Comment What Could Possibly Go Wrong Here? (Score 3, Insightful) 49
How many weeks until it's compromised?
Comment Re:I wonder (Score 1) 161
A real emacs user doesn't "light up emacs" to make trivial changes to configuration files - a real emacs user already has emacs running (with emacs server, of course).
Comment bug.n (Score 1) 359
For fans of keyboard-centric tiling window managers (awesome, ratpoison, etc), bug.n works pretty well. It is not without occasional glitches, but overall, it works quite well.
http://developer.berlios.de/projects/bugn/
Comment Diablo 3 == D&D 5 ? (Score 1) 246
Skill system that requires a calculator? Hmmm....seems like.short step to tabletop RPG.
So instead of using a computer to help you play a pen and paper RPG, you can use a calculator to help you play a video game.
Comment Why ask this on Slashdot??? (Score 1) 1244
Slashdot is really not the best place to ask this question.
I recommend GoodReads.com for identifying any type of book that might suit your fancy. It's a community of bibliophiles, and also a great way to keep track of what you've read and what you intend to read.
Comment Re:Roald Dahl called this 50 years ago... (Score 2) 622
Easy for you to say. If you've been working an assembly line job for years, you're not going to suddenly find the time and money to learn mechanical engineering. Yes, individuals are to some degree responsible for their own marketability, but in the example (taken from a fictional story), it just isn't realistic to expect one type of worker to quickly transform themselves into another type of worker as soon as their type of work becomes obsolete.
Comment Re:Come to Verizon! (Score 1) 738
Sure, sounds good, Seidenberg.
FYI it's this attitude that is driving me away from the Big Red Monster towards T-Mo (a contractless carrier, imagine that!)
Keep it up and your customer base will erode, leaving you wondering what happened.
I'm so glad my contract is up in 9 days, you idiotic, grasping dinosaurs...
Comment Reminds me of (Score 1) 279
...this science show I watched recently....
http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/episodes/2007/306.shtml
Comment Sure. Just try coming up with a dress code for... (Score 1) 221
...my three-mile-wide, neon-pink cephalapod.
Comment Re:"It's the Network" (Score 1) 745
Verizon is releasing an Android phone end of October. I will bet money that's it's completely locked down.
Comment Klingon What?? (Score 1) 579
at first glance, the headline looked like 'Man Robs Convenience Store With Klingon Breath'.
Boy, I've been accused of having bad breath in the morning, but I can't imagine how bad this guy's must have been!!
New Study Finds Low Interest In Blu-ray 895
PHPNerd writes "A new consumer survey recently released chronicles the woes of the winner of the hi-definition format war: nobody wants it. While consumers were very happy to embrace the DVD standard when it came about because it brought a huge jump in quality over VHS, the pros of switching to Blu-ray are not as obvious. From the article: 'In contrast, while half of the respondents to our survey rated Blu-ray's quality as 'much better' than standard DVD, another 40% termed it only 'somewhat better,' and most are very satisfied with the performance of their current DVD players." Another reason cited was that a Blu-ray investment also dictates an HDTV purchase, something consumers are reluctant to do.'" Maybe it's also that line-doubling DVD players can be had for less than a hundred dollars.
Why COBOL Could Come Back 405
snydeq writes "Sure 'legacy systems archaeologist' ranks as one of the 7 dirtiest jobs in IT, but COBOL skills might see a scant revival in the wake of California's high-profile pay-cut debacle. After all, as Fatal Exception's Neil McAllister points out, new code may in fact be more expensive than old code. According to an IDC survey, code complexity is on the rise. And it's not the applications that are growing more complex, but the technologies themselves. 'Multicore processing, SOA, and Web 2.0 all contribute to rising software development costs,' which include $5 million to $22 million spent on fixing defects per company per year. Do the math, and California's proposed $177 million nine-year modernization project cost will double, McAllister writes. Perhaps numbers like those won't deter modernization efforts, but the estimated 90,000 coders still versed in COBOL may find themselves in high demand teaching new dogs old tricks."
DNS Flaw Hits More Than Just the Web 215
gringer writes "Dan Kaminsky presented at the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas on Wednesday, and said that the DNS vulnerability he discovered is much more dangerous than most have appreciated.
Besides hijacking web browsers, hackers might attack email services and spam filters, FTP, Rsync, BitTorrent, Telnet, SSH, as well as SSL services. Ultimately it's not a question of which systems can be attacked by exploiting the flaw, but rather which ones cannot. Then again, it could just be hype.
For more information, see Kaminsky's power point presentation." Update: 08/07 19:48 GMT by T : There's also an animation of the progress of the patch.
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