Comment Contradiction!? (Score 1) 217
The summary mentions that Facebook is forming a PAC, and that it already IS a Palo Alto Company??
Comment Moon infrastructure (Score 1) 214
Do you think there will really be separate buildings like that on the moon, rather than indoor interconnected complexes?
Would save a lot of decompression chambers, etc. Or why not make a tube system for transportation of goods (and internet packets) while you are at it!
Submission + - State of Blu Ray on Linux
An anonymous reader writes: What's the state of Blu Ray on Linux? Assuming I've got reasonably modern hardware, can I buy any USB or SATA Blu Ray player, pop in any legally purchased Blu Ray disk and just watch the content? Or is it a case of selective support, or worse, no reliable support at all?
Comment 2003 "Aprils Fools'" Joke Becoming Real? (Score 1) 471
Seems like MS will not let go of their old ideas
http://www.zdnet.com/news/microsoft-flushes-out-iloo-gag/129298
Submission + - UK ID Cards Are No More! (pirateparty.org.uk) 1
Ajehals writes: "In the last ten years, governments have fallen over themselves to try and obtain more information about their citizens. Sometimes it's databases, or new regulations, or cameras, but the one thing they have in common is that they can be used to identify you, and track you. Today is a positive step then, as in the UK, it's the last day for the "UK Identity Card" — after midnight GMT tonight, they will no longer be valid for use at all."
Submission + - Went after 2 bloggers, took 7000 accounts (www.nrk.no)
xiando writes: Norwegian police were asked by the police in Italy to get personal information about two bloggers who were using a server in Oslo. The police decided the best thing to do would be to take the servers harddrive along with personal information about 7000 other users. Other ISPs say this is common operating procedure in Norway these days.
Submission + - Apple still sanctimonious: no Playboy app for iPad (infoworld.com)
tsamsoniw writes: The rumors that a Playboy app would appear in the Apple App Store were greatly exaggerated. Playboy plans to offer an online service through which subscribers can access past and current issues of the nudie mag — and per Playboy, it will be accessible via Safari and support iPad features (whatever that means). But if Playboy does come out with a native app for iPad, but all the nudity will be censored. That should be just fine for the legions of people who indeed read the magazine for the articles. This really shouldn't be a surprise, though: If Apple insists on "protecting" users of its high-priced gear from pixilated naughty bits in a graphic-novel version of classic literature, it certainly won't let users access the full monty. It's a shame, though: If Apple's customers want access to that sort of content, Apple should allow them to get at if via a native app instead of suffering a potentially buggier, less secure browser-based experience.
Submission + - Compromised .giv, .mil, .edu sites for sale (krebsonsecurity.com) 1
Khopesh writes: Imperva blogged today about the sale of compromised .gov, .mil, and .edu sites, illustrating that cyber-criminals are getting bolder. Krebs on Security has an unredacted view of the site list. Perhaps the biggest threat is yet to come; if an industrious criminal can break into top government and military sites, so too can government-backed teams, proving that GhostNet and Stuxnet are just the beginning...
Comment Re:Wow (Score 2, Funny) 167
Mac OS X: http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/games/role_strategy/foxminesweeper.html
Debian GNU/Linux: http://packages.debian.org/lenny/xbomb
FreeBSD: ftp://ftp.internat.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-8-current/games/xdemineur-2.1.1_1.tbz
Windows Vista: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-vista/Learn-about-Windows-games
HA!
Comment Re:The return of the documents... (Score 1) 523
OH! Joke already done, sorry for dupe
Comment Re:The return of the documents... (Score 1) 523
US Military 'Banned' From Viewing Wikileaks 390
Following up on its risible demand that Wikileaks return the Afghanistan documents, the Pentagon has banned military members from viewing the documents. The Washington Times obtained copies of Navy and Marine Corps messages to their troops saying that accessing the documents even from a personal computer is "willingly committing a security violation." Wired notes that terrorists everywhere are under no such restriction. Reader carp3_noct3m writes "I am personally left almost speechless at this disconnect from reality demonstrated by the military. I am a USMC Iraq war vet, and find these policies completely ridiculous. They show the inability of our supposedly technologically knowledgeable military to fuse this knowledge with policy, mostly due to the political pressure that has erupted to 'take care of' the Wikileaks problem."
Web-Based Private File Storage? 467
steve802 writes "Recently, someone died in our company, and word is getting around that the admins who were given access to his Outlook account have found personal things that are embarrassing at best (the rumor mill differs on what was found). No matter, it raises a question. I have personal stuff in Outlook folders that I would not want someone in IT to see if I suddenly dropped dead: emails to the wife, photos of the kids, that kind of thing. I also keep a journal at home that I save to a server; personal reflections that I never want anyone else to see, especially if I die. So I was thinking that some sort of web-based storage for files, individual emails, and perhaps even Outlook folders would be perfect. All my most private personal stuff in one place. I found CryptoHeaven, which seems to offer some of what I'm looking for — but it is pricey. I'm willing to pay, but something less than $400/year would be nice. Best would be a service with a dead-man's switch, so that if I don't access it in, say, three months, it auto-purges. Any thoughts?"
Comment Re:people still play that shit? (Score 3, Insightful) 207
Second Life is a good research project (or playground if you will) for whenever we will be able to hook computers up to our brains and map all sensory inputs and outputs to a virtual 3D world (matrix-style). Then the actual world you'd live in will be ready.
I just hope that things be quite different from SL by then :)
Comment Re:Really (Score 1) 551
As somebody else pointed out, it only holds for x>4.
The proof is simple.
1) If x> 4 and x-1 is a prime number, then x-1 is odd. Therefore x is even - i.e. 2 is a prime factor of x.
2) for any three successive integers x-1,x,x+1, exactly one of the three numbers is divisible by 3 (basically if x-1 mod 3 is 1, then x mod 3 is 2 and x+1 mod 3 is 0, etc). Back to our problem - since x-1 and x+1 are assumed to be primes, the number divisible by 3 is in fact x.
Thus, x is divisible by both 2 and 3, i.e. it is divisible by 6.
