Comment Re:Al Gore, of course (Score 2) 542
He also invented Algorithms.
Comment Re:Gaisler VHDL style (Score 1) 88
See also:
Bucknell Handbook on Verilog HDL
Submission + - Google accused of invading privacy with pictures of house numbers (telegraph.co.uk)
PatPending writes: FTA: "Internet users are being asked to read random property numbers snapped by Google's Street View cameras, as part of new security checks.
The tests weed out "bots" by ensuring that users are human. But Google has been accused of exploiting the data submitted in by the public for commercial gain — by adding the information to its own mapping system.
Campaign groups said that the use of pictures of real house numbers presents “serious” security issues, and accused the internet company of being “underhand and crude”."
The tests weed out "bots" by ensuring that users are human. But Google has been accused of exploiting the data submitted in by the public for commercial gain — by adding the information to its own mapping system.
Campaign groups said that the use of pictures of real house numbers presents “serious” security issues, and accused the internet company of being “underhand and crude”."
Comment His admission is posted on PasteBin (Score 1) 3
Comment BOY BUSTED BY BUSTY BABE'S BOOBIES! (Score 1) 3
Boy busted by busty babe's boobies!
Film at 11.
Comment New? It's been going on since at least 2003 (Score 5, Informative) 15
This research has been going on since at least 2003.
(Note: don't bother clicking the URL at the bottom of the page -- it's currently 403. I did send the webmaster an email about it.)
So the submission links to a blog? And no images! Oh, my.
Here is a link to a research paper -- with images! Multiscale photoacoustic microscopy and computed tomography
Comment Re:vice president for worldwide content protection (Score 4, Funny) 214
Heh. Reminds me of a story from the sixties about General Motors. A customer called GM to complain about his car.
The phone operator asked what was wrong and the guy said a mirror was defective.
"Which mirror?" she asked.
"The side mirror" he replied.
"Which side?"
"The passenger side."
"I'll connect you to the Vice President for Passenger Side Mirrors."
Dunno if it's true or not. My grandfather worked in the US auto industry for 30 years and had lots of interesting stories to tell...
Comment Re:better get (Score 1) 171
And it's hackable, too:
Slashdot submission or the original article, Dot-dash-diss: The gentleman hacker's 1903 lulz
Comment Re:Now think in American. (Score 3, Informative) 516
Imagine The Lord of the Rings where all the Hobbits had Brooklyn accents.
Submission + - Adobe's latest critical security update pushes scareware (zdnet.com)
PatPending writes: Summary: Adobe just released a critical Flash Player security update. Good news: it includes a new automatic updater for Windows. Bad news: Adobe’s download page pushes a misleading “system optimizer” designed to scare users into paying for unneeded repairs.
A video of the entire process (approximately 10 minutes) is here.
This year alone, three Flash Player security updates have been issued by Adobe: one on February 15, one on March 5, and one on March 28.
A video of the entire process (approximately 10 minutes) is here.
This year alone, three Flash Player security updates have been issued by Adobe: one on February 15, one on March 5, and one on March 28.
Comment Re:Strongly worded letter (Score 1) 129
Awesome! Thank you!
Comment Re:Inconsistent? (Score 5, Informative) 129
Oh, for goodness sake, RTFA:
Under the "border search exception" of United States criminal law, international travelers can be searched without a warrant as they enter the U.S. Under the Barack Obama administration, law enforcement agents have aggressively used this power to search travelers' laptops, sometimes copying the hard drive before returning the computer to its owner. Courts have ruled that such laptop searches can take place even in the absence of any reasonable suspicion of wrongdoing.
Comment Strongly worded letter (Score 4, Interesting) 129
Anyone have a link to (or copy of) the ACLU's "strongly worded letter" to the TSA?
Its contents might prove useful to others in a similar situation.
Comment July 2013 = 487 days (1 year, 4 months) (Score 5, Interesting) 315
So the company known for its ability to immediately roused 8,000 workers inside the company's dormitories, ... and within half an hour started a 12-hour shift fitting glass screens into beveled frames. Within 96 hours, the plant was producing over 10,000 iPhones a day is now going to take 487 days (or 1 year, 4 months) to make this change?
Comment Re:Who Cares, Its None of Your Business (Score 1) 62
*censor
