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Comment Finally (Score 5, Insightful) 68

Better late than never. Microsoft exploits have been traded and sold to security companies owned by intelligence agencies for years now. At least now the researchers discovering the bugs have an incentive to sell to microsoft and get the bug fixed instead of selling it to the highest bidder who will probably use it to create either "private"-malware or government-malware. Thank you m$

Comment Re:Patents? (Score 1) 65

They have now aquired Makerbot and will keep it seperate, which means they can now start trolling other companies with their stratasys patents and keep selling under the Makerbot name avoiding backlash from the community in general.

Comment Driverless? No thanks! (Score 1) 369

How long before the NSA decides me, you or anyone else for that matter must be killed. Just upload the payload in memory, make it crash. You die. Problem solved for the NSA and no trace evidence. It's more than enough to hand your telecoms to the government, but my life? Hell no. Ill be right here waiting on slashdot to read of the first "self-driving-car-crash-assasination" Im not getting in that sh*t. Heck i'll be hacking the fluck out of it.

Submission + - Did Microsoft Fake Xbox One Demo at E3? (ngohq.com) 1

An anonymous reader writes: Microsoft had several Xbox One demo stations in E3 for the wide public. But now it seems the Xbox Ones — were in fact — Windows 7 PCs equipped with Nvidia GeForce graphics cards and Xbox One controllers.

Submission + - Ask Slashdot: How smart are the new British porn filters?

professorguy writes: I have a little personal website (since 1997) that contains links to essays about horology. In one of the essays, I discuss the merits of bridges (a component of a wristwatch) as compared to cocks (a slightly different component of a wristwatch). The link appears on my site as "Why I Prefer Cocks."

Now I hear about the new opt-out filters for UK ISPs. This brings up several questions:
— Is the cock link visible through the filter? The page? The site?
— If not, if I change the link to something less ambiguous, will the missing piece(s) reappear?

UK slashdotters with ISP filtering, please compare these 2 links with these 2 images:
Site: http://professorguy.comWhat it should look like
Horological page: http://professorguy.com/blogWhat it should look like

I guess my real question is How smart are these filters? Thanks.

Submission + - NVIDIA To Begin Licensing Its GPU Tech (nvidia.com)

An anonymous reader writes: Today in a blog post, NVIDIA's General Counsel, David Shannon, announced that the company will begin licensing its GPU cores and patent portfolio to device makers. '[I]t's not practical to build silicon or systems to address every part of the expanding market. Adopting a new business approach will allow us to address the universe of devices.' He cites the 'explosion of Android devices' as one of the prime reasons for this decision. 'This opportunity simply didn’t exist several years ago because there was really just one computing device – the PC. But the swirling universe of new computing devices provides new opportunities to license our GPU core or visual computing portfolio.' Shannon points out that NVIDIA did something similar with the CPU core used in the PlayStation 3, which was licensed to Sony. But mobile seems to be the big opportunity now: 'We’ll start by licensing the GPU core based on the NVIDIA Kepler architecture, the world’s most advanced, most efficient GPU. Its DX11, OpenGL 4.3, and GPGPU capabilities, along with vastly superior performance and efficiency, create a new class of licensable GPU cores. Through our efforts designing Tegra into mobile devices, we’'ve gained valuable experience designing for the smallest power envelopes. As a result, Kepler can operate in a half-watt power envelope, making it scalable from smartphones to supercomputers.'

Comment Privacy is a sham (Score 2) 310

Nearly every day we read a story of the government wiping their ass with the constitution. Every day there is a story telling us how the government is tapping each landline, mobile, internet connected computer, satellite uplink,... All this happens daily and I have not seen mass protests. We here at slashdot (tech savy people) know whats going on. We know that this is just the tip of the iceberg and there is lots more going on. Still no reaction from the general public. Its like the population of the United States has become numb to these stringent violation of human rights, basic privacy laws, the constitution and the declaration of independence. Seeing people just completely ignore these facts and just continue eating their McDonalds and watching their episodes of glee on tv makes me sick to my stomach. We got 2 choices as educated citizens: Either say "f*ck you" to the general population and we continue to protect ourself with Tor, PGP, Darknets/Freenet, SSH tunnels, Proxies OR All the hackers, nerds, tech savy people around the world to unite and make a new internet. Independent of government and corporate control. Protocols that are inherently secure. Transport methods in which the nodes where data passes trough doesn't know the content, sender or destination. (I know many of you will scream tor) but TOR is not the solution. We need transparent methods. Methods that can be used by joe average. Mod me down, I don't care its your loss.

Comment YAN is NOT anonymous (Score 0) 101

How long before some other "anons" decide to go against the YAN. This cannot and won't go mainstream as long as others use the same name. I wait for their twitter or website to be owned soon enough. the real anon's are /b/tards and do whatever they please. You cannot control or organize such a group. They are called /b/tards for a reason.

Comment Re:Make him run the Marathon (Score 1) 773

Kurds gained the most of all people from the war. They got the northern province completely in control. Most of the old fields are there. Their army is hostile towards the iraqi army, even if they are "iraqi" and their province is already semi-autonomous. I expect them to call for independence within the next 3 years and creating a kurdistan with american support.!

Comment Re:What about the network, storage and software (Score 1) 202

I have been working with IBM products in the enterprise / government / finance division as an engineer for many years. I can honestly say none of our customers (banks/governments) ever use x86 hardware. Their old/legacy stuff was hp-ux/sparc and they were all moving to AIX on P series mainframes! Most of these type of clients barely care about the price since they never buy 1 complete kit. They buy 4 of the exact same setups. Installing 2 mainframes in each datacenter with 1 active, 1 hot standby, 1 staging/acceptance tests, 1 for development! Considering a basic 750P series is already 5 - 6 cabinets and just 1x800mhz cpu costs you easy 25-30 000 EURO in replacement, I doubt any of these companies care. They have invested a lot in porting and building their proprietary applications to AIX. I don't see any of these clients using the "cloud" any time soon in the first 10 years! HP is turning into an allround IT service/management company. IBM focussing on mainframe and high end backup systems (Tivoli storage manager) providing a reliable platform. EMC eating most of the storage market

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