ribo-bailey - Slashdot User

Comment Re:I can think of a few (Score 1) 496

by ribo-bailey on Friday May 01, 2009 @07:05PM (#27793893) Attached to: Time To Cut the Ethernet Cable?

Surely you jest.

Comment Re:RT (Score 2, Informative) 321

by ribo-bailey on Thursday February 26, 2009 @11:02PM (#27007793) Attached to: Best FOSS Help Desk Software For Small Firms?

I used RT at the last place I was a UNIX admin. It's not a terrible system, but writing extensions in perl/mason was not a simple task, do to what should have been simple reporting metrics.

Comment Mormons... (Score 0, Troll) 138

by ribo-bailey on Saturday February 14, 2009 @08:14PM (#26859841) Attached to: Web Scam Bilks State of Utah Out of $2.5M

are among the most gullible people on the planet. I have not ever met one that didn't take any anything anyone says as completely true.

Microsoft Caves, Will Change UAC In Windows 7 249

Posted by kdawson on Friday February 06, 2009 @10:03AM from the more-better dept.

CWmike writes "Reacting to intense criticism of an important security feature in Windows 7 (which we discussed a few days back), Microsoft today said it will change the behavior of User Account Control in Windows 7's release candidate. In a blog post, two Microsoft executives responsible for Windows development, John DeVaan and Steven Sinofsky, said 'We are going to deliver two changes to the Release Candidate that we'll all see. First, the UAC control panel will run in a high integrity process, which requires elevation. Second, changing the level of the UAC will also prompt for confirmation.' They said the changes were prompted by feedback from users, including comments on an earlier post Thursday by DeVaan in which he defended the modifications Microsoft made to UAC in Windows 7."

Comment Re:Don't want to pay (Score 5, Insightful) 538

by ribo-bailey on Friday January 23, 2009 @02:40PM (#26578299) Attached to: 2/3 of Americans Without Broadband Don't Want It

What will your employers think about your pimp-slapping homepage link?

Comment Re:Sad (Score 1) 295

by ribo-bailey on Thursday January 15, 2009 @11:14AM (#26465807) Attached to: The Presidential Portrait Goes Digital

Uh, have you used a DSLR? Been able to change the exposure for years. In fact, even some P&S digitals have the feature now. Plenty of people do time-lapse with digitals.

Comment Re:I haven't even rtfa, but here goes (Score 1) 266

by ribo-bailey on Tuesday September 16, 2008 @05:27PM (#25031217) Attached to: New Study Links Plastics To Heart Disease, Diabetes

Correlation is a measure of the probability of causation.

Robotic Girlfriend Soon For Sale In Japan, Cheap 5

Posted by timothy on Tuesday June 17, 2008 @11:00AM from the already-have-some-names-picked-out dept.

Corrupt writes "A Japanese firm has produced a 38 cm- (15 inch-) tall robotic girlfriend that kisses on command, to go on sale in September for around $175, with a target market of lonely adult men. Using her infrared sensors and battery power, the diminutive damsel named "EMA" puckers up for nearby human heads, entering what designers call its 'love mode.'" These are closed-mouth kisses, by the way.

Final Skynet Satellite Launched 39

Posted by kdawson on Friday June 13, 2008 @09:53AM from the head-for-the-hills dept.

kamochan writes "If you are a fan of the Terminator series, this headline in BBC News sent shivers down your spine today. The idiots actually did it, the countdown has started! What the BBC claims the story is about: 'An advanced satellite that will improve greatly the ability of UK military forces to communicate around the globe has been launched into space.' Quite frankly, that sounds scary enough as it is, but why the heck did they have to name it Skynet?"

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