Comment Oh - G4 - no hackintosh - duh. (Score 1) 384
Oh - G4 - no hackintosh - duh.
Comment +1 for VirtualBox (Score 1) 384
Now if I could just find a way to virtualize my mom's Mac OS X 10.3. Her 10+ year-old G4 is going to die some day. I don't think the hackintosh will work on an OS X that old, will it? Needs to keep compatibility with OS 9/Carbon for PageMaker. She doesn't like change.
Comment Not for security, but for life-efficiency (Score 1) 347
I've been talking about this for years too. But not for security, just to remember everything. Everything. The important thing about this device would be how the video/audio is stored, tagged/indexed and later retrieved. To make this effective, I'd need an easy speech query mechanism, so I can say "Hey when was the last time I changed the oil in my car" or "What did I do with my wallet yesterday when I got home". Or how about "What was the name of that guy I met 8 years ago at that conference and where did he work"?
There are so many tiny events in life that, if remembered, would really help out, so we don't repeat the same mistakes twice. Or just to give "tips" to our future selves, that will always be recalled.
Comment Re:The effect would be weird (Score 1) 161
Nice. So could that huge tracking necklace be replaced by your infrared safety glasses?
High Fructose Corn Syrup Causes Bigger Weight Gain In Rats 542
krou writes "In an experiment conducted by a Princeton University team, 'Rats with access to high-fructose corn syrup gained significantly more weight than those with access to table sugar, even when their overall caloric intake was the same.' Long-term consumption also 'led to abnormal increases in body fat, especially in the abdomen, and a rise in circulating blood fats called triglycerides.' Psychology professor Bart Hoebel commented that 'When rats are drinking high-fructose corn syrup at levels well below those in soda pop, they're becoming obese — every single one, across the board. Even when rats are fed a high-fat diet, you don't see this; they don't all gain extra weight.'"
Comment Wonder if they can block by User-Agent (Score 1) 185
A quick fix that would get 99.9% of us out of people's pics, if the User-Agent string is something unique to the frames. This would only allow HTTP requests from frames, not from desktop browsers. Yes, we can change our user agent string on the desktop browser to match, but like I say - 99.9% of people wouldn't know how.
Comment Japan just did this last week (Score 1) 376
Do we really need to do it again?
http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20090610/sc_space/japaneseprobetoslamintomoontoday
Hackers Broke Into FAA Air Traffic Control Systems 124
PL/SQL Guy writes "Hackers have repeatedly broken into the air traffic control mission-support systems of the US Federal Aviation Administration, according to an Inspector General report sent to the FAA this week, and the FAA's increasing use of commercial software and Internet Protocol-based technologies as part of an effort to modernize the air traffic control systems poses a higher security risk to the systems than when they relied primarily on proprietary software, the report said. Intrusion detection systems (IDS) are deployed at only 11 of hundreds of air traffic control facilities. In 2008, more than 870 cyber incident alerts were issued to the organization responsible for air traffic control operations and by the end of the year 17 percent (more than 150 incidents) had not been remediated, 'including critical incidents in which hackers may have taken over control' of operations computers, the report said."
Comment Re:I like the one from IBM (Score 1) 459
Now THAT is friggin creepy. Nice horror-movie choir for the soundtrack, nice all-white surroundings with no windows or doors. Nightmare material.
Comment Re:Penguins can fly (Score 1) 459
My consumer reaction to this ad:
"Ummmm...what?"
Definitely needs follow-up ads with more pertinent info.
Comment Our yearly cost is zero (Score 1) 409
My twins' cord blood is banked at CBR (www.cordblood.com). As long as we refer someone each year, we can get our storage fees waived for the year. We find it pretty easy each year to find a pregnant friend that wants to do this.
Comment Stop right there! (Score -1, Troll) 1002
I see the knee-jerk "RACISM" response has been invoked in most of you. None of you were there, and no one knows exactly what happened except the people directly involved. How can you immediately condemn the airline for their actions without having first-hand knowledge of what was seen, said or done?
There are many many other things airline staff would find "suspicious" other than the color of their skin - maybe they were whispering to each other, maybe they had no baggage, maybe they were sweating a lot, etc. We just don't know.
Don't immediately assume it was their race or religion that got them kicked off the plane.
Comment Re:Try this on someone else's box first (Score 1) 2362
Well, "just a fork bomb" still seems pretty effective on Solaris 10. When running this I cannot perform any other tasks, as the server is completely out of memory and cannot spawn any processes. Drives the load average up to >2000 for several minutes at least. Repeat fork bomb as needed.
Comment Try this on someone else's box first (Score 1) 2362
Compared to other OS's, it's amazing how little typing is required to render a UNIX machine completely unusable. In bash, try this:
A bug? Absolutely not - UNIX has always been great at giving smart people the ability to shoot themselves in the foot.
World's First Massively Multiplayer Forecast Game? 39
krou writes "The Institute of the Future will soon be launching what it calls the first massively multiplayer forecast game, billed as The Superstruct Game. According to the game's FAQ, the idea is to 'imagine how we might solve the problems we'll face.' Interestingly, the game itself is meant to be played 'on forums, blogs, videos, wikis, and other familiar online spaces.' From the IFTF website's sneak peak, the game is set in the year 2019, where the Global Extinction Awareness System (GEAS) has forecast the possibility of human extinction by the year 2042 as the result of five simultaneous 'super-threats': Quarantine, which is a result from 'declining health and pandemic disease'; Ravenous, which relates to the global collapse of the world food system; Power Struggle, related to the flux of power 'as nations fight for energy supremacy and the world searches for alternative energy solutions'; Outlaw Planet, covering increased surveillance and loss of liberties; and, lastly, Generation Exile, which covers the massive increase in refugees."
