Comment Re:Sorry, disagree that SHA/MD5 is a solution (Score 1) 261
An email client should be able to connect to all servers, so it's logical that the developers decided to target to lowest common denominator.
Comment Re:Sorry, disagree that SHA/MD5 is a solution (Score 1) 261
We are talking about standard email, so the protocol is plain IMAP or POP3.
Comment Re:Anonymous isn't an activist group (Score 1) 271
It's not kidnapping it's "extraordinary rendition".
Comment Re:This can't be!! (Score 3, Funny) 463
You grab some popcorn and watch the show.
Comment Re:Unencrypted cookie auths (Score 1) 217
Well, to their defence they recently decided to allow the users to use only https.
Submission + - Pandora files for IPO (itworld.com)
itwbennett writes: Internet radio service Pandora Media on Friday filed documents with the SEC for an initial public offering of common stock. In its S-1 filing, Pandora said it has more than 80 million registered users and a more than '50% share of all internet radio listening time among the top 20 stations and networks in the United States.' While Pandora said the 'number of shares to be offered and the price range for the offering have not yet been determined,' MarketWatch reports that the music service hopes to raise up to $100 million.
Submission + - BlackBerry devices to run Android apps (bloomberg.com)
crankyspice writes: RIM is allegedly prepping the QNX-based operating system running their forthcoming PlayBook tablet to run Android applications, according to a Bloomberg article. As RIM has stated (http://www.engadget.com/2010/12/07/rims-mike-lazaridis-qnx-coming-to-blackberry-phones-when-dual/) that the QNX platform will run at least some of its upcoming smartphones as well, this could cinch Android's status as the lingua franca of smartphone application environments, especially with BlackBerry's current market leadership (http://www.wirelessandmobilenews.com/2011/02/nokia-iphone-blackberry-samsung-htc-top-smartphone-makers-says-htc.html) and Android's explosive marketshare growth (http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/news/2011/01/android-beats-nokia-apple-rim-in-2010-but-firm-warns-about-2011.ars).
Comment Re:For the airplane geeks... (Score 1) 317
If you know where you are, have updated data and have a compass you can calculate the geographic north.
Comment Re:Its a shame (Score 1) 113
Most of the cases I know (mainly in Portuguese cases) the preventive measures are used against the government or in inheritance cases, and usually they only delay things a couple of months, and most of them are reject outright. But I think (IANAL) that's because in Portugal you are only allowed to request a preventive measure if you can prove that the other person's/entity's actions would cause some permanent damage to you.
Comment Re:Its a shame (Score 2) 113
In Spain (and in many other countries) there is a legal instrument called preventive measures, that, in some cases, you can use to prevent an activity that you think is illegal till the court gives a ruling on the matter.
Comment Re:Other possibility (Score 2) 113
I would like to see them try to it, the European court almost always takes both the consumer and the pro free movement of goods side, so Sony would be screwed in that scenario.
Comment Re:Its a shame (Score 5, Informative) 113
The court ruled that it was already legal, what happened was that sony had asked the court to suspend the sales of the modchip till the legality was decided by the court.
Submission + - Adobe Releases Its Own HTML5 Video Player (webmonkey.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Webmonkey has an interesting tidbit about Adobe's release of its own HTML5 video player: 'Adobe has released an embeddable video player that plays HTML5 native video in browsers that support it, and falls back to Flash in browsers that don’t. It’s cross-browser and cross-platform, so it works on iPhones, iPads and other devices that don’t support Flash. Using Adobe’s new player, these devices can show videos in web pages without the Flash plug-in.'
Comment Re:what about servers? (Score 5, Informative) 472
I just did it and didn't notice any slowdown.
The State of Linux IO Scheduling For the Desktop? 472
pinkeen writes "I've used Linux as my work & play OS for 5+ years. The one thing that constantly drives me mad is its IO scheduling. When I'm copying a large amount of data in the background, everything else slows down to a crawl while the CPU utilization stays at 1-2%. The process which does the actual copying is highly prioritized in terms of I/O. This is completely unacceptable for a desktop OS. I've heard about the efforts of Con Kolivas and his Brainfuck Scheduler, but it's unsupported now and probably incompatible with latest kernels. Is there any way to fix this? How do you deal with this? I have a feeling that if this issue was to be fixed, the whole desktop would become way more snappier, even if you're not doing any heavy IO in the background."
Update: 10/23 22:06 GMT by T : As reader ehntoo points out in the discussion below, contrary to the submitter's impression, "Con Kolivas is still actively working on BFS, it's not unsupported. He's even got a patch for 2.6.36, which was only released on the 20th. He's also got a patchset out that I use on all my desktops which includes a bunch of tweaks for desktop use." Thanks to ehntoo, and hat tip to Bill Huey.
