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Comment Re:video (Score 1) 107

by jones_supa (#48456307) Attached to: Google Chrome Will Block All NPAPI Plugins By Default In January
Newer codecs would still have inflated the hardware requirements. H.264 takes more crunch than MPEG-2. However, as you point out, the main problem is that the YUV overlay is not used in web browser video players. One can see the difference when he downloads a video from YouTube with youtube-dl or plays it via MiniTube: the CPU usage is much lower.

Submission + - Fire Damages 750-Year-Old Oak Tree, Possibly Poland's Oldest (foxnews.com)

Submitted by jones_supa
jones_supa writes: A suspected arson fire in southwestern Poland has damaged a 750-year-old oak tree believed to be the country's oldest. The tree is nicknamed "Chrobry" after a medieval king, and its trunk circumference is more than 10 meters and height more than 28 meters. The oak is protected by law and an arsonist faces up to 10 years in prison if convicted. The deputy chief forest ranger in Szprotawa, Jerzy Wilanowski, said Monday that firefighters battled the blaze for more than 30 hours last week using water and foam. He says authorities will know in May whether the tree survived if it grows new shoots. Wilanowski says he knows of a case of an old oak tree surviving a fire.

Submission + - Advanced Regin Rootkit Might Not Come From Russia or China

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jones_supa writes: Regin is still hot stuff in the line of sophisticated espionage toolkits used to target a range of organizations around the world. As already reported by Symantec, it's one of the more complex pieces of malware around, and just like many of the other toolkits it also has a long history behind it. The Finnish information security company F-Secure first encountered Regin nearly six years ago in early 2009, when they found it hiding on a Windows server in a customer environment in Northern Europe. This malware installs a rogue driver with an innocuous name of "pciclass.sys", which acts as a rootkit, but can make the system BSOD too. During 2013 and 2014, as F-Secure has been analyzing the later versions of Regin, the complexity and the level of sophistication in the attacks has become very evident. Regin is placed in the same category of highly sophisticated espionage campaigns together with the likes of Stuxnet, Flame and Turla/Snake. Now F-Secure believes that this malware, for a change, isn't coming from Russia or China.

Submission + - Google Break-up Plan Emerges From Brussels

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jones_supa writes: The European parliament is poised to call for a break-up of Google, in one of the most brazen assaults so far on the technology group's power. The gambit increases the political pressure on the European Commission, the EU's executive arm, to take a tougher line on Google, either in its antitrust investigation into the company or through the introduction of laws to curb its reach. A draft motion seen by the Financial Times says that "unbundling [of] search engines from other commercial services" should be considered as a potential solution to Google's dominance. It has the backing of the parliament's two main political blocs, the European People's Party and the Socialists.

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