Comment It just needs better marketing (Score 1) 830
Drive faster: 115 instead of 70!
Run farther: 8 instead of 5!
Weigh less: 99 instead of 220!
Go metric!
Comment You will die (Score 1) 632
We learned that if you take them with you to Jupiter to investigate a magnetic anomaly, they WILL kill you. And, that the "chads" from punch cards make great confetti.
Comment Re:"Free Enterprise" (Score 1) 152
Great film. Laugh out loud funny in several places.
Comment Re:What's not to get? (Score 1) 185
What y'all may not know is that there are already various rules for TV and radio reporters about what they can and can't do at an event for which they don't have broadcast rights.
The rules the NCAA is putting on bloggers are not that different from the rules they put on radio reporters calling their station's weekend sports talk show, ESPN radio, FSN radio, etc. Or on TV reporters for live cut-ins from the evening new, etc.
From the NCAA standpoint, they may feel they need to reign in bloggers so that the radio guys don't think they can stay on the phone from the press box the entire game back with some competing radio or audio streaming outlet doing live or nearly-live play-by-play commentary.
The rules the NCAA is putting on bloggers are not that different from the rules they put on radio reporters calling their station's weekend sports talk show, ESPN radio, FSN radio, etc. Or on TV reporters for live cut-ins from the evening new, etc.
From the NCAA standpoint, they may feel they need to reign in bloggers so that the radio guys don't think they can stay on the phone from the press box the entire game back with some competing radio or audio streaming outlet doing live or nearly-live play-by-play commentary.
Feed The Register: eBay chokes on iPhones (theregister.com)
Speculators return them to stores
Some were boasting from their camps outside Apple stores before the iPhone rush began, of how much money they would make on eBay auctions; and apparently, at least one optimist let it be known that $2,000 would be needed to buy a $600 iPhone.
Submission + - HCI blogger discusses the widspread misuse of mice
An anonymous reader writes: Recently launched blog "The New Interface Advocate," has an entry about how mice are being applied to situations they are intrinsically poorly suited for. It also has an interesting proposal for how to keep most of the current paradigm of GUIs and still take advantage of the other control devices, such as the keyboard.
First Thing IT Managers Do In the Morning? 584
An anonymous reader writes "When I was a wee-little IT Manager, I interviewed for a position at an online CRM provider in San Francisco, a job I certainly was qualified for, at least on paper. One of the interviewer's questions was 'What is the first thing you do when you get to work in the morning?' I thought saying 'Read Slashdot' wouldn't be what he was looking for — so I made up something, I'm sure, equally lame. I didn't get the job. But the question has stuck with me over the years. What do real IT and MIS managers do when they walk in to the office in the morning? What Web sites or tools do they look at or use the first thing? Remember, this is for posterity, so please be honest."
Feed Engadget: How would you change the iPhone? (engadget.com)
Filed under: Cellphones, Features
We wanted to wait until the dust had settled a little bit and the legions of faithful got some time to adjust to their new best friend before asking the inevitable question about such a high profile device, and now feels like the right moment to end the honeymoon and really start tearing into the iPhone like the true vultures that we are. You're obviously well aware of what we think of the little bugger by now (almost all of us, in fact) and many of you have already opined on the matter in one of our innumerable posts over the past few weeks, but for the sake of future generation of robots downloading and synthesizing our archives, let's assemble these gripes together here in this one handy post.Right off the bat, we'll get the obvious candidates out of the way and save everyone some time: give us 3G, a physical keyboard, and for all that is good and right in the world, a little A2DP action so that we could actually cut the wire once and for all (well, those of you non-WinMo users, anyway). Those are just the biggies, and we know that there are a lot more out there (we're looking at you, missing MMS), so have at em...
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Submission + - Spammers overcome Hotmail/Yahoo CAPTCHA systems
thefickler writes: It appears that spammers have found a way of automatically creating Hotmail and Yahoo email accounts, having already created more than 15,000 bogus Hotmail accounts, according to security company BitDefender.p>
BitDefender says that a new threat, dubbed Trojan.Spammer.HotLan.A, is using automatically generated Yahoo and Hotmail accounts to send out spam email, which suggests that spammers have found a way to overcome Microsoft's and Yahoo's CAPTCHA systems.p>
BitDefender says that a new threat, dubbed Trojan.Spammer.HotLan.A, is using automatically generated Yahoo and Hotmail accounts to send out spam email, which suggests that spammers have found a way to overcome Microsoft's and Yahoo's CAPTCHA systems.p>
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