Comment Dead-code ellimination (Score 3, Informative) 97
Didn't Mozilla cry bloody murder when IE9 was discovered to perform dead-code elimination claiming it was "cheating" because it made some outdated JS benchmarks finish in 0 time?
Comment Re:The broken brakes would make it fail MOT (Score 1) 369
Fuses are meant as failsafes so faulty equipment doesn't catch on fire (or to protect the powersupply/battery from that faulty equipment). The fact that a fuse was blown under normal conditions indicates a deeper problem in the devices it powers.
I would definitely NOT trust equipment after it blew a fuse out of the ordinary. Especially safety equipment on a car.
Comment If they want academics to dedicate... (Score 4, Informative) 385
... their precious time to editing Wikipedia, they should first up find a solution to shield them from the drama some Wikipedia editors, admins and ArbCom members love so much.
Comment Re:Unlikely, but, whatever, everybody has an opini (Score 1) 95
Quake Live actually runs through a plugin.
Comment Re:Is that really well tested in the real world? (Score 1) 797
GIMP toolbars (and generally all kinds of toolbars in different programs) do not respond to mouse gestures, so you can actually drag them to the top and they wont maximize.
Comment Re:But does it run on Linux??! (Score 1) 66
Security through obscurity doesn't work in practice. Most of these "toolkits", as TFA likes to call them, come in various flavors from x86 Windows to Siemens networked PLC controllers. Unless there are sound security practices on-site and air-gaps where required, no system is secure.
Comment Re:Like tank wars (Score 1) 234
Dignity? Ethics? I dunno 'bout you man, but some people care about those things.
Comment Re:Bye-bye! (Score 1) 997
*whoosh*
Comment Re:Where? (Score 1) 342
I don't believe EULAs and TOS can circumvent actual laws.
Comment Re:Okular print support (Score 1) 116
Sumatra PDF is hugely superior and doesn't nag you with "Online Offers".
It also has a much cleaner, native looking interface without the toolbar chaos characteristic of Foxit.
Submission + - Google reCAPTCHA cracked (allspammedup.com)
stormdesign writes: Despite denials from Google, a security researcher continues to assert that the Search King’s reCAPTCHA system for protecting Web sites from spammers can be successfully exploited by Internet junk mail panderers.
Samsung Develops Power-Sipping DDR4 Memory 152
Alex writes with this excerpt from TechSpot: "Samsung Electronics has announced that it completed development of the industry's first DDR4 DRAM module last month, using 30nm class process technology, and provided 1.2V 2GB DDR4 unbuffered dual in-line memory modules (UDIMM) to a controller maker for testing. The new DDR4 DRAM module can achieve data transfer rates of 2.133Gbps at 1.2V, compared to 1.35V and 1.5V DDR3 DRAM at an equivalent 30nm-class process technology, with speeds of up to 1.6Gbps. In a notebook, the DDR4 module reduces power consumption by 40 percent compared to a 1.5V DDR3 module. The module makes use of Pseudo Open Drain (POD) technology, which allows DDR4 DRAM to consume just half the electric current of DDR3 when reading and writing data."
Honeycomb To Require Dual-Core Processor 177
adeelarshad82 writes "According to managing director of Korean consumer electronics firm Enspert, Google's new Android Honeycomb tablet OS will require a dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 processor to run properly. That means that many existing Android tablets will not be upgradeable to Honeycomb, as they lack the processor necessary to meet the spec. Currently, Nvidia's Tegra 2 platform is the only chipset in products on the market to include a Cortex-A9, although other manufacturers have said they're moving to the new processor architecture for 2011 products."
Comment Well, technically... (Score 2) 120
... the server did not actually send those TCP requests, but was hosting an IRC server. The flooding software allows the user to turn his computer in a voluntary "botnet member". The software then connects to a specific IRC server (can be changed easily in case the server goes out of commission), connects to a specific channel and then a bot in this channel responds to commands by the software and passes the IP address of the target.
This allows the masterminds behind the attacks to coordinate the computers effectively and paralyze sites with an instant flood of requests, instead of having each user configuring the software with a new target I.P. and having the load on the target increase gradually, making it easier to react.
Submission + - China to ban non state-controlled VoIP services. (wsj.com)
ferongr writes: The Chinese Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has decided that VoIP services in mainland china are illegal unless they are provided by China Telecom Corp. and China Unicom Ltd. This could affect Skype and Google Voice and limit the freedom of Chinese users.
