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Comment Re:Great to live in the US... (Score 1) 209

by Eravau (#35032040) Attached to: Netflix Compares ISP Streaming Performance
Yeah... but the numbers look a little skewed because the Canadian ISPs are using metric bytes, which are a smaller unit than the Imperial bytes used in the U.S... much in the same way that the standard Canadian kilometer measurement of distance is shorter than the U.S. mile or liter smaller than the gallon. ;)
Supercomputing

Researchers Claim 1,000 Core Chip Created 118

Posted by CmdrTaco from the eat-the-seeds dept.
eldavojohn writes "Remember a few months ago when the feasibility was discussed of a thousand core processor? By using FPGAs, Glasgow University researchers have claimed a proof of concept 1,000 core chip that they demonstrated running an MPEG algorithm at a speed of 5Gbps. From one of the researchers: 'This is very early proof-of-concept work where we're trying to demonstrate a convenient way to program FPGAs so that their potential to provide very fast processing power could be used much more widely in future computing and electronics. While many existing technologies currently make use of FPGAs, including plasma and LCD televisions and computer network routers, their use in standard desktop computers is limited. However, we are already seeing some microchips which combine traditional CPUs with FPGA chips being announced by developers, including Intel and ARM. I believe these kinds of processors will only become more common and help to speed up computers even further over the next few years.'"

Comment Re:Read Twain. Twain will save you. (Score 1) 775

by Eravau (#34570574) Attached to: First-Sale Doctrine Lost Overseas
So the laws made by the hundreds of different people we elect to make laws after the will of the people... don't matter. Just the opinion of 9 people who we have no say in at all as a people? I don't think so. It's true that they are there to bring justice... but "justice" is defined by the Constitution (as of primary authority) and the laws that those we elected have enacted (as long as they don't contradict the Constitution). Any other "justice" is out of place.

Comment Re:The first planned spam... (Score 1) 397

by Eravau (#32604086) Attached to: HP and Yahoo To Spam Your Printer

...the idea of printing off your morning paper may have made sense in the science fiction of the 1950's, but HP is crazy if they think people actually want to print out content that they are going to read once and recycle.

I know people that still print out all of their email to read and to store in manila folders if it's something they (think they) will need for a while. If they only need to read it and then get rid of it, then they'll still print it... and then, as you indicate nobody would do, they throw it into the shredder or the recycle can.

These same people would love to have something available to automatically print out the news they want for them every morning so they wouldn't have to go out on the porch and get the newspaper... or heaven forbid, read it on a computer screen.
Privacy

California Judge Routes Campaign Robocalls Through Colorado 191

Posted by timothy from the parsing-the-point-finely dept.
Thomas Hawk writes "Victoria Kolakowski, a current sitting law judge at the California PUC, is running for Alameda Superior Court judge in California. As part of her campaign she is robodialing people in California with a pre-recorded message. The only problem is that in Califorina robodials are actually illegal unless first introduced by a non-recorded natural person who gains consent to play the call. Ironically, the agency set up to protect our privacy and enforce this law, the California PUC, is the very agency where Kolakowski works today. Kolakowski originally apologized for the calls but then later deleted messages on her Facebook account from people objecting to her use of these calls. Now Kolakowski is trying to argue that because 'technically' she is routing her calls through Colorado from outside the state that her robodials are actually legal."
Cellphones

Proposed Law Would Require ID To Buy Prepaid Phones 615

Posted by timothy from the stamps-too-because-of-ransom-notes dept.
Hugh Pickens writes "The Washington Post reports that Sen. Charles E. Schumer (D-NY) and Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) have introduced legislation that would require buyers to present identification when purchasing a prepaid cellphone and require phone companies to keep the information on file, as they do with users of landline phones and subscription-based cellphones. 'This proposal is overdue because for years, terrorists, drug kingpins, and gang members have stayed one step ahead of the law by using prepaid phones that are hard to trace,' says Schumer. Civil liberties advocates have concerns about the proposal, saying there must be a role for anonymous communications in a free society, adding that the space for such anonymous or pseudonymous communications has been narrowed since pay phones, for example, have largely disappeared."

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