MasJ - Slashdot User

Thank your Wank - Social Media gone too far ?-> 0

Submitted by MasJ on Thursday July 14 2011, @04:07AM

MasJ writes "That's right.

Looks like the days of social media privacy are gone. If you have a facebook account YOU are on Thank Your Wank, a new service that allows people to 'thank' you for .. well.. a wank.

The creators have included a feature where you can remove yourself from the website. However it remains to be seen how future employers are going to perceive a prospectives wank stats.

So what's next ?"
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Intel's Six-Core 'Gulftown' Numbers Leaked-> 0

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on Monday November 30 2009, @05:01AM

MasJ writes "PCLab's Polish Website prematurely published test and performance results of Intel's new 6-core 'Gulftown' CPU. Soon after, the article was taken down at Intel's request. Numbers reveal that the new CPU performs almost 50% faster than the previous Quad-Core chips in parallel processes and consumes nearly 50% less power. The 'Gulftown' chip will ship under the Core i9 name and will be Intel's first 6-core dual-socket CPU to hit the market. AppleInsider got a good look at the article before it was removed and says that the CPU will use a 32nm process and might ship as early as Q1 2010."
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Nuclear workers in India 'deliberately poisoned'-> 0

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on Monday November 30 2009, @04:32AM

MasJ writes "It does not bode well for India that in the early stages of ramping up it's civil nuclear program, there are already some leaks in the works.

Fifty-five employees from the nuclear plant in Kaiga, Karnataka, India were treated for radiation poisoning as someone had apparently spiked their drinking water with Tritium. This comes at a time when Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is in Washington D.C. holding talks with President Obama to strengthen the Indo-US Nuclear Program that shall enable the US to sell civil nuclear technology to India. Plant authorities say that the sabotage was deliberate and security is fool-proof."
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ATI Radeon 5870: Fastest Video Card Ever-> 0

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on Wednesday September 23 2009, @08:54AM

MasJ writes "The ATI Radeon 5870 has just been launched with 2.15 billion transistors based on a 40nm manufacturing process. Maximum PC says that AMD packs 2.15 billion transistors into a tiny chip, offering outstanding performance, DirectX 11 support, and triple-monitor (or better) capability. Nvidiaâ(TM)s response is nowhere to be seen. This new chip is no shrinking violet in the numbers department. Every number associated with the new Radeon 5800 series is staggering: 2.15 billion transistors, 2.7 trillion floating-point operations a second, more than 20 gigapixels per second throughput, 1,600 shader units. Other numbers impress because of their smallness. One example: The idle power is a scant 27Wâ" lower than many entry level GPUs.

Priced at $380 and touted as the lowest power consumption card in it's class, this monster will definitely change the rules of the playground a little bit. Graphics cards are becoming interesting and more importantly, affordable again."
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iPhone 3G 3.0 Carrier Unlock (Ultrasn0w) Released 0

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on Tuesday June 23 2009, @03:47AM

MasJ writes "The iphone dev team has finally released the much awaited ultrans0w 3G unlock for the iPhone 3G. This hack can unlock any 3G iPhone (to be used on any carrier) on the new 3.0 firmware. This time, it also follow a simplified install process wherein a simple jailbreak is required and then you can just install ultrasn0w from Cydia [The jailbroken app-store]. More information is available at the Dev Team Blog."

iPhone 3.0 Carrier Unlocked!-> 0

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on Tuesday June 16 2009, @02:07PM

MasJ writes "The dev-team-blog has been updated with information [including a picture!] on the upcoming yellowsn0w exploit for firmware 3.0. yellowsn0w makes it possible to software unlock iPhones so that they can be used with any telcom provider. Previously, with baseband 2.30 [Firmware 2.2.1], users were unable to use the exploit and thus were carrier locked. Apple's 3.0 firmware comes out tomorrow and will feature a large number of new features including MMS capabilities!

From the dev-team-blog:
On Tuesday evening (just before the big Apple release) we'll do a live demo of the yellowsn0w carrier unlock working on official 3.0 firmware. The actual link for the feed will be twittered by @MuscleNerd and also placed here when the feed starts. The demo should answer everything you need to know about the new yellowsn0w. But it's good news for iPhone 3G unlockers everywhere.

Finally looking forward to updating to firmware 3.0 and unlocking my iPhone again!"
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