Comment: Books? (Score 1) 298
Books? Where we're going we don't need books.
I pretty much believe the printed books will disappear in the near future.
Comment: Re:Is Google trying to fragment web? (Score 1) 165
We had that shit before with ActiveX.
Native Client runs in a sandbox so it's nothing like ActiveX.
HTML5 does nothing in itself, it still needs some coding to be done in Javascript. While Javascript interpreters did get better and faster it's still far from native speed. And it's still only Javascript. If you have a game developped in C I still don't see how to convert it to Javascript. MAME is one example of a complex C program hard to translate to Javascript but could be ported easily (4 days) to the Native Client platform.
Chrome is available for most platform including Linux and is open source. So stop whining about it not being a standard. It's not IE we are talking about.
Earth's Core Made In Miniature 175
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ananyo writes "A 3-meter-tall metal sphere full of molten sodium is about to start work modeling the Earth's core. The gigantic dynamo, which has taken researchers ten years to build, 'will generate a self-sustaining electromagnetic field that can be poked, prodded and coaxed for clues about Earth's dynamo, which is generated by the movement of liquid iron in the outer core.'"
RIM forced to change name of new platform->
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Mastadex writes "RIM's brand new BlackBerry mobile OS, due in early 2012, was expected to be called "BBX." But due to a recently court ruling against it, RIM has dropped BBX and opted simply for "BlackBerry 10." Software company Basis International said a US federal court in Albuquerque has granted a temporary restraining order against RIM, barring it from using Basis' BBX trademark. The court decision bars RIM from using the trademark at its Asian DevCon conference on Wednesday and Thursday in Singapore."
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8 Out of 10 Applications Don't Meet Security Stan->
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Orome1 writes "Considered “low hanging fruit” because of their prevalence in software applications, XSS and SQL Injection are two of the most frequently exploited vulnerabilities, often providing a gateway to customer data and intellectual property. When applying the new analysis criteria, Veracode reports eight out of 10 applications fail to meet acceptable levels of security, marking a significant decline from past reports. Specifically for web applications, the report showed a high concentration of XSS and SQL Injection vulnerabilities, with XSS present in 68 percent of all web applications and SQL Injection present in 32 percent of all web applications."
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Microsoft offer Windows Store devs 80% revenue cut->
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An anonymous reader writes "With the launch of the Windows Store alongside Windows 8 next year, Microsoft is changing the revenue split rules slightly. The default will still be a 30% cut (as announced in September) , but developers can increase their 70% cut to 80% if their app turns out to be very popular. Once an app has earned $25,000, Microsoft will automatically reduce their cut from each subsequent sale to 20%.
Microsoft is also undercutting Apple in terms of the how much a developer subscription costs. Companies will have to pay $99 every year, but individual developers get a cheaper $49 option."
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Microsoft is also undercutting Apple in terms of the how much a developer subscription costs. Companies will have to pay $99 every year, but individual developers get a cheaper $49 option."
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40% of Gov Sites Vulnerable to SQL Injection->
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Trailrunner7 writes "New research from security firm Veracode found 40% of government Web sites were found to contain SQL injection vulnerabilities on their first scan, compared with 29% of Web sites for financial-sector firms and 30% of software vertical sites. Overall, the prevalence of SQL injection holes declined from the same period six months ago, Veracode found, though that wasn't the case with government sites.
The story was even more grim with cross site scripting vulnerabilities. Seventy five percent of the government Web sites Veracode tested had cross site scripting holes on their first try. Finance sites faired only slightly better: 67% contained at least one cross site scripting hole and 55% of software industry Web sites."
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The story was even more grim with cross site scripting vulnerabilities. Seventy five percent of the government Web sites Veracode tested had cross site scripting holes on their first try. Finance sites faired only slightly better: 67% contained at least one cross site scripting hole and 55% of software industry Web sites."
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Comment: Re:Alternate Outcome: Greenpeace Activist Shot... (Score 1) 561
Since a law passed in 2009, it's the responsability of special teams of the Gendarmerie called peloton spécialisé de protection de la gendarmerie, trained by National Gendarmerie Intervention Group to secure special site like nuclear plant.
The question is why did they not intervene? Officially they are saying it's because they recognized it was some GP activists and as such did nothing. Sounds like a huge BS to me. There is some history between the French government and Greenpeace which demonstrate the French could be more than happy to shoot, and the role of such special team would have to intervene in some way.
Anyway Kudos to GP.
Comment: Re:What if it turned out the other way? (Score 1) 561
There was supposed to have some gendarmes on site already since a law passed in 2009 (before the security was implemented by the French energy provider directly). Those units are supposed to be trained by the French Counter-Terrorists SWAT team (the GIGN).
Anyway they did nothing to stop Greenpeace. The French government said they recognized it was some activists and did nothing. Officially.
Comment: Do you really need CGI??? (Score 3, Informative) 422
For your information, the most realistic Sci-Fi movie ever made, 2001: A Space Odyssey, did not used any CGI nor green screen. Of course those technologies did not exist back in 1968 and it was 9 years before Star Wars which again did not use CGI nor green screen at the time of its release.
The first movie to include most of its action in a computer generated set was Tron in 1982, almost 30 years ago. In that time we went from miniature models and ingenuity in creating special effect to a software based point-and-click interface.
LoTR still used sets, some being really large. I can't imagine Rivendell or Edoras being 100% CGI. Some TV shows now use CGI almost everywhere like Sanctuary, to make them cheaper to produce and in that it makes senses. In the end I think CGI is used not because it gives the best result but because it's cheaper and easier to produce than miniature models. On the other hand, we have shows like Doctor Who who still is a show produced on a budget with minimum CGI films with proper and "real" props and set, proving it still can be done.
In the end knowing the battle cruiser in the beginning of Star Wars is a lot smaller than you typical Sedan car and still being blown away would maybe not happen if we knew it was only done by a computer file.