Comment Re:Sounds like a bad idea ... (Score 1) 201
...yes, because the hard drive based iPods never worked out.
Oh, wait.
Oh, wait.
Comment Re:Don't trust 'em (Score 4, Insightful) 97
What exactly can be hidden in an open protocol specification that will compromise your personally sensitive data? By design, a protocol has to be something that people can actually implement to be useful - the payloads you send via that protocol are up to you (based on your choices of which pieces of software to use, etc.)
Comment Re:Rant against the cloud on youtube? (Score 3, Informative) 549
Since Woz didn't post the video to YouTube, or in fact even make the video, not really.
Comment Re:Money quote... (Score 0) 404
That's kind of the point of pointing out the use of the phrase "quite literally" in the first place, you know.
Comment Re:Money quote... (Score -1, Flamebait) 404
If they're watching an idea form as I type, they'd better damned well be getting it keystroke by keystroke. And he did say "quite literally"...
Comment Re:I'm Okay With It (Score 5, Insightful) 404
My life and my family's lives are more important than whatever privacy I had on these sites.
...says the anonymous coward? Am I missing some Soviet Russia joke here?
Comment Re:Money quote... (Score 0) 404
“They quite literally can watch your ideas form as you type,” the officer said.
I'm pretty sure I'd notice a keylogger on my network sending every keystroke out to elsewhere... As for the leap from idea to typing, that technology is the sole purview of the NSA it seems...
Submission + - Supreme Court Orders Do-Over on Key Software Patents (arstechnica.com)
Fluffeh writes: "It seems that the US Supreme Court has an itch it just can't scratch. A patent granted to the Ultramercial company covers the concept of allowing users to watch a pre-roll advertisement as an alternative to paying for premium content and the company is demanding fees from the likes of Hulu and YouTube. Another company called WildTangent is however is challenging Ultramercial's "invention" as merely an abstract idea not eligible for patent protection. Add to this a recent ruling by the Supreme Court restricting patents — albeit on medical diagnostic techniques and you get into a bit of a pickle. The Supreme Court is now sending the Ultramercial case back to the lower courts for another round, which doesn't mean that the court disagrees with the original ruling, but rather that it thinks it is a patent case that is relevant to the situation and they want to re-examine it under this new light."
Comment Re:Cm'on (Score 2) 240
Facebook, but if the question is "Who runs a site in PHP using CGI mode that is worth exploiting?" then it gets harder to answer.
Comment Slashdot != NPR (Score 1) 193
> We ran a story about this in December, and I haven't seen a flood of hacked readers anywhere so I doubt that tablet makers have anything to worry about.
Because, you know, Slashdot is easily as mainstream as NPR.
Just sayin'.
Comment Re:Article written by... (Score 5, Informative) 204
R.U. Sirius has been writing for years, and was the editor of Mondo 2000 magazine during the '90s, as well as co-author of Cyberpunk Handbook:: The Real Cyberpunk Fakebook with St. Jude. So yes, it's very real (and not the first time his work has found the convergence of cyberpunk and porn, either...)
Comment Re:Join the 21st Century (Score 1) 251
Isn't a benevolent dictator, by definition, one who *isn't* bad?
Microsoft Readies a Rival To Spotify 216
Barence writes "Microsoft has confirmed it is preparing to launch a music streaming service. The service will be a direct rival to Spotify, hugely popular in the UK (but unavailable in the US), which allows users to stream music for free in return for listening to around a minute's worth of advertisements every half hour. 'It will be a similar principle to Spotify but we are still examining how the business model will work,' said Peter Bale, executive producer of MSN." The article claims that the new service will boost the popularity of the Zune player, though how this is to happen is not explained. There doesn't seem to be a close tie-in between device and service, as there is between the iPod and the iTunes Store.
Comment Re:I still don't like IPv6 (Score 1) 281
Who's going to manage that? The OS?
Meet my good friend DNS:
Hey, Joe - check out the pics that Tonya just put online: tonyas-pc.smithhousehold.comcast.net/pics/
Just because IPV6 is coming into play doesn't mean we suddenly jettison DNS - let's not go creating problems where they don't exist...devices have been self-registering in DNS via DHCP for a looooooong time - hell, even Microsoft OSes do it
Comment Re:I thought that would happen (Score 2, Funny) 329
Citation needed
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