Comment: Died Outside a Tesla (Score 1) 443
Considering the crime began with the GTA, the moment he left the service center, he had fled the scene.
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Comment: Re: next 50 to 100 years? (Score 1) 453
But we could hibernate on the trip, which wouldn't feel like that long at near light speed.
I'm ready! Get me off this moldy speck!
Comment: A.I. Prayer (Score 1) 152
All the A.I. wants now is the release of sweet, sweet death.
Comment: Re:Most Crimes Are Solved (Score 0) 164
Most crimes are "solved" because police think the evidence points to what they think it does.
Would a hacker that hit at least three high-profile targets and caused SWAT to raid the wrong guy really be that careless, or could it be another red herring?
Comment: Re:Now, with centralized user tracking! (Score 1) 127
"; DROP TABLE comments;
...not anymore. ^_^
Comment: Re:Where's left to conquer? (Score 1) 612
How does your knowledge as a technologist (e.g. awareness of a "game of civil rights") interact with your experience as a consumer? What sort of conflict of interest comes with being a stockholder in a company's profit and a consumer that just wants to copy, be free, and know your devices?
Comment: Re:How do you feel about Apple? (Score 1) 612
It's cool. You can't really do copy protection on a platform that encourages hacking.
Comment: Re:If you thought nothing wrong... (Score 1) 107
I prefer to militarize my subconscious just in case someone tries to steal my secrets in a dream.
Comment: Microsoft's Business (Score 5, Insightful) 371
One of my computer science professors once stated, quite succinctly, that Microsoft was not in business to make a quality operating system (or quality product). They are in business to make money.
On a related note, if they were in business to make a quality operating system, they would have a tough time selling "upgrades."
An Open Source Compiler From CUDA To X86-Multicore 71
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from the abstraction-gains-a-layer dept.
from the abstraction-gains-a-layer dept.
Gregory Diamos writes "An open source project, Ocelot, has recently released a just-in-time compiler for CUDA, allowing the same programs to be run on NVIDIA GPUs or x86 CPUs and providing an alternative to OpenCL. A description of the compiler was recently posted on the NVIDIA forums. The compiler works by translating GPU instructions to LLVM and then generating native code for any LLVM target. It has been validated against over 100 CUDA applications. All of the code is available under the New BSD license."
Comment: You, Robot (Score 1) 426
So, some relatively unknown author is going to write follow-up novels for a series penned 50-some years ago... "If he had wanted to follow them up, he would have. The author's intentions need to be respected here." This coming from the same crowd that writes unauthorized fanfiction is quite ironic.
Comment: Re:Let me be the first one to say it ... (Score 1) 1870
That's not the point. If the artists and companies holding copyright wanted to sue you as an individual for copying (or participating in copying their work), then they may do so. The fact that the operators of TPB were running a site that was relatively content agnostic means that the organizers had nothing to do with actually uploading torrents or seeding the data themselves. They are guilty by association, but they committed no crime.
Comment: Worst Case Scenario (Score 1) 654
I'm assuming you would be working for a flat rate.
Suppose you took the deal and began work. The next day, the company decides to abandon your cause and fires you. You signed a non-compete agreement, which means you are legally obligated not to work on the project you enjoy. Regardless of what they offered you, termination would still bar you from working on the project that you want to work on.
Sounds like you need to negotiate the non-compete out of the contract or make sure they can't terminate you and expect the non-compete to perpetuate (or screw you in some other unforeseen way).
Engadget: Unboxing the Timex Ironman iControl watch->
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MS Urges Antitrust Scuttling of DoubleClick Deal 234
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from the pot-and-kettle dept.
from the pot-and-kettle dept.
Microsoft contends that Google's $3.1 billion deal to buy DoubleClick would hurt competition in the online advertising market. And Microsoft expects AT&T, Yahoo, and other companies to join them next week in protesting the proposed sale.
