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Comment Re:correlation is not causation (Score 1) 249

by ID000001 on Friday December 04, 2009 @03:56PM (#30327906) Attached to: <em>Gran Turismo</em> Gamer Becomes Pro Race Driver

That is really untrue. Numbers of racer have made improvement in real life racing skill due to playing video games. The one I remember was when GT2 first came out, a couple of pro racer took a shot at it in Laguna Seca. They notices their mistake a little easier due to replay and new preceptive. And made improvement in real life from those video game experience

Can't find the references right now, but I can tell you stimulation will definitely help. Saying they don't do jack shit because they are missing some element from real life is a bit on the ignorance side.

Comment I think this is a decoy (Score 1) 664

by ID000001 on Thursday November 19, 2009 @04:06PM (#30162238) Attached to: Google Releases Source To Chromium OS

... to divers attention away from their Androids platform. When google merging voice, blog, mail, video, and talk all into wave, it will become the real OS.

Comment Re:I love Drupal (Score 1) 122

by ID000001 on Thursday November 19, 2009 @09:33AM (#30155224) Attached to: Drupal 6 Social Networking

Drupal have multiple website capability since a while ago. They login to each site and sign up to them individually, but having the login works for all of them is an option. They are intended to be completely separated with their own database, just sharing the same code. However they can communicates if you really need them to. It is on installation, but many websites.

EU Paves the Way For Three-Strikes Cut-Off Policy 272

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday October 22, 2009 @12:25PM from the no-internet-for-you dept.

Mark.JUK writes "The European Parliament has surrendered to pressure from Member States (especially France) by abandoning amendment 138, a provision adopted on two occasions by an 88% majority of the plenary assembly, and which aimed to protect citizens' right to Internet access. The move paves the way for an EU wide policy supporting arbitrary restrictions of Internet access. Under the original text any restriction of an individual could only be taken following a prior judicial ruling. The new update has completely removed this, meaning that governments now have legal grounds to force Internet providers (ISPs) into disconnecting their customers from the Internet (i.e. such as when 'suspected' of illegal p2p file sharing)."

Comment Re:Interesting (Score 1) 152

by ID000001 on Tuesday September 29, 2009 @02:55PM (#29583991) Attached to: Android Modder Tries To Outmaneuver Google

This is going too far

by your definition, not only is there no such thing as IP, there are also no such thing as law since law are just "lawmaker scribbing down some common consensus on a piece of paper".

Why don't you just say "IP is not a physical object" instead? So your statement actually, you know, makes sense.

Your problem is that you think all laws are just made up by some entitles with power.

Comment Re:What the ROM does (Score 1) 124

by ID000001 on Tuesday September 29, 2009 @10:15AM (#29580023) Attached to: Gameboy Color Boot ROM Dumped After 10 Years

Also, on the boot up screen, if you press button or direction pad, you can set your own palette to one of the preset.

Submission + - Google Buys ReCAPTCHA to Boost Book Scanning Effor (pcworld.com)

Submitted by ID000001 on Wednesday September 16, 2009 @03:16PM

ID000001 writes: From the Article: ReCAPTCHA is a well-known provider of CAPTCHA technology, which is used to prevent spammers from using computers to automatically register for online services, such as webmail accounts and Web site registrations

What attracted Google to ReCAPTCHA is that the company has linked its core authentication service with efforts to digitize print books and periodicals. The search giant has a massive effort underway in that area for its Google Books and Google News Archive services.

Submission + - RIAA Awarded $675,000 in Boston Trial (blogspot.com)

Submitted by

NewYorkCountryLawyer

on Friday July 31, 2009 @06:09PM

NewYorkCountryLawyer writes: "The jury awarded the record company plaintiffs $675,000 in the Boston trial defended by Prof. Charles Nesson, in SONY BMG Music Entertainment v. Tenenbaum. I was not surprised since exactly none of the central issues ever even came up in this trial, and since the judge had instructed the jurors that Mr. Tenenbaum was liable, and that their only task was to come up with a verdict that was more than $22,500 and less than $4.5 million. According to the judge, her reason for doing so was that when on the stand the defendant was asked if he admitted liability, he said 'yes'. The lawyers among you will know that that was a totally improper question, and that the Court should not have even allowed it, much less based her holding upon the answer to it."

Submission + - MD5 Collisions on ATI Video Cards

Submitted by on Friday July 31, 2009 @05:58PM

An anonymous reader writes: Yesterday at Black Hat USA 2009, a talk entitled MD5 Chosen-Prefix Collisions on GPUs (whitepaper) presented an implementation written in assembly language for ATI video cards that achieves 1.6 billion MD5 hash/sec, or 2.2 billion MD5 hash/sec with reversing, on an ATI Radeon HD 4850 X2. This is faster than the much-publicized 1.4-1.9 billion hash/sec figure that was supposedly reached on a PlayStation 3 by Nick Breese at Black Hat Europe 2008 (he later noticed an error in his benchmarking tool). Compared to the cluster of 215 PlayStation 3s that was used to create a rogue CA in December 2008, Marc Bevand claimed a cluster of 12 machines with 24 video cards would be a bit faster, consume 5 times less power, and be 10 times cheaper.

Submission + - $2 Billion more for Cash for Clunkers

Submitted by space_hippy on Friday July 31, 2009 @04:01PM

space_hippy writes: American's burnt though the first Billion dollar in 4 days on "CARS" (Car Allowance Rebate System). The US congress is trying to pull an additional $2 Billion dollars from other energy programs. http://www.detnews.com/article/20090731/AUTO01/907310409/Emergency-bill-could-add-$2B-in--Clunkers--funds

Analysts had predicted that the $1 billion would help dealers sell about 250,000 cars. David Cole, the chairman of the Center for Automotive Research, applauded the fast reaction by the House to extend the program. "Anything that impacts auto sales has an immediate impact," Cole said. "The impact of this is fast." The $2 billion would be redirected from the economic recovery package passed by Congress in February.

Submission + - Microsoft's HD Photo Now Officially JPER XR (jpeg.org)

Submitted by Mortimer.CA on Friday July 31, 2009 @12:32PM

Mortimer.CA writes: JPEG released a press release on July 17 announcing the formal acceptance of JPEG XR (formerly HD Photo). This was talked about on Slashdot about two years ago. Microsoft's Bill Crow states that some of the advantages are "better compression", "more image formats" (i.e., options: 8, 16, 32 bpc; fixed and floating point; etc.), and "advanced decoding features". It is supposed to be a complement to the wavelet-based JPEG2000, but is sometimes considered too resource intensive for embedded use.

Comment Re:In before the morons (Score 1) 438

by ID000001 on Friday July 24, 2009 @04:52PM (#28812561) Attached to: Microsoft Agrees To EU Browser Ballot Screen

The reason Microsoft is being picked on, is because they are
a) Biggest
b) Previous offend

Comment Is there a way to find out the compression engine? (Score 1) 291

by ID000001 on Thursday July 16, 2009 @07:18PM (#28724367) Attached to: Choosing Better-Quality JPEG Images With Software?

Does JPEG header have the compression method listed as well as compression ratio? If not, is there any way to figure out what kinda compresison engine is used base on how an image is constructed?

If so, simply do some testing against some of the most popular compression engine base on the artifact to determines what engine is used, then find out their compression ratio (perhaps a simple files size might work?). Then simply pick the images with the best quality base on engine used and ratio?

Submission + - Five ways Google spits on Microsoft (computerworld.com)

Submitted by

Lucas123

on Friday July 10, 2009 @01:40PM

Lucas123 writes: "Missing in the media blitz surrounding Google's OS launch was a 655-word blog post by Google about its Chrome OS that started it all. In it were some thinly-veiled but damning shots taken at Windows' vast number of shortcomings. Here are five back hands that are sure to put a grin on your face."

Submission + - Anyone running really old Linux versions? 1

Submitted by

Twillerror

on Friday July 10, 2009 @12:54PM

Twillerror writes: "The other day I heard a story/myth about nuclear plants running VMWare to emulate Windows 95 systems. I guess the software would only run on Win95 and getting new hardware to run Win95 can be hard.

Got me thinking about Linux and older versions of it. Is anyone running much older versions of the kernel in production like situations or maybe just for fun?"

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