Submission + - Gates' tsunami down economics (gizmodo.com)
jfclavette writes: Bill Gates has convinced 38 other bilionnaires to give away half their fortunes to charities
Comment Re:Irony (Score 1) 299
If he can do it, so can the bad guys.
Not quite. If he can do it, maybe some bad guys can. If he publishes it, anyone who cares can.
Orbit Your Own Satellite For $8,000 208
RobGoldsmith sends word of Interorbital's TubeSat Personal Satellite Kit, which allows anyone to send a half-pound payload to low-earth orbit for $8,000. Your satellite will fly to orbit from Tonga atop an Interorbital Systems NEPTUNE 30 rocket along with 31 other TubeSats. It will function for several weeks, then its orbit will decay and it will burn up in the atmosphere. Interorbital plans to send up a load of 32 TubeSats every month. If you pay in full in advance, you get slotted onto a particular scheduled launch. Here are Interorbital's product page and brochure (PDF).
Comment Re:Editorialise much ? (Score 1) 277
In fact... I've just looked around for kicks.
Comment Re:Editorialise much ? (Score 1, Offtopic) 277
What about arbitrary javascript on web pages? By your logic, a Flash player would be out of the question.
Yes it would. Don't think for a second that Apple would let you sell your own browser of Flash plug-in. It doesn't mean that you are not allowed to use an existing Flash plugin or webbrowser tough.
Comment Re:"prior" art? (Score 1) 96
No it is not in any jurisdiction that I know of. You're thinking of trademarks.
Comment Re:Your Action, My Reaction (Score 1) 126
If my DPI reveals encrypted data, I give you the lowest QoS. What's your reaction now ?
Comment Re:Posting in the april fools article (Score 1) 1582
Nope, just got it.
Comment Re:Posting in the april fools article (Score 2, Interesting) 1582
I want to see if that feature actually works in real-time.
Comment Re:Which way is this impressive? (Score 1) 287
While the 11 KB code footprint might not be all that impressive (altough I think it is), the 13 is very impressive for an IPv6 stack. I haven't RTFA but if it accepts a largeish number of simultaneous connections, I highly doubt they got it working at all with that kind of footprint.
Heck, 13KB is only slightly over the space required to load a 64 by 64 24 bits bitmap in memory. And you haven't displayed it yet.
Submission + - Xbox360 Hypervisor Vulnerability - Homebrew on 360
RedLine writes: A new post on the BugTraq list released details on a critical vulnerability in Microsoft's Xbox360 that allows privilege escalation into hypervisor mode. Together with a method to inject data into non-privileged memory areas, this vulnerability allows an attacker with physical access to an Xbox 360 to run arbitrary code such as alternative operating systems with full privileges and full hardware access.
The post is a follow-up on the anonymous presentation held on December 30th at the 23C3 Hacker Congress that suggested running homebrew code on Xbox360 would be possible soon. The vulnerability works in kernel 4532 and 4548 but was fixed by Microsoft in kernel 4552 (released on Jan 09, 2007) after they were notified about the exploit.
Submission + - File Deleting Software a Hoax
teamhasnoi writes: "In a followup to yesterday's story the developer of Display Eater has responded to the poor publicity, admitting that the app does not delete files. Quote: "It was my hope that if people thought this happened, they would not try to pirate the program. I could stop wasting time writing copy protection routines to be broken over and over.
It turned out to be a mistake."
He has now made the application free by posting a registration code, and plans to open-source it."
Submission + - VMware attacks Microsoft?
An anonymous reader writes: On Monday VMWare will release a white paper detailing its concerns with license changes on Microsoft software that may limit the ability to move virtual-machine software around data centers to automate the management of computing work. This was reported by Steve Lohr of the New York Times in an article published on February 24, 2007. Two choice quotes: "Microsoft is looking for any way it can to gain the upper hand," said Diane Greene, the president of VMware. ... "This seems to be a far more subtle, informed and polished form of competitive aggression than we've seen from Microsoft in the past," said Andrew I. Gavil, a law professor at Howard University. "And Microsoft has no obligation to facilitate a competitor."
Submission + - Are exclusive games GameStop's secret weapon?
An anonymous reader writes: It's one thing to try to muscle out the competition, but when you start to lock down the sales of certain games, consumers lose. This is how GameStop hopes to compete against the big box retailers.
Submission + - Are Linux fanboys dominating Dell IdeaStorm?
thefickler writes: Linux is what people want preinstalled their new notebook PC, according to feedback on Dell's new IdeasStorm site, where visitors are encouraged to make suggestions about future products. This raises the question: has the site has already been taken over by fanboys?
