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Submission + - Lightroom vs. Aperture

Submitted by Nonu on Tuesday February 20, 2007 @02:43PM

Nonu writes: Adobe has officially released its Aperture killer, Lightroom, and the reviews are starting to pop up. Ars looks at Lightroom and concludes that it's a better choice for those without bleeding-edge hardware. 'Aperture's main drawback is still performance as it was designed for bleeding edge machines. On a quad Core 2 Duo Xeon, it is very usable but Lightroom just feels faster for everything regardless of hardware. Since Aperture relies on Core Image and a fast video card to do its adjustments (RAW decoding is done by the CPU), it's limited to what the single 3-D card can do. Lightroom does everything with the CPU and so it is likely to gain more speed as multicore systems get faster.'

Submission + - Malicious javascript can change router DNS.

Submitted by

aonic

on Tuesday February 20, 2007 @02:33PM

aonic writes: "Apparently the security scare du jour is that a website with malicious javascript can change the DNS settings on your router. In theory this allows for phishing attacks to happen, once your dns is compromised. Suddenly www.bankofamerica.com resolves to something besides the BofA website.

Solution from TFA? "Change your router password!"

Uh, duh?"

Submission + - iTunes detects musical hoax

Submitted by holy_calamity on Tuesday February 20, 2007 @02:10PM

holy_calamity writes: iTunes habit of accessing CDDB has bust open a musical fraud in the usually quiet world of classical piano. Albums by the much vaunted British pianist Joyce Hatto are identified by the player as belonging to other performers. A more scientific analysis by an audio remastering firm has found that none of Hatto's works appear to be hers.

Submission + - HD DVD Cracking Software Released

Submitted by

fattmatt

on Tuesday February 20, 2007 @01:58PM

fattmatt writes: "Newsfactor.com reporting on commercial HD cracking software now available from Slysoft for the masses... Blue Ray on the way..."

Don't Believe What You See at the Movies 441

Posted by Zonk on Tuesday February 20, 2007 @01:58PM from the made-the-star-wars-movies-possible dept.

MattSparkes writes "Many images you see in a magazine are Photoshopped, and it's getting less and less likely that what you see at the cinema is any more genuine. In the film 'Blood Diamond', tears were added to Jennifer Connolly's face after a scene was shot. According to The Times, digital effects artists can even change actors' expressions. 'Opening or closing eyes; making a limp more convincing; removing breathing signs; eradicating blinking eyelids from a lingering gaze; or splicing together different takes of an unsuccessful love scene to produce one in which both parties look like they are enjoying themselves.' The article mentions the moral qualms digital effects people have over performing these manipulations, and the steps actors are taking to protect their digital assets."

Submission + - Phishing Scan Uses Google Maps

Submitted by

morgan_greywolf

on Tuesday February 20, 2007 @01:29PM

morgan_greywolf writes: "According the the PC World, a new phishing scam uses Google Maps to pinpoint the physical location of the victim's computer:

Account holders with at least two Australian banks have become victims of a phishing scam in which malicious code reveals the physical location of affected IP addresses using Google Maps. Bank account holders in Germany and the U.S. have also been targeted.

Identity theft anyone?"

Journal Journal: God as identified and/or defined by US (Good, Bad, or Evil)? 3

Journal by OldHawk777 on Tuesday February 20, 2007 @01:25PM

God as identified and/or defined by anyone, anything, any religion, any government ... has never existed. IOW: a god cannot be copyrighted, claimed, patented ... except by weak, fearful, slaves of "the unknown and may never be" destiny/option.

Too Know and Too Fear will always be mutually exclusive or inversely proportional!

Feed Hacking My Child's Brain, Part 3 (wired.com)

From feed by wiredfeed on Tuesday February 20, 2007 @01:12PM

Color affects mood, metabolism and sleep, so a software engineer looks into colored light therapy as a way to help his child overcome learning disabilities. In Bodyhack.

Submission + - Futuristic cars just bump into each other

Submitted by

MattSparkes

on Tuesday February 20, 2007 @11:40AM

MattSparkes writes: ""Extendable bumpers could be used by convoys of "intelligent vehicles" to maintain safe distances. The bumpers expand pneumatically to touch the car ahead and keep the convoy together safely." So in the future we will all drive futuristic cars that bump into each other to keep us safe."

Submission + - Houston & Earthlink to Build 600 Sq.Mile WiFi

Submitted by Tempest on Tuesday February 20, 2007 @11:20AM

Tempest writes: As assbackwards as our muni government is here I'm quite surprised that the City of Houston has announced that they have contracted Earthlink to build the nation's largest municipal wi-fi network. Per the Q&A at the Houston Chronicle, the contract requires a download speed of 1 Mbps.

Journal Journal: Ford Vehicles to Read Email 1

Journal by quadra23 on Tuesday February 20, 2007 @11:17AM

In an update to a prior Slashdot story from December, news sources such as WBIR are carrying news states the new Ford and Microsoft service called Sync will be hitting the roads in the fall of 2007, as mentioned at the recent Chicago Auto Show. The service would be able to read the emails and using an audio system will be capable of reading the email contents aloud.

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