Comment Obama promised a "proportional response"... (Score 1, Interesting) 360
...sounds like they got it!
Comment Ice... (Score 1) 83
"Currency of the Future". - Karl Hevacheck
Comment Already knew that... (Score 5, Interesting) 29
They describe this in the signage on the eel tank at the New England Aquarium. They even have a "shock" meter - and they tell you when it is getting ready to shock, you will see some spaced-out low-intensity pulses before "the big one".
Comment Random Number Generation (Score 1) 106
So from what I am guessing - they are referring to using the radioactive decay of the materials for true random number generation. This concept isn't new - the unpredictability of radioactive decay has been a know source of "truly random" numbers. The article infers that it could use this to generate a key that could be shared with an external authentication mechanism - but you could do this with any random number source. You'd think they would have mentioned something like "quantum entanglement between the weapon and the president" (which might have been interesting) - but no.
Comment Re:false flag? (Score 1) 98
Mod Up. Exactly what I thought upon reading the OP.
Comment Relay through Comcast (Score 1) 405
I had this problem too. I simply use Comcast's SMTP servers to relay my messages from my own SMTP server. You are required to configure SSL-secured transport only, and required to use your Comcast credentials when sending message to the relay. In-turn, when Comcast passes the messages, the services [you mentioned] accept them, but they still are shown as coming from my servers.
You don't have to "use Comcast's mail service" - they just want to use Comcast as a way of providing some accountability as to where the email is coming from - as a way of limiting spam.
Microsoft Losing the School Markets To iPads and Chromebooks 219
dkatana writes Microsoft's licensing scheme, the high cost of support and difficult management of devices are the key factors making schools drop Windows for better alternatives as iPads and Chromebooks. Google is making a dent in the education market with Chromebooks. The internet giant has been promoting the use of Chrome OS with specific tools for schools to manage the devices, their apps and users. Its Chromebooks for Education program is helping schools deploy large numbers of devices with an easy management system. While Google is successful with Chromebooks as school laptops the clear winner on tablets is Apple. iPads are a the preferred platform for schools deploying tablets as digital learning devices.
Comment Children (Score 1) 698
Won't somebody PLEASE think of the children!!
US School Installs 'Shooter Detection' System 698
An anonymous reader writes: A school in Methuen, Massachusetts has demonstrated the first installation of an automated detection system for active gunmen. Sensors placed throughout the building are activated by the sounds of gunfire. The sensors relay data on the shooter's real-time location directly to police, who can then track and subdue their target. The system was developed for the military to detect the location of enemy fire. It will cost school districts between $20,000 and $100,000 to equip each school with the gunfire-detecting sensors. Methuen's police chief said, "It's amazing, the short, split-second amount of time from identification of the shot to transmission of the message. It changes the whole game. Without that shot detection system, we wouldn't know what was going on in the school ... Valuable, valuable time can be lost. Unfortunately, with school crisis situations, it's about mitigating loss."
Comment Re: Devel/Debug (Score 1) 162
But then you'd need to reboot to load it, I'd assume.
Comment Devel/Debug (Score 1) 162
I shutter to think of how this would impact the development/debug cycle of an otherwise simple device driver.
Comment Re:Why do people still care about C++ for kernel d (Score 1) 365
>>C++ can't guarantee a binary API from one > to the next
Oh, you mean like Linux does with Device Drivers...
Comment Re:1.2 Ghz, and again - binary orthogonal to compr (Score 1) 122
Compressed is faster on the wire, but takes more CPU time to decompress. If I have a 100GbE network connection coming into a server - my network bandwidth might outpace my compute abilities.
Comment Re:decompression: 800 Mbps (Score 1) 122
That doesn't mean anything. Were you running on a 3GHz Ivy Bridge server, or a little PIC IoT device? How much CPU time did it take? How many did your application need/require? Did the net result of header decompression along with the easier parsing of the binary header take more or fewer CPU resources then the older uncompressed, ASCII header? etc..etc..etc..
Comment Facebook: "The Privacy Kings" (Score 3, Insightful) 99
I can't possibly envision ever making Facebook privy to ANY health issues whatsoever. They would gladly shill that information out for profit - undoubtibly why they're doing it. With something such as health issues which are so confidential, making Facebook privy to any of this would be absolutely terrible.
