Comment Re:Now, with centralized user tracking! (Score 1) 127
"; DROP TABLE comments;
...not anymore. ^_^
Comment Re:Where's left to conquer? (Score 1) 612
How does your knowledge as a technologist (e.g. awareness of a "game of civil rights") interact with your experience as a consumer? What sort of conflict of interest comes with being a stockholder in a company's profit and a consumer that just wants to copy, be free, and know your devices?
Comment Re:How do you feel about Apple? (Score 1) 612
It's cool. You can't really do copy protection on a platform that encourages hacking.
Comment Re:If you thought nothing wrong... (Score 1) 107
I prefer to militarize my subconscious just in case someone tries to steal my secrets in a dream.
Comment Microsoft's Business (Score 5, Insightful) 371
One of my computer science professors once stated, quite succinctly, that Microsoft was not in business to make a quality operating system (or quality product). They are in business to make money.
On a related note, if they were in business to make a quality operating system, they would have a tough time selling "upgrades."
An Open Source Compiler From CUDA To X86-Multicore 71
Gregory Diamos writes "An open source project, Ocelot, has recently released a just-in-time compiler for CUDA, allowing the same programs to be run on NVIDIA GPUs or x86 CPUs and providing an alternative to OpenCL. A description of the compiler was recently posted on the NVIDIA forums. The compiler works by translating GPU instructions to LLVM and then generating native code for any LLVM target. It has been validated against over 100 CUDA applications. All of the code is available under the New BSD license."
Comment You, Robot (Score 1) 426
So, some relatively unknown author is going to write follow-up novels for a series penned 50-some years ago... "If he had wanted to follow them up, he would have. The author's intentions need to be respected here." This coming from the same crowd that writes unauthorized fanfiction is quite ironic.
Comment Re:Let me be the first one to say it ... (Score 1) 1870
That's not the point. If the artists and companies holding copyright wanted to sue you as an individual for copying (or participating in copying their work), then they may do so. The fact that the operators of TPB were running a site that was relatively content agnostic means that the organizers had nothing to do with actually uploading torrents or seeding the data themselves. They are guilty by association, but they committed no crime.
