Comment Re:Oh the Humanity! (Score 1) 1223
One of them is playing nicer than the other (but he's retired).
Submission + - Dying bees: a new nail in the coffin (liberation.fr)
boule75 writes: Mr. Sylvestre Huet compiles (fr) the results of a French study (us) concerning the combined effects of parasites and insecticides on bees.
Considered alone, those insecticides are somewhat innocuous for the bees. But for bees already affected by Nosema ceranae, even a very low dose of fipronil or thiaclopride appears to be deadly. And since changing the molecule does not change the result, it may prove difficult to find suitable insecticides to save bees.
As if one bane was not enough, Asian hornets (fr) are invading south-western France and hunting bees along their path...
Considered alone, those insecticides are somewhat innocuous for the bees. But for bees already affected by Nosema ceranae, even a very low dose of fipronil or thiaclopride appears to be deadly. And since changing the molecule does not change the result, it may prove difficult to find suitable insecticides to save bees.
As if one bane was not enough, Asian hornets (fr) are invading south-western France and hunting bees along their path...
Submission + - DisplayPort-To-HDMI Cables Illegal, Face Recall 1
Hugh Pickens writes writes: "PC Magazine reports that the licensing company overseeing the HDMI specification has confirmed that existing Mini DisplayPort-to-HDMI adapters which are designed by several cable makers and sold by several PC OEMs, are apparently illegal and could be recalled. According to Charlene Wan, director of marketing for HDMI LLC, any cable that does not include HDMI connectors on both ends violates the specification. "The HDMI specification defines an HDMI cable as having ONLY HDMI connectors on the ends," says Wan. "Anything else is not a licensed use of the specification and therefore, not allowed." That apparently includes Apple's mini-DisplayPort-to-HDMI adapters, which are sold by Belkin on Apple's Web site. However a representative for Belkin denies that the cable it sells on Apple's Web site is illegal. "Essentially, the product you mention in your post is not out of compliance because it is just an adaptor and not a cable," the representative wrote in an email. "We do not sell a cable with a male Mini-DP and male HDMI port, which is what falls out of compliance with the spec. HDMI does recognize a product that has a Mini-DP connector and HDMI receptacle with an internal active circuitry as it falls into the definition of a source device." There may also be a glimmer of hope, in that HDMI Org understands that there is a need for this type of cable: "We do recognise that there may be a market need for a cable solution rather than a dongle solution. However, at this time, there is no way to produce these cable products in a licensed manner.""
Comment Re:Archeologic interpretation (Score 3, Interesting) 169
Look, (puts on Gieco hat), its not hard to know when to plant. Snow melts. Ground gets warm enough to dig in with bare hands. Wild plants start growing all by themselves. Even a Cave Man could do it. The very earth under your feet tells you when its time to sow. Nobody needs an observatory.
To the contrary. For the better part of known, written history, mathematicians and astronomers fought for building better almanacs specifically to cater for the needs of farmers. Those where extremely important researches, funded by kings and worth a lot of gold for whomever came with an edge in predicting the solar cycle exact duration. The ancient chinese emperors were responsible for deciding when to plow the earth, for instance. The power of egyptians pharaohs was tied to the prediction of the flooding of the Nile. This is DOCUMENTED history. Kepler stumbled upon his famous orbital laws almost by accident, because he was building an almanac for farmers and seafarers. My grandfather bought yearly, between the 50s and 80s, a printed almanac with dates to sow various plants calculated for the coming year. Everybody in the countryside would do the same. For the longest of times, it was literally a matter of life or death.
Comment YANAL (Score 1) 153
I confirm, you are not a lawyer. Breaching contracts and having our clients let go off scott free is the basis of our business.
Comment damnit ! (Score 2) 130
nearly 15 years reading /. and I still fall in a goatse.cx trap !
Comment Re:This brings up the question (Score 0) 87
Aaargh ! modded you redundant instead of informative, silly me... posting to erase my mistake...
Comment Pointing fingers won't help (Score 4, Insightful) 244
If google bundles Flash with Chrome and the user's exposed to exploit, then it's pretty much google's responsibility for letting this happen in the first place. Doesn't invalidate VUPEN's claim one bit, as every chrome installation is still susceptible to direct exploitation.
Comment Re:Really? (Score 1) 150
As I wrote further below, the co-owner of VUPEN has won this year's pwn2own contest by smashing another webkit based browser to pieces : http://www.zdnet.com/blog/security/safarimacbook-first-to-fall-at-pwn2own-2011/8358
I don't see why he would be lying here when he already proved publicly he had the capability to exploit much the same flaw elsewhere.
I don't see why he would be lying here when he already proved publicly he had the capability to exploit much the same flaw elsewhere.
Comment Before everyone start yelling "fake" (Score 2) 150
A quick search turns out VUNET co-founder BEKRAR Chaouki was the winner of pwn2own 2011 : http://www.zdnet.com/blog/security/safarimacbook-first-to-fall-at-pwn2own-2011/8358
Not to say it proves he did it again with chrome, but at least; the guy's got some credits for being able to pull this one.
Not to say it proves he did it again with chrome, but at least; the guy's got some credits for being able to pull this one.
Comment Re:how did this happen? (Score 2) 377
Because most software comes with a 'windows XP or better OS' printed on the box, and as we all know here, Linux is much better.
Comment OpenBSD 4.9 released... (Score 1) 137
... just in time for Sony to rebuild the PSN. Hurray !
Comment Re:Only with Firefox 6, though (Score 1) 306
Did they fix their little font problems ? I gave up on chrome under linux because whenever I finally managed to get proper anti-aliased fonts, each time the next new version would wreck havoc and send you back to the dark ages of pixelated characters. My eyes are too old to bear with that stupid game. This, and of course, the stupid use of the title bar to store tabs that have nothing to do into my window manager layout.
Comment The proof is in the pudding... (Score 1) 306
Just tried the nightly, and there's definitively a perceived speed boost. I can't compare to windows version, but it's there on linux for sure. Easy as downloading the nightly to a local dir in your home, unpack and run. Better, some odd layout bugs of the stable seem to have disappeared too.
Comment Re:Let me say (Score 0) 362
You should be modded +6 funny
