Comment MOD PARENT UP (Score 1) 324
MOD PARENT UP
Comment Problematic (Score 1) 531
Won't these Christian machines have to be baptised? Holy smoke!
Comment Re:Not a bug. (Score 2) 145
These cards are advertised and sold as having 4gb of DDR5, but actually only have 3.5gb and then 0.5gb of slower stuff.
I don't think so. The only difference between a 970 and a 980 is that nVidia gimps the 970's GPU by 2 SMMs, which is 1/8 less than a 980. Strangely, 3.5GB is also 1/8 less than 4GB.
Comment MOD PARENT UP (Score 1) 192
I don't see crop factor mentioned anywhere in the title, interesting stuff about sensor noise though.
Comment No mention of crop factor WTF? (Score 4, Interesting) 192
Notice how the 5dMKII pics are zoomed out? That is because it is a full size sensor. Due to sensor crop, the image produced by the other two cameras gets zoomed in by a factor of 1.6 or so. Naturally, you can see more detail if it is zoomed in. Also, the reviewer is talking about having issues with camera shake while on a tripod, has he not ever heard of a remote shutter release?
It is interesting to wonder how much process size vs. pixel density effects sensor noise, and Samsung certainly has some nice fab facilities.
Still this reviewer seems like an idiot or a paid shill. I’ll wait for something from DPReview.
Comment Re:Obligatory Onion link (Score 1) 314
Trouble is, RS buys the phones at retail cost and loses money on every unit.
That's simply not true. Mobile phones have accounted for half or more of Radio Shack revenues since they started selling them years ago, and are basically what's kept Radio Shack afloat for so long.
Comment Re:Welcome to the real world (Score 1) 290
So, Bitcoin wil be subject to volatility, like every other currency and precious metal in history, and that will cause troubles for the people who actually extract the stuff. Who (aside from anyone in the mining business) knew?
The problem with bitcoin is its volatility relative to other currencies. Combine purely speculative/thinly traded exchanges with a lack of an underlying economy of any note, and that's what you get.
Comment Sounds like a movie plot (Score 2) 108
for the Plutoidite remake of "The Gods Must be Crazy".
Comment Chilling Effects Firefox extention? (Score 5, Interesting) 88
Seems like a firefox extention would be a good way to solve this.
Anonymous Declares War Over Charlie Hebdo Attack 509
mpicpp writes with news that hackers claiming to represent Anonymous have declared war on terrorists. They pledged to take down websites and social media accounts being used by jihadists as retaliation for the Charlie Hebdo attack. They said,
"It is clear that some people do not want, in a free world, this inviolable and sacred right to express in any way one's opinions. Anonymous will never leave this right violated by obscurantism and mysticism. We will fight always and everywhere the enemies of freedom of speech. ... Freedom of speech and opinion is a non-negotiable thing, to tackle it is to attack democracy. Expect a massive frontal reaction from us because the struggle for the defense of those freedoms is the foundation of our movement.
Comment Re:Really? On Slashdot? (Score 2) 1350
The US sees only a small fraction of this issue (see also the town of Dearborn, MI) by comparison.
The US sees quite a bit of this issue, just not with Muslims.
Bots Scanning GitHub To Steal Amazon EC2 Keys 119
New submitter juniq writes: As one developer found out, posting your Amazon keys to GitHub on accident can be a costly mistake if they are not revoked immediately.
"When I woke up the next morning, I had four emails from Amazon AWS and a missed phone call from Amazon AWS. Something about 140 servers running on my AWS account. What? How? I only had S3 keys on my GitHub and they where gone within 5 minutes! Turns out through the S3 API you can actually spin up EC2 instances, and my key had been spotted by a bot that continually searches GitHub for API keys. Amazon AWS customer support informed me this happens a lot recently; hackers have created an algorithm that searches GitHub 24 hours per day for API keys. Once it finds one it spins up max instances of EC2 servers to farm itself bitcoins."
"When I woke up the next morning, I had four emails from Amazon AWS and a missed phone call from Amazon AWS. Something about 140 servers running on my AWS account. What? How? I only had S3 keys on my GitHub and they where gone within 5 minutes! Turns out through the S3 API you can actually spin up EC2 instances, and my key had been spotted by a bot that continually searches GitHub for API keys. Amazon AWS customer support informed me this happens a lot recently; hackers have created an algorithm that searches GitHub 24 hours per day for API keys. Once it finds one it spins up max instances of EC2 servers to farm itself bitcoins."
Comment Video on the history of refrigeration (Score 1) 83
Tim Hunken's The Secret Life of Machine's series did a great job of illustrating the history of refrigeration, from the ancient Roman times to a detailed look at how modern refrigerators work:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Comment Re:nonsense, only the gov't can create jobs. (Score 4, Funny) 43
$34M is puny even by Texas standards. Here in N.Y. that can't even buy an election.
I've got news for you, sonny...*New York* is puny by our standards. Yee Haw!!! [gunshots]
Comment Can they be blockled/filtered? (Score 1) 119
It would be nice if this can be protested by making a list available of these BT, and all popular exchanges chooseing not to accept them. At the very least, it would devalue them.
