Comment Re:No restart on plugin installtion/update? (Score 1) 115
No, restart-less extension installing and updating is a separate feature that's also in the works. I don't recall if they have a set release for that yet or not.
Comment Re:No (Score 1) 291
No. For a lot of us, that's like asking, "Does the ability to run JavaScript put Chrome at risk of becoming bloated?"
I don't know, judging from some NoScript fans, they certainly think so.
Comment Re:Or 120GB for $54.99 (Score 1) 435
Yes, you did. The 4.0 update from the beginning of this year added SDHC support as well as the ability to play WiiWare/Virtual Consoel games off of the SD slot.
Comment Re:Obscene (Score 1) 229
I've always found it kind of amusing that it's basically all about sex and pooping. Of all the forms of speech that can be censored due to being offensive, of all the activities which we can't tolerate because they're too objectionable, we've picked out sex and pooping.
We hate the Germans _that_ much.
Comment Re:Nice (Score 1) 383
You are correct. Apple was working on their new JS engine at the same time as well.
Comment Re:The problem... (Score 3, Insightful) 192
The problem is the reverse actually. Whoever has the rights in your country won't let Hulu run the shows in it because it cuts into their advertising.
Bionic Contact Lens May Lead to Overlay Displays 213
pfman writes "A University of Washington researcher has developed a
contact lens including circuitry and a matrix of LEDs. Although not yet a working prototype, this may be a foundation for terminator/robocop style overlay displays in which computer graphics could be superimposed on your normal vision. 'Building the lenses was a challenge because materials that are safe for use in the body, such as the flexible organic materials used in contact lenses, are delicate. Manufacturing electrical circuits, however, involves inorganic materials, scorching temperatures and toxic chemicals. Researchers built the circuits from layers of metal only a few nanometers thick, about one thousandth the width of a human hair, and constructed light-emitting diodes one third of a millimeter across.'" Kotaku notes that this has some obvious gaming implications.
Submission + - A human buffer overflow to defeat printer dots (seeingyellow.com)
An anonymous reader writes: The Seeing Yellow project wants us to contact printer manufacturers to at last get their statement about the yellow dots that laser printers include to allow tracing of individual printouts. They say one person who did this was paid a visit by the Secret Service!
Submission + - Is US space infrastructure vulnerable? (pressesc.com)
amigoro writes: "China's strategists have concluded that the easiest way to defeat US military power is to target its Achilles' heel: its space-based capabilities and their related ground installations, and the Chinese anti-satellite test (ASAT) was part of that strategy to combat US military superiority, according to a policy brief published by Carnegie Endowment.
Just exactly how vulnerable is the US space infrastructure? Will other potential US foes, including Iran which has acquired missile capabilities thanks to our friend Putin, shoot in the air instead of trying to attack American interests in the ground? Is there a realistic way to safeguard US space superiority?"
Just exactly how vulnerable is the US space infrastructure? Will other potential US foes, including Iran which has acquired missile capabilities thanks to our friend Putin, shoot in the air instead of trying to attack American interests in the ground? Is there a realistic way to safeguard US space superiority?"
Submission + - How Should Small-Time Artists Protect Their Work? (wellingtongrey.net)
Wellington Grey writes: "I'm a small webcomic author and have recently discovered that some people have taken my illustrations and are selling them in various forms (on CafePress, for example). I don't have large sums of money nor a lot a free time after my day job to try and follow up on issues like this. I thought that by making my work available under a creative commons license would give good karma and allow people to copy, but not commercially. What steps could be taken in a situation like this to protect my work?"
Submission + - Internet Trolls Kill Wikipedia Contributor's Wife (gnaa.us)
Submission + - Prosecutor announces charges against Pirate Bay
paulraps writes: Almost a year after a police raid on the Pirate Bay's servers, a Swedish prosecutor has announced that he intends to press charges against the individuals behind the file-sharing giant. They will be prosecuted for various breaches of copyright law, reports The Local. But a Pirate Bay spokesman was defiant, saying, "I think they feel they have to do it. It would look bad otherwise, since they had 20 to 30 police officers involved in the raid."
Submission + - Article on $2000 mercury cleanup now on Snopes
Dilaceratus writes: On Monday Slashdot ran a thread on an article by Steven Milloy (that ran in the Financial Times and Fox News) claiming that it was going to cost $2000 for a Maine woman to clean up the mercury from a broken compact fluorescent light bulb. In what must be a record (even for FOX News) this story has made it to the Snopes.com Urban Legends site, since Milloy (and the WorldNetDaily article he lifted the story from) entirely misrepresented both the costs and the dangers of cleaning up a broken fluorescent.
Submission + - Magazine loses files when backup fails
DysenteryInTheRanks writes: Business 2.0, the Time Inc.-owned tech/business magazine that publishes the "101 Dumbest Moments in Business" each year, lost much of the content from its June issue when a server crashed — and the never-tested "backup server" also failed, apparently due to a software issue. There was only one week left before the monthly magazine was to be published. Luckily the text of the articles had been emailed to lawyers and was recovered. Everything had to be laid out again and the graphics recreated. Editors have since followed the advice they once published in their own magazine and begun using an off-site backup server that mirrors every half hour.
