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Submission + - Apple Discontinues Mac Pro in EU (macworld.co.uk)

jones_supa writes: Apple has been forced to remove the Mac Pro from sale in European Union after an amendment to a safety regulation left the machines incompliant. The updated electronics safety standard IEC 60950-1 increases requirements around electrical port protection and the fan guards in the system. Apple does not plan to modify their machines and will simply pull them from market in the EU. Apple wishes to warn customers and partners about the change so that they would have sufficient time to order Mac Pro units and meet any needs prior to 1 March, when the amendment comes into effect.

Comment Re:Why?? (Score 1) 196

Because presumably windows verifys the kernel image as it's loading hyberfil.sys into memory, did you not even read the summary?

The leap that TFS needs you to make is that with an unverified hybernation image you can simply remove the disk, overwrite it with an unsigned and modified kernel image and then have the hybernation process load it into memory for you from the trusted boot chain.

Microsoft

Submission + - Open Source exFAT Reaches 1.0 Status

Titus Andronicus writes: fuse-exfat, a GPLv3 implementation of the exFAT file system for Linux, FreeBSD, and OS X has reached 1.0 status, according to an announcement from Andrew Nayenko, the primary developer.

exFAT is a file system designed for sneaker-netting flash drives and memory cards between and among Windows, OS X, and consumer electronics devices. It was introduced by Microsoft in late 2006.

Will fuse-exfat cut into MS's juicy exFAT licensing revenue? Will MS litigate fuse-exfat's developers and users into patent oblivion? Will there be a DKMS dynamic kernel module version of the software, similar to the ZFS on Linux project?

ReadWrite, The H, and Phoronix cover the story.

Comment Re:I feel safer already. (Score 1) 1591

(forgive me for using wikipedia as a source, but i'm betting the gun articles are 'sperged over pretty hard)

Assault rifle:

An assault rifle is a selective fire (selectable among either fully automatic, burst-capable, or, sometimes, semi-automatic modes of operation) rifle that uses an intermediate cartridge and a detachable magazine. It should be distinguished from the US legal term assault weapons.

Assault Weapon:

In discussions about gun laws and gun politics in the United States, an assault weapon is most commonly defined as a semi-automatic firearm possessing certain features similar to those of military firearms. Semi-automatic firearms fire one bullet (round) each time the trigger is pulled; the spent cartridge case is ejected and another cartridge is loaded into the chamber, without the manual operation of a bolt handle, a lever, or a sliding handgrip. An assault weapon has a detachable magazine, in conjunction with one, two, or more other features such as a pistol grip, a folding stock, a flash suppressor, or a bayonet lug

Sounds like the AR-15 fits the definition of an assault weapon pretty neatly, it is a semi auto with a pistol grip

Now whether "assault weapon" is a real term is a completely different conversation.

Comment Re:We need gas control! (Score 1) 1591

, and will increase greatly now that the muggers know that their victims won't be armed.

Why do people keep throwing this one out there?
The US aren't even going near discussing removal of handguns. I would put money on basically all muggings being done with handguns or knives, not assault weapons.

Even if the US did ban handguns like australia did (although there are exemptions for sport shooting, security guards and police) the number of guns in circulation would dwindle and become more expensive, and probably out of financial reach of the kind of person who resorts to muggings to get by.

Comment Re:cable and sat don't have the bandwidth for it (Score 2) 442

That's not true

With any technology based on photolithography any increase in density decreases yield, since as you increase density you make the "lines" smaller which increases the number of errors per wafer or sheet of glass.
Since they normally cut these screens out of a much larger sheet of glass they get a higher yield with smaller screens (a single pixel fault ruins a smaller percentage of the glass) or lower pixel densities (less faults). The reason that the current round of tech has gotten cheaper has more to do with the fact that we are now a few process nodes ahead of the curve since large 1080p lcds have been available for around 10 years and the fact that the control hardware has gotten cheaper.

Have you noticed that the pixel density on your phone is orders of magnitude higher than your TV?

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