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Comment Re:Uhhhh, excuse me but... (Score 1) 305

by SilentGhost on Thursday December 31, 2009 @09:57AM (#30604682) Attached to: Russia Plans To Divert Asteroid

This would be the same people who just tried to engineer a winter without snow in Russia

no. it's not the same people. and the link you're providing has nothing whatsoever to do with your claim. No executing agency is mentioned, and Moscow ain't Russia.

Comment Re:Andy Oram also edited... (Score 1) 81

by SilentGhost on Monday July 06, 2009 @03:49PM (#28598627) Attached to: Beautiful Security

Neat idea that needs to be advertised! Not every one enjoys being tricked into support of charities. I, for one, think that Beautiful Code was very poorly edited/organised and written. The only real ideas about beautiful code were Matsumoto's. And they certainly don't warrant either spending money on a book, nor supporting AI.

Submission + - Gmail down worldwide

Submitted by

Firmafest

on Tuesday February 24, 2009 @07:02AM

Firmafest writes: "For the past hour, Gmail has been down as reported by number of users . Google has issued a small statement claiming that it only affects small subset of their users. I've become used to the stability of Gmail, but what happens when you urgently need a piece of your data and the service is down? Is this the price you pay for free, good email?"

Submission + - VIP Stalkers Likely Suffer Serious Mental Illness

Submitted by

Hugh Pickens

on Tuesday October 07, 2008 @12:45PM

Hugh Pickens writes: "A study of 8,000 people stalking members of the royal family from 1988 to 2003 shows that the majority of VIP stalkers suffer from serious psychotic illnesses. "We didn't expect such high rates of psychosis. It was very surprising to us," says Paul Mullen, a forensic psychiatrist at Monash University. Around 3000 of the files covered incidences that were judged to be pranks, or committed by people accidentally or while they were drunk but when Mullen's team examined a sample of the remaining 5000 people judged to be true stalkers about 80% had a serious psychotic illness, including schizophrenia, delusions and hallucinations,. The finding contrasts sharply with people who stalk non-famous people who tend to be rejected lovers, who while they may be depressed and socially inept, don't usually suffer psychosis. Researchers are currently investigating ways to identify which stalkers are likely to pose a threat. "[Stalkers] who are fixated on a cause, and have a highly personalized quest for 'justice', often delusional in nature, are the ones most likely to breach security, and to be carrying weapons," says David James, a forensic psychiatrist at the North London Forensic Service."

Submission + - Major blow for OLPC (bbc.co.uk)

Submitted by carvell on Friday January 04, 2008 @07:42AM

carvell writes: According to reports, it looks like Intel have pulled out of the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project, citing "philosophical" differences as the reason. Back in May 2007 the OLPC founder, Nicholas Negroponte said that Intel should be ashamed of themselves, as they had planned a "rival" "classmate" laptop, intended to drive out the OLPC competition. Could this latest development be related to the classmate at all? Although OLPC appear to be using AMD processors, surely the loss of a major company backing the project will have repercussions for the OLPC project as a whole.

Submission + - Intel drops OLPC support (bbc.co.uk)

Submitted by siddesu on Friday January 04, 2008 @06:39AM

siddesu writes: Intel has pulled out of the OLPC project, citing "philosophical differences". An Intel representative, Chuck Molly has commented that OLPC project has asked Intel to drop support for "rival" low-cost PC projects, including Classmate PC, and "to focus on the OLPC platform exclusively. At the end of the day, we decided we couldn't accommodate that request."

The OLPC has not yet commented on the story.

More available on the BBC site and here: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB119940537839566305.html

Submission + - Intel remove support from OLPC

Submitted by smithberry on Friday January 04, 2008 @05:55AM

smithberry writes: The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project has not to look far for its troubles lately, as stories on /. over the last few weeks prove. The BBC are now reporting that Intel are removing their support. The article is very brief, but it says

Citing "philosophical" differences, Intel has withdrawn its funding and technical help from the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project.
Arstechnica say it changes very little because OLPC are committed to AMD, but I wonder what the long term outlook for OLPC is now? Is this the end of the beginning, or the beginning of the end? Have they simply paved the way for some similar project to come along with newer and cheaper hardware and gain from the OLPC concept? So many questions, and only time will tell.

Submission + - Google is down

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 12, 2007 @02:07PM

An anonymous reader writes: I've never known Google to be down, but it is as I type this. http://www.google.com/

Submission + - Google Down? 3

Submitted by

matt

on Wednesday December 12, 2007 @02:04PM

matt writes: "Hey, I don't know what's going on, but it looks like all of Google went down about 10 minutes ago."

Submission + - Should 'unlimited' mean unlimited? 2

Submitted by Tom Colimbone on Monday November 05, 2007 @02:32PM

Tom Colimbone writes: Recently, Verizon Wireless agreed to settle a probe into the marketing of its Internet usage plans and reimburse $1 million to customers for wrongful account termination. The issue was centered around the use of the word 'unlimited' in its marketing campaigns for mobile Internet access. Interestingly, O2 in the UK just changed its iPhone tariff, as many potential buyers noticed that the 'unlimited' data package that came with the iPhone was actually capped at 200MB, which wasn't unlimited at all. Outside of wireless providers this might seem like a bizarre question to ask but should the word 'unlimited' truly mean unlimited and if so, should anyone misusing the word have to face similar repercussions to Verizon.

Submission + - Intel To Rebrand Processors In 2008 (techarp.com) 1

Submitted by DJ on Saturday September 29, 2007 @09:29AM

DJ writes: We just heard from an anonymous source that Intel will be rebranding their processors in 2008. From the Centrino mobile platform to the Itanium 2 server processors, Intel will revamp and consolidate their product lines under these new brands. These new brand names will come into effect on the first day of 2008. Intel hopes that these new brands will not only leverage the strong Core 2 brand but also make it less confusing for the consumer.

At the moment, the Intel Centrino mobile platform has five different logos with brands like Centrino, Centrino Duo and Centrino Pro. Starting from January 1, 2008, Intel will consolidate the Centrino Duo and Centrino brands under the Intel Centrino brand, and rename the Centrino Pro as Intel Centrino with vPro Technology.

Submission + - Font Freedom Day (trumpetpower.com)

Submitted by

TrumpetPower!

on Saturday September 29, 2007 @12:39AM

TrumpetPower! writes: "On September 29, 1988, the Library of Congress Copyright Office issued a notice of policy decision (4 Mbyte coralized PDF) in the Federal Register “to inform the public that the Copyright Office has decided that digitized representations of typeface designs are not registrable under the Copyright Act because they do not constitute original works of authorship.” In observance of Font Freedom day, go ahead and share some of your favorite fonts with your friends — and do so entirely guilt-free!"

Submission + - Finaly we get new elements in HTML 5

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 08, 2007 @10:28AM

An anonymous reader writes: Pure HTML enhancements grew hardly at all in the last eight years. It basicaly stopped in 1999 with HTML 4. Now the future looks bright. Recently, HTML has finaly came back to life. Eight years is a long time to wait for new features, especially in the fast-moving world of the Web. Take a look at how HTML 5 is restoring some of the excitement of the early days of the web with its new enhancements.

Submission + - Are you administrator of your workstation?

Submitted by muanis on Wednesday August 08, 2007 @10:15AM

muanis writes: Options

1 — Yes, Im the root of it
2 — Yes, but not officially
3 — No, and I hate not to be
4 — No, but Im confortable with it

Submission + - Trojan creation for dummies (heise-security.co.uk)

Submitted by

juct

on Friday July 20, 2007 @08:08AM

juct writes: "With the Pinch Builder toolkit creating Trojan horses with arbitrary characteristics takes just a few mouse clicks. It offers a choice of various programs whose passwords the Trojan can steal from infected systems, including ICQ, Trillian, Mozilla, Opera, various FTP programs. Incorporated tools can also obtain credentials from protected Windows environments such as users' Internet Explorer and Outlook passwords. It is also possible to specify additional spyware functionality, for example to read keyboard entries, create screenshots or to log files sent via Internet Explorer. And the "best" of all: this beast is sold on the internet..."

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