Comment Re:Summary of comments on DRM (Score 1) 594
It did for music
Comment Exciting! (Score 1) 207
I'm not shocked or disgusted, but I am rather excited. I have the Transformer, and its one big shortcoming for me is the lack of 3G. A high-end LTE version sounds awesome. Number of cores be damned.
Next on my wishlist: better support for Office documents and shared calendars
Does this mean I don't get to be classified as a "bleeding-edge technophile"?
Next on my wishlist: better support for Office documents and shared calendars
Does this mean I don't get to be classified as a "bleeding-edge technophile"?
Comment Re:No free tv across the World? (Score 1) 166
"technology transfer without payment of licenses or such. We like free as in freedom, thank you very much..."
Sounds as if you like free as in beer too...
Sounds as if you like free as in beer too...
Comment Re:It's not open source, but here it goes (Score 1) 300
mmmm... sandwich in little triangles
Comment Re:prior art? (Score 1) 118
The poster specifically mentions that it is the first time it has been captured with respect to *a wild fish*, so your experience isn't really a counter-example.
Having said that, if it is observed independently (as opposed to being trained behavior) in captive animals, I guess it is not a huge surprise that it occurs in the wild too.
Comment Re:Massive transfers (Score 1) 622
That would be an interesting way for a single party to take down bitcoin - not through a technical issue / via the peer-to-peer infrastructure, but rather by creating a run on the currency by stealing a large chunk (from compromised miners' computers) and selling it on the open market.
This is a threat that will always be there, and it will mean that things that are sold for bitcoin will likely always be priced in dollars (or some other benchmark currency) to sidestep the volatility of a market that can be cornered so easily by a single party.
Comment Re:Viewpoint from an American in China (Score 2) 220
I would have thought that calling corporations "pseudo-government" was a bit of paranoia showing through what is (whether correct or not) an otherwise relatively rational argument, but with the Wikileaks fiasco (and in particular, the "voluntary" embargoes enforced by Amazon, Paypal/eBay, Visa, Mastercard and others) perhaps it is me being naive rather than you being paranoid...
Submission + - Japan: A 7.1-tremor has attacked. (bbc.co.uk)
applematt84 writes: From the story: A powerful earthquake has hit north-east Japan, exactly one month after the devastating earthquake and tsunami.
The 7.1-magnitude tremor triggered a brief tsunami warning, and forced workers to evacuate the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant.
The 7.1-magnitude tremor triggered a brief tsunami warning, and forced workers to evacuate the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant.
Submission + - Good Old Games: DRM drives gamers to piracy (bit-tech.net)
arcticstoat writes: Independent retro games retailer Good Old Games has spoken out about digital rights management, saying that it can actually drive gamers to piracy, rather than acting as a deterrent. In an interview, a spokesperson for Good Old Games said that the effectiveness of DRM as a piracy-deterrent was "None, or close to none."
"What I will say isn’t popular in the gaming industry," says Kukawski, 'but in my opinion DRM drives people to pirate games rather than prevent them from doing that. Would you rather spend $50 on a game that requires installing malware on your system, or to stay online all the time and crashes every time the connection goes down, or would you rather download a cracked version without all that hassle?"
"What I will say isn’t popular in the gaming industry," says Kukawski, 'but in my opinion DRM drives people to pirate games rather than prevent them from doing that. Would you rather spend $50 on a game that requires installing malware on your system, or to stay online all the time and crashes every time the connection goes down, or would you rather download a cracked version without all that hassle?"
Submission + - Simple email encryption - not possible? 1
bradley13 writes: Like practically everyone on Slashdot, I often play "free consultant" for friends. The most recent inquiry: local law will soon require small companies that send accounting information electronically, to do so "securely". Many small businesses outsource their accounting; correspondingly, some accounting companies handle the accounts of dozens of small businesses. Lots of sensitive information is sent by email — which ought to be encrypted.
So my friend asked me — from the perspective of one of these accounting companies — how they can exchange encrypted email with their customers. The problem: businesses to small to handle their own accounts are certainly too small to have read IT — some cousin set up a couple of off-the-shelf computers. This means: the solution has to be (a) easy for a non-technical person to set up and (b) has to work with people who use Outlook, or Gmail, or whatever else their company happens to use.
By now, one might think that there would be point-and-click solutions to this sort of problem. But no — you need certificates, implementations are platform specific, set up requires IT expertise. About the best thing available seems to be PGP (but who wants to do business with Symantec? Anyway, when did they buy PGP — that is just sad).
Can easy-to-use, secure, cross-platform email encryption really still be an unsolved problem? What do other Slashdotters use?
So my friend asked me — from the perspective of one of these accounting companies — how they can exchange encrypted email with their customers. The problem: businesses to small to handle their own accounts are certainly too small to have read IT — some cousin set up a couple of off-the-shelf computers. This means: the solution has to be (a) easy for a non-technical person to set up and (b) has to work with people who use Outlook, or Gmail, or whatever else their company happens to use.
By now, one might think that there would be point-and-click solutions to this sort of problem. But no — you need certificates, implementations are platform specific, set up requires IT expertise. About the best thing available seems to be PGP (but who wants to do business with Symantec? Anyway, when did they buy PGP — that is just sad).
Can easy-to-use, secure, cross-platform email encryption really still be an unsolved problem? What do other Slashdotters use?
Submission + - Apple AirPlay Private Key Exposed (mafipulation.org)
An anonymous reader writes: James Laird has reverse engineered the Airport Express private key and published an open source AirPort Express emulator.
"My girlfriend moved house, and her Airport Express no longer made it with her wireless access point. I figured it'd be easy to find an ApEx emulator — there are several open source apps out there to play to them. However, I was disappointed to find that Apple used a public-key crypto scheme, and there's a private key hiding inside the ApEx. So I took it apart (I still have scars from opening the glued case!), dumped the ROM, and reverse engineered the keys out of it."
(also on MacRumors: http://www.macrumors.com/2011/04/11/apple-airplay-private-key-exposed-opening-door-to-airport-express-emulators/ )
"My girlfriend moved house, and her Airport Express no longer made it with her wireless access point. I figured it'd be easy to find an ApEx emulator — there are several open source apps out there to play to them. However, I was disappointed to find that Apple used a public-key crypto scheme, and there's a private key hiding inside the ApEx. So I took it apart (I still have scars from opening the glued case!), dumped the ROM, and reverse engineered the keys out of it."
(also on MacRumors: http://www.macrumors.com/2011/04/11/apple-airplay-private-key-exposed-opening-door-to-airport-express-emulators/ )
Comment Re:Currency conversion and a reference of the valu (Score 1) 145
Mea culpa - I had thought that the AC parent was referring to the rate of GDP growth as being GDP, but in fact of course you are right and he/she could well have been referring to the fact that GDP itself is an increase year-over-year
Comment Re:Currency conversion and a reference of the valu (Score 1) 145
"Gross domestic product (GDP) refers to the market value of all goods and services produced within a country in a given period." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gross_domestic_product
You are referring to the rate of growth of GDP, which is often quoted in news reports, but is not the same thing as GDP itself (which is, as per the usage of the person posting above, an absolute amount rather than a rate).
Also, if I read the above correctly, 10% is the percentage of the value of all assets, rather than just cash.
Submission + - Anonymous Git Hosting for PS3 Tools (gitbrew.org)
Anonymous Coward writes: "Gitbrew.org maintains a decentralized git server for all the code and tools Sony has been trying to remove off the internet. No logs are kept of user access, ip, etc and no owner names are given out. We hope to provide the PS3 Homebrew community with a comprehensive list of software and tools for hacking the PS3 all hosted in one place.
admin@gitbrew.org"
admin@gitbrew.org"
Submission + - Dutch Court Lifts PlayStation 3 Seizure Order (blogspot.com) 1
An anonymous reader writes: The recent European import ban against the PlayStation 3 has been lifted. Reportedly, LG had already succeeded in seizing about 300,000 PlayStations, but a court in the Dutch city of The Hague overturned the prejudgment seizure order and told LG to return all PS3s to Sony. Sony uses the Netherlands as its main entry point for all European PlayStation sales, and can now return to normal. While the temporary ban has been lifted, LG can still assert its Blu-ray patents against Sony in a regular proceeding, which will go to trial on November 18. LG asks for patent royalties of $2.50 per Blu-ray device and believes Sony already owes it $150-180 million. But for now, Sony fans rejoice.
