johnny5
Re:BlackBerry, Under New Leadership, Unveils Its Newest Smartphone
on Wednesday September 24, 2014 @05:47PM (#8364345)
Please blackberry just get in to the one market where your sunk investment in physical keyboards and good industrial design is still relevant - low cost chromebook killers. Or even just similiarly priced, but able to run ubuntu linux arm and bb10.
Re:Ex-Employees Say Home Depot Left Data Vulnerable
on Saturday September 20, 2014 @01:50PM (#8345085)
What I don't understand about these massive breaches is that once a pattern has been established all the cards get flagged... right? Which greatly increases the likelihood of subsequent transactions being flagged on the spot, which makes the risk of being caught much greater. Wouldn't the hackers and their clients be better served by much smaller batches of credit cards that aren't clearly from the same breach?
Re:Mysterious Phony Cell Towers Could Be Intercepting Your Calls
on Monday September 01, 2014 @09:52PM (#8255452)
Those are just stingrays though, right? It's unclear as the article says towers but doesn't say whether anyone has actually seen a tower, only that they've detected attacks through their secure android phones.
If this is just a report of stingray use it should come as no surprise that they are in widespread use & that non-targeted phones latch on to the signals.
Re:‘White Label’ Money Laundering Services
on Monday August 04, 2014 @01:36AM (#8130495)
I believe he does read Russian, and poke around a few of his articles, he does sometimes provide links to the shady but still public sites he gets his information from.
Re:Digital Ocean promo code for July 2014
on Friday July 04, 2014 @03:50PM (#7990037)
hey thanks, used the promo code. I was looking to test out do.
Re:Why Your Cell-Phone Bill Should Be Going Down But Isn't
on Sunday May 11, 2014 @09:56PM (#7730846)
Can you expand on why it costs so much to upgrade a basestation? the fiber is already rolled out, the contracts between land owners have already been signed, the surveys for radio propagation have already been done. I honestly don't think the upgrade from 3g to LTE was nearly as expensive as the upgrade from EDGE/2g networks to 3g was for carriers. Also it was much, much quicker for them to roll out LTE networks vs 3g networks.
Re:Ask HN: Which office chair do you recommend?
on Sunday May 11, 2014 @05:26PM (#7730070)
I'm partial to the Haworth Zody, plenty of adjustability without looking like a set piece from an Aliens movie.
Re:Tesla reports net loss of $50 million in Q1 [video]
on Wednesday May 07, 2014 @09:01PM (#7713452)
Indeed, and the next one has gullwing doors, following in the footsteps of esteemed car makers DMC and Bricklin.
Re:"How To Win Friends And Influence People" in a nutshell
on Wednesday May 07, 2014 @08:46PM (#7713410)
It would be so nice if all self-help books contained this type of information map. then again, no one would buy them once they saw how little it offered once you removed the tales and examples and 'stories about a guy I met...'
Re:Silicon Valley Billionaire Battles Surfers Over Beach Access
on Tuesday May 06, 2014 @06:04PM (#7707382)
What documentary is this?