Comment Why is this garbage any where near Slashdot? (Score 1) 199
IP address spoofing to take over satellites! It's easy! Windows 95! *facepalm*
Comment Linux, yes - but not RedHat Linux. (Score 1) 89
I mean they offer cloud installs of RHEL, but few will be clicking that button.
Comment Limit access (Score 5, Insightful) 381
Have separation between levels of security and have fewer & fewer admins working on them as you go up the chain. Use the old established and trusted guys at the top. Don't have thousands of people (particularly contractors) crawling all over the most sensitive data. Seems obvious really. Look at the amount of data *Private* Bradley Manning got his hands on. It's like NSA & Govt just leave the barn doors open and hope the fear of prosecution will prevent the bad thing from happening.
Comment Flying bullshit mountain (Score 2) 303
They'll land with $15m VC funding, specs on which beanbags they want and a tech spec that reads "node.js + cloud".
Angry Birds Exec Says Console Games Are Dying 350
RedEaredSlider writes "Angry Birds marketing lead Peter Vesterbacka went on the offensive today against his console counterparts, arguing that the model pursued by companies like Nintendo is 'dying.' In a panel discussion at the South by Southwest Interact conference in Austin, Texas, Vesterbacka said that innovation wasn't coming from large development firms like EA and Ubisoft, but from smaller, more nimble developers like his own. Vesterbacka also pointed to the major concern over the price model for console games. Compared to mobile titles like Angry Birds that run for 99 cents, games on large consoles hover around fifty dollars. Still, the executive did admit that the business model for mobile games had yet to be completely figured out."
Comment The original article is here (Score 1) 132
His blog seems be down with all the floods of people telling him to lay off the crack pipe.
Comment Because udev just happens to other people? (Score 1) 132
I mean it's not like network cards have unique identifiers or anything... sigh.
Comment Re:wait a second.. (Score 1) 223
Exactly. The tone of the ZDnet piece is way too readily dismissive. Deleting something and marking it as useless etc won't make a blind bit of difference in court. "Just unit tests" doesn't either.
Comment Re:Does it have 64-bit addressing? (Score 1) 283
Acorn's then current machine had 128K base.
Microsoft Unveils New Xbox 360 Wireless Controller 150
adeelarshad82 writes "Microsoft unveiled a new wireless Xbox 360 controller, which features a revamped D-pad that transforms from a plus to a disc. The new D-pad was developed to address complaints from users. Other new features include: A, B, X, and Y buttons that are gray instead of the standard red, green, yellow, and blue; and a matte silver color. The controller includes 2.4-GHz wireless technology with a 30-foot range."
Porting Aquaria To the PSP 25
Apple Prophet writes "Just a few short weeks after BitBlot released the source to Aquaria as part of the Humble Indie Bundle, Andrew Church hacked up an ambitious homebrew port of the game to the PSP. He wrote a detailed synopsis of the technical challenges in an article on the Wolfire Blog, and of course, contributed all of the patches back to the project so anyone with a homebrew-equipped PSP can try it out. Check out the mercurial repository for the source."
Comment Re:where do you get your facts? (Score 0, Redundant) 195
Your credibility as a reference was lost when you fail to expand the ARM chip acronym correctly.
Hah! Fail, Mr AC Troll.
NHS Should Stop Funding Homeopathy, Says Parliamentary Committee 507
An anonymous reader writes "Homeopathic remedies work no better than placebos, and so should no longer be paid for by the UK National Health Service, a committee of British members of parliament has concluded. In preparing its report, the committee, which scrutinizes the evidence behind government policies, took evidence from scientists and homeopaths, and reviewed numerous reports and scientific investigations into homeopathy. It found no evidence that such treatments work beyond providing a placebo effect." Updated 201025 19:40 GMT by timothy: This recommendation has some people up in arms.
Interactive Computer Exhibits For Ages 3-8? 122
Johnny Mnemonic writes "My company has the opportunity to contribute to a children's museum in our area. We are a technology company, so I'd like the exhibit to be computer/networking related, and to raise the awareness and understanding of how the Internet, networking, and computers work. However, children's museums cater to a pretty young age group, 3-8 years old, so the the exhibit needs to be highly interactive, durable, tactile, and yet instructive of the concepts. Google fails to turn up any turn-key options, and, although the concepts are computer related, a computer-based exhibit tends to be too fragile and susceptible to withstand the rigors of 250 preschoolers/day. How would you design a display that meets these requirements and is still fun and educational?"
Comment Re:What about the yeast? (Score 1) 21
It's ice distilled from a good regular beer.
Process is outlined in this quite entertaining video : http://vimeo.com/7812379
