Comment Re:World domination 201 (Score 1) 898
No, you did not. IA64 is not byte-compatible with EMT64/AMD64.
Comment Re: Yes, Mac OS X on generic hardware is great! (Score 1) 648
Yeah, because it's not like they sold any Core Duo Minis, iMacs, Macbooks, etc (which unlike Core2, were not 64 bit capable)...
Comment Re:beach erosion/movement (Score 2, Informative) 249
Ahem. Care to rescind that statement?
Comment Re:what does it do to load times? (Score 5, Informative) 235
No idea who modded this 'underrated,' but those buses have nothing to do with this. The AGP bus never had any effect on storage performance (isolated), the PCIe bus is much faster than storage, etc. The IDE controller is on the Southbridge, and it's not bottlenecking. Storage is the bottleneck more often than not (seek times and raw speed). Will this cut down on seek times? Yes. Solid-state storage has nigh-instantaneous seek times, since there aren't any heads seeking.
Submission + - US Changes Story on Spy Coins
Aqua_boy17 writes: As a follow up to a story previously reported on Slashdot regarding bugged Canadian coins, the US Defense Department is now claiming that the original story was false. In an AP story published today the department states that its previous claims have proven to be unsubstatiated according to subsequent investigations. The US Defense Security Service was never able to provide evidence to support its original claim regarding the fake coins, and has now begun an internal investigation to determine how the original report was leaked to the public. Industry experts were intially baffled by the first reports, as such devices would have had a very limited capability to deliver significant amounts of reliable intelligence data.
Journal SPAM: Kill an Iraqi on National Sanctity of Human Life Day 5
I guess that's why it's not "International Sanctity of Human Life Day." Wogs ain't sacred.
National Sanctity of Human Life Day, 2007
A Proclamation by the President of the United States of America
Submission + - Does OS X Really Shine Brighter Than Vista?
An anonymous reader writes: This is a good and balanced response to the John Welch article touting OSX.
Counterpoint: Does OS X Really Shine Brighter Than Vista? http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jh tml?articleID=196902106
Counterpoint: Does OS X Really Shine Brighter Than Vista? http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.j
Submission + - Wave Adaptive Modular Vessel
zeke-o writes: "From the manufacturer's website ..
"Unlike conventional boats, the hulls of a WAM-V(TM) conform to the surface of the water. A WAM-V does not push, slap or pierce the waves. She utilizes flexibility to adapt her structure and shape to the water surface. Instead of forcing the water to conform to the hull, she gives and adjusts; she "dances" with the waves." Evidently it's been in sea trials running around the SF Bay area. Wish I could find some video of the thing in motion .."
"Unlike conventional boats, the hulls of a WAM-V(TM) conform to the surface of the water. A WAM-V does not push, slap or pierce the waves. She utilizes flexibility to adapt her structure and shape to the water surface. Instead of forcing the water to conform to the hull, she gives and adjusts; she "dances" with the waves." Evidently it's been in sea trials running around the SF Bay area. Wish I could find some video of the thing in motion
Submission + - Hackers steal millions Visa account numbers
jackelfish writes: In a recent report in the Globe and Mail , millions of credit card accounts may have been compromised after hackers stole customer information last year from computer systems of TJX Cos. .
The problem was tied to the computer systems that process and store information about customer transactions involving credit cards, debit cards, cheques and merchandise returns — some of them going back to 2003. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police and the U.S. Secret Service have been called in to investigate.
Submission + - What's the BEST way to host a website from home?
lucas.clemente writes: "Currently, I use a very rudimentary system to host my website(s). I have a Time Warner cablemodem, protected by a Linksys router. That Linksys router does port forwarding (port 80) to a $50 Powermac G3 running OSX. For DNS, I use dyndns.org. (they offer both free and pay dynamic DNS clients).
This is adequate enough to support a website that has gotten no more than a dozen visitors at a time.
My question is: Are there any slashdot readers who have been able to use a cable modem's bandwidth to host a website with a significant volume of traffic? EG thousands of users a day...(& still use it for day-to-day internet surfing)?
If so, how many other configurations are there (of comparable cost & simplicity) to accomplish this?"
This is adequate enough to support a website that has gotten no more than a dozen visitors at a time.
My question is: Are there any slashdot readers who have been able to use a cable modem's bandwidth to host a website with a significant volume of traffic? EG thousands of users a day...(& still use it for day-to-day internet surfing)?
If so, how many other configurations are there (of comparable cost & simplicity) to accomplish this?"
Startup Tries Watermarking Instead of DRM 344
Loosehead Prop writes "A U.K. startup called Streamburst has a novel idea: selling downloadable video with watermarks instead of DRM. The system works by adding a 5-second intro to each download that shows the name of the person who bought the movie along with something like a watermark: 'it's not technically a watermark in the usual sense of that term, but the encoding process does strip out a unique series of bits from the file. The missing information is a minuscule portion of the overall file that does not affect video quality, according to Bjarnason, but does allow the company to discover who purchased a particular file.' The goal is to 'make people accountable for their actions without artificially restricting those actions.'"
Submission + - Online Office Suites: The Winner Is Clear
jcatcw writes: Computerworld reviewed four online office suites — Ajax13, Google Docs & Spreadsheets, ThinkFree Online and Zoho Office Suite. None has all the applications and features of Microsoft Office, but if you're looking for the core office applications in an access-anywhere format, at least two were surprisingly sophisticated. The article weighs the ability to save files to a centralized server quite heavily in its ranking. The winner is ThinkFree Office because it provides the most sophisticated features and has the best Microsoft Office compatibility. Zoho's suite is the second choice.
Submission + - Net Neutrality Act Once Again on the Agenda
Michael Talbert writes: "On January 9th, Republican Senator Olympia Snowe and Democrat Byron Dorgan
reintroduced the Internet Freedom Preservation Act to the Senate.
Better known as the Net Neutrality Act, the bill was killed
by the Senate last year in a vote split down party lines (Democrats yea, Republicans
nay), with the exception of Senator Snowe. With the Democrats having a slight
majority in the Senate, the bill certainly has a better chance this time around,
but it still needs 60 votes to prevent a Republican filibuster.
The impetus for the bill started back in 2005, when broadband network executives began discussing the possibility of charging companies that use a high percentage of bandwidth. Most notably, in an interview with a Business Week, SBC chairman Ed Whitacre Jr (now AT&T CEO) stated: "How do you think they're going to get to customers? Through a broadband pipe. Cable companies have them. We have them. Now what they would like to do is use my pipes free, but I ain't going to let them do that because we have spent this capital and we have to have a return on it. So there's going to have to be some mechanism for these people who use these pipes to pay for the portion they're using. Why should they be allowed to use my pipes?"
Whitacre went on to say, "The Internet can't be free in that sense, because we and the cable companies have made an investment and for a Google or Yahoo! or Vonage or anybody to expect to use these pipes free is nuts!"
What's nuts is that he actually said that...
Read the entire article Net Neutrality Act Once Again on the Agenda on VoIP-Facts.net."
The impetus for the bill started back in 2005, when broadband network executives began discussing the possibility of charging companies that use a high percentage of bandwidth. Most notably, in an interview with a Business Week, SBC chairman Ed Whitacre Jr (now AT&T CEO) stated: "How do you think they're going to get to customers? Through a broadband pipe. Cable companies have them. We have them. Now what they would like to do is use my pipes free, but I ain't going to let them do that because we have spent this capital and we have to have a return on it. So there's going to have to be some mechanism for these people who use these pipes to pay for the portion they're using. Why should they be allowed to use my pipes?"
Whitacre went on to say, "The Internet can't be free in that sense, because we and the cable companies have made an investment and for a Google or Yahoo! or Vonage or anybody to expect to use these pipes free is nuts!"
What's nuts is that he actually said that...
Read the entire article Net Neutrality Act Once Again on the Agenda on VoIP-Facts.net."
Submission + - New Gravitational Theory - Elegantly Simple
Richard Mueller writes: "I believe this guy has stumbled upon something that will shake the physics world. His papers are currently being reviewed by physicists, who so far are necessarily skeptical. But the (relative) simplicity of the theory, coupled with his derivation of quark energy with it, is astounding. See his paper at http://base.google.com/base/a/7110682459597836712. Also see his other supplemental papers there. He was on the local Mankato MN news show yesterday. See it here, but ignore typos in transcript: http://www.keyc.com/article/view/114511/
Can any Slashdotters help dispel or expand?"
Can any Slashdotters help dispel or expand?"
Submission + - Tax Fugitive challenging authorities to show law
the Gray Mouser writes: Fox News is reporting the story of a New Hamsphire man "holed up with armed supporters in his fortress-like house after being convicted of tax evasion."
"I want people to realize that there is no such thing as an obligation to pay income tax," said Edward Brown. "It has nothing to do with the Constitution."
"I want people to realize that there is no such thing as an obligation to pay income tax," said Edward Brown. "It has nothing to do with the Constitution."
