Comment Re:Since citizens are technically the employer. . (Score 2, Insightful) 263
Put in a FIOA request...
Comment Re:Thanks to politicians like this... (Score 1) 263
Try spending 5 minutes with a high school kid; you'll see 50 text messages in that time. (It's scary... this current generation communicated almost entirely via texts and Facebook)
Comment Too late... (Score 1) 826
Umm... its already too late, we have a national ID already on the books - Real ID
What's happened with it? Almost all of the states have fought against it, and it's been stuck in a implementation black hole.
Comment Re:A really absurd set of options (Score 1) 465
I agree - 8.823x10^6 here.
Comment Re:This shit is depressing (Score 1) 85
At this point my hope is just on Stardock.
Comment Re:Vote by Mail (Score 1) 709
I'd have to check for Illinois, but the Michigan SOS office has sample ballots online (for your specific district, you enter in your name, birth date, and zip and it'll show you where you're registered and give you a sample ballot)... I'd assume the same is available to you.
Comment Re:Vote by Mail (Score 1) 709
The Post Secret was there; the only question was whether or not the postcard was lying.
Comment Re:Vote by Mail (Score 1) 709
They asked for a picture id from me... but then promptly forgot to look for it (and instead went searching for a secrecy envelope).
Handling Caller ID Spoofing? 556
An anonymous reader writes "A nice little old lady I know has had her number spoofed by some car warranty scammers. They're calling hundreds of potential victims per day pretending to use her phone number, and the angry ones call her back; some of them have even left death threats. She's terrified. Some well-intending anti-telemarketing folks have posted her address on the 'net as well. How can we figure out where these scammer bastards are, and what's the state of the current legislation to prevent caller ID spoofing? I called the FBI in Boston (near where she lives) and they said they can't help. She's called her phone company, but they said they can't help either. She's had the same number for over 50 years and doesn't want to change it." If the Feds can't or won't handle it, what's the best approach here?
Uwe Boll To Quit Making Movies With 1M Signatures 355
An anonymous reader writes to mention that Uwe Boll, the infamous German director behind such video game adaptations as House of the Dead, BloodRayne, Dungeon Siege and Postal, has recently admitted that he would retire from making movies if enough people want him to stop. When FearNet mentioned to Boll a petition online signed by 18,000 people requesting that he cease making films, Boll responded that '18,000 is not enough to convince me.' So how much would be enough? 'One million,' Boll said."
Posting Publicly Available URL Claimed a "Hack" 555
Urban Strata writes "Popular mobile phone community HowardForums.com is being hit with take-down notices from MobiTV. At issue is the fact that a HowardForums community member uncovered a publicly accessible URL for MobiTV's television stream. This URL is not encrypted or authenticated in any way, and yet MobiTV sent site owner Howard Chui a cease-and-desist letter for hosting a forum with the public URL, claiming that doing so is equivalent to hacking their service."
Submission + - WikiLeaks case reopened
JediLow writes: In further WikiLeaks news: On Thursday the judge that signed an accord to shut down WikiLeaks.org is having second thoughts and filed a three page order for a hearing on Friday regarding his decision.
Vinyl Gets Its Groove Back 751
theodp writes "Time reports that vinyl records are suddenly cool again. Vinyl has a warmer, more nuanced sound than CDs or MP3s; records feature large album covers with imaginative graphics, pullout photos, and liner notes. 'Bad sound on an iPod has had an impact on a lot of people going back to vinyl,' says 15-year-old David MacRunnel, who owns more than 1,000 records."
Journal Journal: Going back to school for entry-level tech jobs? 1
My boyfriend has a B.A. in Communications Media from a middle-of-the-road midwestern university. Now he's going back to the same university to get a Computer Science degree...so that he can apply for entry level BSD sysadmin jobs (preferably in Canada, if he can find them.) My question, as I'm not really a tech-sector person myself, is whether or not those of you in the profession think such a course of action is worth it? Considering he's working full-time (in a media job), he only has time to
Journal Journal: Litvinenko's Murder Not Executed on the Cheap
The Times today reported that the street value of the polonium-210 dose used on Litvinenko was $10 million and 10 times the dose required to kill. From the story:
