Comment Re:virtual machines (Score 1) 91
"Your browser fingerprint appears to be unique among the 1,254,152 tested so far."
Geh, that's not especially promising...
Comment Re:What secrets do the Swiss have? (Score 3, Insightful) 152
Ah, there's your mistake; "Nazi" stands for "National Socialist", so the Nazis were left-wing, not right. Of course, the current crop of lefties would VERY much like us all to forget that part.....
Hoping you're trolling, but anyway - National Socialist was just a _name_ as the Party was born out of the German Labor movement, indeed like a lot of left-wing parties. That's where the connection begins and ends however - you certainly can't call many of the Nazi policies "left wing":
- extermination of disabled / homosexuals / Jews / Gypsy(Roma)
- promotion of idea of _one_ perfect race
- class system that discriminated against particular groups
Submission + - CSIRO uses old TV channels for wireless internet (abc.net.au)
jcl-xen0n writes: "Australia's CSIRO has invented new wireless technology to deliver faster Internet access to remote areas, using frequencies freed up by the move from Analog to Digital TV.
The CSIRO says the technology can reach speeds 100 to 200 times the speed of dial-up internet and hopes to eventually combine four analog TV channels and provide a wireless connection speed of 100 megabits per second, but for the moment it is staying at 12 megabits per second. CSIRO's Dr Ian Oppermann says that is faster than it sounds, because up to six customers can log on at the same time and get the top speed. According to the article, users will be able to use their existing TV antenna to connect.
Also of note, the development was funded by proceeds of CSIRO's $205 million settlement of the invention of WiFi, which has already been covered on /. previously."
The CSIRO says the technology can reach speeds 100 to 200 times the speed of dial-up internet and hopes to eventually combine four analog TV channels and provide a wireless connection speed of 100 megabits per second, but for the moment it is staying at 12 megabits per second. CSIRO's Dr Ian Oppermann says that is faster than it sounds, because up to six customers can log on at the same time and get the top speed. According to the article, users will be able to use their existing TV antenna to connect.
Also of note, the development was funded by proceeds of CSIRO's $205 million settlement of the invention of WiFi, which has already been covered on
Submission + - Times UK paywall loses 4m readers, makes money
Mr_Silver writes: TechCrunch is reporting that The Times (a UK based newspaper, owned by News Corporation) lost 4 million readers since introducing the paywall in June 2010. However this isn't bad news as Erick Schonfeld speculates that their revenue would have increased from $200,000 to $800,000 per month thanks to the reduced visitors generating 2 to 4 times more revenue in subscription fees than the ad revenue ever did. Looks like a paywall could be a viable business case after all.
Submission + - SPAM: Gigabit Wireless Will Link Smartphones To TVs
judgecorp writes: More progress for WiGig, the proposal for 3Gbps wireless links on 60GHz radio waves. The WiGig group has signed a deal with VESA, the display standards group, to include WiGig as a fast wireless option in VESA's DisplayPort standard. As well as letting you use a TV as a display for your phone, without having to connect a cable, it will also make synching and file transfer quicker.
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Comment Time to buy some Ice Skates (Score 1) 382
On a related note, Hell just froze over...
Comment Re:Now that everyone is talking about it... (Score 1) 138
If it's made it into a mainstream Australian paper (that's half cobbled together from wire sources) then it's fair to say it's already well known....
Submission + - Kindle allowing Chinese unfettered access to Web? (smh.com.au)
jcl-xen0n writes: "Apparently, some Chinese Kindle owners have discovered that they are able to access banned sites such as Twitter and Facebook without a problem. The article speculates that Amazon may be operating a local equivalent to Amazon Whispernet with a Chinese 3G provider. Professor Lawrence Yeung Kwan, of the University of Hong Kong's electrical and electronic engineering department, told the paper that mainland internet patrols might have overlooked the gadget (due to them considering it as solely a tool to purchase books). How long before Kindle traffic is locked down?"
Comment Re:Buying for the devs? (Score 4, Informative) 87
What's the problem? Can't Facebook get attract good developers the regular way anymore? Hmm. Maybe all the smart ones know Zuckerberg is a jerk and the company culture is rendered uninhabitable by the swarms of junior-grade developers writing junior-grade PHP, and demand more money than they could negotiate this way.
On this topic, an Australian newspaper article about devs leaving Google for Facebook
Comment Re:Asians (Score 2, Interesting) 299
I haven't seen it, but I'm curious as to why virtually all cartoons these days are colored in South Korea. Strikes me that depicting it in such an allegorical way is somewhat appropriate. Being a colorist is not easy, but it's hardly in the same league creatively with the folks that do the writing and modeling for the series. It sounds like it's away of pointing out that it's like working in the salt mines of the cartoon industry.
Interestingly, a lot of Japanese animation (which, in the past, was traditionally outsourced to Korea) is now being outsourced to places like Vietnam. Not sure if that indicated the Koreans have their hands full doing American animation, or if the other countries are simply cheaper.
Comment Re:What do you expect? (Score 1) 470
It makes me think that in order to move large organizations away from XP, M$ is going to need to offer a pre-Cut-Down version of Windows 7 - with all the flashy extras turned off by default in order to run on the bare minimum.
Mind you, if someone is using their workstation solely to access a web-based app, perhaps this is a good time for that organization to move to something lighter anyway - not a lot of point throwing processing power at such basic needs.
Comment Re:Statistical significance test (Score 3, Funny) 215
You know these things happen 'accidentally' because 50% of the time the error is in the customer's favour.....
Haha, good point - I've personally lost count of the number of times my TelCo has given me bonus money for no good reason
Comment Re:And yet, I'm stuck (Score 1) 230
Yeah it's costing us FORTY THREE BILLION FUCKING DOLLARS.
$27 billion FFS, not $43b - that's the total project cost over TEN years. The public cost is capped at $27b (estimated spend between $22-27b). The remainder of the money will be raised by NBN Co through bond issues and commercial partnerships. Read up on the facts before bleating about the cost PLEASE!
Comment Welcome news (Score 2, Insightful) 130
This is welcome news for any (like me) who have Dreamcasts that work perfectly but have malfunctioning GD-ROM drives. Hopefully someone picks it up for Western distribution.
