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Submission + - New NASA Data Destroys Global Warming Alarmism (yahoo.com) 2

Submitted by Buffaloaf on Thursday July 28, 2011 @01:19PM

Buffaloaf writes: NASA satellite data from the years 2000 through 2011 show the Earth's atmosphere is allowing far more heat to be released into space than alarmist computer models have predicted, reports a new study in the peer-reviewed science journal Remote Sensing. The study indicates far less future global warming will occur than United Nations computer models have predicted, and supports prior studies indicating increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide trap far less heat than alarmists have claimed.

Submission + - Performance effects of an SSD in your PS3 (youtube.com)

Submitted by rsk on Tuesday June 28, 2011 @07:56PM

rsk writes: Ever wondered what kind of performance improvement putting an SSD in your PS3 would give you? Well, it's roughly a 2x speedup in disk intensive operations. Because of the bandwidth cap of the SATA 1.5 Gb/sec (~192 MB/sec) controller in the PS3, there is no need to spend a boat-load on next-gen SSDs (Vertex 3, Intel 510). Picking up a cheaper last-gen SSD like the Vertex 2 or Intel X25 is all you need.

Submission + - Australian network aims for 8 terabit capacity (computerworld.com.au)

Submitted by

angry tapir

on Tuesday June 28, 2011 @07:24PM

angry tapir writes: "Australia’s Academic and Research Network (AARNET) will convert its network to 100 Gigabits per second (Gbps) following a successful 40Gbps trial on its East Coast optical network. The organisation is aiming for a total of an eight terabits per second capacity within 12 months."

Submission + - Dark side of making L.A. Noir (ign.com)

Submitted by JameskPratt on Tuesday June 28, 2011 @06:28PM

JameskPratt writes: Many readers have no delusions of how awful the video game industry treats its workers. Eleven ex-employee of Team Bondi's, who made LA Noir, have cited working 60 to 110 hours a weeks. And claim their boss, Brendan McNamara, crushed office morale with verbal abuse and unreasonable goals. As the saying goes, the two things you don't want to see being made is law and video games."

Submission + - Opera 11.50 Benchmarked: Faster JavaScript Engine (digitizor.com)

Submitted by dkd903 on Tuesday June 28, 2011 @05:43PM

dkd903 writes: Opera 11.50 claims to have a faster JavaScript engine, a faster software graphics engine and improved support for the latest web technologies such as HTML5. According to the benchmarks we found that Opera 11.50 has much better Javascript performance than the previous stable version Opera 11.11 but, Firefox 5 still does better.

Submission + - Realtime Facial Animation with Microsoft Kinect (businessweek.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 28, 2011 @04:21PM

An anonymous reader writes: Using the Kinect's low-cost 3D sensor, researchers are able to record real-time facial expressions from a person looking at the computer and then transfer them to a 3D digital animation. The face-tracking software takes lower-resolution input from the Kinect and maps it to a higher-resolution digital animation. Because it doesn't require intrusive lighting or complex scanning hardware, this kind of animation could become available to consumers. This research paper has been submitted to the Siggraph 2011 conference to be held in August.

Submission + - 1,980 MPG Car Wins Fuel Efficiency Challenge (inhabitat.com) 1

Submitted by MikeChino on Tuesday June 28, 2011 @04:00PM

MikeChino writes: Last week we looked at Cambridge Design Partnership's 1,325 MPG concept car, which was entered in the Mallory Park Mileage Marathon — the results of the competition were just announced, and the winning vehicle squeezed a remarkable 1,980 miles from a single gallon of fuel. Designed by students from Kingdown School in Wiltshire, the vehicle was as light as its 14-year-old driver, weighing in at around 90 lbs.

Submission + - Unavoidable Security Risk Caused by Elastic Load B (thebuzzmedia.com)

Submitted by rsk on Tuesday June 21, 2011 @10:50AM

rsk writes: Originally discussed in the EC2 forums, the existing design of elastic load balancing in AWS can result in other AWS customers using load-balancing receiving your web application traffic for brief periods of time. Most AWS users see this as "odd traffic" in their server log files, but any unsavory AWS customer would setup servers in each availability zone (in each region) behind an ELB and simply log all the misdirected traffic, potentially exposing customer information (e.g. private API keys) never intended for public consumption.

Comment Re:Calm down and read up (Score 1) 223

by rsk on Sunday June 05, 2011 @10:19AM (#36342400) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Is SHA-512 the Way To Go?

Really appreciate you posting some specifics here. There's been a lot of hand-waving and big-brothering in the thread so far (justifiably so, security is a hot-button/serious topic) but you actually posted something concrete that helped me put a name-to-a-face as far as a pw hashing technique goes.

Submission + - Amazon sues Apple over "App Store" trademark (networkworld.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 21, 2011 @08:41PM

An anonymous reader writes: There are plenty of places where users can download mobile apps today, but there's only one App Store. Well, that's how Apple sees it at least.

Continuing on its quest to secure a trademark for "App Store", Apple last week filed suit against Amazon alleging that the online retailer was improperly using the phrase "App Store" in its mobile software developer program. Specifically, Apple accuses Amazon of trademark infringement and unfair competition.

Submission + - 2008 fed Bailout data to be made public (reuters.com)

Submitted by schwit1 on Monday March 21, 2011 @07:52PM

schwit1 writes: SCOTUS rejected an appeal by the big banks concerning details of the 2008 emergency bailouts. Many news organizations were on the opposite side wanting access to these secrets such as who and how much money was borrowed at the height of the crisis. The Obama administration did not weigh in, which is not surprising given their mediocre record on openness and transparency. FYI: Tim Geitner was the head of the NY Fed at the time, which distributed most of the bailout moneys.

Never before have so few privileged businesses and individuals benefited so mightily. This was the scam of the century.

The Fed has given no timeframe on when it will release the data.

Submission + - Play.com compromised, names and emails taken (blogspot.com) 1

Submitted by

dandart

on Monday March 21, 2011 @07:46PM

dandart writes: "Play.com has reportedly been compromised, revealing its database of usernames and email addresses of its customers to its attackers. An email appearing to be from play.com to its customers reads:

Dear Customer,

Email Security Message
We are emailing all our customers to let you know that a company that handles part of our marketing communications has had a security breach. Unfortunately this has meant that some customer names and email addresses may have been compromised..."

Submission + - Apple sues Amazon.com over App Store trademark (tekgoblin.com)

Submitted by

tekgoblin

on Monday March 21, 2011 @07:25PM

tekgoblin writes: "Apple is suing Amazon.com over the use of Apple's trademarked App Store name in their mobile software developer program. Apple filed the suit back on March 18th which stated the trademark infringement and unfair competition which Apple felt was happening. Apple's statement in the suit reads:
“Amazon has begun improperly using Apple’s App Store mark in connection with Amazon’s mobile software developer program,” Apple also said “We’ve asked Amazon not to copy the App Store name because it will confuse and mislead customers,” said Kristin Huguet, a spokeswoman for Apple.
"

Submission + - Best Seller Refuses $500k; Self-Publishes Instead (techdirt.com) 1

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 21, 2011 @03:36PM

An anonymous reader writes: Barry Eisler, a NY Times best-selling author of various thriller novels, has just turned down a $500,000 book contract in order to self-publish his latest work. In a conversation with self-publishing afficianado Joe Konrath, Eisler talks about why this makes sense and how the publishing industry is responding in all the wrong ways to the rise of ebooks. He also explains the math by which it makes a lot more sense to retain 70% of your earnings on ebooks priced cheaply, rather than 14.9% on expensive books put out by publishers.

Submission + - Facebook Bans AdSense in Apps (facebook.net)

Submitted by

Anonymous Coward

on Saturday March 05, 2011 @09:31AM

Anonymous Coward writes: "Three days ago Facebook finalized their list of accepted ad networks for use within Facebook Apps; AdSense being an (unsurprising?) omission from the list, stating that any missing ad network had yet to agree to the Facebook TOS.

Facebook developers were quick to point out the only losers in this cold-war between Facebook and Google are the developers themselves. Other devs go on to clarify that the reputations of some of the accepted networks is shady at best, leaving developers with sub-par options to monetize their work on the Facebook platform."

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