Comment Re:Sounds iffy (Score 1) 237
who modded this troll?
Comment Re:He Should Be Executed (Score 3, Insightful) 284
But death penalty is useless, and insanely expensive in the US (which doesn't even prevent innocent niggers from being executed regularly
innocent niggers? really? was that necessary?
Comment Re:What could possibly go wrong? (Score 1) 192
A key pattern is useless unless they know where you live.
To protect privacy, they couldm simply give you a number to write down when you save your key and then collect no other information.
Comment Re:My solution for fixing Windows 8 (Score 1) 578
Microsoft support for WinXP expires April 8th, 2014.
I tried Windows h8 for about a month when they were selling it for cheap and then went back to Windows 7. I might wait for Windows 9 since they M$ doesn't seem capable of releasing consecutive quality versions of their flagship product.
Comment just use an alternate browser (Score 1) 99
Instead of shelling out more money for an unlimited plan, you could just use a different browser from the stock one.
Comment Re:only partially agree (Score 1) 157
Unfortunately its hard to build a lite version. There's almost no features that can be removed without making the app useless. And you can't advertise if you don't look at it- no click throughs.
Instead of a lite version, create a trial version that self-destructs after some period of time, say 2 weeks or a month.
Comment Re:Probably (Score 1) 761
The death penalty has zero recidivism unless they come back...
Comment Why is this newsworthy? (Score 1) 518
Since when is a single customer's experience with Newegg newsworthy? If I wanted to hear stories about people complaining about return policies I'd go to the service desk at Target. Slow news day anyone?
Comment Re:Only a Plaintiff Proposition (Score 1) 221
This is why I believe the "I only get paid when there is a settlement for you" lawyering itself should not be legal. If you make a greedy claim you should still have to pay your lawyer.
Your lawyer should advise you not to make a ridiculous claim.
Cellphones Get Government Chips For Disaster Alert 374
Jeremiah Cornelius writes "The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, Julius Genachowski, said the Commercial Mobile Alert System that Congress approved in 2006 will direct messages to cellphones in case of a terrorist attack, natural disaster, or other serious emergency. There will be at least three levels of messages, ranging from a critical national alert from the president to warnings about impending or occurring national disasters to alerts about missing or abducted children. The alert would show up on the phone's front screen, instead of the traditional text message inbox, and arrive with a distinct ring and probably a vibration. People will be able to opt out of receiving all but the presidential alerts."
Submission + - New Chrome Bugs Bypass Sandbox, ASLR and DEP (threatpost.com)
Trailrunner7 writes: Researchers at the French security firm VUPEN say that they have discovered several new vulnerabilities in Google Chrome that enable them to bypass the browser's sandbox, as well as ASLR and DEP and run arbitrary code on a vulnerable machine.
The company said that they are not going to disclose the details of the bugs right now, but that they have shared information on them with some of their government customers through its customer program. The vulnerabilities are present in the latest version of Chrome running on Windows 7, VUPEN said.
The company said that they are not going to disclose the details of the bugs right now, but that they have shared information on them with some of their government customers through its customer program. The vulnerabilities are present in the latest version of Chrome running on Windows 7, VUPEN said.
Submission + - Beyond Comment Threads (drumbeat.org)
asa writes: "The Knight Foundation and Mozilla are running a series of news innovation challenges. The goal: get the world's smartest hackers thinking about how news organizations can harness the open web. The current challenge is all about comment threads. This seems like the perfect question to pose to Slashdotters: how would you foster more dynamic spaces for online news discussion? How would you preserve the context of online discussions and stamp out trolls? All ideas, technical, practical or impractical are welcome. What technologies (federation, atomic commenting, moderation, algorithms) would you employ? What are the immutable social dynamics? Knight and Mozilla will work with the best challenge entrants to deploy the solutions in newsrooms at Al Jazeera English, the BBC, boston.com, The Guardian, and Zeit Online. Submissions are open until May 22nd."
Submission + - Man captures entire univers in on image (skysurvey.org)
katarn writes: Nick Risinger traveled the world, using a robotic camera mount and six air cooled cameras each fitted with their own lenses and filters, to capture the entire universe in one image; the largest full true-color sky survey. The project took a year of time and logged 60,000 miles. The final image is made up of 37,000 individual photos, has a resolution of 5000 megapixels, and took months to piece together. Risinger states: "Travel was necessary as capturing the full sphere of the night sky brought with it certain limitations. What might be seen in the northern hemisphere isn't always visible from the south and, likewise with the seasons, what may be overhead in the summer is below the horizon in the winter. Complicated by weather and moon cycles, this made for some narrow windows of opportunity which we chased through the remote areas of Arizona, Texas, Nevada, Colorado, California and Oregon."
Submission + - Netflix CEO Hesitant to Fight Cable (cnn.com)
imamac writes: Those who were hopeful that Netflix would bring the fight to the cable companies may be disappointed in the latest comments from thier CEO. "Netflix CEO Reed Hastings is pleased with his company's massive growth, but he fears that getting too large will start "an Armageddon" with cable networks." That is one fight he doens't think his company could survive.
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