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Comment Re:Slashdot Beta: Day Two (Score 1) 180

by petkill on Thursday February 06, 2014 @11:14AM (#46173819) Attached to: How Edward Snowden's Actions Have Impacted Defense Contractors

>You are likely to be eaten by a Slashdot Beta >The Slashdot Beta is a sinister, lurking presence in the dark places of the Internet. Its favorite diet is commenters, but its insatiable appetite is tempered by its fear of light. No succesful Beta has ever been seen by the light of day, and few have survived its fearsome jaws to tell the tale.

Microsoft Ending Mainstream Support For XP 580

Posted by kdawson on Wednesday April 08, 2009 @08:12AM from the population-inversion dept.

Slatterz writes "Come next week, Microsoft will be in the unusual position of no longer offering mainstream support for its most widely used product. Windows XP will pass another milestone next week on the road to retirement when mainstream support ends on 14 April 2009, over seven years after the OS originally shipped. While the company said that it will continue to provide free security fixes for XP until 2014, any future bugs found in the platform will not be fixed unless customers pay. Windows XP accounts for about 63 percent of all Internet-connected computers, according to March 2009 statistics from Hitslink, while Windows Vista makes up about 24 percent."

Wiretapping Program Ruled Legal 575

Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday January 15, 2009 @01:12PM from the can-we-rule-the-ruling-illegal dept.

BuhDuh writes "The New York Times is carrying a story concerning that well known bastion of legal authority, the 'Foreign Intelligence Surveillance' court, which has ruled that the National Security Agency's warrantless eavesdropping program was perfectly legal. It says, 'A federal intelligence court, in a rare public opinion, is expected to issue a major ruling validating the power of the president and Congress to wiretap international phone calls and intercept e-mail messages without a court order, even when Americans' private communications may be involved, according to a person with knowledge of the opinion.'"

World's First 21Mbps EHSPA/HSPA+ Data "Call" 95

Posted by kdawson on Monday December 08, 2008 @08:21PM from the faster-than-a-bounding-kangaroo dept.

gadgetopia writes "Although data 'calls' on 21Mbps networks and equipment have been made in the labs and in demonstrations, Australia is the first place in the world where such a call has been made on a commercial, deployed 21Mbps eHSPA network, with a full commercial launch due early 2009."

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