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Stay Off the Grid, Win $10,000 228

Posted by ScuttleMonkey from the running-man dept.
DariusD writes "Last summer, Wired writer Evan Ratliff wrote a story about how people erase their identities and start over. After it ran, he tried to disappear — spending 25 days on the lam until a few enterprising Wired readers tracked him down through some brilliant hacking and sleuthing. Now we're going to try the experiment again. Evan, Wired, Loneshark Games and I are working with Universal Pictures to do another, similar contest connected to the new film Repo Men, and this time we want you to go on the run. We need four applicants willing to disappear from their lives from late February to late March. If they can stay hidden for that time period, they'll end up with $10,000 each."
The Internet

IE 8 Is Top Browser, Google Chrome Is Rising Fast 319

Posted by kdawson from the trend-is-your-friend dept.
An anonymous reader points out that the latest Net Applications numbers show that MSIE 8 has become the world's most-used browser, taking over from IE6, which has been hit by the decline in the use of Windows XP. PCMag.com emphasizes another angle on the numbers, which is that Chrome is the fastest-growing browser. Firefox's market share has stalled just below 25%. Chrome is now in third place, ahead of Safari. The Guardian's article reminds: "There's no guarantee that NetApps' numbers are accurate, and they are very unlikely to be correct to two decimal places. However, they do appear to be a good indicator of market trends."

Comment Re:Holy moley ! (Score 3, Interesting) 143

by Sillygates (#30838446) Attached to: Benchmarks of Debian GNU/kFreeBSD vs. GNU/Linux
But on x86, you are only guaranteed 4 *real* general purpose registers. x86_64 increases this number. With a good compiler, the register allocator would use all of these, and you would have much fewer loads from main memory, which can take on the order of 75+ cpu cycles on a cache miss, or 5+ cycles on a cache hit.
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Surgeon Makes Tutorial DVD For Conscious Open-Heart Surgery Screenshot-sm 170

Posted by samzenpus from the looks-easy-enough dept.
Lanxon writes "Swaroup Anand, 23, from Bangalore, was fully conscious as he underwent open-heart surgery. An epidural to the neck, administered at the city’s Wockhardt Hospital, numbed his body during the procedure. Dr Vivek Jawali pioneered the technique ten years ago and has recently released a tutorial on DVD, which gives a step-by-step guide to the procedure for other surgeons to watch and learn from."
Data Storage

Best Filesystem For External Back-Up Drives? 484

Posted by timothy from the just-mirror-to-the-internet dept.
rufey writes "I've recently embarked on a project to rip my DVD and CD collection to a pair of external USB drives. One drive will be used on a daily basis to access the rips of music and DVDs, as well as store backups of all of my other data. The second drive will be a copy of the first drive, to be synced up on a monthly basis and kept at a different location. The USB drives that I purchased for this are 1 TB in size and came pre-formatted with FAT32. While I can access this filesystem from all of my Windows and Linux machines, there are some limitations." Read on for the rest, and offer your advice on the best filesystem for this application.

Comment Re:My say on this (Score 1) 686

by Sillygates (#30481688) Attached to: Not Enough Women In Computing, Or Too Many Men?

My say on this

"Not enough women" implies that the proportion between men/women is too unbalanced
"too many men" implies the same thing

so, are you saying that there is a target ratio of men to women that you want to hit?

If so, all your question basically is asking is whether there are too many people in the technology industry (being that the ratio could be met with less or more overall people).

Now to answer the real question, "Are there too many people in the technology industry?".........

Comment Re:$1 Million... Really? (Score 1) 621

by Sillygates (#30304054) Attached to: SETI@Home Install Leads To School Tech Supervisor's Resignation

I'd say they lost money on power consumption. Not up keep.

Running your processors at full speed raises the temperature of computers.

In the department where I work, we have seen many heat related computer deaths (especially with these machines: https://www.plymouth.edu/webapp/surplus/uploads/full_size/6630_dell_gx260-01.jpg ). I have seen the SMART statistics off of several hard drives that report them as running over temperature in their lifetime. The logs on the machines are also full of "cpu over temperature" warnings.
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Keeping Pacemakers Safe From Hackers Screenshot-sm 167

Posted by samzenpus from the blackest-of-black-hats dept.
An anonymous reader writes "Researchers from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich and the French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control have now developed a scheme for protecting implantable medical devices against wireless attacks. The approach relies on using ultrasound waves to determine the exact distance between a medical device and the wireless reader attempting to communicate with it." I had no idea that things have gotten so bad that hearts are being hacked.

Comment Re:no. it does not. (Score 1) 405

by Sillygates (#30001484) Attached to: Home Phone System That Syncs To Computer?

However, being able to push something like this out to business and corporate clients may well be a viable opportunity.

Microsoft already makes it. http://blog.tmcnet.com/blog/tom-keating/microsoft/office-communications-server-2007-public-beta-launches.asp

The phonebook syncs to Exchange/Office Communicator, and you log in via active directory on the phone.

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