geckofiend - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Cue the fanbois (Score 1) 427

by geckofiend on Friday June 25, 2010 @07:39PM (#32698288) Attached to: Experts Explain iPhone 4 Antenna Problem

Except that I have to hold my phone in an unnatural position for me to even get a one-bar reduction in the signal.

Comment Re:Coding in your spare time shows an interest.. (Score 1) 619

by geckofiend on Sunday October 11, 2009 @05:24PM (#29713335) Attached to: Ted Dziuba Says, "I Don't Code In My Free Time"

So mechanics should never restore a classic car in their garage?

Comment Re:Bingo! (Score 1) 789

by geckofiend on Tuesday June 09, 2009 @11:25AM (#28266257) Attached to: iPhone Users Angry Over AT&T Upgrade Policy

"given the current state of our economy"

Funny thing: Not everyone is out of a job, worried about losing their job, or hurting for money. If folks like us don't spend money the economy gets worse. Idiots like you spouting lines like that and making people feel bad or second guess themselves are making the problem worse not better.

Comment Re:Unrepresentative sample (Score 1) 122

by geckofiend on Thursday January 01, 2009 @02:16AM (#26289029) Attached to: A Look At the Growth of MMOs In 2008

I went from WoW to WAR back to WoW for the expansion but now I'm back playing WAR and I've canceled my WoW account.

Microsoft Applies To Patent DRM'ed OS Modules 134

Posted by kdawson on Thursday February 01, 2007 @09:55AM from the imagine-the-possibilities dept.

wellingj writes "Microsoft has applied for a patent that sounds on the face of it like it ought to improve OS stability and reliability: the patent proposes to modularize device drivers much like Linux does. But, going further, Microsoft would apply DRM to these modules — as Groklaw puts it, 'using modularity plus DRM to restrict and contain and enforce.' The net result is that you might have to pay extra for OS hardware support. Things like USB keys, DVD-ROMS, Raid drives, and video cards might not be supported out of the box. LXer indulges in some dystopian speculation."

Submission + - Remote Exploit of Vista Speech Control

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 01, 2007 @07:39AM

An anonymous reader writes: George Ou writes in his Blog that he found a remote exploit for the new and shiny Vista Speech Control. E.g. Websites playing soundfiles can trigger arbitrary commands. As he reports Microsoft confirmed the bug and suggest as workarounds that either "A user can turn off their computer speakers and/or microphone." or "If a user does run an audio file that attempts to execute commands on their system, they should close the Windows Media Player, turn off speech recognition and restart their computer.". Well, who didn't see that coming?

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