Comment Re:What about EMP (electromagnetic pulse) (Score 1) 267
Most writable CDs and DVDs degrade relatively quickly. The longest disc lifetime I've ever heard a manufacturer claim is 25 years.
CD-R expected lifetime
Comment Hope they don't get to trigger happy (Score 2, Interesting) 230
How many times will their crawler check a slowly loading website before they penalizes it?
Comment Re:Limited Life of SSDs? (Score 1) 88
I'm not going to try to track it down now, but I seem to remember reading about SSDs having a limited life time.
Because all the other components in a computer last forever.
Copernicus Reburied As Hero 369
CasualFriday writes "Mikolaj Kopernik, a.k.a. Nicolaus Copernicus, the 16th-century astronomer whose findings were condemned by the Roman Catholic Church as heretical, was reburied by Polish priests as a hero on Saturday, nearly 500 years after he was laid to rest in an unmarked grave. On Saturday, his remains were blessed with holy water by some of Poland's highest-ranking clerics before an honor guard ceremoniously carried his coffin through the imposing red brick cathedral and lowered it back into the same spot where part of his skull and other bones were found in 2005."
Comment Re:Excellent (Score 1) 268
Noone is born a black belt at anything.
Who is this Noone you speak of? She sounds pretty badass.
Also, was this supposed to be an unbiased post? You say inexperienced admins are all the same, and then say the dumb ones end up on Windows. Troll much?
Comment Re:Here's what's in it (Score 1) 97
Asking for the Karma kind of cheapens it...
NSA Develops USB Storage Device Detector 233
Hugh Pickens writes "Bob Brewin writes on NextGov that the National Security Agency has developed a software tool that detects thumb drives or other flash media connected to a network. The NSA says the tool, called the USBDetect 3.0 Computer Network Defense Tool, provides 'network administrators and system security officials with an automated capability to detect the introduction of USB storage devices into their networks. This tool closes potential security vulnerabilities; a definite success story in the pursuit of the [Defense Department] and NSA protect information technology system strategic goals.' The tool gathers data from the registry on Microsoft Windows machines (PDF) and reports whether storage devices, such as portable music or video players, external hard drives, flash drives, jump drives, or thumb drives have been connected to the USB port. 'I have a hunch that a bunch of other agencies use the detection software,' writes Brewin."
Comment Re:BeOS! (Score 4, Insightful) 240
Is that really a feasible or even necessary move?
BeOS hasn't been developed in over a decade by the original programmers; what relevance does it have now? Palm failed to utilize the OS, and Be Inc. even changed direction away from BeOS before they were bought.
Comment Re:Probably not (Score 1) 227
Arm would be the most logical choice, if they didn't decide that i38x and amd64 weren't enough.
Hows about ix86? Or better yet, x86!
Comment Re:Video (Score 1) 1671
The video clearly shows them shooting at the people who arrived to help a wounded victim (identified by Wikileaks as one of the Reuters employees). However, when asking for permission to fire on the new arrivals, the American gunship crew repeatedly said that the people were "collecting bodies". But they weren't "medics" from what I could tell. They were just some passing civilians, trying to help a wounded man.
It seems to me that at the beginning of the video (~4:15), the guy peeping out from behind the wall is holding something long and thin aggressively. I can see how the way that he keeps popping back and forth could be construed as him trying to hide/get a better shot. Can anyone else explain what this guy might have been doing?
IETF Drops RFC For Cosmetic Carbon Copy 63
paulproteus writes "Say you have an email where you want to send an extra copy to someone without telling everyone. There's always been a field for that: BCC, or Blind Carbon Copy. But how often have you wanted to do the opposite: make everyone else think you sent a copy to somebody without actually having done so? Enter the new IETF-NG RFC: Cosmetic Carbon Copy, or CCC. Now you can conveniently email all of your friends (with a convenient exception or two...) with ease!"
AMD Readies "Lottery-Core" CPUs 80
Barence writes "AMD has announced a radical shake-up of its CPU strategy, in an exclusive interview with PC Pro. The company has revealed that the next generation (codenamed Tyche) will be offered as a single 'lottery-core' SKU, with the number of functional cores in each part left for the customer to discover. 'We know gaming is very important to our customers,' explained regional marketing manager Ffwl Ebrill, 'and we're innovating to bring that win-or-lose experience out of the virtual world and into the marketplace.' Anyone discovering more than ten functional cores could consider themselves 'a lottery winner,' while unfortunates discovering their new CPU had no working cores at all would be encouraged to 'roll again.'"
