Comment Re:Freedom dies (Score 1) 110

by Lebrun on Monday April 26, 2021 @02:48PM (#61316462) Attached to: As Outbreak Rages, India Orders Critical Social Media Posts to Be Taken Down

I think the proper name is Ministry of Truth.

Comment Anti-hipster device (Score 1) 117

by Lebrun on Thursday April 23, 2015 @07:36PM (#49541693) Attached to: iOS WiFi Bug Allows Remote Reboot of All Devices In Area

So, basically an anti-hipster device? I want one.

Comment GPL Enforcement (Score 1) 272

by Lebrun on Thursday January 10, 2013 @12:07PM (#42546665) Attached to: World's First Linux Powered Rifle Announced

Just took a whole new meaning.

Comment Tested it on my phone, didn't work (Score 3, Interesting) 151

by Lebrun on Tuesday September 25, 2012 @01:00PM (#41451441) Attached to: Samsung Smartphones Vulnerable To Remote Wipe Hack

Galaxy S2 w/ ICS 4.0.3 here. It doesn't work on my phone.

Comment xkcd has a good answer (Score 2) 376

by Lebrun on Tuesday October 18, 2011 @11:47PM (#37758362) Attached to: Space Is (Not) the Place, Says Professor

https://www.xkcd.com/893/ - "The Universe is probably littered with the one-planet graves of cultures which made the sensible economic decision that there's no good reason to go into space -- each discovered, studied, and remembered by the ones who made the irrational decision."

Comment Halo Worlds (Score 1) 181

by Lebrun on Thursday May 19, 2011 @10:05AM (#36178472) Attached to: 'Homeless' Planets May Be Common In Our Galaxy

This reminds me of the Halo Worlds depicted in Charles Stross's Permanence. In the novel, those systems, usually orbiting a brown dwarf, accounted for the missing mass in the universe, so it turned out there was no 'dark matter'. The halo worlds were also the way for humanity to first venture into interstellar travel.

Threat of Cyberwar Is Over-Hyped 123

Posted by Soulskill on Monday January 17, 2011 @03:56PM from the let's-stick-to-normal-levels-of-hype dept.

nk497 writes "A new OECD report suggests the cyberwar threat is over-hyped. A pair of British researchers have said states are only likely to use cyberattacks against other states when already involved in military action against them, and that sub-state actors such as terrorists and individual hackers can't really do much damage. Dr. Ian Brown said, 'We think that describing things like online fraud and hacktivism as cyberwar is very misleading.'"

Embedded Linux 1-Second Cold Boot To QT 141

Posted by timothy on Thursday January 13, 2011 @07:31PM from the why-does-my-phone-need-2-minutes? dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The blog post shows an embedded device cold booting Linux to a QT application all in just one second. This post also includes a link which describes what modifications were made to achieve this."

MySpace Lays Off 47% of Employees 206

Posted by timothy on Tuesday January 11, 2011 @08:52PM from the well-of-their-own-employees dept.

tgtanman writes "CNN reports that MySpace has announced that it has laid off 500 employees, 47% of its total staff. From the article: 'MySpace's management kept most of the site's developers but gutted nearly every other job role, according to a staffer who survived the cuts ... "Today's tough but necessary changes were taken in order to provide the company with a clear path for sustained growth and profitability," CEO Mike Jones said in a written statement. "These changes were purely driven by issues related to our legacy business, and in no way reflect the performance of the new product."'"

Google To Drop Support For H.264 In Chrome 765

Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday January 11, 2011 @07:58PM from the shot-in-the-air dept.

Steve writes "Google just made a bold move in the HTML5 video tag battle: even though H.264 is widely used and WebM is not, the search giant has announced it will drop support for the former in Chrome. The company has not done so yet, but it has promised it will in the next couple of months. Google wants to give content publishers and developers using the HTML5 video tag an opportunity to make any necessary changes to their websites."

Evolution of the Batmobile 102

Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday January 11, 2011 @05:43PM from the mostly-four-wheels dept.

I noticed this sweet graphic tracking the evolution of the Batmobile that I just spent a fairly ridiculously long time staring at. I've read my share of Batman, but there are tons of designs that I'd never seen.

Android Passes iPhone In US Market Share 550

Posted by Soulskill on Saturday January 08, 2011 @11:59PM from the droids-eating-blackberries dept.

Adrian writes "61.5 million people in the US owned smartphones during the three months ending in November 2010, up 10 percent from the preceding three-month period. For the first time, more Americans are using phones running Google's Android operating system than Apple's iPhone, but RIM's BlackBerry is still in first place, according to comScore. RIM fell from 37.6 percent to 33.5 percent market share of smartphones, Google captured second place among smartphone platforms by moving from 19.6 percent to 26.0 percent of US smartphone subscribers, and Apple slipped to third despite its growth from 24.2 percent to 25.0 percent of the market. Microsoft, in fourth place, fell into single digits from 10.8 percent to 9.0 percent while Palm was still last and further slipped from 4.6 percent to 3.9 percent." This is not unexpected, since Android sales have been outpacing iPhone sales for some time, but it happened significantly earlier than Gartner's prediction: Q4 2012.

Atari Loses Copyright Suit Against RapidShare 198

Posted by Soulskill on Friday January 07, 2011 @07:28AM from the game-over-play-again? dept.

dotarray writes "Online copyright lawsuits aren't all about music. Video game publisher Atari Europe recently became concerned that copies of its game Alone in the Dark were floating around one-click file-hosting service RapidShare, so it took the hosting company to court. While they won the initial case, the decision was overturned on appeal, finding that RapidShare is doing nothing wrong."

Linux 2.6.37 Released 135

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday January 05, 2011 @04:59PM from the new-and-improved dept.

diegocg writes "Version 2.6.37 of the Linux kernel has been released. This version includes SMP scalability improvements for Ext4 and XFS, the removal of the Big Kernel Lock, support for per-cgroup IO throttling, a networking block device based on top of the Ceph clustered filesystem, several Btrfs improvements, more efficient static probes, perf support to probe modules, LZO compression in the hibernation image, PPP over IPv4 support, several networking microoptimizations and many other small changes, improvements and new drivers for devices like the Brocade BNA 10GB ethernet, Topcliff PCH gigabit, Atheros CARL9170, Atheros AR6003 and RealTek RTL8712U. The fanotify API has also been enabled. See the full changelog for more details."

PS3 Jailbreak Now Legal In Spain 113

Posted by Soulskill on Thursday December 16, 2010 @10:42AM from the setting-a-precedent dept.

deek writes "Spanish gamer site NicaGamerz.com have reported that it's now legal to sell the PS3 Jailbreak modchip in Spain (Google translation of Spanish original). According to the article, one reason for the legal ruling is because Sony removed the ability to run GNU/Linux on the console. One can only wonder if Sony will soon rush out a firmware update that will re-enable the OtherOS feature, and appeal the court decision. Oh the irony of that thought. The legal ruling was made on the 13th December (Google translation). There are only 5 days to appeal, starting from that date."