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Comment: Re:The real news (Score 3, Informative) 352

by Gaspo on Tuesday June 14 2011, @01:54PM (#36439658) Attached to: EVE Online Targeted By LulzSec

Nothing to do with quality of PSN vs Xbox Live community. CCP has flat-out stated that they couldn't do it on Xbox because microsoft's networking policies wouldn't have allowed the game to work they way they needed it to to properly interact with EVE.

Microsoft says Skype 'will have more adverts'-> 0

Submitted by fangmcgee on Wednesday May 11 2011, @07:03PM

fangmcgee writes "Microsoft is planning on ramping up the amount of advertising free users of Skype see while they are making video calls and using the rest of the service."
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2010

First Self-Replicating Creature Spawned In Conway's Game of Life 241

Posted by Soulskill on Thursday June 17 2010, @11:27AM
from the emergent-gameplay dept.

Calopteryx writes "New Scientist has a story on a self-replicating entity which inhabits the mathematical universe known as the Game of Life. 'Dubbed Gemini, [Andrew Wade's] creature is made of two sets of identical structures, which sit at either end of the instruction tape. Each is a fraction of the size of the tape's length but, made up of two constructor arms and one "destructor," play a key role. Gemini's initial state contains three of these structures, plus a fourth that is incomplete. As the simulation progresses the incomplete structure begins to grow, while the structure at the start of the tape is demolished. The original Gemini continues to disassemble as the new one emerges, until after nearly 34 million generations, new life is born.'"

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AMD 690 Chipset Updated, Performance Boost-> 0

Submitted by

MojoKid

on Thursday August 02 2007, @02:28PM

MojoKid writes "Earlier this year, AMD launched its 690 series motherboard chipset and it was relatively well accepted for its affordability, power efficiency, and performance versus competitive chipsets. AMD has since taken the 690 series chipset and optimized it further through BIOS and software level enhancements that result in marked performance gains in a number of situations and also introduces new features. This article showcases a motherboard from Gigabyte that features the latest updates and compares its performance to the unaltered board from when the chipset was first introduced, to see just how much the platform's performance has matured. The majority of the performance enhancements were targeted toward better HD DVD and Blu-ray playback at 1080p."
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Moonfall: Lua + CSS-> 0

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 02 2007, @02:16PM

An anonymous reader writes "CSS Purist might hate this: Simple to use CSS with variables, combining LUA and CSS. A simple LUA domain specific language that generates CSS dynamically as a cgi script or statically for maximum performance."
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Unencrypted passwords at "secure" sites 1

Submitted by linear a on Thursday August 02 2007, @02:14PM

linear a writes "I've noticed that quite a few web sites do *not* encrypt user passwords. I've gotten into the habit of hitting the "email me my password" from them to see what happens. So far I've found maybe 6 that must store passwords in clear since they were able to return the original password back to me. Clearly this is Bad Security Practice. Also, I've had notably bad progress when I ask them to fix this practice. Some of these are sites one would clearly expect to have better security (e.g., a software vendor and an online bank). Do you have thoughts on how to better encourage better password practice at these places? Also, is this is really as common as it seems to be for me?"

KDE 4.0 Beta 1 Released 1

Submitted by

mernil

on Thursday August 02 2007, @02:10PM

mernil writes "The KDE Community is happy to announce the immediate availability of the first Beta release for KDE 4.0. This release marks the beginning of the integration process which will bring the powerful new technologies included in the now frozen KDE 4 libraries to the applications."

Plans for the Rich Web Application Backplane 2

Submitted by IndioMan on Thursday August 02 2007, @02:06PM

IndioMan writes "Both mashups and Ajax are now firmly entrenched in the Web landscape. Put them together and you have the makings for Rich Web applications. This article explains the Rich Web Application Backplane, currently a W3C Note, which is designed to bring standardization to the field, proving a set of common building blocks, or components, these applications tend to use."

Comment: Name Recognition (Score 5, Informative) 262

by Gaspo on Thursday July 26 2007, @09:18PM (#20005533) Attached to: Cisco to Kill Linksys Brand Name

Cisco definately does have name recognition amongst most consumers. I work retail at a location which sells a lot of networking equipment, and whenever people ask "What's this Linksys stuff?", I always respond that they're a division of Cisco. Most of the time, that gets a favorable response, and I see a good bit of Linksys hardware leave the shelf because of that fact. A good move by Cisco.

What is the Who's Who of Security Certification? 0

Submitted by lunarpaladin on Monday July 16 2007, @12:18AM

lunarpaladin writes "Okay, so I'm a junior admin (MCSA, Security+, CSA) that has finally come to find what he wants to specialize in. Security. I love reading about different security practices, methods, and technologies. My problem is that when it comes to actual certification, there is an overwhelming amount of certs, courses, books, and the like out there for this area of study. Where does one even begin? I'm totally lost. Is there a recommended or suggested certification/study path for one who wants to become a specialist in this area? What have you guys done to get to where you are now?"