Comment Re:Sad (Score 1) 311
If you don't need the social aspect, use http://www.xmarks.com/
Apple Quietly Drops iOS Jailbreak Detection API 164
bednarz writes "Without explanation, Apple has disabled a jailbreak detection API in iOS, less than six months after introducing it. Device management vendors say the reasons for the decision are a mystery, but insist they can use alternatives to discover if an iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad has been modified so it can load and alter applications outside of Apple's iTunes-based App Store."
Comment Re:That's one heck of a "long goodbye" (Score 1) 356
They are hot-plugable on any system if you want to risk killing your ps/2 controller. As the poster right above you pointed out Wikipedia PS/2. Having said that I hot-plug them all the time and have only killed a couple ports. Those that do die I grab a USB keyboard and voila they are back up and running.
Comment Re:Cryptography FAIL (Score 1) 118
That's not true, if I wait till after it's been copied off the camera that means I only know what was submitted is free of tampering from that time on. I have no clue what was done to it before you submitted it. This is why the encryption needs to be on the camera.
Comment Re:we have the same policy at work (Score 1) 446
Not only that but from the company's perspective what if they fire that employee. He now has all the info he needs to do exactly what your talking about. Doesn't matter if the company had no idea that he was forwarding the email obviously their security isn't secure enough.
Comment Re:we have the same policy at work (Score 5, Insightful) 446
That's a massive security breach, one I wouldn't allow on my network. You may want to check your corporate policies and make sure your still inline or you could be fired.
Comment Re:What's the deal with the rush of TSA stories re (Score 1) 1135
would you have told Rosa parks that she could have walked if she didn't want to sit in the back of the bus too?
Comment Re:something for nothing (Score 4, Insightful) 114
"it would take them too much time to change the code...that should have been coded properly to begin with."
Fixed that for you.
Comment Re:Someone help me out here (Score 1) 282
Hopefully not as that will destroy the whole point of the internet. If we are in NAT behind NAT we can no longer have a true peer to peer internet. It will become a publishers dream and the freedom folks nightmare. :( Regardless of what OS your running on I would imagine that the easiest way to continue the way we have been is for there to be home routers that work in IPV6 on the net but IPV4 in the LAN. Not being a network guru I'm not sure how easy that would be to make.
Comment Re:time for a union? (Score 1) 608
No, time for an IT organization that peer reviews work habits and puts the info publicly available so that employers know what they are getting. It would also help to have an organization like that to backup why the it managers need 3 employees instead of the 1 that upper management think they should get. They would have a body of standards behind them.
Comment Re:right to not incriminate yourself? (Score 1) 1155
What if my password was a confession?
Comment Re:On the desktop, perhaps (Score 1) 225
If that happened due to a simple power outage then the server wasn't built right. I have 10 servers running a variety of MS Server os's. 2K-2K8, We have really crappy power here and have outages that outlast our UPS's all the time. I have never had to rebuild anything when my servers power down, they all power gracefully off and then back on.
Amid Controversy, EA Pulls Taliban From Medal of Honor Multiplayer 495
Last month we discussed news that upcoming shooter Medal of Honor would allow players to take the role of Taliban forces in multiplayer games, causing no small amount of consternation among political groups and military supporters. Now, Electronic Arts and developer Danger Close have bowed to pressure and announced that the Taliban side would simply be referred to as "opposing force." Quoting executive producer Greg Goodrich:
"The majority of this feedback has been overwhelmingly positive. For this, the Medal of Honor team is deeply appreciative. However, we have also received feedback from friends and families of fallen soldiers who have expressed concern over the inclusion of the Taliban in the multiplayer portion of our game. This is a very important voice to the Medal of Honor team. This is a voice that has earned the right to be listened to. It is a voice that we care deeply about. ... While this change should not directly affect gamers, as it does not fundamentally alter the gameplay, we are making this change for the men and women serving in the military and for the families of those who have paid the ultimate sacrifice — this franchise will never willfully disrespect, intentionally or otherwise, your memory and service."
Comment Re:You are defined by your hatreds... (Score 0) 569
If only there was an "unfortunate but true" mod.
Submission + - How Well Will Linux Handle Future Multicores? (mit.edu)
eldavojohn writes: Multicore (think tens or hundreds of cores) will come at a price for current operating systems. A team at MIT found that as they approached 48 cores their operating system slowed down. After activating more and more cores in their simulation, a sort of memory leak occurred whereby data had to remain in memory as long as a core might need it in its calculations. But the good news is that in their paper (PDF), they showed that for at least several years Linux should be able to keep up with chip enhancements in the multicore realm. To handle multiple cores, Linux keeps a counter of which cores are working on the data. As a core starts to work on a piece of data, Linux increments the number. When the core is done, Linux decrements the number. As the core count approached 48, the amount of actual work decreased and Linux spent more time managing counters. But the team found that 'Slightly rewriting the Linux code so that each core kept a local count, which was only occasionally synchronized with those of the other cores, greatly improved the system's overall performance.' The researchers caution that as the number of cores skyrockets, operating systems will have to be completely redesigned to handle managing these cores and SMP. After reviewing the paper, one researcher is confident Linux will remain viable for five to eight years without need for a major redesign.
