Comment Re:2012 (Score 1) 161
So will Windows... oh wait :/
Comment "You could make a fairly powerful computer" (Score 1) 92
The only logical thing I could think of for that would be one of those "@Home" projects but on a different crowd sourcing scale though even then battery life would suck.
Comment It really is a matter of "when" (Score 1) 213
From the looks of it and from other comments about SOPA on the internet, one way or another this will be brought in. What can we actually do once it is brought in to get around the problems of the law? It sounds more than just changing your DNS information to still access the sites taken down. Wasn't the law talking about actually bringing down the business (ie. youtube for copyright)? Is it just a matter of "bringing down the business" is just blocking domain name resolutions of "youtube.com" or actually removing all youtube servers?
Comment Typo or True Mistake? (Score 1) 285
I wonder how many our typos compaired to how many our truely speling mistaks?
Comment Re:Surely (Score 1) 215
If you swap "portable computing device" with "automobile", I am gonna take a guess that is another patent that the US patent office allowed? Is it really true that a simple idea like that can be made patentable? I thought the whole idea for patents was that you also needed some prototype of the patent in question.
Glad I don't live in America, though this kinda affects the world I guess.
Comment Re:The "big" bets: (Score 1) 88
And their alternative to OpenID is currently called BrowserID. Very creative name indeed.
Comment Re:Techxperts? (Score 1) 128
Quite true, maybe they should think of changing their slogan then or shutting down. Changing the slogan doesn't cost jobs however is Dick Smith even worth keeping?
Comment Inaccurate Title? (Score 2) 80
The second link's title more accurately describes what was built.
I also expected to see a giant LEGO ring but I guess if 1:50 scale is still a little too big to build it out of LEGO, I might let it pass this time.
EFF Reverse Engineers Carrier IQ 103
MrSeb writes "At this point we have a fairly good idea of what Carrier IQ is, and which manufacturers and carriers see fit to install it on their phones, but the Electronic Frontier Foundation — the preeminent protector of your digital rights — has taken it one step further and reverse engineered some of the program's code to work out what's actually going on. There are three parts to a Carrier IQ installation on your phone: The program itself, which captures your keystrokes and other 'metrics'; a configuration file, which varies from handset to handset and carrier to carrier; and a database that stores your actions until it can be transmitted to the carrier. It turns out that that the config profiles are completely unencrypted, and thus very easy to crack."
Comment Techxperts? (Score 1) 128
Not really "Techxperts" anymore, can't even wipe a simple hard drive before reselling it >.>
Major Australian Retailer Accused of Selling Infected Hard Drives 128
skegg writes "Dick Smith, a major Australian electronics retailer, is being accused of regularly selling used hard drives as new. Particularly disturbing is the claim that at least one drive contained malware-infested pirated movies, causing the unlucky buyer significant data loss. Apparently the Fair Trading Commissioner will be conducting an investigation."
Comment Just because of speed? (Score 4, Insightful) 330
Speed was only half the issue that drove people away, the actual rapid releases and incompatibilities with add-ons with these releases among other things.
Comment IE6 to IE8 (Score 1) 507
Didn't Microsoft the other day that they are going to silently upgrade IE6 to IE8? I would think that number could push IE8 back on top of Chrome.
Comment Ummm what about both? (Score 2) 507
What if you use both Chrome and Firefox or Chrome and Internet Explorer (not that I can see much incentive for Chrome and IE)? Wouldn't the results be inaccurate?
Comment Stop the press... (Score 1) 174
...DARPA has a problem!
