Comment Re:Tablets, Phones, and what's wrong with XP or wi (Score 1) 516
And you leave out a lot of professionals... Photographers, designers, musicians... lot of niches still for the "dying" desktop.
Comment Re:Strange (Score 1) 395
bloody slashdot 2.0 and the Ajax-my-ass everywhere... but you are right!!!!!!!!!!
Comment Re:Strange (Score 1) 395
Pitty it can be read by the rest of the world, and they even dare to express their opinions!
Comment Re:Strange (Score 1) 395
pitty the rest of the world can read it... and dare to express their opinions!!!
Submission + - Liberty Pulse - Obama Administration Unveils Inter (libertypulse.com)
An anonymous reader writes: The Commerce Dept. unveiled a plan Friday to create a national cyber-identity system that would give consumers who opt in a single secure password and identity for all their digital transactions.
Submission + - Game of Thrones (blogspot.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Many of my favorite HBO dramas had to grow on me. Shows like Rome, Deadwood and The Wire had rich, complex stories and it took me a while to fully understand and appreciate all of them. That's exactly how I feel about HBO's newest show, Game of Thrones.
Submission + - Iran Demands (Legal) Retaliation For Stuxnet (itworld.com) 1
jfruhlinger writes: "The Stuxnet virus is widely believed to have been cooked by U.S. and Israeli intelligence to disable Iran's nuclear program. Now an Iranian official is demanding retribution. But, bad news for fans of apocalyptic wars: The revenge will take the form of legal action against Siemens, which the Iranians believe helped with the attack."
Submission + - 'Royal Star' of Charles II May Have Been Supernova (ibtimes.com)
RedEaredSlider writes: A supernova remnant may be evidence that a star visible in daylight coincided with the birth of King Charles II of England.
Cassiopeia A is the remains of a star that exploded about 11,000 years ago. It is one of the brightest radio sources in the sky and when the star that produced it blew up, it should have been visible — and quite spectacular.
Martin Lunn, former curator of astronomy at the Yorkshire Museum in England, and Lila Rakoczy, an independent scholar, say that the supernova might have been the 'royal star' that marked the birth of Britain's Charles II in 1630. During Charles II's reign, propagandists for the Stuarts spoke of the new star and the parallel with the Christ story was obvious. But for centuries most historians had assumed it was just that, propaganda.
Other novae and supernovae in the same period are well-documented. A nova in 1572 was recorded by Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe and another appeared in 1604, known as Kepler's Supernova. But there are no similarly concrete charts of the royal star.
Cassiopeia A is the remains of a star that exploded about 11,000 years ago. It is one of the brightest radio sources in the sky and when the star that produced it blew up, it should have been visible — and quite spectacular.
Martin Lunn, former curator of astronomy at the Yorkshire Museum in England, and Lila Rakoczy, an independent scholar, say that the supernova might have been the 'royal star' that marked the birth of Britain's Charles II in 1630. During Charles II's reign, propagandists for the Stuarts spoke of the new star and the parallel with the Christ story was obvious. But for centuries most historians had assumed it was just that, propaganda.
Other novae and supernovae in the same period are well-documented. A nova in 1572 was recorded by Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe and another appeared in 1604, known as Kepler's Supernova. But there are no similarly concrete charts of the royal star.
Submission + - Iran Says Siemens Helped US, Israel Build Stuxnet (computerworld.com) 1
CWmike writes: "Iran's Brigadier General, Gholam Reza Jalali, accused Siemens on Saturday with helping U.S. and Israeli teams craft the Stuxnet worm that attacked his country's nuclear facilities. 'Siemens should explain why and how it provided the enemies with the information about the codes of the SCADA software and prepared the ground for a cyber attack against us,' Jalali told the Islamic Republic News Service. Siemens did not reply to a request for comment on Jalali's accusations. Stuxnet, which first came to light in June 2010 but hit Iranian targets in several waves starting the year before, has been extensively analyzed by security researchers. Symantec and Langner Commuications say Stuxnet was designed to infiltrate Iran's nuclear enrichment program, hide in the Iranian SCADA (supervisory control and data acquisition) control systems that operate its plants, then force gas centrifuge motors to spin at unsafe speeds. Jalali suggested that Iranian officials would pursue Siemens in the courts, and claimed that Iranian researchers traced the attack to Israel and the U.S. He said information from infected systems was sent to computers in Texas."
Submission + - Chrome Shields Websites From DDoS Attacks (conceivablytech.com) 1
An anonymous reader writes: Google has an interesting idea how to take the edge off denial of service attacks. The latest developer builds of Chrome 12 have an option called http throttling which will simply deny a user to access a website once the browser has received error messages from a certain URL. Chrome will react with a "back-off interval" that will increase the time between the requests to a website. If there are enough chrome requests flooding a website under attack, this could give webmasters some room to recover from a nasty DDoS attack.
Submission + - Why are A: and B: lost on so many computers?
An anonymous reader writes: A: used to be my floppy drive, and B: was sometimes there on computers with two of them. But I haven't had a floppy drive for many years. Now pretty much all PCs I see (I repair them) have drive partitions from C: and on, with DVD drives and removable media (SD, etc.) coming after. If I plug in an SD card into my laptop it comes up as G: by default; I set it to A:. Why isn't A: the default?
Submission + - 92,000 Lego Robots To Take Over Peruvian Schools w (olpcnews.com)
An anonymous reader writes: The president of Peru, Alan Garcia, decided to celebrate the 500,000th One Laptop Per Child XO laptop in that country in style, announcing orders for half a million more and 20,000 additional Lego education WeDo robot kits for public schools. The latest OLPC laptop, the XO-1.75, has the lowest power draw ever thanks to a Marvell Armada 600 ARM processor and runs Fedora GNU/Linux with dual desktops Sugar (in Spanish, Aymara, and Quechua) and GNOME. For the first time, the XOs will be manufactured locally; the previous 2 million, including the blue high school variant with grownup keyboard, were all made by Quanta Computer. Meanwhile, parallel development continues on the upcoming XO-3 tablet; OLPC's New Technologies director is exploring software paths including GTK3 for Sugar, Android and Chrome. I, for one, salute our new plastic Peruvian overlords.
Submission + - Twitter To Offer Facebook-Style Fan Pages (eweekeurope.co.uk)
jhernik writes: Twitter is looking into opening up new revenue streams with its own brand pages
Micro-blogging site Twitter could soon offer dedicated Facebook-style pages, as part of an attempt to further tap into and monetise the business activity taking place on its platform.
Sources familiar with the project told Marketing Magazine that Twitter chief executive Dick Costolo and president of revenue Adam Bain are championing the idea, as part of an attempt to create fresh revenue streams. The pages would allow companies to tout their brands and deliver tailored content to their followers.
Micro-blogging site Twitter could soon offer dedicated Facebook-style pages, as part of an attempt to further tap into and monetise the business activity taking place on its platform.
Sources familiar with the project told Marketing Magazine that Twitter chief executive Dick Costolo and president of revenue Adam Bain are championing the idea, as part of an attempt to create fresh revenue streams. The pages would allow companies to tout their brands and deliver tailored content to their followers.
Submission + - Swedish health board forbids SMS reminder (thelocal.se)
An anonymous reader writes: The swedish health board (Socialstyrelsen) decides that the appointment reminder sent out by SMS is breaking patient confidentiality because it is not encrypted. However, they say nothing about the snail mail appointment reminder sent by post card.
Submission + - France Outlaws Hashed Passwords (bbc.co.uk) 3
An anonymous reader writes: Storing passwords as hashes instead of plain text is now illegal in France, according to a draconian new data retention law. According to the BBC, "[t]he law obliges a range of e-commerce sites, video and music services and webmail providers to keep a host of data on customers. This includes users' full names, postal addresses, telephone numbers and passwords. The data must be handed over to the authorities if demanded." If the law survives a pending legal challenge by Google, Ebay and others, it may well keep some major services out of the country entirely.
