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Comment Re:Apple's strategy (Score 3, Insightful) 348

I think using a LED / LCD screen for book reading is going to put a little more strain on the eyes then e-ink display. Which might make it not suitable for a good amount of people. If being doubled as e-reader is the major selling point, this is likely to be too expensive to count. Of course, Apple have a few years to let this go. We will see.

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

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 Re:I love Drupal (Score 1) 122

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.
The Internet

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

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

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.
Google

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

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.

The Courts

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

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."
Encryption

Submission + - MD5 Collisions on ATI Video Cards

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.

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