Comment The Mossad's web site is unclassified (Score 1) 152
It's just a front end for their recruiting staff. They post wanted ads there - and then advertise the same ads in Israeli newspapers.
Comment Re:nothing ironic about it (Score 1) 609
The obvious thing would be for Israel to pay for the entire trip, including the trip to the Palestinian territories. That would be the obvious, right and peaceful thing to do. Apparently, Israel isn't interested in that.
I hope Israel will turn around and do the right thing.
http://hamakor.org.il/pipermail/discussions/2011-May/003030.html
Comment Article seems slightly inaccurate (Score 1) 89
The article talks about R2010b, which isn't out yet. R2010a (which *is* out), supports parallel processing pretty well (I use it constantly), but not exactly "natively" - you have to pay extra for an option called the "Parallel Computing Toolbox" which also gives you sweet stuff like multicore, HPC and so on.
Hungary Uses iPad To Draft New Constitution 157
An anonymous reader writes "Hungary is drafting its new constitution on, believe it or not, an iPad. Jozsef Szajer, a Hungarian politician and member of the European Parliament, wrote an enthusiastic blog post last week detailing how he's using Apple's tablet device to flesh out Hungary's new constitution, the country's first since 1949. Not only is Szajer using the iPad to churn out new constitutional drafts, but he's also using it to review new draft proposals. Apparently all aspects of the new Hungarian constitution are being vetted via the iPad in one form or another."
Comment Defence, not Defense (Score 2) 44
Defense is the American spelling.
Comment Here's a link to the video of the talk from 27C3 (Score 1) 534
Comment I told you - I was one of those (Score 1) 200
True story - I wrote the SSL/SSH code for an Embedded router a few years ago. I *didn't* specify a hard-coded key -- instead the router would freeze for a few seconds to generate the key when you first activated SSL or SSH (only the management CPU froze - traffic still went through). The router's CPU was pretty crappy - it took quite a while to generate a 2048-bit key pair.
You can't imagine the amount of griping this slowdown caused from the product/marketing teams. They really really wanted it hard-coded. Fortunately "security guys" are taken seriously in Israel so as far as I know it's still generated on the fly.
Comment Of course, why bother to link to the forum? (Score 5, Informative) 457
Submission + - Papermaster leaves after antennagate (nytimes.com)
line-bundle writes: "Mark Papermaster, the Apple executive in charge of hardware for the company’s flagship iPhone, has departed the company in the wake of widely reported problems with the antenna of the recently introduced iPhone 4.
It is not clear if Papermaster was kicked out or left on his own."
Previously, at the Apple press conference on the antenna issue, Mr Papermaster was not present. This was very unusual considering that he was in charge of the iPhone. Papermaster was featured before on slashdot here.
It is not clear if Papermaster was kicked out or left on his own."
Previously, at the Apple press conference on the antenna issue, Mr Papermaster was not present. This was very unusual considering that he was in charge of the iPhone. Papermaster was featured before on slashdot here.
Comment Worth reposting this classic... (Score 1) 220
It's friday, so I get into work early, before lunch even. The phone rings. Shit!
I turn the page on the excuse sheet. "SOLAR FLARES" stares out at me. I'd better read up on that. Two minutes later I'm ready to answer the phone.
"Hello?" I say.
"WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN, I'VE BEEN TRYING TO GET YOU ALL MORNING?!"
I hate it when they shout at me early in the morning. It always puts me in a bad mood. You know what I mean.
"Ah, yes. Well, there's been some solar activity this morning, it always disrupts electronics..." I say, sweet as a sugar pie.
"Huh? But I could get through to my friends?!"
"Yes, that's entirely possible, solar activity is very unpredictable in it's effects. Why last week, we had some files just dissappear from a guys account while he was working on it!"
Comment Sounds like a job for the Mafia (Score 1) 174
I'm absolutely not joking, BTW. The Gambino mafia made hundreds of millions of dollars off similar "last mile" scams. The idea is to buy some rural phone company in East Padinkus, then get Fed money for all of the "broadband" it's been putting out.
Comment Who's the guy in charge of acronyms in MS? (Score 5, Funny) 179
MEH OS is exactly how I feel about this new offering and its chances of impressing anybody in this age and time. At least they didn't get it as bad as the CrAPI one.
Comment Re:Silly (Score 1) 369
Water is not the limiting factor in geothermal development.
It is too, especially when you're talking "new" geothermal, which works on lower-temperature deposits. - please turn to this very interesting IEEE Spectrum article for more details.
Comment Re:A very similar thing happened to me (Score 1) 699
BFS stands for Bread-first search. It means I searched for bread, then sang a few songs about it, then went on driving.
