BlakLanner - Slashdot User

Comment: Cost Cutting? (Score 4, Insightful) 244

by BlakLanner on Monday August 15 2011, @09:33AM (#37093604) Attached to: Sandy Bridge-E CPUs Too Hot For Intel?

It is possible that this is a cost cutting measure. I think that a lot of people who buy standalone CPUs use third party cooling solutions. It would save Intel a lot of money in materials and packaging if they don't ship the heatsinks and fans that people just throw away anyways.

Comment: No GBA slot, no sale. (Score 2) 290

by BlakLanner on Thursday October 02 2008, @11:00AM (#25233151) Attached to: New Nintendo DSi Announced

I see no reason to pick this one up if they remove the GBA slot. One of the more popular features of the Nintendo handhelds is the backwards compatibility. The ability to only have to carry one device to play all my games was a nice feature. Also, there are several DS games that can have extra features unlocked or data transferred from GBA carts. Obviously, this kills that bonus as well. As much as I would really like to have the better wireless features, I will just have to make do.

TSA can't figure out security certificates

Submitted by

markgo2k

on Wednesday February 14 2007, @12:57PM

markgo2k writes "The Washington Post reports that TSA has taken a new website live that people who are wrongly on the famous "no-fly" list can protest their status. Unbelievably, the website uses a self-signed certificate (and some have reported that you can submit forms insecurely as well). Perhaps contractor (Desyne Web Services, Inc. www.desyne.com) nor whoever was managing them ever actually tested the site or figured that flashing red certificate error warnings were something that might not be okay on a site that asks for name, address, height, weight, date of birth, hair color, eye color, passport number, birth certificate, drivers license number, military id number..."

Journal: Carbon Nanotube-Based NVRAM In 2-3 Years? 66

Journal by Stile 65 on Wednesday February 14 2007, @12:50PM

According to NanoWerk, UC Riverside researchers have come up with a memory device based on telescoping multi-walled carbon nanotubes. According to one of the researchers, "This finding leads to a promising potential to build ultrafast high-density nonvolatile memory, up to 100 gigahertz or into the terahertz range" and

Microsoft Patches 20 Security Vulnerabilities

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 14 2007, @12:45PM

An anonymous reader writes "From CIO Insight: Microsoft delivered its monthly batch of security updates on Feb. 13, delivering fixes for 20 individual problems in its products included in a dozen bulletins, six of which were dubbed as critical, the firm's most severe vulnerability rating."

Adhoc Emulation on the PSP has Arrived

Submitted by Croakyvoice on Wednesday February 14 2007, @12:40PM

Croakyvoice writes "Nj the japanese coder of CPS2,CPS1, NeoGeo MVS and Neogeo CD Emulators has released new versions of all those emulators and now they all support multiple player adhoc wireless gaming, retro fun on your homebrew enabled PSP console."