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Comment Re:Considering their positions (Score 2) 39

by yahooglesoft on Wednesday September 15, 2021 @04:18PM (#61799415) Attached to: US Fines Former NSA Employees Who Provided Hacker-for-Hire Services To UAE

...monitoring of you, your family, and anyone else close to you, by your friendly neighborhood FBI field office for the remainder of your life.

Come join the NSA where you get paid a fraction of what private companies do AND monitoring of you, your family, and anyone else close to you, by your friendly neighborhood FBI field office for the remainder of your life. What a recruitment pitch.

How To Diagnose a Suddenly Slow Windows Computer? 835

Posted by timothy on Thursday January 22, 2009 @06:09PM from the ineffably-inexplicable dept.

Ensign Taco writes "I'm sure nearly every one of us has had it happen. All of a sudden your Windows PC slows to a crawl for no apparent reason. Yeah, we all like Linux because it doesn't do annoying things like this, but the Windows desktop still reigns supreme in most managed LAN work environments. I'm running XP with 4G of RAM and a decent CPU, and everything was fine, until one day — it wasn't. I've run spybot, antivirus, and looked at proc explorer — no luck. There is no one offending, obvious process. It seems every process decides to spike at once at random intervals. So I'm wondering if there's a few wizards out there that know what to look at. Could this be a very clever virus that doesn't run as a process? Or could this just be some random application error that's causing bad behavior? I've encountered this a few times with Windows PCs, but the solution has always been to just add more hardware. Has anyone ever successfully diagnosed this kind of issue?" And whether such a problem is related to malware or not, what steps would you take next?

Adobe To Open Real-Time Messaging Protocol 108

Posted by timothy on Thursday January 22, 2009 @02:57PM from the after-jabber dept.

synodinos writes "Adobe has announced plans to publish the Real-Time Messaging Protocol specification, which is designed for high-performance transmission of audio, video, and data between Adobe Flash Platform technologies. This move that has followed the opening of the AMF spec has been received with varying degrees of enthusiasm from the RIA community."

Microsoft Invents $1.15/Hour Homework Fee For Kids 580

Posted by timothy on Saturday December 27, 2008 @05:04PM from the defining-the-edge-of-invention dept.

theodp writes "Microsoft's vision of your computing future is on display in its just-published patent application for the Metered Pay-As-You-Go Computing Experience. The plan, as Microsoft explains it, involves charging students $1.15 an hour to do their homework, making an Office bundle available for $1/hour, and billing gamers $1.25 for each hour of fun. In addition to your PC, Microsoft also discloses plans to bring the chargeback scheme to your cellphone and automobile — GPS, satellite radio, backseat video entertainment system. 'Both users and suppliers benefit from this new business model,' concludes Microsoft, while conceding that 'the supplier can develop a revenue stream business that may actually have higher value than the one-time purchase model currently practiced.' But don't worry kids, that's only if you do more than 52 hours of homework a year!"

Comment Re:I vote for Rodney McKay (Score 1) 460

by yahooglesoft on Sunday December 21, 2008 @02:18AM (#26189331) Attached to: New Contest Will Seek the Best "I'm Linux" Video

Rodney McKay is in dating with the doctor of Atlantis, Jennifer Come on geek, keep up with the episodes!

Comment Re:fairness (Score 1) 872

by yahooglesoft on Monday December 01, 2008 @02:17PM (#25948189) Attached to: Bittorrent To Cause Internet Meltdown

You pay your ISP for download speeds UP TO 10mbps. that UP TO is the key part. They never say that you will always get 10mbps. If you want 10mbps all the time then it's going to cost you hundreds a month. If you want them to guarantee you will get a certain speed then fine. They'll just sell you a 500kbps line for the same price. You get 500kbps all the time, and you can blast it with UDP as much as you want. ISPs like many other companies oversell. This is because 99% of the time there will be no problem and it would cost WAY too much to make sure that bandwidth is there 100% of the time. You're a home user, you don't need 100% uptime with 100% of your available bandwidth. If you do, then as I said earlier shell out for a business account.

Experts Tell Feds To Sign the DNS Root ASAP 147

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday November 25, 2008 @03:08PM from the digital-john-hancock dept.

alphadogg sends along news that the US National Telecommunications and Information Administration has gotten plenty of feedback on its call for comments on securing the root zone using DNSSEC. The comment period closed yesterday, and more than 30 network and security experts urged the NTIA to implement DNSSEC stat. There were a couple of dissenting voices and a couple of trolls.

Comment Re:Hmm. (Score 3, Insightful) 141

by yahooglesoft on Wednesday November 12, 2008 @08:21PM (#25741093) Attached to: IBM Bringing Powerline Broadband Back?

Almost all of my Ham friends simply detest the idea of BPL because of the interference it gives. Its not just us hams that get hurt by this but other commercial and government frequencies that are in the lower range. If they would spend the money to properly shield the electrical lines to remove interference then I'd love to have BPL.

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