Comment success (Score 1) 280
the nuclear energy "success" continues!!!!!
Comment BF Gary (Score 1) 212
oh man , my BFF Gary is stepping down.
Comment Re:Based on the Cover..... (Score 0) 221
mod up, nice reference
Submission + - zimbabwe troubles were the Guardians fault (salon.com)
yoyoq writes: Sorry to all you people who like to blame Zimbabwe troubles on Wikileaks.
It appears that it was the Guardian that originally released the Tsvangirai/sanctions data.
You will have to find another dead horse to beat.
It appears that it was the Guardian that originally released the Tsvangirai/sanctions data.
You will have to find another dead horse to beat.
Submission + - Benchmarks Of Amazon's EC2 Compute Cloud (phoronix.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Phoronix has performed benchmarks of all of Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud instances using their Amazon Linux AMI distribution. They find Amazon's cloud platform to offer the best value for the money (just $0.034 per hour per EC2 Compute Unit) to be with the c1.xlarge EC2 instance."While it has less compute power than the m2.4xlarge instance (20 vs. 26 units), it costs less than half of what the quadruple extra large memory instance will cost. With that difference, you could purchase two c1.xlarge instances and have 40 EC2 Compute Units while still coming out financially ahead than the m2.4xlarge."
Submission + - Top recruiters call Columbia and MIT "second-tier" (chronicle.com)
__roo writes: Top job recruiters looking for recent grads consider MIT, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth and other respected schools "second tier" and "just okay", according to a new Northwestern research study. Many only consider graduates from "Harvard, Yale, Princeton, or (maybe) Stanford" for jobs at prominent consulting firms, law firms, and banks.
Submission + - Microsoft slams Google over HTML5 video decision (networkworld.com) 2
jbrodkin writes: Microsoft is accusing Google of some heavy-handed tactics in the battle over HTML5 video standards. In an attempt at humor, a clearly peeved Microsoft official wrote "An Open Letter from the President of the United States of Google," which likens Google's adoption of WebM instead of H.264 to an attempt to force a new language on the entire world. Internet Explorer 9, of course, supports the H.264 codec, while Google and Mozilla are backing WebM. The hyperlinks in Microsoft's blog post lead readers to data indicating that two-thirds of Web videos are using H.264, with about another 25% using Flash VP6. However, the data, from Encoding.com, was released before the launch of WebM last May. One pundit predicts the battle will lead to yet another "years-long standards format war."
Submission + - Gaming and Real Assassinations (wsj.com)
fermion writes: The Wall Street Journal has an article detailing the gaming life of Jared Lee Loughner. While it seems to avoid explicitly blaming gaming for the murders, it does appear to allude to a link. For instance "In the 7th grade, he and a friend, Alex Montanaro, began playing the multiplayer online games Starcraft and Diablo, which featured complex virtual worlds where players assume roles and play against other people around the globe, Mr. Montanaro said in emails over the weekend and Monday." Is the fact that he played a certain game in grade 7 in any relevant to his alleged shooting of a nine year old girl in 2011? The article further details his increasingly erratic online posting, which apparently inevitably leads to assassination. What is really depressing is that Education Week seems to make a directly link between utilizing online communication and expression of violent behavior.
Submission + - Microsoft Challenges Apple's App Store Trademark (crn.com)
cgriffin21 writes: Microsoft is challenging Apple’s efforts to trademark the term “app store,” arguing that the phrase is too generic for any one company to claim ownership. Apple sought to trademark “App Store” in a 2008 filing with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. That year Apple debuted the iPhone 3GS and launched its online App Store to provide a site for downloading applications for the smart phone.
Submission + - Optelian Migrates to Linux (slashdot.org)
doperative writes: The Linux Foundation announced that Optelian, a company that designs and manufactures optical transport systems that send data across optical fiber, successfully migrated to Linux link
Submission + - Chinese Anti-Piracy Blitz Hits the Web (thinq.co.uk)
Stoobalou writes: China's clampdown on copyright infringers is moving away from the physical and into the digital domain.
TorrentFreak says that China is coming under increasing pressure from the US government and its Big Media puppet-masters to eradicate Internet sites which distribute unlicensed music and video.
Until now the campaign has concentrated on illicit outfits which distribute counterfeit DVDs and CDs, even going as far as conducting public burnings of disks seized, but now law enforcement agencies are turning their eyes towards the Internet.
In the last few weeks China says that 650,000 cops have made 4,000 arrests and are investigating 2,000 serious infringements. Is it just us or does sending 350 cops to investigate each case sound either unlikely or a little heavy handed?
TorrentFreak says that China is coming under increasing pressure from the US government and its Big Media puppet-masters to eradicate Internet sites which distribute unlicensed music and video.
Until now the campaign has concentrated on illicit outfits which distribute counterfeit DVDs and CDs, even going as far as conducting public burnings of disks seized, but now law enforcement agencies are turning their eyes towards the Internet.
In the last few weeks China says that 650,000 cops have made 4,000 arrests and are investigating 2,000 serious infringements. Is it just us or does sending 350 cops to investigate each case sound either unlikely or a little heavy handed?
Submission + - T-Mobile backtracks on smartphone data cap cut (zdnet.co.uk)
superglaze writes: T-Mobile UK has performed a drastic U-turn on its massive data allowance cut, after news of the reduction sparked a public outcry. The operator had said it was limiting existing as well as new customers to 500MB a month, with less than a month's notice, but on Wednesday it said the move would only affect new and upgrading customers after all. The backtrack followed criticism from consumer rights groups, who said the short notice was probably breaking consumer law. However, new Android customers will still get 83 percent less data per month than they would have done before the cut was announced.
Submission + - Goodbye Bifocals - Electronic Glasses Change Focus (singularityhub.com)
kkleiner writes: Move over Ben Franklin, we finally have a replacement for bifocals. Virginia-based Pixel Optics has developed a composite lens that can change the range of focus electronically. The emPower! glasses were created in cooperation with Panasonic Healthcare, and allow you to switch between long distance and short distance vision in a split second. Rather than having a lens divided into two sections, emPower! uses an LCD overlay that can change the focal length of the glasses via electric current. When the LCD layer is off, your lenses are good for intermediate/long distances. Turn the LCD layer on, and a section of the lens is suddenly magnifying close-up images – perfect for reading.
Submission + - Crypto-Cracking Tool To Be Unleashed At Black Hat (techweb.com)
Batblue writes: A European researcher will release an open-source tool at Black Hat DC that uses Amazon's powerful GPU processing services to crack SHA1-based passwords at breakneck speeds.
Thomas Roth, a researcher and consultant for Lanworks AG, last fall revealed how he was able to crack SHA1 encryption using Amazon EC2's newest cloud computing service-for-hire that uses Graphics Processing Units (GPU) processors, which typically are used to execute calculations for graphics-intensive applications.
Roth for the first time will release his so-called Cloud Cracking Suite (CCS) tool at next week's gathering. He says he was able to successfully crack 400,000 passwords per second using eight Amazon Nvidia GPU instances, and 45,000 to 50,000 passwords per second with just one GPU instance, he says.
Thomas Roth, a researcher and consultant for Lanworks AG, last fall revealed how he was able to crack SHA1 encryption using Amazon EC2's newest cloud computing service-for-hire that uses Graphics Processing Units (GPU) processors, which typically are used to execute calculations for graphics-intensive applications.
Roth for the first time will release his so-called Cloud Cracking Suite (CCS) tool at next week's gathering. He says he was able to successfully crack 400,000 passwords per second using eight Amazon Nvidia GPU instances, and 45,000 to 50,000 passwords per second with just one GPU instance, he says.
Submission + - WikiLeaks Twitter Spying May Break EU Privacy Law (thinq.co.uk)
Stoobalou writes: A group of European MPs will today push EU bosses to say if the US government breached European privacy laws by snooping on Twitter users with links to whistle-blowing site WikiLeaks.
The Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE) will today pose an oral question to the European Commission, seeking clarification from the US on a subpoena demanding the micro-blogging site hand over users' account details.
The Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE) will today pose an oral question to the European Commission, seeking clarification from the US on a subpoena demanding the micro-blogging site hand over users' account details.
