Comment Re:Yes television (Score 1) 396
Heroes was fun during the first season..
I like to think of Walter White as TV's version of a super hero/conflicted protagonist.
Comment Quietly coming back to life.. (Score 2) 52
Until we
Comment Re:More to the story? (Score 1) 140
What can you learn by resolving every single dns query from someone using an internet connected machine?
Quite a bit.
Imagine the scary amount of information Google knows about people who use their service. Especially combined with the fact that almost every site out there now uses Google Analytics and/or Google Advertisements.
I realize it sounds very tin foil but intercepting all DNS queries can give you a pretty good fingerprint of a user.
Comment More to the story? (Score 5, Interesting) 140
I wonder if the real reason they kept this on life support for so long was to enjoy 6+ months of DNS queries for 4mil-300 thousand users?
Seems like an excellent opportunity to gather a large amount of intelligence without any messy subpoenas or warrants.
Submission + - A Cashless, High-Value, Anonymous Currency: How? (itworld.com)
jfruh writes: "The cashless future is one of those concepts that always seems to be just around the corner, but never quite gets here. There's been a lot of hype around Sweden going almost cashless, but most transactions there use easily traceable credit and debit cards. Bitcoin offers anonymity, but isn't backed by any government and has seen high-profile hacks and collapses in value. Could an experiment brewing in Canada finally take us to cashless nirvana?"
Submission + - Google Announces Compute Engine - At Last An Alternative to Amazon AWS
mikejuk writes: Google's Compute Engine is the first credible alternative to Amazon's AWS. Until today the cloud was Amazon — now at last it's a two-horse race (or more).
The announcement includes the line:
"...allows Google Compute Engine to give you 50% more compute for your money than with other leading cloud providers"
And we know who "other leading cloud providers" are! A full price table is available and from this, for example, a single core image with 3.75GB and 420Gbytes of storage is $0.145 per hour, which is a lot more power than the same rate would buy at AWS.
The announcement includes the line:
"...allows Google Compute Engine to give you 50% more compute for your money than with other leading cloud providers"
And we know who "other leading cloud providers" are! A full price table is available and from this, for example, a single core image with 3.75GB and 420Gbytes of storage is $0.145 per hour, which is a lot more power than the same rate would buy at AWS.
Comment Re:Not their first attempt at this (Score 1) 565
Pretty true since there are many 360's and AppleTV's that might as well have Netflix written on them instead of their respective first party logos.
Comment Ender's Game (Score 1) 726
Also any of the Heinlein juvenile books.
Have Spacesuit Will Travel is probably the reason I'm the person I am today.
Comment Re:We do not pay the gold price. (Score 1) 312
Hodor Hodor Hodor.
Comment It is known. (Score 2, Funny) 312
HBO hates money.
Comment Re:Get a refill.. (Score 0) 1141
You're absolutely right.
I was convinced it was a systemic and complex issue but it's really just fatty's drinking soda.
Problem solved!
Comment Re:Get a refill.. (Score 0) 1141
I just don't believe it.
I'm pretty sure in this era you could straight up call it "Fat Ass Soda" and people would still buy it.
It would probably garner customer loyalty and fandom.
Comment Re:This has been a critical feature of Spore? (Score 1) 900
Aye, but the number of players is of no consequence. For some games the internet connection is merely another medium for retrieving content used during gameplay.
If you are actually curious the details of this system are widely available.
A semi-detailed description
If you are actually curious the details of this system are widely available.
A semi-detailed description
