Submission + - Blizzard sparks a GPU Holy War with AA decision (icrontic.com)
primesuspect writes: StarCraft 2 doesn't have anti-aliasing yet. But does it really matter that much?
Submission + - Deal finalised on fusion reactor (bbc.co.uk)
An anonymous reader writes: The European Union and six member states have reached a deal on the financing and timetable for an experimental nuclear fusion reactor.
Submission + - Unlimited fusion a step closer with ITER funding
goG writes: The European Union and six other states agreed on an updated plan to finance and establish a timetable for the ITER project, an experimental fusion reactor which could lead towards the development of unlimited and clean fusion energy. The parties hammered out a deal at the future site of the project in Cadarache, France at Wednesday.Together with the International Space Station and CERN, ITER is probably the most extensive and complex international project ever undertaken.
Khan Academy Delivers 100,000 Lectures Daily 213
eldavojohn writes "Working from the comfort of his home, Salman Khan has made available more than 1,500 mini-lectures to educate the world. Subjects range from math and physics to finance, biology, and current economics. Kahn Academy amounts to little more than a YouTube channel and one very devoted man. He is trying to provide education in the way he wished he had been taught. With more than 100,000 video views a day, the man is making a difference for many students. In his FAQ he explains how he knows he is being effective. What will probably ensure his popularity (and provide a legacy surpassing that of most highly paid educators) is that everything is licensed under Creative Commons 3.0. He only needs his time, a $200 Camtasia Recorder, an $80 Wacom Bamboo Tablet, and a free copy of SmoothDraw3. While the lecturing may not be quite up to the Feynman level, it's a great augmenter for advanced learners, and a lifeline for those without much access to learning resources."
Comment Re:Apple-haters in 3,2,1,... (Score 5, Informative) 284
Because despite the fact that FoxConn make stuff for all sorts of people in the consumer electronics world, all the bile and invective seems to fall on Apple's shoulders.
No doubt, Apple actually trying to help will be seen negatively too - let's see if any of the subsequent comments say so (my money's on yes...). Honestly, the anyone-but-apple brigade make the fanboys look calm, collected, and sane.
Simon
In Finland, all these Foxconn suicides have been reported as happening at a "Nokia contractor", no word of Apple in any of the news posts.
Comment Re:And if there's a man in the middle? (Score 3, Interesting) 69
Would this be vulnerable to the man in the middle attack on quantum key distribution described in this earlier slashdot article:
http://it.slashdot.org/story/09/12/30/2118250/Quantum-Encryption-Implementation-Broken
They seem to be attacking the hardware rather than the software
Comment Blizzard had the same issue with WoW (Score 1) 216
I remember that Blizzard had this very same issue with WoW, back in either Vanilla or early The Burning Crusade times.
I believe it was a mistake by the company they had outsourced the billing to.
Comment Re:HDDs are Done When Google Says They Are Done (Score 1) 646
Seriously. Google is (believed to be) the largest single user of consumer hard drives. When they start replacing hard drives with SSDs, I will consider HDDs to be done. I wonder what price differential the power savings (don't forget the power for cooling) will cover?
They started planning that, 2 years ago?
http://www.informationweek.com/news/storage/systems/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=207602745
Comment Re:What about UFO's (Score 1) 457
In the literal sense, light aircraft not equiped with GPS, (Drug or people smugglers), and of course aircraft that have been hijacked and their transponders disabled.
Or some kid in a baloon (hoax or not, its probably not going to do an engine any good if it sucks it in...
And if the pilots are too busy playing with their laptops to even look out of the window...
It doesnt sound safe to me, especially in a post 911 world.
Does it matter? GPS is passive, it only figures out its current location via the satellite signals, it does not broadcast it onwards.
To replace radars on the ground for tracking aircraft, you need something in addition to the GPS (what is that, it's not mentioned in the summary?)
Comment why bother with airplanes (Score 3, Insightful) 821
All that these new security measures are doing, is moving the target from the "protected" airplane, to the unprotected queues of people at the airports.
Looking from an attacker PoV, which "mission" sounds better:
A) a high risk bomb smuggling operation to blow up ~200 people in an airplane with minimal explosives.
B) fit as much explosives as you can to your luggage and queue to the airport security check line at the most active time.
Scenario B has almost no chance of you getting caught before you can blow things up.
Comment Re:Sockets and mobos (Score 1) 235
I bet they do give a shit when they try using a hammer to fit a 1366 pin into a 1156 socket!
Average consumers don't try to build their own computer from parts.
Comment Re:why is this even in question? (Score 1) 184
if your employer owns a device, and allows you to use it, you are not to ever use it for personal reasons, nor should you ever expect even the slightest amount of privacy for communications using the device. Even (and probably especially) if they give you permission for personal use. That goes for cell phones, pagers, computers, slide rules, everything. That means you do not log into personal Facebook, Google, or Hotmail at work. You do not use the company phone to call home. If you do any of these, you've 1) probably violated the terms of your employment and 2) have given the company/government permission to peer into all personal communications made with your employer's equipment.
You have explicit rights (in most cases) to privacy and use of the property that you actually own. That's it, the line is drawn there. I can't believe there is any controversy over this.
After reading this, I'm damn glad that i'm living and employed in Finland and not in USA.
Comment Re:Old (Score 2, Funny) 342
If you're seeing smaller numbers, then you have something wrong with your computer.
like.. using a higher resolution than you are?
(2560*1600 here)
Comment Re:Trade with other players? (Score 1) 342
Is it possible to trade with players from other realms via this cross-realm instances? Possibly players could even schedule a meeting in the lesser frequented instances.
only conjured items and items that drop during the dungeon can be traded via players from different realms
Comment Re:may take months to face Arthas? (Score 3, Informative) 342
Months, huh? I call bullshit. Some guild with no life will beat Arthas into paste before the end of the year.
The only possible things that could put it off until the new year is (1) Blizzard hard coded it so each wing is opened on a set schedule, regardless of how fast the bosses in that wing are beaten and (2) Christmas break.
Which is exactly what Blizzard did.
The first wing opened now, the next wing will open 28 days from now. There are a total of 4 wings, and you need to complete ICC on normal mode before you can do hard modes.
