Nephilium - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Kid Friendly? (Score 1) 295

by Nephilium on Monday July 25, 2011 @11:28AM (#36871274) Attached to: Review: Captain America

I'd say that Captain America is not that kid friendly (YMMV of course). This is set in WWII, so there's gunfights, people being shot, and quite a bit of death. There are energy weapons that vaporize people, and at least one person falling through a propeller that turns into a fine mist.

Submission + - Google+ Takes Critical Plug-In Lead from Twitter

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 11, 2011 @09:31AM

An anonymous reader writes: In the world of the Internet, your success is measured by your reach. That's why sites like Facebook, and Twitter, despite their already massive followings, have moved to place their "buttons" across other websites. But the search engine giant's Google+ social network, that rolled out its own "+1" only one month ago, has already surpassed social stalwart Twitter with regards to buttons

Submission + - Last Camcorder on a Space Shuttle - Panasonic 3DA1 (everythingnew.net)

Submitted by

hasanabbas1987

on Monday July 11, 2011 @09:08AM

hasanabbas1987 writes: "Panasonic just announced that they have given NASA their AG-3DA1 3D camcorders, a BT-3DL2550 25.5-inch 3D LCD and a very tough Toughbook notebook computer to go on Atlantis on its last mission. The equipment provided by the company was used to document the training and preparation leading to the final Atlantis journey. However, out of the above mentioned equipment only the 3DA1 camcorder made it on the shuttle in space."

Comment Re:Poor Liddle Microsoft Troll (Score 1) 312

by Nephilium on Thursday July 07, 2011 @09:14AM (#36681910) Attached to: Google Deleting Private Profiles

if your kids are doing illegal activities, they deserve to get caught. how can you defend a kid smoking pot? i'll be happy if google runs their image analysis on every photo posted and automatically reports it to the police if it sees someone smoking illegal drugs, or drinking underage, along with gps info so cops can teach them a lesson. seriously, however cool it is to do drugs, it is still very harmful to you. and we should be trying to prevent kids from falling into the vicious cycle of drugs>poverty>prostitution>drugs and so on.

Right! Drugs ruins lives... just ask Obama, Bush, Clinton, Bloomberg, etc...Look how they've fallen into poverty. I can't speak to their use of prostitutes.

The most dangerous thing about most drugs is what will happen to you if you're arrested with them. Fucking drug warrior morons who believe that drugs are illegal because they're dangerous, and they're dangerous because they're illegal.

Submission + - Terry Pratchett Considers Assisted Suicide Process (boingboing.net)

Submitted by

cHALiTO

on Tuesday June 14, 2011 @11:02AM

cHALiTO writes: "Beloved science fiction and fantasy writer Terry Pratchett has terminal early-onset Alzheimer's. He's determined to have the option of choosing the time and place of his death, rather than enduring the potentially horrific drawn-out death that Alzheimer's sometimes brings. But Britain bans assisted suicide, and Pratchett is campaigning to have the law changed. As part of this, he has visited Switzerland's Dignitas clinic, an assisted suicide facility, with a BBC camera crew, as part of a documentary will include Britain's first televised suicide. Pratchett took home Dignitas's assisted suicide consent forms."

Submission + - NYC Resistor: DIY hackers doing awesome things (motherboard.tv)

Submitted by HansonMB on Monday April 25, 2011 @11:09AM

HansonMB writes: Founded by a handful of friends who wanted a place to tinker with electronics and meet like-minded hackers for good, NYC Resistor. has blossomed into one of the country’s most influential hackerspaces. On any given Thursday night, their cozy, cluttered loft workshop is crawling with a diverse crowd of hardcore tinkerers and curious newcomers. Throwing some caution and many user warranties to the wind, they’re there to build, refine, break and share everything from toy robots to intricate paper sculpture to open source musical instruments.

Submission + - Google Fixes 6 High-Risk Chrome Bugs, Pays $8500 (threatpost.com)

Submitted by Trailrunner7 on Friday March 25, 2011 @11:21AM

Trailrunner7 writes: Google has released a new version of its Chrome browser, fixing six high-risk security bugs in the process and paying out $8,500 in bug bounties along the way.

The latest version of Chrome, version 10.0.648.204, also includes a number of other new features for some of the supported platforms. The Linux version of Chrome now supports the password manager for Linux, as well as some performance and stability upgrades.

Submission + - Enterprises Support Thousands Of Obsolete Apps (eweekeurope.co.uk)

Submitted by

justice4all

on Monday March 21, 2011 @12:35PM

justice4all writes: "Legacy applications are an increasing burden despite the latest modernisation options, says Capgemini

Businesses are supporting millions of obsolete applications that no longer deliver business value, according to a report issued today.

Some global enterprises have as many as 10,000 applications in their IT estates and are missing out potential cost savings and efficiencies by not rationalising them, according to the first annual Applications Landscape report from Capgemini, published with HP, based on interviews with nearly 100 IT decision makers from Europe and the US.

Highlighting application bloat
While 85 percent of these IT decision makers said their application portfolios were in need of rationalisation, a further 60 percent admitted to currently supporting ‘more’ or ‘far more’ applications than are necessary to run their business."

Submission + - Microsoft Urges Office Users To Block Flash Player (computerworld.com)

Submitted by

Batblue

on Monday March 21, 2011 @09:30AM

Batblue writes: "Microsoft has urged users of older Office suites to install and run a complicated tool to protect themselves against ongoing attacks exploiting an unpatched bug in Adobe's Flash Player.

"For users of Office prior to 2010, the Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit (EMET) can help," said Andrew Roths and Chengyun Chu, a manager and security engineer, respectively, with the Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC). "Turning on EMET for the core Office applications will enable a number of security protections called 'security mitigations'," the pair wrote in a post to the company's Security Research & Defense blog.

EMET is a tool designed for advanced users, primarily enterprise IT pros, that manually enables ASLR (address space layout randomization) and DEP (data execution prevention) for specific applications. ASLR and DEP are two anti-exploit technologies included with Windows. Adobe confirmed that attackers were exploiting an unpatched bug in Flash Player by sending potential victims malicious Microsoft Excel documents."

Submission + - Does Facebook Kill Authenticity? 1

Submitted by

Hugh Pickens writes

on Tuesday March 08, 2011 @08:39AM

Hugh Pickens writes writes: "Steve Cheney writes that the problem with tying internet-wide identity to a broadcast network like Facebook is that people don’t want one normalized identity, either in real life, or virtually. "People yearn to be individuals. They want to be authentic. They have numerous different groups of real-life friends. They stylize conversations. They are emotional and have an innate need to connect on different levels with different people," writes Cheney adding that the recent decision by a number of sites, including TechCrunch, to adopt Facebook commenting highlights the problem where the integration of the formatting and fonts is so strong that when you're reading comments you actuallyfeel like you are on Facebook, not a tech focused vertical site. "Facebook’s insistence that you have one identity across the web is both short-sighted and asinine, and people I talk to are starting to realize this," concludes Cheney. "Fact is, one social network will not rule the web... People are simply way too social to allow that.""

Submission + - A letter on behalf of the world's PC fixers (pcpro.co.uk)

Submitted by

Barence

on Tuesday March 08, 2011 @07:16AM

Barence writes: "PC Pro's Steve Cassidy has written a letter on behalf of all the put-upon techies who've ever been called by a friend to fix their PC. His bile is directed at a friend who put a DVD bought on holiday into their laptop, and then wondered what went wrong.

"Once you stuck that DVD in there and started saying 'yes, OK' to every resulting dialog box, you sank the whole thing," Cassidy writes. "It doesn’t take 10 minutes to sort that out; it requires a complete machine reload to properly guarantee the infection is history."

"No, there is no neat and handy way I’ve been keeping secret that allows you to retain your extensive collection of stolen software licences loaded on that laptop. I do disaster recovery, not disaster participation.""

Comment Re:Price (Score 1) 618

by Nephilium on Friday February 11, 2011 @01:23PM (#35176484) Attached to: Why Dumbphones Still Dominate, For Now

T-Mobile. I bought my phone outright, which puts you on a different cost plan.

The price difference is about $20 a month (so the 500 minute talk time plan runs $60, instead of $80).

Submission + - Hosni Mubarak steps down. 1

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 11, 2011 @12:49PM

An anonymous reader writes: BBC news reports that Hosni Mubarak of Egypt has stepped down and the Army council is taking temporary control.

Submission + - Asus, Gigabyte to replace all Sandy Bridge boards (techreport.com)

Submitted by J. Dzhugashvili on Wednesday February 02, 2011 @02:40PM

J. Dzhugashvili writes: In the wake of Intel's announcement that all existing Sandy Bridge chipsets have a bug that causes degraded Serial ATA performance, top-tier motherboard makers Asus and Gigabyte have made public statements regarding their return policy for affected boards. Asus is promising 'hassle-free return and/or replacement', while Gigabyte says owners of affected boards are entitled to a full refund or replacement—and it recommends that users seek refunds. Both companies are advising users to contact the original place of purchase to proceed. On a related note, Gigabyte has announced that new Sandy Bridge motherboards with bug-free chipsets will be available in volume in April.

Submission + - A Deeper Look Into Android 3.0

Submitted by adeelarshad82 on Wednesday February 02, 2011 @12:59PM

adeelarshad82 writes: Google is getting ready to show off Android 3.0 aka Honeycomb later today and it's definitely going to give iOS a run for its money. Google's new OS carries a completely overhauled user interface. Not only does the interface have deeper, darker colors to increase battery life but also the home screen now provides the ability to view multiple widget as well as the functionality of stacking items within a widget like pictures or videos. Along with the UI, Google has also improved the multitasking functionality. The existing method of accessing running or recently opened applications has been grown to display in-app screens instead of just the name of the app and an icon. One of the biggest differences between Honeycomb and other operating systems running on tablets is that, Honeycomb along with the apps running on it are optimzed for dual core processing. Natively, Android will run the garbage collector on one core and an app on another. However, the tools are there to utilize both cores for your app, and to benefit from the performance gains that will occur. To take a shot at Blackberry's market, Google has ensured that the tablet carries business features like password expiration and encrypted storage tools. Finally the OS adds support for legacy Bluetooth devices which is not available on most of the other tablets in the market today.

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