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Navy Researchers Fire 1,000th Shot on Laboratory E->

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An anonymous reader writes "Scientists at the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) hit a materials research milestone in the Office of Naval Research’s (ONR) Electromagnetic Railgun program when they fired a laboratory-scale system for the 1,000th time Oct. 31. The EMRG is a long-range weapon that launches projectiles using electricity instead of chemical propellants. Under development by the Department of the Navy (DON) for use aboard ships, the system will provide Sailors with multi-mission capability, allowing them to conduct precise naval surface fire support, or land strikes; cruise missile and ballistic missile defense; and surface warfare to deter enemy vessels."
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AMD Breaks Processor Clock Speed Record Again-> 2

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MojoKid writes "The first time AMD's FX-8150 processor found itself in the Guinness Book of World Records, it took a team of AMD-sponsored overclockers (and a whole lot of liquid helium) working together to push the processor to 8429.38GHz. And this time? Andre Yang, working by himself, used the same model chip to break the record set in September and set a new one, which now stands at 8461.51GHz. Yang accomplished the feat with a healthy dose of liquid nitrogen and an eye popping 1.992V core voltage. He used a base clockspeed of 272.95MHz with a 31x multiplier."
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Comment: Re:COMMERCIAL ACCOUNTS (Score 1) 519

by MTO_B. (#37671500) Attached to: Google+ Loses 60% of Active Users
Lack of commercial accounts is a big reason for failure. An example, some of my sites have a huge work behind in creating a facebook group of followers. If a user has facebook, I can communicate with them. If they have G+, I cant do so as easily without risking having the account deleted. So I promote facebook to my users, not google+ (share buttons and I like it buttons). It's not just me, website owners don't want to lose track of their users, and Google+ right now is not helping at all.
The Almighty Buck

VISA Pulls Plug On ePassporte, Porn Webmasters 124

Posted by Soulskill
from the in-related-news-apparently-people-pay-for-porn dept.
tsu doh nimh writes "Credit card giant VISA International has suspended its business with ePassporte, an Internet payment system widely used to pay adult Webmasters and a raft of other affiliate programs. A number of adult Webmaster forums are up in arms over the move because many of their funds are now stranded. Visa has been silent on the issue so far, but KrebsOnSecurity.com points to an e-mail from ePassporte founder Christopher Mallick saying the unexpected move by Visa wouldn't strand customers indefinitely. Mallick co-directed Middle Men, a Paramount film released in August that tells the story of his experience building one of the world's first porn site payment processing firms, as well as the Russian mobsters, porn stars and FBI agents he ran into along the way. Interestingly, the speculation so far is that Visa cut ties with ePassporte due to new anti-money laundering restrictions in the Credit Card Act of 2009, which affects prepaid cards and other payment card instruments that can be reloaded with funds at places other than financial institutions."

Comment: Re:What??? (Score 1) 521

by MTO_B. (#31220368) Attached to: Why Flash Is Fundamentally Flawed On Touchscreen Devices
To me it's like: The iphone and other mobile devices shouldn't have browsers, since they would be fundamentally flawed: "sites are developed for bigger screens, with a larger resolution, it would be troublesome for users to see those sites in a mobile device, so it's better to not support browsers and html at all".

Comment: What??? (Score 5, Insightful) 521

by MTO_B. (#31219388) Attached to: Why Flash Is Fundamentally Flawed On Touchscreen Devices
Just because some flash sites are not developing flash taking into account touchscreen devices (it's a new thing!) does not mean it cant be done. The whole thing seems stupid to me. It really scares me to think this person makes money developing flash sites. It seems he is totally unable to adapt, change his methods or do things better than he does. Come on! Sure there are flash files that would create problems and would need to be further developed, but to say it's fundamentally flawed because of that is bullshit.

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