allocate President-elect Obama's estimated $800 billion economic stimulus plan. Among other things, Baker calls for juicing the economy with $2 billion worth of government spending to support the development of free and open source software. Baker's idea is similar to the New Deal federal arts and writers' projects: the government would fund projects as long as they produce freely available code. In addition to employing programmers, 'the savings [to consumers] in the United States alone could easily exceed the cost of supporting software development.'"
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