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Comment This is not impressive (Score 1) 164

by SigNuZX728 (#37608776) Attached to: 175 MPH Student-Built EV Smashes Speed Record
You can make an electric car do whatever you want. You can put big motors in them and make them pull stumps, you can put tall gears in them and make them run 175mph, you can put big batteries in them and cut weight so people can drive 100 miles on a charge, but the one thing you cannot do is take them from an empty charge to full in 5 minutes nearly anyplace in the United States. I'm sick of seeing headlines about how some car can go 0-60 faster than a Porsche or whatever. It's all pointless right now.

Submission + - Anti-DDoS vendor suffers DDoS attack (thetechherald.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Arbor Networks was made an official target of Operation Payback for a short time yesterday afternoon. The DDoS campaign started due to Arbor Networks' commentary on Operation Payback’s recent DDoS actions, including a comment that they were small and unsophisticated. In a statement they said, "As a security vendor, Arbor is constantly the target of attacks and attack threats. It is part of doing business in this space." Still, the irony of an anti-DDoS vendor suffering a DDoS attack that knocked them offline for hours isn't lost on the Web.
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Submission + - Retailers Dread Phone-Wielding Shoppers (wsj.com)

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Ponca City
Ponca City writes: "The WSJ reports that until recently, retailers could reasonably assume that if they just lured shoppers to stores with enticing specials, the customers could be coaxed into buying more profitable stuff too, but now marketers must contend with shoppers who can use their smartphones inside stores to check whether the specials are really so special. "The retailer's advantage has been eroded," says Greg Girard adding that that roughly 45% of customers with smartphones had used them to perform due diligence on a store's prices. "The four walls of the store have become porous." Although store executives publicly welcome a price-transparent world, retail experts don't expect all chains to measure up to the harsh judgment of mobile price comparisons and some will need to find new ways to survive. "Only a couple of retailers can play the lowest-price game," says Noam Paransky. "This is going to accelerate the demise of retailers who do not have either competitive pricing" or a standout store experience."
The Internet

Submission + - Adobe: Flash Player 10.2 to be 10x more efficient 1

Submitted by Sam W
Sam W writes: Adobe has come out and made some stunning claims about the recently announced Flash 10.2, which is currently in beta. The new version is 10 times more efficient in CPU usage compared to version 10.1 of the plug-in, which is when Flash first got GPU acceleration. The improvement is possible thanks to a new feature called Stage Video, an API that delivers high performance video playback across platforms and which can shift most of the work for Flash video to the GPU. It leverages complete hardware acceleration: not only does the GPU offload H.264 hardware decoding (introduced in Flash Player 10.1), but it also handles the rest of the video rendering pipeline, including color conversion, scaling, and blitting. Stage Video requires Flash developers to update the code in video players, so simply updating to the new player won't automatically improve CPU usage on all sites, although YouTube has already updated its player and others will likely follow.
 

Comment Re: their choice is... (Score 2, Informative) 597

by SigNuZX728 (#29766341) Attached to: Computer-Based System To Crack Down On Casino Card Counters
No what they do is put 6 decks in the shoe but then play 4+ (they will reshuffle somewhere in the middle of the 5th deck). I had heard before that for the most part they don't care about people trying to count cards because it's hard to do correctly, and if you don't do it correctly then you're going to lose in the long run anyway. I suppose this system is one way to weed out the people who are doing it correctly.

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