Comment Re:It's not the same (Score 1) 239
*My* calculator says 867-5309 = -4442, which factors into (-1 * 2 * 2221).
Comment Re:As someone who's just gone through the process (Score 1) 373
Not necessarily, unless that's something you enjoy.
Comment I was at the event (Score 2, Interesting) 165
There are some points that were brought up in the meeting that I thought were pretty important. Someone correct me if I'm mistaken on any points, IANAL or too politically savvy. Many of the people who had seen pieces of the draft kept coming back to several points:
- Some speculated that this has more to do with future trade agreements with countries NOT involved in ACTA talks than those in it.The idea was that this would be used to strong arm developing countries into agreeing to the terms to enter into future trade agreements with any ACTA countries in the future.
- Patents are also in ACTA, and could potentially impact international trade of pharmaceuticals. Many public health organizations such as Doctors Without Borders are worried about the impact on getting generic drugs to 3rd world countries.
- While this supposedly won't change any US laws, it will impact future court decisions on infringement cases, which will in effect change the law by setting precedence.
Comment Re:Not enough velocity (Score 1) 432
Sigh, even if you could launch at that high velocity you still wouldn't get a circular orbit. The point of the cannon is to replace the first stage of a multi-stage rocket.
Please do watch the techtalk at http://quicklaunchinc.com/ all your questions and more are answered.
Comment Re:Now all we need... (Score 1) 432
or we need to modify this gun so it can aim horizontally as well.
Comment Re:We need more ideas such as this (Score 4, Insightful) 432
Who's going to buy the tylenol for the whales?
Acoustics are a bitch.
Comment Totally useless (Score 3, Insightful) 157
First off, let me say that I use Ubuntu 9.10 on my system at work. I am also running CentOS on servers, various Ubuntu on servers and a couple of Fedora systems. As you can see, I have experience with all of them.
So why is this review useless? Because they are testing development systems, which are not optimized, have loads of debugging flags set, and essentially are not ready for prime time. Of course it may be running slower!
IMHO, you should ignore benchmarks until the release candidates, at least. I generally ignore benchmarks on unreleased systems. I do, however, like to read and learn about new features which may be present in early releases.
Submission + - Security certificate warnings don't work (goodgearguide.com.au)
angry tapir writes: "In a laboratory experiment, researchers found that between 55 percent and 100 percent of participants ignored certificate security warnings, depending on which browser they were using (different browsers use different language to warn their users). The researchers first conducted an online survey of more than 400 Web surfers, to learn what they thought about certificate warnings. They then brought 100 people into a lab and studied how they surf the Web. They found that people often had a mixed-up understanding of certificate warnings. For example, many thought they could ignore the messages when visiting a site they trust, but that they should be more wary at less-trustworthy sites."
Submission + - Remote exploit found in DD-WRT v2.4 SP1
An anonymous reader writes: From theregister.co.uk:
"A hacker has discovered a critical vulnerability in open-source firmware available for wireless routers made my Linksys and other manufacturers that allows attackers to remotely penetrate the device and take full control of it...The remote root vulnerability affects the most recent version of DD-WRT."
Link to article: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/07/21/critical_ddwrt_router_vuln/
Link to temporary patch: http://www.dd-wrt.com/dd-wrtv2/down.php?path=downloads%2Fothers%2Feko%2FBrainSlayer-V24-preSP2%2F07-21-09-r12533/
Link to article: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/07/21/critical_ddwrt_router_vuln/
Link to temporary patch: http://www.dd-wrt.com/dd-wrtv2/down.php?path=downloads%2Fothers%2Feko%2FBrainSlayer-V24-preSP2%2F07-21-09-r12533/
Submission + - Performance Testing Windows 7 RTM (infoworld.com)
snydeq writes: "InfoWorld's Randall Kennedy offers a complete view of Windows 7 RTM from an IT perspective, analyzing Vista's successor in terms of critical issues such as security, reliability, and performance to ascertain whether Windows 7 rights the wrongs committed by Vista when compared against XP. Of all the criteria, however, performance remains the key litmus test for Windows 7, Kennedy writes, as Vista's sluggish performance led half of business users to downgrade to Windows XP. Here, moderate gains over Vista may not be enough, as Kennedy finds Windows 7 RTM roughly 4 percent faster than Vista SP 2 — still more than 15 percent slower than XP. And while multicore testing has shown superior scalability for Windows 7 vs. both Vista and XP, 'it will still be years before such an advantage allows the new Windows to overcome XP's simpler, less encumbered code path.' As for resource consumption, Windows 7 consumes 8 percent less RAM and spins 5 percent fewer execution threads than Vista, making Windows 7 a mere 175 percent fatter and 85 percent more thread-intensive than XP SP 3."
Submission + - LiVES 1.0.0 released ! (sourceforge.net)
Salsaman writes: "After over 6 years of development, the 1.0 version of LiVES, a free software video editing and VJ system for Linux/BSD was released today.
Features include:
Loading and editing of almost any video format, with instant opening of dv and ogg/theora video; playback at variable frame rates, forward and in reverse; frame and sample accurate cutting and pasting; streaming input and output; encoding to over 50 different formats; dozens of realtime and rendered effects, generators and transitions; a multitrack window with limitless number of audio and video tracks and much, much more !
LiVES was nominated for Best Project for Multimedia in this year's Sourceforge Community Choice Awards.
The project is now seeking more developers to help it advance even further."
Features include:
Loading and editing of almost any video format, with instant opening of dv and ogg/theora video; playback at variable frame rates, forward and in reverse; frame and sample accurate cutting and pasting; streaming input and output; encoding to over 50 different formats; dozens of realtime and rendered effects, generators and transitions; a multitrack window with limitless number of audio and video tracks and much, much more !
LiVES was nominated for Best Project for Multimedia in this year's Sourceforge Community Choice Awards.
The project is now seeking more developers to help it advance even further."
Submission + - Windows 7 Hits RTM at build 7600.16385 1
An anonymous reader writes: 'Microsoft today announced that Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 have hit the Release to Manufacturing (RTM) milestone. The software giant still has a lot of work to do, but the bigger responsibility now falls to OEMs that must get PCs ready, Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) that are testing their new apps, and Independent Hardware Vendors (IHVs) that are preparing their new hardware. The RTM build is 7600, but it is not the same one that leaked less than two weeks ago (7600.16384). We speculated that Microsoft may end up recompiling build 7600 until it is satisfied, but it only took the company one more shot to get it right: 7600.16385 is the final build number. Microsoft refused to share the full build string, but if you trust leaks from a few days ago, it's "6.1.7600.16385.090713-1255," which indicates that the final build was compiled over a week ago: July 13, 2009, at 12:45pm. This would be in line with the rumored RTM date but it is also the day Microsoft stated that Windows 7 had not yet hit RTM. Although the final build had been compiled, Microsoft still had to put it through testing before christening it as RTM.'
Submission + - PDF exploit in the wild (networkworld.com)
carusoj writes: "Symantec Security Response is warning that it has found an Adobe Acrobat PDF file that exploits a known vulnerability. When a user opens the file, it drops malicious code onto the user's system and executes it. Symantec says it is working with Adobe on the issue and encourages users to make sure their antivirus definitions are up to date."
Submission + - Gentoo Celebrates 10 Years: 2009/10/04 (gentoo.org)
gentoo.org writes: Gentoo is turning 10 years old. For the last ten years, Gentoo has been committed to bringing the cutting edge source based distro to users that need more flexibility than binary packages can give them. With a vibrant community and over 300 developers, much has been accomplished since the beginning, Gentoo remains true to its origin.
What: Gentoo 10 Year Anniversary Party
Where: irc.freenode.net, #gentoo-birthday
When: Sunday, October 04, 2009, in a timezone near you
What: Gentoo 10 Year Anniversary Party
Where: irc.freenode.net, #gentoo-birthday
When: Sunday, October 04, 2009, in a timezone near you
Submission + - Total Lunar Eclipse This Weekend
SeaDour writes: This Saturday night, March 3rd, a total lunar eclipse will be visible from nearly all inhabited parts of the world. A great shadow will stretch across the surface of the moon, eventually casting it in an eerie red glow as sunlight filters through our atmosphere onto the lunar surface. Viewers in Europe and Africa will have the best vantage point, able to watch the entire eclipse in action, while observers in most of the western hemisphere can see it eclipsed as it rises just after sunset.
