Comment Re:frist psto (Score -1, Offtopic) 183

by troll001 on Tuesday June 29, 2010 @09:12AM (#32729508) Attached to: Statewide Franchise Illegal? Detroit Sues Comcast

why offtopic?
this is (-1) troll
T.R.O.L.L I I repeat

The Troll

Comment frist psto (Score -1, Offtopic) 183

by troll001 on Tuesday June 29, 2010 @08:51AM (#32729254) Attached to: Statewide Franchise Illegal? Detroit Sues Comcast

drink frosty piss

Comment frist psto (Score -1, Offtopic) 354

by troll001 on Saturday June 26, 2010 @08:13AM (#32701618) Attached to: High Depreciation May Slow Electric Car Acceptance

Eat crapload of crap. Drink frosty piss. The troll.

Australia's Largest ISP Ditches Linux Mirror 173

Posted by timothy on Saturday June 26, 2010 @05:07AM from the this-is-our-business-model dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Australia's largest ISP, BigPond, has decided to ditch its local mirrors of Linux and other open source operating systems, as well as various other open source software and Creative Commons media. BigPond posted a terse update on the service's website, citing reasons of low popularity and the existence of better services like download.com and Tucows. BigPond customers are not impressed by the move, given that the ISP is infamous in Australia for its high prices and relatively low monthly quotas of bandwidth (many users are on 10GB or 25GB per month plans) and all downloads from this service did not count towards their monthly limits."

Submission + - Google Has Android Remote App Install Power Too (threatpost.com)

Submitted by Trailrunner7 on Friday June 25, 2010 @01:11PM

Trailrunner7 writes: The remote-wipe capability that Google recently invoked to remove a harmless application from some Android phones isn't the only remote control feature that the company built into its mobile OS. It turns out that Android also includes a feature that enables Google to remotely install apps on users' phones as well. Jon Oberheide, the security researcher who developed the application that Google remotely removed from Android phones, noticed during his research that the Android OS includes a feature called INSTALL_ASSET that allows Google to remotely install applications on users' phones.

"I don't know what design decision they based that on. Maybe they just figured since they had the removal mechanism, it's easy to have the install mechanism too," Oberheide said in an interview. "I don't know if they've used it yet."

Comment Can't they already understand... (Score 1) 768

by mx_mx_mx on Sunday May 30, 2010 @08:40AM (#32396200) Attached to: BP Says "Top Kill" Operation Has Failed

Nuke it from orbit already!