Miltazar - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Espionage (Score 1) 320

by Miltazar on Tuesday December 09, 2008 @11:41AM (#26047075) Attached to: Is There a Cyberwar, and Is the US Losing It?

Actually I don't think it's because we like war so much. Although considering the culture that is a very possible reason. I think it's more that most people don't listen to any warnings unless it borders fear-mongering. So both media and the government use this as a way to get viewers/money. All they have to do is call the next minor problem a "war" or a danger to our "freedom" and they can get almost anything they ask for.

New MacBook Case Leak Rumors 243

Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday October 13, 2008 @10:01AM from the dear-god-i-need-a-new-machine dept.

Someone noted that there are more macbook case leaks which look to all but confirm a new MacBook and possibly a MacBook Pro expected to be announced for later this week. There seem to be fewer ports, and no leaks of a 17" aircraft carrier laptop.

Submission + - When Movies Don't Live Up to the Trailer (nytimes.com) 1

Submitted by

MBCook

on Thursday January 03, 2008 @06:22PM

MBCook writes: "David Pogue of the New York Times has published a piece in which he asks "Just how different can a trailer be without becoming false advertising?" He relates taking his children to see Nation Treasure: Book of Secrets, and just how amazingly different it is from the trailers. "On the way home, what [my children and I] discussed wasn't the plot or the shaky grasp of history. It was all the good stuff we'd seen in the trailers (the ads) that weren't even *in* the movie.""

Submission + - Spacewar And The Birth of Digital Game Culture (gamasutra.com)

Submitted by simoniker on Friday June 01, 2007 @05:30PM

simoniker writes: Gamasutra is partnering with the IGDA's Preservation SIG to present in-depth histories of the first ten games voted into the Digital Game Canon, beginning with a history of the 1961 mainframe-based shooter Spacewar, arguably the first ever video game. From the article: "Spacewar had a life of its own, spreading across the computer world like a benign virus. "It was the program that was run into the PDP-1 before it was shipped. It was the last thing — it was used as actually as a final test," [co-creator J.M.] Graetz said. Because the PDP-1's memory was composed of magnetic cores, small ferrite rings whose polarity indicated whether a bit was 1 or 0, the game stayed in memory even after the power was turned off. "Core memory is non-volatile and once Spacewar was working they just shut the machine down and shipped it. So when the customer set it up and turned it on the first thing they saw was Spacewar,"."

Submission + - AMD Exposes Phenom Die - Barcelona Unveiled

Submitted by MojoKid on Friday June 01, 2007 @02:58PM

MojoKid writes: A few weeks ago, AMD released information on new branding for their desktop derivatives of the Barcelona core, now dubbed the Phenom FX, X4 and X2. If you're unfamiliar with Phenom, the processors will be based on AMD's K10 architecture and will feature a faster on-die memory controller, support 64-bit and 128-bit SSE operations, and they'll be outfitted with 2MB of on-chip L2 cache (512KB dedicated per core) in addition to 2MB of shared L3 cache. Today,instead of revealing some more of the juicy details regarding those enhancements, AMD just sent over a tasty photo of a Phenom die. Click the image to the left for a high-res version.

Submission + - The Truth Is Out About the ATI Linux Drivers (phoronix.com)

Submitted by jHofa on Friday June 01, 2007 @01:52PM

jHofa writes: Phoronix has posted an article entitled The Truth About ATI/AMD & Linux in which they have slides from AMD that debunk some of the common myths about the ATI Linux display drivers along with other information. The slides show how long each driver is in development for, what consists of their different development phases, and what is carried out for quality assurance. They also have quotes from ATI's Matthew Tippett.

Submission + - Presidential Directive Gives Unprecidented Control (whitehouse.gov)

Submitted by on Friday June 01, 2007 @11:07AM

An anonymous reader writes: From : http://progressive.org/mag_wx051807 — " Bush Anoints Himself as the Insurer of Constitutional Government in Emergency "

The link from the White house above brings you a Presidential Directive that would allow unprecedented control over the functions of the government — given to the office of the President, in case of an emergency of "mass" proportions.

This policy: "prescribes continuity requirements for all executive departments and agencies, and provides guidance for State, local, territorial, and tribal governments, and private sector organizations in order to ensure a comprehensive and integrated national continuity program that will enhance the credibility of our national security posture and enable a more rapid and effective response to and recovery from a national emergency."

And seems to effectively allow the President to usurp the system of checks and balances without oversight.

Does this give the Office of the President too much power?

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