Comment Re:then what? (Score 1) 397
That'll be great for battery life! And privacy. Honestly I don't even know where to begin with you....
Comment Re: Short term thinking (Score 2) 58
It was all downhill at Linksys after the WRT54GL, IMO.
Comment Re:A banner (Score 2) 71
But.....but....the "Mission Accomplished" banner stopped the war....right?
Comment Re:Companion handset (Score 1) 322
BT Low Energy is part of BT 4.0- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluetooth_low_energy
Comment Re:jailbreak problems (Score 1) 112
Cydia is getting slammed and is having problems keeping up with demand. Be patient.
Comment Re:What OS / Window manager? (Score 1) 195
It's 'Accessibility' in newer versions of OS X, fyi
Comment Re:I programmed the HVAC system (Score 1) 161
Mod parent up
Comment Re:Inability of server to enforce policy (Score 1) 212
If I'm wrong, I'd love to be corrected and learn what I've been overlooking.
One of the best things I've heard in a while on
Comment Share those numbers? (Score 1) 190
If Reed Hastings knows these stats why don't we? Let's petition Netflix for an hour/month (or something) stat on your account. Expose it as an API call. Interesting value proposition to people, "look how many more hours you watch Netflix than Cable!". Also easy to automate finding those needing to be surgically removed from couches. (Ok, kidding about the last bit, but not anything else)
Submission + - Oak Ridge's Titan Supercomputer Claims Top Spot (top500.org)
bmo writes: MANNHEIM, Germany; BERKELEY, Calif.; and KNOXVILLE, Tenn.—Advanced reports that Oak Ridge National Laboratory was fielding the world’s fastest supercomputer were proven correct when the 40th edition of the twice-yearly TOP500 List of the world’s top supercomputers was released today (Nov. 12, 2012). Titan, a Cray XK7 system installed at Oak Ridge, achieved 17.59 Petaflop/s (quadrillions of calculations per second) on the Linpack benchmark. Titan has 560,640 processors, including 261,632 NVIDIA K20x accelerator cores.
Submission + - Mega Finds New Home, Dotcom Says (paritynews.com)
hypnosec writes: Kim Dotcom has revealed that Megaupload’s successor Mega, which is reportedly launching on January 20, 2012, will be operating through a new domain name Mega.co.nz. Through a tweet Dotcom announced that Mega has found a new home and that the new domain name is protected by the law and powered by legality. Dotcom also revealed that lobbyists won't be able to do anything about this as Judges are not influenced by politics in New Zealand. Recent announcements about Mega’s domain – Me.ga didn’t go as planned following a decision by Government of Gabon to suspend the domain name. Dotcom had announced at the time that despite the blockage, Mega will launch as planned and that they are in possession of an alternative domain name.
Submission + - Six Strikes Public Forum NYC Nov 15 (isoc-ny.org)
WWWhatsup writes: "The Copyright Alert System, the result of a deal between big content and big ISPs, is a graduated response program — popularly known as the six strikes — that escalates from nastygrams, to copyright school, to Internet throttling. Just like SOPA/PIPA, enforcement targets will be arbitralily selected by the content owners, but unlike SOPA/PIPA there will be no appeal via the courts — only to an arbitration firm hired by the program. There is no question that the plan will have a chilling effect on the Open WiFi movement and thus impede speech. In other countries such plans, arguably ineffective, have only been implemented after a lengthy public process — but in the USA, none.
With the plan due to kick in on November 28, on Thursday November 15 2012 the Internet Society will present 'INET New York: An Open Forum on The Copyright Alert System' at the New York Law School, with speakers representing the MPAA, RIAA, Verizon, and Time Warner, plus advocates of the public interest. The forum is open to the public, free, and will also be webcast live. This is the only opportunity for Internet users to speak up. If you are in NYC show up and let your voice be heard.
Register: http://www.internetsociety.org/events/inet-new-york/"
With the plan due to kick in on November 28, on Thursday November 15 2012 the Internet Society will present 'INET New York: An Open Forum on The Copyright Alert System' at the New York Law School, with speakers representing the MPAA, RIAA, Verizon, and Time Warner, plus advocates of the public interest. The forum is open to the public, free, and will also be webcast live. This is the only opportunity for Internet users to speak up. If you are in NYC show up and let your voice be heard.
Register: http://www.internetsociety.org/events/inet-new-york/"
Comment Re:DRM for weapons? (Score 1) 279
They do, but those codes are limited to the targets within them. A Sub Captain could launch at will against prescribed targets with the right codes (Moscow, Tehran, Pyongyang, etc....) but could not turn those same missiles onto targets such as D.C. It's just not how the system is set up.
Comment Re:DRM for weapons? (Score 4, Informative) 279
I believe you're thinking of a PAL, a Permissive Action Link. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permissive_Action_Link
Funny thing, it started out as the Prescribed Action Link, but the grunts didn't like that, so they were permitted instead
Can control yield and disable weapons, as well as authorize only specific targets in the case of an ICBM. So that new show 'Last Resort' where the rogue sub captain fires a nuclear warning shot into the Atlantic off the coast of DC. Yeah, that could never happen....
Comment Re:Analog version didn't work so well for Coke... (Score 1) 172
From your source "There was a rumor in the 1990s and 2000s (decade) that a child had died drinking the liquid in one of the MagiCans. This has since been proven false"
