Comment Re:The US couldn't have done this for under $100mi (Score 1) 310
We should take a lesson from this... get rid of the damn patents. We'd have to spend millions of dollars to prove that we didn't rip off someone else's design.
Journal Journal: Fox News and Google Gears?!
Today I was using Chrome and stopped over at Foxnews.com (via Google News). While there, I click on another story. At that point, Google Gears popped up and asked "The website below wants to store information on your computer using Gears. http://www.foxnews.com"
Then there is the cute little box that says I trust this site. Of course I hit deny.
Comment I for one... (Score 1) 1089
...continue to welcome my soveriegn overlords... Google.
They have pwned my soul for the past 6 years!!!
They have pwned my soul for the past 6 years!!!
Comment Re:That makes two of us (Score 1, Troll) 64
My wife uses it in her daily Wii Fit and Wii Sports routine & my grandmother uses it at her nursing home 1x a week... there is a sign up sheet and a line.
I have used it for Wii Sports and Zelda's crossbow training, but otherwise, for the games that allow a controller, I use the controller.
Heck, my mother touched Wii and hates anything that isn't a typewriter.
Comment Re:What I learned (Score 3, Funny) 257
I also learned that playing D&D makes you sarcastic and bitter.
Really? No shit.
Comment Brilliant! (Score 1) 147
This is brilliant marketing by LucasArts... and they are going to make a crap load of cash off it.
By using Steam &/or XBL, they don't have to "go gold", market deals with big box distributors, remaking packaging, etc. And we as the players don't have to screw around with DOSBox or SCUMVM.
I'm excited and ready to buy some classics!
By using Steam &/or XBL, they don't have to "go gold", market deals with big box distributors, remaking packaging, etc. And we as the players don't have to screw around with DOSBox or SCUMVM.
I'm excited and ready to buy some classics!
Comment Processor (Score 0, Offtopic) 69
So what proc will they use for this? There current choice is highly suspect (imo)...
Comment Honestly... (Score 1) 251
Mark Cuban is an ass.
He is a DRM proponent, and can't stand the idea of true innovation whether its a "free" model or not.
Sure, if you live by "free" you will die by "free"... but won't you die happy knowing that you were "free"?
He is a DRM proponent, and can't stand the idea of true innovation whether its a "free" model or not.
Sure, if you live by "free" you will die by "free"... but won't you die happy knowing that you were "free"?
Comment Thnx (Score 2, Insightful) 81
While these essays are probably available in some form or another on the web, I'll be in for one of these books. Thank you for the review.
As an Information Security professional, I look for books and other easy to read documentation that I can recommend to management and others who indicate an interest in (or need a push in the right direction) info security. Most of the time, if I e-mail them a link or story, it gets blown off. If I can put a document (screw paper saving) in their hands or a book with a chapter as "homework" I seem to get a better response.
As an Information Security professional, I look for books and other easy to read documentation that I can recommend to management and others who indicate an interest in (or need a push in the right direction) info security. Most of the time, if I e-mail them a link or story, it gets blown off. If I can put a document (screw paper saving) in their hands or a book with a chapter as "homework" I seem to get a better response.
Comment Re:I was going to say (Score 1) 2
Actually no, different financial.
As a follow up, today, the MPLS provider is saying that they were not a victim of a DOS, but of a poor network. We are looking for alternatives.
Comment Re:Serves you right! (Score 1) 186
Anti-trust is based on the altruist idea that the more successful you are - (aka "selfish") - the more evil you are, and the evil successful need to be brought down to favor the less successful, or failures. This also happens to be the moral underpinning for bailouts, welfare, "soak the rich", government healthcare, and many more.
Oh yeah, it's also a Christian ideal.
Being a so called "liberal Christian" I'm very curious about how Anti-trust is a Christian ideal. Doesn't the "Good Book" say to go and do things to the best of our abilities?
Comment Java... making work more fun on Fridays! (Score 1) 165
So I tell my boss that I'm testing a Linux desktop... by playing games in my browser?! Sweet action, I'm in. Happy Friday!
Comment Re:They should have found a more appropriate charg (Score 1) 420
They didn't prove that she had a plan, they only showed that she tampered with an account. Thankfully our legal system requires the burden of PROOF.
Comment Re:It's the Os (Score 1) 332
Uhm, not sure where you work, but its more of NSFW!
Comment Overtime?! What overtime?! (Score 1) 555
I'm a salaried sucker who works with information security (obviously I enjoy life less - according to research)... I haven't seen an dollar of overtime since I got this job!
Yet, I also believe that I am paid fairly for what I do and the part of the country where I live. I make more than 66% of the people living in my county... given the medium salary for a family of 4 is $29,000 year.
