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Comment Re:They needed research for this? (Score 2) 288

by kryps on Sunday April 07, 2013 @12:21PM (#43384517) Attached to: Researcher Evan Booth: How To Weaponize Tax-Free Airport Goods

I think it's you that's watched too many movies--booze does not burn all that well. While splashing alcohol in 1 person's face and lighting it might, possibly, incapacitate that person, it is not any way to incapacitate the entire flight crew and all the other passengers. The end result would be an attacker struggling to not suffocate, because it is actually very hard to breathe when hog-tied, and especially with one or more knees in your back.

You can not "incapacitate the entire flight crew and all the other passengers" with knives either. But planes have been hijacked with knives before.

Comment Gmail man spot (Score 1) 513

by kryps on Friday February 08, 2013 @01:34PM (#42834255) Attached to: MS Targets Google With Another Smear Campaign

Microsoft has been doing this for some time. Anyone remember Microsofts infamous "Gmail Man" spot?

Comment Re:There are four things that make Android laggy (Score 2) 226

by kryps on Saturday January 12, 2013 @06:57PM (#42570543) Attached to: The Android Lag Fix That Really Wasn't

There are lots of other issues. Two examples:

A) The Dalvik JIT is stone-age technology compared to modern JITs. We are not even talking about profile-guided optimization like the HotSpot VM does. No, it does not even inline getters or setters,

B) The GPU acceleration layer sucks even worse than you think. For example it requires the app to emit display lists for all graphical objects without allowing you to clip those objects first. That means if you have a huge number of objects (say an editor with thousands of lines of text) all have to be created and passed to the rendering layer.

Comment Re:The usual way (Score 1) 416

by kryps on Friday January 20, 2012 @01:08PM (#38763312) Attached to: What To Do With a 1,000 Foot Wrecked Cruise Ship?

Pumping out the fuel will be quite hard since it consists of 200 tonnes of diesel and 2400 tonnes of heavy fuel oil. Heavy fuel oil has to be heated in order to be able to pump it.

Computer Glitch Leaves Some Australians Without Cash 195

Posted by timothy on Saturday November 27, 2010 @02:40AM from the cascading-promises dept.

An anonymous reader writes "National Australia Bank payments to customers were again delayed today after a computer glitch yesterday morning due to a corrupted file in its mainframe computer. Upset consumers are now demanding compensation for any fees for late mortgage and credit card payments, overdrawn accounts or bounced direct debits charged by any institutions as a result of the mess."

FreeNAS Switching From FreeBSD To Debian Linux 206

Posted by Soulskill on Sunday December 06, 2009 @12:29PM from the changing-horses dept.

dnaumov writes "FreeNAS, a popular, free NAS solution, is moving away from using FreeBSD as its underlying core OS and switching to Debian Linux. Version 0.8 of FreeNAS as well as all further releases are going to be based on Linux, while the FreeBSD-based 0.7 branch of FreeNAS is going into maintenance-only mode, according to main developer Volker Theile. A discussion about the switch, including comments from the developers, can be found on the FreeNAS SourceForge discussion forum. Some users applaud the change, which promises improved hardware compatibility, while others voice concerns regarding the future of their existing setups and lack of ZFS support in Linux."

Emulating New Super Mario Bros. Wii At 1080p 76

Posted by Soulskill on Saturday December 05, 2009 @02:28AM from the super-high-def-mario dept.

KingofGnG writes "An impressive confirmation of the Dolphin Wii emulator's capabilities comes from a YouTube video, which shows off recently-added video clips of New Super Mario Bros. Wii in full HD. It demonstrates the growing compatibility of Dolphin with the latest games published for the Nintendo console."

Submission + - Mininova removes all 'infringing' torrents (torrentfreak.com)

Submitted by Pabugs on Thursday November 26, 2009 @10:33AM

Pabugs writes: I woke up this morning to cruise the Mininova movies category to find the torrents were removed and the line at the top stating 'From now on, only Content Distribution torrents are allowed' — Could it be that 'The Man" is gaining a foothold in the piracy battle? — I guess we'll have to wait and see, in the meantime, I'm a little less thankful on this Thanksgiving knowing that Corporate interests are now crushing my movie habits — Mininova was one of the few places I could find movies that most rental places won't carry and being forced into purchasing a crappy film for preview @ $9.99 isn't worth it to me.

Submission + - FreeBSD 8.0 Released 1

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 26, 2009 @09:30AM

An anonymous reader writes: The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 8 stable release. Some of the highlights: Xen DomU support, network stack virtualization, stack-smashing protection, TTY layer rewrite, much improved ZFS v13, a new USB stack, multicast updates including IGMPv3, vimage — a new virtualization container, Fedora 10 Linux binary compatibility to run Linux software such as Flash 10 and others, trusted BSD MAC (Mandatory Access Control), and rewritten NFS client/server introducing NFSv4. Inclusion of improved device mmap() extensions will allow the technical implementation of a 64-bit Nvidia display driver for the x86-64 platform. The GNOME desktop environment has been upgraded to 2.26.3, KDE to 4.3.1, and Firefox to 3.5.5.

There is also an in-depth look at the new features and major architectural changes in FreeBSD 8.0, including a screenshot tour, upgrade instructions are posted here.

You can grab the latest version from FreeBSD from the mirrors (main ftp server) or via BitTorrent. Please consider making a donation and help us to spread the word by tweeting and blogging about the drive and release.

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