Comment Re:Modern Fallouts suck ass (Score 0) 229
None of the modern fallouts recreate and capture the spirit of the two first ones.
Somebody here hasn't played Fallout: New Vegas, and it isn't me.
LHC Restarts High-Energy Quest For Exotic Physics 85
astroengine writes: It's official: After a long 27 month hiatus for upgrades and a 2 month restart, the world's largest particle accelerator is back in the particle collision business. As of 10:40 a.m. CET (5:40 a.m. ET), the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) was running at record-breaking energies and collecting science data. Physicists now expect the particle collider to run non-stop for the next 3 years. We are in a new era of high-energy particle physics where, for the first time, we don't exactly know what we'll find. "With the LHC back in the collision-production mode, we celebrate the end of two months of beam commissioning," said CERN Director of Accelerators and Technology Frédérick Bordry in a press release. "It is a great accomplishment and a rewarding moment for all of the teams involved in the work performed during the long shutdown of the LHC, in the powering tests and in the beam commissioning process. All these people have dedicated so much of their time to making this happen."
Submission + - SSDs Drop In Price 25% Over Past Year (computerworld.com)
Lucas123 writes: Computer makers are paying on average $50 for a 128GB SSD and about $90 for a 256GB drive, according to DRAMeXchange. The average retail price that consumers pay for a 128GB SSD is $91.55, and for an SSD in the 240GB to 256GB range, the price is about $165.34, DRAMeXchange's data showed. A combination of denser NAND flash manufacturing process and laptop industry adoption has lead to a massive drop in SSD prices over the past year. The latest numbers from DRAMeXchange indicates prices for internal SSDs are declining at an accelerated pace as the production of NAND flash migrates to 15 nanometer process, triple-level cell and 3D NAND technologies. Previously, NAND transistors size was in the 19-plus nanometer range: More density equals lower production costs. Additionally, hard drives in notebooks are quickly being swapped out by manufacturers and SSD market penetration will be more than 30% for 2015 and will surpass 50% by 2017 to dominate the sector. The sheer economies of scale is also leading to SSD price decline.
Submission + - Microsoft Lets EU Governments Inspect Source Code for Security Issues
itwbennett writes: European governments will be able to review the source code of Microsoft products to confirm they don’t contain security backdoors, at a transparency center the company opened in Brussels on Wednesday. The center is the second of its kind. Last June, the company opened a center in Redmond, Washington. The centers are part of Microsoft’s Government Security Program, launched in 2003 to help create trust with governments that want to use Microsoft products.
Submission + - Google's Self-Driving Ccars Have Autonomously Driven Over 1 Million Miles
An anonymous reader writes: Google today announced that its self-driving car project crossed the 1 million mile mark last week. CEO Larry Page originally challenged the team to drive 100,000 miles on public roads, and they have now done that 10-fold, or the equivalent of 75 years of typical U.S. adult driving. If you’re confused at the figure, that’s probably because you remember the 1.7 million number revealed last month. That number was for manual and autonomous driving combined; today’s 1 million mile number is just for autonomous driving.
Submission + - Mars One Applicant Numbers Inflated
jklovanc writes: Mars One has admitted that they wildly inflated the number of completed applications. While they reported over 200,000 applications the number of completed applications was actually 4,227. It is apparent that they do not have the public support the want us to think they do.
Comment Re: We do not consider it abuse to request a refun (Score 2) 126
Same reason you have rebate offers instead of sales; they count on a percentage of buyers not bothering.
Submission + - Malware Creators Use Paid Apple Program To Bypass iOS Security (itworld.com)
jfruh writes: One of the selling points iOS is that apps can only be downloaded via the App Store, which vets them for malware, thus creating a very safe environment. There is a way to bypass those security checks, though: pay $299 to sign up for the iOS Developer Enterprise Program. The program is meant for companies that want to distribute custom in-house apps to their employees, but Japanese fraudsters are now using it to get fraudware onto unsuspecting users' phones.
Comment Re:Odd comment (Score 1) 254
No, he's saying that the kid's right to not be exposed to a deadly disease trumps the parent's right to force their religion/philosophy/stupidity onto the child.
Diphtheria Returns To Spain For Lack of Vaccination 254
TuringTest writes: A six-year-old child was admitted to a hospital in Barcelona and diagnosed with diphtheria, which hasn't occurred in Spain since 1986 and was largely unheard of in western Europe. The boy had not been vaccinated despite the vaccine being available in free vaccination programs. Spanish general health secretary called anti-vaccination campaigns "irresponsible" and said: "The right to vaccination is for children, not for the parents to decide." The child is in critical condition, though he's now being treated with a serum expressly brought from Russia through an emergency procedure.
Submission + - Rust programming language commits to 6-week release cycle (opensource.com)
An anonymous reader writes: With the release of Rust 1.0 on May 15, one might ask, "What's next?" Many words have been written about the technical aspects of how the Rust language achieves its goals of memory safety without garbage collection, but less has been discussed about the project itself and how it is structured.
The web has very strong backwards compatibility guarantees, yet grows and changes all the time. To work within these constraints, evergreen web browsers have new releases every six weeks with new features and bug fixes, yet remain compatible with the existing web. Many websites themselves follow continuous integration or similar engineering principles, designed to make change easier. While a web application may be deployed dozens of times per day, desktop software updates much more rarely, often once or twice a year at most.
As such, Rust is following a similar path: 1.0 was released on May 15, the 1.1 beta was released at the same time, and the master development branch was advanced to 1.2. Six weeks later, on June 26, Rust 1.1 will come out of beta and become a stable release, 1.2 will be promoted to 1.2-beta, and the master will become the eventual 1.3.
The web has very strong backwards compatibility guarantees, yet grows and changes all the time. To work within these constraints, evergreen web browsers have new releases every six weeks with new features and bug fixes, yet remain compatible with the existing web. Many websites themselves follow continuous integration or similar engineering principles, designed to make change easier. While a web application may be deployed dozens of times per day, desktop software updates much more rarely, often once or twice a year at most.
As such, Rust is following a similar path: 1.0 was released on May 15, the 1.1 beta was released at the same time, and the master development branch was advanced to 1.2. Six weeks later, on June 26, Rust 1.1 will come out of beta and become a stable release, 1.2 will be promoted to 1.2-beta, and the master will become the eventual 1.3.
Submission + - Invigilator drones used to snoop out Chinese exam cheats (thestack.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Education authorities in the Chinese city of Luoyang have introduced an invigilating drone [Chinese] into the exam room, monitoring teenagers taking the two-day ‘gaokao’ assessment. The anti-cheating bots have been designed to scupper some of the inventive and high-tech tricks used by an increasing number of students in the region, such as paper scanning glasses, bugged stationary and receiving radio feeds of the test answers via hidden earpieces or transmitters sewn into clothing. The new drone, created by a Chengdu-based tech firm, is designed to pick up on the radio signals given off by such transmitters – inaudible to human invigilators. If a transmission is detected, the machine identifies the source location and plots it on a tablet device. The tablet is also used to issue directional commands to the six-propeller drone which can travel up to 500 meters high and rotate 360 degrees to scan an entire room.
Submission + - Facebook Sued In US Court for Blocking Page In India (itworld.com)
itwbennett writes: Facebook has been sued in California by the non-profit organization Sikhs For Justice for blocking their page in India. The group has charged Facebook with engaging in 'a pattern of civil rights violation and blatant discriminatory conduct' by blocking its content in the whole of India. It has asked the court for a permanent injunction on further blocking of the page, access to Facebook’s correspondence with the Indian government about the block, and an award of damages, besides other relief.
Typing 'http://:' Into a Skype Message Trashes the Installation Beyond Repair 225
An anonymous reader writes: A thread at the Skype community forums has brought to light a critical bug in Microsoft's Skype clients for Windows, iOS and Android: typing the incorrect URL initiator http://: into a text message on Skype will crash the client so badly that it can only be repaired by installing an older version and awaiting a fix from Microsoft. The bug does not affect OS X or the 'Metro'-style Windows clients — which means, effectively, that Mac users could kill the Skype installations on other platforms just by sending an eight-character message.
Comment Re:Just why is 10G ethernet still so expensive? (Score 2) 179
Nah, same reason why 100baseT was around so long; it was good enough.
gig-e is more than adequate for almost anything that involves a desktop computer, so there's nothing driving prices down. Eventually, it won't be, and prices will drop like a rock.
