Giant Ape Skeleton - Slashdot User

Comment: Happy to Beta Test (Score 2) 66

by Giant Ape Skeleton on Tuesday September 06 2011, @10:54AM (#37316014) Attached to: Stanford AI Class 'Beta' For Commercial Launch?

I completed my enrollment the other day and am extremely psyched to have the opportunity to participate. Opted for the 'Basic' track as I don't have the time/energy for the whole enchilada. If they want to use my feedback to help develop a monetized version, that's fine with me; I get to learn cool stuff from smart people, and the provider of the service gets to improve their product.

Comment: Re:sources close to the investigation (Score 1) 135

by Giant Ape Skeleton on Monday May 16 2011, @08:07AM (#36138988) Attached to: Amazon Servers Used In Sony Playstation Hack

TFA is totally bullshit.

I think that the hackers used a few open L1 proxies on Amazon AWS.

In my list of open proxies, there are around 20 proxies on Amazon AWS, of the form ec2-??-??-??-???.us-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com:80 ec2-??-??-??-??.ap-southeast-1.compute.amazonaws.com:80 ec2-??-??-??-??.compute-1.amazonaws.com:80 ec2-??-??-??-??.eu-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com:80 where ??-??-??-?? is an IP address.

...so in order to find the perpetrators, we simply need to determine which seven of those proxies were used in the attack!

Comment: The Spine Defense (Score 5, Funny) 136

by Giant Ape Skeleton on Wednesday December 22 2010, @10:32AM (#34640798) Attached to: De Raadt Doubts Alleged Backdoors Made It Into OpenBSD

I think you must really have no spine if you except money from the FBI to backdoor crypto software.

"I needed the money to pay for my prosthetic spine!"

Comment: Interesting approach to security,,, (Score 4, Funny) 136

by Giant Ape Skeleton on Wednesday December 22 2010, @10:08AM (#34640572) Attached to: De Raadt Doubts Alleged Backdoors Made It Into OpenBSD

"I doubt it, therefore it's not true": Security through incredulity!

Wolfenstein Gets Ray Traced 184

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday September 14 2010, @03:42AM
from the ach-mein-framen dept.

An anonymous reader writes "After showcasing Quake Wars: Ray Traced a few years ago, Intel is now showing their latest graphics research project using Wolfenstein game content. The new and cool special effects are actually displayed on a laptop using a cloud-based gaming approach with servers that have an Intel Knights Ferry card (many-core) inside. Their blog post has a video and screenshots."

Comment: I'm a digital reader and I say... (Score 4, Funny) 143

by Giant Ape Skeleton on Saturday March 06 2010, @01:13PM (#31381544) Attached to: The Evolution of Reading In the Digital Age

tl;dr ;-)

Great Firewall of Belgium 0

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 23 2009, @08:50AM

An anonymous reader writes "Popular ISP's of Belgium (Telenet, Belgacom, Belnet, Mobistar, Base of Scarlet) where ordered by Belgian courts to block childporn sites. It was Minister of Enterprise and Simplification Vincent Van Quickenborne in early 2009 who called for a flexible system for blocking websites. He then negotiated with the ISPs and the Federal Computer Crime Unit (FCCU) of the federal police to a closing agreement under which websites can be blocked. Unfortunately one of the first sites to be blocked is stopkinderporno.eu (stopchildporn). When you do surf to the blocked sites you see a large stop sign and the text: "You are being redirected to this page because the website you are attempting to visit provides content considered illegal by the Belgian law." The article and the google translation, other article on same story and and its translation"

Lunar Oasis: Greenhouse on the Moon-> 0

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Curtis Ellzey

on Thursday April 23 2009, @08:36AM

Curtis Ellzey writes "The first Moon flower will become a reality when private lunar expedition partners Odyssey Moon and Paragon Space Development Corporation deliver a biological greenhouse to the lunar surface. Google Lunar X PRIZE contender Odyssey Moon partnered with Paragon, a Tucson-based firm and manufacturer of key components for NASA's Orion Crew Exploration Vehicle. The lunar plant will be another space biology first for Paragon, having bred the first animals through complete life cycles in space, and grown the first aquatic plant in space. Also watch this episode: Growing Plants on the Moon: http://engineeringtv.com/blogs/etv/archive/2009/04/23/growing-plants-on-the-moon.aspx"
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AMD unleashes speed demon processor-> 0

Submitted by Slatterz on Thursday April 23 2009, @03:12AM

Slatterz writes "AMD has launched its fastest ever processor, which has smashed records by being overclocked to 6.5GHz. The AMD Phenom II X4 955 chip has been designed with the gaming, workstation and high-end graphics markets in mind. AMD is claiming that this is its fastest ever quad-core processor and is releasing it unlocked so that overclocking is possible. The new processor gives significant performance increases over previous AMD chips in the same line — the 940 and 920 — as well as against competing Intel products. For example, benchmarks show greater performance for the X4 955, which is priced at $245, than Intel's new Core 920 i7, priced at $289, in photo filtering, slideshow rendering and gaming. Up till now, the only good thing people to be said about AMD's Phenom is that it's good value, so it'd good to see AMD playing again in the performance space."
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TED 6th sense technology-> 0

Submitted by boogerme0 on Thursday April 23 2009, @02:55AM

boogerme0 writes ""This video shows the new wearable technology that makes takes personnel computing to a whole new level. This is done by an Indian Student who is in MIT — Pranav Mistry." This is a cross between an iphone and a projector; a pretty cool device. http://www.vtualerts.com/inspirational-stories/must-watch-the-future-of-personal-computing-and-communication/ On a side note, when can I get one?"
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