ribit - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Buy your own (Score 1) 671

by ribit on Sunday March 04, 2012 @01:52PM (#39240395) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Using Company Laptop For Personal Use

I found an iPad v1 really useful when I was working in an office where product security meant you weren't allowed to bring in your own laptop, or anything with a camera.

Comment Re:Buy your own (Score 4, Insightful) 671

by ribit on Sunday March 04, 2012 @01:18PM (#39239995) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Using Company Laptop For Personal Use

We don't know what the terms or the job are. If you travel a lot with work, having to haul two laptops around may be unreasonable.

Comment Photos don't prove much (Score 1) 201

by ribit on Sunday March 13, 2011 @12:56PM (#35472212) Attached to: Court Rules It's Ok To Tag Pics On Facebook Without Permission

Couldn't she just say she was pretending to drink? (People read way too much into photos and Facebook posts as being factual. It can all be made up.)

Comment Re:Question (Score 1) 263

by ribit on Tuesday April 07, 2009 @05:34AM (#27486581) Attached to: EU Data-Retention Laws Stricter Than Many People Realized

Unless the UK address is hosted outside the UK?

World's Fastest Net Link 'Used To Dry Laundry' 135

Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday March 31, 2008 @09:40AM from the it-gets-pretty-hot-in-there dept.

praps writes "Last summer a 75-year-old woman from central Sweden became the envy of the IT world with her scorching 40Gbps internet connection. 1,500 simultaneous HDTV channels or a whole high definition DVD downloaded in two seconds were hers for the taking. Now Sigbritt Löthberg could soon be treated to an incredible 100 Gbps link — but it may not be put to great use. According to the head of the ultra-fast fiber connection project, Sigbritt mostly used the gear 'to dry her laundry.'"

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