Comment Re:Not so bad... (Score 1) 123
There are many people in the USA who agree with your view. I'm one of them. I suspect you're getting a biased view from what you read on the internet.
If I had mod points, +1 Interesting.
Comment Re:Japanese Knot Weed (Score 1) 360
Ha, I hope you're joking. Sad thing is that nukes probably wouldn't even do the job, it has spread so far and is so tough to kill.
Comment Re:Japanese Knot Weed (Score 3, Interesting) 360
Four years ago, I did battle with Japanese Knot Weed in the back garden of a house we rented in Cambridge. I tried to kill it for two years by digging it up and applying weed killer. It was very resilient, but I was winning the battle before we left that house.
This was a small area looked after by a pretty determined individual (me), I can't imagine what it would take to get rid of it from the the huge areas it occupies such as the valleys around Cardiff.
Conficker Downloads Payload 273
nk497 writes "Conficker seems to finally be doing something, a week after hype around the worm peaked on April Fool's Day. It has now downloaded components from the Waledac botnet, which could contain rootkit capabilities. Trend Micro security expert Rik Ferguson said: 'These components have so far been missing, but could this finally be the "other boot dropping" that we have all been been waiting for?' Ferguson also suggested that people behind Conficker could be the very same who are running Waledac and created the Storm botnet. 'It tallies with some of the assumptions people have made about Conficker — that the first variant was actively trying to avoid the Ukraine because Waledac was Eastern European,' Ferguson added."
Comment Re:How Many People Even Use Chrome? (Score 1) 294
I see quite a few using it where I work (in a university). It's very fast, and stable as mentioned in the interview. I also like the private browsing mode.
It especially works well on my old slow laptop. Firefox is too heavy but Chrome runs.
I'd like to see a few Firefox extensions made available, but it's a great start.
Hubble Repair Mission At Risk 224
MollyB writes "According to Wired, the recent collision of satellites may put the Atlantis shuttle mission to repair Hubble in the 'unacceptable risk' status:
'The spectacular collision between two satellites on Feb. 10 could make the shuttle mission to fix the Hubble Space Telescope too risky to attempt. Before the collision, space junk problems had already upped the Hubble mission's risk of a "catastrophic impact" beyond NASA's usual limits, Nature's Geoff Brumfiel reported today, and now the problem will be worse. Mark Matney, an orbital debris specialist at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas told the publication that even before the collision, the risk of an impact was 1 in 185, which was "uncomfortably close to unacceptable levels" and the satellite collision "is only going to add on to that."'"
Comment Re:Get Rich (Score 1) 332
Um, 19 dollars multiplied by 50 million = 950 million (just short of a billion)
your math needs help!
correct, only a fraction of the customers would buy the converter so the 1 billion seems a bit high, I'd say 500 million is better.
Submission + - Can Your Notebook Survive A Good Trashing?
DKC writes: Lenovo ThinkPads may look similar to notebooks from other companies, but they incorporate unique technologies that make these notebooks the choice of many businesses. Many of these technologies may be invisible to the user, so Lenovo is now taking great pains in educating their users about the effort that goes into each ThinkPad.You have read about all those cool protection technologies packed into your notebook, but have you ever seen them in action? Find out how Masaki Kobayashi of Lenovo's Yamato Labs drops a notebook hard and pours water on another!
Submission + - Vista: Hurry Up and Wait
Peter Krass writes: "Read this story: "VISTA: Not Cutting Edge, But Bleeding. Why one system builder is telling customers to postpone their move to Microsoft's newst OS...and why you should, too."
by David Gilbert, TechBuilder
http://www.crn.com/white-box/198500319"
by David Gilbert, TechBuilder
http://www.crn.com/white-box/198500319"
Submission + - 1000 GB's in one DVD Its Mempile's TERADISK
shashank4u writes: "Mempile, a leader in next generation optical storage technology,has announces that it has proven its TeraDisc technology to be capable of storing up to one TeraByte (TB) of data. The company recently demonstrated this concept to several Japanese CE manufacturers by recording and reading over 100 virtual layers on a single DVD-size optical disc.
The demonstration attendees were amazed to see this breakthrough which showed Mempile's capability of recording at least 500GB of data on what appears to be a simple plastic transparent disc — 300GB more than the announced roadmap of competing blue-laser technologies in the year 2010.
link to the story http://www.mempile.com/news.html"
