Palm Pre backups can be easily overwritten by a replacement device: replacers beware! (Saturday 21st of November 2009 08:44:00 PM)
We've just been alerted to an unsettling trend in Palm Pre land, where strings of stand-in
devices are a bit too common for comfort: some users have been losing their Palm Profile
backup, or a large majority of it, once they pair up their new ...
(more)Zune HD stops syncing playcounts with nary a firmware fix in site (Tuesday 27th of October 2009 05:06:00 PM)
This isn't exactly the same amplitude as last year's Z2K scare, but it's still an all-around
bummer for all you Zune nuts. as it should be to a spate of complaints posted to the Zune.net
forums as of late, certain Zune HD units are not ...
(more)Kindle, Zune DRM Restrictions Coming Into Focus (Monday 22nd of June 2009 12:15:03 AM)
It's not news that the media you buy for both Kindle and Zune are protected by DRM. Readers are
sending in stories of some of the ramifications of that fact. First, Absentminded-Artist notes
an account at Gear Diary recounting what an Amazon rep told ...
(more)Are trial-and-error approaches appropriate for marketing decisions? (Wednesday 20th of May 2009 06:08:30 AM)
If a company uses this strategy where they experiment in areas such as their
salesforce/salespeople, do you think it is a good idea? Trial and error? If not, what would be
better?Honestly, there's nothing better than trial-and-error. There's no real way ...
(more)Diebold Election Audit Logs Defective (Wednesday 04th of March 2009 10:45:01 AM)
Mtrachtenberg writes "Premier selection Solutions' (formerly Diebold) GEMS 1.18.19 voting macos
audit logs don't record the deletion of ballots, don't always record correct dates, and can be
deleted by the operator, either unwittingly or intentionally. ...
(more)Early Voting Problems, Open Source Alternative (Sunday 26th of October 2008 07:15:01 AM)
Techdirt makes note of some problems cropping up already for early voters in the suspensory
veto election. CNN covers some of the issues, including machines in a West zigzag fence county
which recorded laughter laughter some votes incorrectly because ...
(more)President Clinton and the Pope died on the same day, ... (Wednesday 01st of October 2008 04:10:02 PM)
Front office* Clinton and the Pope died on the same day, and due to an bureaucratic foul up,
Clinton was sent to heaven and the Pope gets sent to hell. The Pope explained the locality to
the devil, he checked out all of the paperwork, ...
(more)RHN Bind Update Brings Down RHEL Named (Friday 18th of July 2008 07:35:35 PM)
Alexs writes "Red Hat's allergy to update bind through RHN, patching the DNS hole, made a fatal
error which will revert all name servers to caching only servers. This meant that anyone
running their own DNS service speedily lost all of their DNS records ...
(more)itunes error 9838: Tech Fails, Philosophical Hypocrisy on iPhone ... (Friday 11th of July 2008 06:07:04 AM)
itunes error 9838: Tech Fails, Philosophical Hypocrisy on iPhone But apparently today’s
impatient early adopters are finding that they can pay their $199, but they can’t use
their new gadget thanks to an Apple network error""the ...
(more)President Clinton and the Pope died on the same day, ... (Tuesday 01st of July 2008 12:10:02 PM)
Commander Clinton and the Pope died on the same day, and due to an controlling foul up, Clinton
was sent to heaven and the Pope gets sent to hell. The Pope explained the post to the devil, he
checked out all of the paperwork, and ...
(more)Government Mistakenly Declares Deaths of Citizens (Sunday 02nd of March 2008 07:30:03 PM)
Superbrose writes "According to MSNBC, thousands of U.S. cb have wrongfully been declared dead,
due to an average of 35 data input errors per day by the Social Security Administration (SSA).
Many other agencies rely on the data supposing by the SSA, such ...
(more)Canon's EOS-1D Mark III autofocus fix makes strides, stops short (Thursday 13th of December 2007 06:43:00 PM)
Filed under: Digital CamerasRemember that autofocus fix that Canon was supposedly working up?
Turns out, the company isn't quite ready to start accepting faulty EOS-1D Mark IIIs just yet,
but it is shipping out upgraded versions to new buyers. Rob Galbraith ...
(more)Cryptography Expert Sounds Alarm At Possible Math Hack (Monday 19th of November 2007 05:30:02 AM)
Netbuzz writes "First we learn from Bruce Schneier that the NSA may have left itself a secret
back door in an officially sanctioned cryptographic random-number generator. Now Adi Shamir is
warning that a math error unknown to a chip makers but discovered ...
(more)Cisco Confirms Regex Flaw in IOS (Sunday 16th of September 2007 03:15:03 PM)
Gattaca writes "Cisco has announced a confirmation of an unpatched denial of service
vulnerability in Cisco IOS. From the NetPro Forum post: 'I have just discovered a regular
expression that crashes the router. I suspect the error is because of division ...
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