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Comment Re:And I Will Stop Buying... (Score 1) 521

by mulvane (#45795519) Attached to: Ford Rolls the Dice With Breakthrough F-150 Aluminum Pickup Truck
I'm just hoping they don't do this with 3/4 and 1 ton pickups and SUVs. I agree with you, I need a pickup to work and haul. Sure, Al can be used in some places to lighten load, but when you start looking at the frame, you are weakening the overall strength...Got, imagine grade 8 bolts made out of Al.

Submission + - Stolen Adobe Passwords Were Encrypted, Not Hashed

Submitted by rjmarvin
rjmarvin writes: The hits keep coming in the massive Adobe breach. It turns out the millions of passwords stolen in the hack reported last month that compromised over 38 million users and source code of many Adobe products http://sdt.bz/65281 were protected using outdated encryption security http://sdt.bz/65320 instead of the best practice of hashing. Adobe admitted the hack targeted a backup system that had not been updated, leaving the hacked passwords more vulnerable to brute-force cracking.

Comment Bounty Source (Score 3, Informative) 109

by mulvane (#45335635) Attached to: Bribe Devs To Improve Open Source Software
How does this differ from Bounty Source? Bounty Source has been around for awhile now, is well maintained and already offers everything here. In some things, to much diversity is a bad thing and I see that here. You need to be able to meet up as many users with developers as possible for a system like this to work well.

Submission + - Microsoft Hires Former Steam Boss Holtman to Make Windows Great for Gaming

Submitted by SmartAboutThings
SmartAboutThings writes: Jason Holtman has spent the last eight years transforming Steam into a veritable cornucopia of PC games and a real success. Starting this month he'll be working at Microsoft to improve Windows' gaming strategy. He said: "Yes, I have joined Microsoft where I will be focusing on making Windows a great platform for gaming and interactive entertainment. I think there is a lot of opportunity for Microsoft to deliver the games and entertainment customers want and to work with developers to make that happen, so I'm excited to be here." The main job that Holtman was doing at Valve consisted in convincing developers and major game publishers to choose Steam and entrust it with its digital sales. More than that, he was excited with what he was doing and was a driving force over at Steam. Microsoft has focused solely on the Xbox One launch lately, somehow neglecting the potential that Windows and overall, the PC gaming industry still have. With Holtman’s hiring, maybe Microsoft is going to revamp its Games for Windows initiative.

Submission + - Intel 22nm Bay Trail Atom Processor Unveiled (hothardware.com)

Submitted by MojoKid
MojoKid writes: Intel has finally taken its low power Atom mobile processor architecture back to the drawing board, with the official announcement today of their Bay Trail Atom microarchitecture. For the past five years Intel has been almost solely focused on improving power consumption. Dual-core variants appeared on the desktop in fairly short order, and clock speed nudges have only bumped performance slightly higher. The new Bay Trail Atom SoC, on the other hand, is an out-of-order processor. Intel stuck with a dual-issue design with relatively limited integer and floating point pipelines, though there are a significant number of improvements. Execution units have been redesigned for more efficient, lower-latency operation. The L2 cache has been expanded and is now shared between cores. Intel isn't using Hyper-Threading this time around, opting instead to go for a straight 1:1 relationship between threads and core count. Many of the most significant changes to the new Bay Trail Atom's "Silvermont" core are focused on how the chip handles floating-point code. Silvermont's latencies for various x87 operations are often half of Saltwell's, with certain instructions outputting more than twice as often.

Submission + - CERN Physicists Announce the Substandard Model (youtube.com)

Submitted by ssam
ssam writes: Now that we are on the verge of completing the Standard Model of Particle Physics, it's time to look to the future of the field. Five physicists at CERN present their new state of the art theory: The Substandard Model of Physics!
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Submission + - ROT13 challange (slashdot.org)

Submitted by ByOhTek
ByOhTek writes: Seeing as how the trolls... err... editors have decided to ROT13 the stories on slashdot for April Fools, why not add some fun to the tedium — a challange. Can you make a sentance that is readable (not necessarily having the same meaning) in ROT13?

Frrvat nf ubj gur gebyyf... ree... rqvgbef unir qrpvqrq gb EBG13 gur fgbevrf ba fynfuqbg sbe Ncevy Sbbyf, jul abg nqq fbzr sha gb gur grqvhz — n punyynatr. Pna lbh znxr n fragnapr gung vf ernqnoyr (abg arprffnevyl univat gur fnzr zrnavat) va EBG13?
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United States Begins Flying Stealth Bombers Over South Korea 567

Posted by samzenpus from the nice-day-for-a-flight dept.
skade88 writes "The New York Times is reporting that the United States has started flying B-2 stealth bomber runs over South Korea as a show of force to North Korea. The bombers flew 6,500 miles to bomb a South Korean island with mock explosives. Earlier this month the U.S. Military ran mock B-52 bombing runs over the same South Korean island. The U.S. military says it shows that it can execute precision bombing runs at will with little notice needed. The U.S. also reaffirmed their commitment to protecting its allies in the region. The North Koreans have been making threats to turn South Korea into a sea of fire. North Korea has also made threats claiming they will nuke the United States' mainland."

Comment Re:I think that's all college students (Score 0) 823

by mulvane (#41766031) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Rectifying Nerd Arrogance?
I have forgotten more than you will ever learn! This will hold true unless you realize you know shit and seek to expound instead of hold what little you know over those who know less which becomes a slowly shrinking number unless you constantly phase out those who make you look like a dip shit in search of new people to troll.

Comment Re:Display information (Score 1) 146

by mulvane (#41739925) Attached to: What To Do With Those First Generation Photo Frames?
Hacking doesn't HAVE to involve breaking open or doing something outside of the devices current limitations. A HACKER is someone who can also make new use of a device by further understanding its uses within its current limitations and adapt it to his/her need. Hacking is about understanding why things work and how you can make them work better for you also...

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