Submission + - New root-server to compete with ICANN. (twitter.com)
KPexEA writes: Peter Sunde, of ThePirateBay fame, is setting up a new root-server to compete with ICANN.
Comment Re:It's the browser that's doing it not me (Score 1) 314
Thanks!
Now if only I could get Porsche to pay for my speeding tickets.
Now if only I could get Porsche to pay for my speeding tickets.
Comment It's the browser that's doing it not me (Score 3, Insightful) 314
Even if this was a valid patent the websites are all just sending html/text to whatever agent the user is running. It's the browser that is actually doing the rendering. So does that not mean that the browser is the one that needs to get the license?
Comment Re:The best job... (Score 1) 404
Direct her here:
http://www.tatom.org/documents/CNN.com-StudyNewstudyshows.htm
Woman Wins Libel Suit By Suing Wrong Website 323
An anonymous reader writes "It appears that Cincinnati Bengals cheerleader Sarah Jones and her lawyer were so upset by a comment on the site TheDirty.com that they missed the 'y' at the end of the name. Instead, they sued the owner of TheDirt.com, whose owner didn't respond to the lawsuit. The end result was a judge awarding $11 million, in part because of the failure to respond. Now, both the owners of TheDirty.com and TheDirt.com are complaining that they're being wrongfully written about in the press — one for not having had any content about Sarah Jones but being told it needs to pay $11 million, and the other for having the content and having the press say it lost a lawsuit, even though no lawsuit was ever actually filed against it."
Comment A Self-Appointed Teacher Runs a One-Man 'Academy' (Score 4, Interesting) 393
The most popular educator on YouTube does not have a Ph.D. He has never taught at a college or university. And he delivers all of his lectures from a bedroom closet.
This upstart is Salman Khan, a 33-year-old who quit his job as a financial analyst to spend more time making homemade lecture videos in his home studio. His unusual teaching materials started as a way to tutor his faraway cousins, but his lectures have grown into an online phenomenon—and a kind of protest against what he sees as a flawed educational system.
http://chronicle.com/article/A-Self-Appointed-Teacher-Runs/65793/
http://www.khanacademy.org/
This upstart is Salman Khan, a 33-year-old who quit his job as a financial analyst to spend more time making homemade lecture videos in his home studio. His unusual teaching materials started as a way to tutor his faraway cousins, but his lectures have grown into an online phenomenon—and a kind of protest against what he sees as a flawed educational system.
http://chronicle.com/article/A-Self-Appointed-Teacher-Runs/65793/
http://www.khanacademy.org/
Comment Re:Great information.http://www.jerseysshops.com/ (Score 1) 299
^ = Spam account please delete!
Also got my first story posted! Yippee!
Also got my first story posted! Yippee!
Submission + - 5 Trillion Digits of Pi - New World Record (numberworld.org)
KPexEA writes: Alexander J. Yee & Shigeru Kondo claim to have calculated the number pi to 5 trillion places, on a single desktop and in record time.
The main computation took 90 days on Shigeru Kondo's desktop. Verification was done using two separate computers.
The program that was used for the main computation is y-cruncher v0.5.4.9138 Alpha.
The main computation took 90 days on Shigeru Kondo's desktop. Verification was done using two separate computers.
The program that was used for the main computation is y-cruncher v0.5.4.9138 Alpha.
Submission + - Unluckiest iPhone Thief (gearlog.com) 1
adeelarshad82 writes: Earlier this week, a man rode up to a woman on his bike, grabbing her iPhone right out of her hands. The story would likely have had a more depressing, less hilarious ending had the woman not been holding a handset sporting a prototype GPS tracking program. It took only ten minutes to track down and catch Toure, according to the San Francisco police.
Submission + - A simple 3d benchmark in HTML5/Javascript (semantix.gr)
ttsiod writes: Having heard so much about HTML5/Javascript over the last years, I finally took the plunge, and after 5h of coding (mostly spent Googling for the way to do PutPixel), I humbly submit my first HTML5/Javascript app: a simple 3d benchmark that "stress-tests" the browser's Javascript engine. It turned out to be a nice race between Chrome, Opera and Firefox4. Run it and see how your results compare....
Submission + - 3D Physics Engine Makes Incredible Simulations (singularityhub.com)
kkleiner writes: Thiago Costa has released a teaser trailer for his new Lagao Multiphysics 1.0 engine. The program handles all sorts of difficult physical simulations including high friction materials, incompressible fluids, elasticity, and plasticity. But all that seems less important than how cool it looks in action. This thing rocks.
Submission + - Copyrighting Output of Open Code?
An anonymous reader writes: I'm a developer of an open source project which has pretty stiff competition from a few closed-source packages. This is in a field where performance is absolutely critical, so fast algorithms are king. All of our competitors are quite aware of OSS and use whatever they can through deals with authors, static linking loopholes, etc. I've recently developed a new algorithm which benefits from automatic tuning, which I accomplish through a template system. I just realized that with different templates, I could easily modify the output of my tuning code to produce a fast implementation in different languages or API's. This puts me in the awkward position of simultaneously wanting to release my new shiny implementation, and wanting to keep the tuning code to myself (or worse, release it under a draconian "anything produced by this code is GPL'd" type of license). What would you do in this situation?
Submission + - New IBM Mainframe: World's Fastest Microprocessor (fpsnewswire.com)
BBCWatcher writes: So what's the world's fastest microprocessor? Intel's latest X86? No, maybe later. AMD? No. Itanium? Heck no, never. SPARC? Goodness no, are they still around? IBM's POWER7? Closest... but not at the moment. Today it's IBM's zEnterprise 196, i.e. the newest mainframe model. A mainframe holding the honor of world's fastest microprocessor? Yes, and it's time to get used to it. IBM's engineers have just rocked the server world by taking the world's fastest microprocessor, clocked at a constant and unsurpassed 5.2 GHz (!) with new out-of-order instruction execution (while keeping mainframe instruction result verification and on-the-fly fault recovery and core fail-over), putting 96 cores of them into a single machine, surrounding them with 4 (!) levels of cache memory (each far larger than anything else), providing 3 TB (usable) of the world's first and only RAIM-protected fast memory (that's RAID for RAM), giving them scores of dedicated assist processors, accelerating the already famous mainframe I/O... and, to top it all off, adding in mainframe-managed closely attached blade servers to mop up the data center floor. IBM says more than 100,000 virtual servers can run on a single zEnterprise System with zEnterprise BladeCenter Expansion feature. And of course it's built to keep your important applications running continuously, no excuses, with no interruptions for either hardware or software changes.
....I want one.
Comment Re:This is just the beginning. (Score 1) 536
Not Exactly.
All the other stores in the same strip mall would also be shut down too. Just because they have the same landlord.
Submission + - USB cupwarmer might steal your data (tarpit.rmc.ca)
adaviel writes: New Scientist recently reported work by researchers at the Royal Military College of Canada on hardware-based USB trojans. While the concept is not new (I saw a cool demo of an iPod pwning a Mac over Firewire at CanSecWest a few years ago), USB is interesting because of all the goofy "harmless" devices like personal fans, cellphone chargers etc. — an attacker might ask a victim "can I charge my phone on your laptop?", but the "charger" actually emulates a keyboard and headphone, able to execute commands and download data.
