Comment That is cool! (Score 1) 222
Very nice work. The article is well written too.
Comment Re:What's new? (Score 1) 374
It is not new. "Survival of the friendliest" dogs is described, for example, in Richard Dawkins' The Ancestor's Tale (2004).
Comment Re:Fixed (Score 1) 1106
> The three stores were basically paying the rent and showing a very small profit...after years of not making a profit.... The first year I was in charge, I got profits up by 70%
So you have improved profits by 70% of a very small amount? 70% of nothing is still nothing, isn't it?
Comment Re:Add-on CPU (Score 1) 176
> I guess the days are finally here when you buy your graphics card and then figure out what kind of system to add on to it
Of course! That has been the case for a long time already. If you want to install, for example, 2 NVidia GTX cards in SLI configuration, you need to think about having enough power, then measure your case, because some cards are longer than the miniATX motherboard and may stick out to the space occupied by your SSD RAID. The motherboard should have PCIE slots spread out wide enough for cards with a lot of heat sinking. Stick as much RAM as you can. And only then you add a latest Intel CPU, does not matter which one, as long as it has a bigger number, like i7 (and definitely not i5!)
Submission + - Will Facebook's Battle With EU Spur Innovation? (technoverseblog.com)
Cavaradossi writes: Facebook has legitimate gripes (as well as having a lot at stake) with the EU Commission's right-to-be-forgotten-rule. In the proposed changes--article 17-- to the landmark 1995 Data Protection Directive, "data controllers" --Facebook, Google, Tumblr, or any service that collects data--will be held responsible for deleting all data, even copies found on third-party sites ,when the "data subject"-- you or me--requests it. It's not the way the Internet was supposed to work as Facebook has pointed out. Entirely unreasonable request from EU technocrats. But could the EU Commission's demands end up spurring innovation in privacy?
Submission + - Utilities Racing to Plug Grid Before 'Disaster Strikes' (wsj.com)
FreeMichael61 writes: "In the latest episode of Spy vs. Spy, China rejects accusations its hacking U.S. companies to steal IP or bring down the grid. But there's no doubt the grid can be hacked, CIO Journal's Steve Rosenbush and Rachael King report. Industrial control networks are supposed to be protected from the Internet by an air gap that, it turns out, is largely theoretic. Rosenbush and King detail the attack vectors that hackers could use to bring down the electrical system in a neighborhood near you."
Submission + - NVIDIA Launches GeForce GTX Titan, Benchmarks To Follow (hothardware.com)
MojoKid writes: "NVIDIA is launching a new, ultra high-end graphics card today, the long rumored GeForce GTX Titan. Titan is based on NVIDIA's GK110 GPU, previously released on a Tesla-branded product for the HPC market and in the Titan Supercomputer, which uses almost 19,000 of the GPUs to crunch numbers at a brisk 20 petaflops. The GK110 is comprised of roughly 7.1 billion transistors, which is over three times the number of transistors in Intel’s Sandy Bridge-E based Core i7 processor. The GK110’s original design features 15 SMX clusters, each with 192 single-precision CUDA cores and 64 double-precision cores, for a grand total of 2880 SP cores and 960 DP cores, but one SMX is disabled in every GK110, bringing its workable core counts to 2688 (SP) and 896 (DP). The GK110 GPU also features 224 texture units, 48 ROPs, 1.5MB of L2 cache, a 384-bit memory interface, and a whopping 6GB of GDRR5 memory at an effective 6GHz data rate. The GeForce GTX Titan will easily be the most powerful single-GPU powered graphics card available when it ships, with relatively quiet operation and lower power consumption than the previous generation GeForce GTX 690 dual-GPU card."
Submission + - Canadian Court Rules You Have the Right to Google a Lawyer (michaelgeist.ca)
An anonymous reader writes: Hollywood crime dramas are infamous for the scene when an
accused is taken to a local police station and permitted a single
phone call to
contact a relative or lawyer. While the storyline is myth — there is
no limit
on the number of phone calls available to an accused or detainee — Michael Geist reports
on a recent Canadian
case establishing a new, real requirement for law enforcement.
After a 19-year
old struggled to find a lawyer using the telephone, the court ruled
that police
must provide an accused with Internet access in order to exercise
their right
to counsel.
Comment Re:Defies organization (Score 2) 171
"I have bookmarks that I created back in the Netscape 3"
Same here. I have just realized that a few folders in my bookmarks were not accessed in the last 7 years. Some bookmarks have outlived several PC upgrades without being visited even once!
Comment Rare Auld Mountain Dew (Score 1) 362
As advertised by The Dubliners @ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-slbQajQMoY ? Sure, lad, tis a grand way to kickstart a day!
Comment Ask her what colour the tablet she wants first (Score 1) 417
My wife ditched her iMac for an iPad. She could have got a Android tablet, but all available Android tables were not white. And she wanted the *white* tablet computer. The choice was made.
Comment Re:They'll relent eventually (Score 1) 102
> Strangely enough, I kinda missed the commercials.
Me too! I have a DVR to record movies and an occasional show from the cable TV. Usually I fast-forward through ads, but sometimes I watch ones that look funny.
Comment MAKE PEACE (Score 1) 338
not war
Really, it is more productive to actually talk to the guy who maintains the websites and ask him what he wants. Why does he do it? Does *he* feel that he is the wronged party? Maybe he wants recognition for all the work he did putting the original websites, for example. Before, he had the girl. Now some sleaze came and took his girl away. Would you be mad?
Submission + - All Versions of Ruby on Rails Vulnerable to SQL Injection Attack (paritynews.com)
hypnosec writes: All version of Ruby on Rails bar the three new versions are vulnerable to an SQL injection vulnerability, the developers of the web framework have warned through an advisory. The advisory notes that the vulnerability exists because of the manner in which dynamic finders in ActiveRecord extract options from method parameters. Because of the extraction mechanism an attacker can use a method parameter as a scope, manipulate it carefully and thereby inject arbitrary SQL code leading to an SQL injection. The vulnerability has been assigned the CVE identifier CVE-2012-5664.
Submission + - Nokia N9: The World's Most Underrated Smartphone? (lowyat.net)
jrepin writes: "Eighteen months ago, Nokia announced a smartphone unlike any other it has produced before. It was a proper smartphone, one that looked miles away from previous Nokia phones: it was sleek, modern and simple at the same time. The hardware was pretty modern, too; no underpowered processors with severely limited RAM issues to be seen here. And, it runs on an operating system that Nokia had announced dead months before the phone’s announcement. This, ladies and gentlemen, is the Nokia N9."
