Comment Re:It may be an excess of caution.... (Score 1) 59
TL;DR: "the risk of wearing Glass appears to be low", according to a Eli Peli, who has been "con$ulting with the Glass team for nearly two years."
Comment Re:Hope no one hacks our entire Air Force one day (Score 1) 622
they need to figure out a way to make it unhackable for it to be truly reliable, but that isn't an impossible task.
You speak in absolutes. I'm not sure if I should smile because of your optimism, or point out your ignorance of all the other historic "unhackable" claims that have fallen.
Comment Command-line interface: never goes out of style (Score 3, Funny) 445
Seriously. Just give me a Bash shell. I'll alias some useful stuff to short commands. Voice dictation can reduce the safety issues with keyboard use. And when the car is out of warranty, the dealer has to add me to the wheel group for sudo.
Comment Sony's CSO has invented time travel! (Score 3, Interesting) 247
TFA claims that Sony's new CSO, Brett Wahlin, "served as a counter-intelligence officer in the US Military for eight years during the Cold War." The final year of the cold war is generally agreed to be 1991, when the Soviet Union dissolved. This suggests he started working as a C-I officer no later than 1984. Yet the photo in his recent bio suggests he's in his early 40s now. So either 1) he's a prodigy and worked for the US military during high school, or 2) he can travel in time. Either way, the hacktivists might have met their match! Well played, Sony.
Comment Make sure Red Green gets the memo (Score 2) 95
And add another server to the pool at http://thereifixedit.failblog.org/
Comment If cell phones are outlawed in prisons (Score 1) 428
then only outlaws will have cell phones in prisons.
Comment Would the last one to leave Web 1.0... (Score 4, Funny) 167
...please turn off the L.A.M.P.?
Thanks.
Thanks.
Feed Engadget: Bluepod Media brings Bluetooth to football stadiums (engadget.com)
Filed under: Wireless
Simmer down, NFL fans -- we're talking real football here, so we'd recommend hoping a flight to Europe if you're interested in taking advantage of this. Reportedly, Bluepod Media has inked exclusive BT marketing rights with a bevy of Premiership football clubs including Blackburn Rovers, Birmingham City, West Ham, Portsmouth and Wigan Athletic (among others). The deal was worked out after successful trials at Portsmouth and Birmingham City, and going forward, Bluepod will be working with third-parties to "create and distribute branded content to football fans within all stadiums on match days." Best of all, said content will be offered up to attendees gratis, while brand owners will be shelling out cash on a per download basis. Don't worry, dear Americans, you can always order up a hot dog from the comfort of your Safeco Field seat with your DS -- how's that for a consolation prize?[Via IntoMobile, image courtesy of Hobo Tread]
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Submission + - Second Google Desktop vulnerability uncovered
zakkie writes: "According to InfoWorld, Google's Desktop indexing engine is vulnerable to an exploit (the second such flaw to be found) that could allow crackers to read files or execute code. By exploiting a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability on Google.com, an attacker can grab all the data off a Google Desktop. Google is said to be "investigating"."
Submission + - The Hidden Engineering Gender Gap
ifindkarma writes: "Joyce Park, CTO of invitation site Renkoo.com [1], has
written a two-part essay exploring why there is no pipeline of self-taught
female engineers entering the tech industry via Open Source or other
individual efforts. In "The Hidden Engineering Gap" [2], she asks why
there are so many self-taught male software engineers in startups, but
no similar pool of women. In "A Modest Proposal" [3], she discusses a
potential short-term fix to the problem.
Links:
1. http://renkoo.com/
2. http://www.venturebeat.com/contributors/2007/01/02 /the-hidden-engineering-gender-gap/
3. http://www.venturebeat.com/contributors/2007/01/04 /a-modest-proposal/"
written a two-part essay exploring why there is no pipeline of self-taught
female engineers entering the tech industry via Open Source or other
individual efforts. In "The Hidden Engineering Gap" [2], she asks why
there are so many self-taught male software engineers in startups, but
no similar pool of women. In "A Modest Proposal" [3], she discusses a
potential short-term fix to the problem.
Links:
1. http://renkoo.com/
2. http://www.venturebeat.com/contributors/2007/01/0
3. http://www.venturebeat.com/contributors/2007/01/0
Submission + - NASA Slashing Observation of Earth
mattnyc99 writes: A new report by the National Research Council warns that, by 2010, the number of NASA's Earth-observing missions will drop dramatically, and the number of operating sensors and instruments on NASA spacecraft will decrease by 40 percent. From the report: "The United States' extraordinary foundation of global observations is at great risk." So what does it all mean? Popular Mechanics asks an MIT professor involved in the findings.
MSN Music Purchases Not Compatible with Zune 453
lewiz writes "The BBC is reporting that music purchased at MSN Music will not play on the new Zune music player." From the article: "The problem has arisen because tracks from the MSN Music site are compatible with the specifications of the Plays For Sure initiative. This was intended to re-assure consumers as it guaranteed that music bought from services backing it would work with players that supported it. MSN Music, Napster, AOL Music Now and Urge all backed Plays For Sure as did many players from hardware makers such as Archos, Creative, Dell and Iriver. In a statement a Microsoft spokesperson said: 'Since Zune is a separate offering that is not part of the Plays For Sure ecosystem, Zune content is not supported on Plays For Sure devices.'"
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