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Submission + - New Snowden Revelation: Canadian Spies Targeted Brazil (enquirerherald.com) 1

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: The Enquirer Herald reports, "A Brazilian television report that aired Sunday night said Canadian spies targeted Brazil's Mines and Energy Ministry. The report on Globo television was based on documents leaked by former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden and was the latest showing that Latin America's biggest nation has been a target for U.S., British and now Canadian spy agencies. The report said the "metadata" of phone calls and emails from and to the Brazilian ministry were targeted by Canada's Communications Security Establishment to map the ministry's communications, using a software program called Olympia. It didn't indicate if emails were read or phone calls listened to. Brazilian Mines and Energy Minister Edison Lobao told Globo that "Canada has interests in Brazil, above all in the mining sector. I can't say if the spying served corporate interests or other groups." " — More at the CBC.

Submission + - It's Time to Stop Lionizing Steve Jobs (slashdot.org)

Submitted by Nerval's Lobster
Nerval's Lobster writes: Steve Jobs died on Oct. 5, 2011 after a long battle with cancer. As seemingly everyone on the planet is well aware, Jobs started a quirky little company named Apple that eventually morphed into a massive technology behemoth. Apple helped popularize PCs as a home device, kicked off the current obsession with tablets and smartphones, and made investors very rich in the bargain. When he died, Jobs was lionized as the greatest chief executive of the past twenty years. In many ways, that hyperbole was justified: having returned to Apple in 1996 after a long absence, he took a company teetering on the edge of bankruptcy and gave it a renewed sense of focus, which in turn resulted in a series of market-defining products, including the iPod, iPhone, and iPad. But it pays to remember that, whatever his strengths, Jobs wasn’t a perfect CEO. Apple under his watch released some notable flops, including the Power Mac G4 Cube and MobileMe; throw in controversies over working conditions in factories producing Apple products, as well as Jobs' legendary temper, and it's clear that his veneration as something close to a Tech God may be premature. To make a rough sports analogy, he was more like a Major League baseball player with excellent stats who, every three to five years, managed to hit a 100-mile home run.

Submission + - Fukushima nuclear worker accidentally toggles OFF cooling pumps @ #4 1

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: A TEPCO employee carelessly pressed a button shutting off cooling pumps that serve the spent fuel pool in reactor #4 — thankfully a backup kicked in before any critical consequences resulted. The question remains just how vulnerable to simple mistakes (such as a single button push) are these spent fuel pools, filled nearly to capacity as they are with over 12,000 spent fuel rods?

How probable is another major nuclear accident at the crippled Fukushima site?

Given this is one site out of hundreds, is human civilization gambling heavily on the "success" of such regulation cumulatively as these systems age and are tested in the real world?

Submission + - Thousands protesters in Beijing street, Chinese media and websites in lockdown

Submitted by centralcommittee
centralcommittee writes: Thousands of people, mostly migrant workers from Anhui province, held protest today (5/8/2013) on the 2nd Ring Road of Beijing, south of Temple of Heaven. The protest is in response to Beijing police's mishandling of the death of a girl from Anhui province, who was alleged to be gang-raped by shopping mall security guards and fell to her death last Friday. The government has deployed hundreds of police plus helicopters against the protesters, traffic near the protest site was blocked for miles. Currently the name of the shopping mall "Jingwen" has become a restricted word in major Chinese websites, user cannot post anything containing this word. The Chinese search engine Baidu also refuses to display any result for this word while Google returns more than 800,000 results for this word.

Submission + - LMAX Exchange Getting Up To 50% Improvement in Latency From Azul's Zing JVM (infoq.com) 2

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: LMAX Exchange is one of a growing number of firms to use Java in a low latency environment. It has become well known, even outside of financial services, at least in part by dint of being willing to talk publicly about technology choices. The firm open-sourced a key component of its software stack, the Disruptor framework, in March 2011. At the end of last year, LMAX Exchange completed the latest re-build of its production data centre, moving from Hewlett-Packard servers with Intel's HexaCore Dunnington processor to Dell 520 and 720 with dual socket, 8 core, Intel Sandy Bridge CPUs. The Dells have 64 and 128 GB of memory respectively. CentOS 6 is used as the OS. Recently the firm have begun testing Azul's Zing JVM in place of Oracle's HotSpot as a way of improving their already impressive response times and throughput rates. The results are impressive; a 10-20% improvement in the mean latency, increasing to around a 50% improvement at the 99th percentile.

Submission + - China's Allwinner outsold Intel, Qualcomm in tablet processors in 2012 (eetimes.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: The Chinese are coming. ARM-licensee Allwinner sold more application processors for tablet computers in 2012 than Intel and Qualcomm put together, according to this EE Times article that references market researcher Strategy Analytics. Overall one in five tablet processors was provided by a Chinese vendor in 2012, according to the article, partly because they sell chips at half the price of similarly specified chips from better known vendors.

Submission + - U.S. DOJ say they don't need warrants for e-mail, Facebook chats (cnet.com)

Submitted by gannebraemorr
gannebraemorr writes: The U.S. Department of Justice and the FBI believe they don't need a search warrant to review Americans' e-mails, Facebook chats, Twitter direct messages, and other private files, internal documents reveal. Government documents obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union and provided to CNET show a split over electronic privacy rights within the Obama administration, with Justice Department prosecutors and investigators privately insisting they're not legally required to obtain search warrants for e-mail.

Submission + - Bill Gates: iPad users are frustrated they can't type or create documents (tuaw.com) 2

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: While Apple views the tablet and PC markets as two separate entities, Microsoft takes the opposing view.

During a CNBC interview this morning, Gates continued to toe the party line insofar as he praised the benefits of Microsoft's tablets and Windows 8 while explaining that iPad users are frustrated because they have trouble typing and creating documents.

"With Windows 8, Microsoft is trying to gain share in what has been dominated by the iPad-type device. But a lot of those users are frustrated, they can't type, they can't create documents. They don't have Office there. So we're providing them something with the benefits they've seen that have made that a big category, but without giving up what they expect in a PC."

Submission + - Massive 17-Year Cicada Swarm Has Arrived on the East Coast

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: The swarm has officially arrived. After 17 years of lurking beneath the ground, cicadas are hatching and popping out of the dirt like six-legged daisies. Thousands of insects will infest yards all along the East Coast--so you'd better be ready. The brood, which is known as Magicicada Brood II, is emerging as the ground begins to thaw. They only begin to fight their way out of the dirt once the soil eight inches below the surface reaches a balmy 64 degrees.

Comment What'd he do wrong? (Score 1) 700

by Chronus1326 (#42876639) Attached to: Tesla Motors Battles the New York Times
A car company telling you how to drive it? I wonder what on earth the instructions were that the guy 'drove wrong,' What'd he do, gun it out of every red light....? Hahahahah he used the heat!? This is like when that city switched from Incandescent traffic lights to LED traffic lights, and wondered why the signals suddenly started getting covered in snow...never happened before. No heat from LED's, and no engine w/ water cooling. LOL

Comment Re:Your house is great! (Score 1) 123

by Chronus1326 (#38405534) Attached to: Technical Details Behind the LAN-Party Optimized House
From the article: Once Windows was installed to the iSCSI target, gPXE could then boot directly into it, without any need for a local disk at all. Yes, this means you can PXE-boot Windows 7 itself, not just the installer. Now I fully intend on doing this, just not to your extent. I read up on gPXE and where it can be installed to, the web site says: "We, the Etherboot Project, create network booting code that allows computers to load their operating system from a network. Our code can be stored in a number of places, including BIOS Flash, EPROMs, floppy, CD, HD, or other bootable media." Which option did you choose? I assume BIOS FLASH or CD, I guess I could find a use for those 64Megabyte flash drives I've got....

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