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Comment: And I thought it was just me! (Score 1) 274

by Montrey (#32869738) Attached to: The Verizon Wireless HTC Eris 'Silent Call Bug'
The Eris is the most disappointing piece of electronic equipment I have ever purchased, and that includes a Dreamcast. It is absurdly slow to respond to input, even in simply dialing a phone number. I have experienced the 'silent bug' many times since the update to 2.1, and since the phone requires 2-3 minutes to boot, I can understand the bug being devastating in an emergency. I would switch back to my ancient Samsung flip phone if I could only find its charger.

Comment: Re:Still need cheaper Wi-fi chipsets for this to w (Score 1) 96

by Montrey (#25093375) Attached to: Cisco Launches Alliance For the 'Internet of Things'
I would think that since almost every stationary object we would want to connect to the internet also needs electricity, broadband over power line would be best suited for it. A router and firewall in your breaker panel could handle access to the outside world. I wonder how small and cheap a BPL NIC could be? It would have to be small for things like a light switch, to fit in standard wall boxes. I don't see cost as a huge factor in the light switch example, Lutron already sells plenty of 30 dollar programmable dimming switches, and a typical commercial-grade switch that is used everywhere except homes is about 10 dollars. Only in residential applications do we see 50 cent switches and receptacles.
Supercomputing

The largest (distributed) supercomputer ...

Submitted by RockDoctor
RockDoctor writes "Peter Gutmann at Auckland, New Zealand has made some estimates about what is probably the world's largest (distributed) supercomputer. Details are somewhat shady, not because of the secrecy habits of the spooks, or a government's desire to surveil it's citizens. No, the people who've built this (distributed) supercomputer are shadowy because they're simply criminals. The continuing Storm Worm botnet now seems to contain between 1 and 10 million computers, and with a broad-brush estimate of the likely machines involved he comes up with a description of a system that dwarfs all the largest publicly-described supercomputers of the world. I have my suspicions that the estimated "average" computer specification considered is somewhat over-the-top (I'd have to weld together at least two of the machines in my flat to even approach this specification, and I'd have to weld together at least 4 of the best video card in the house), but with an 8-fold difference in processor count between StormWorm and BlueGene/L , there's a lot of room for Gutmann to be both correct and on the low side in his estimates.
With a system like this, is it credible that they (the criminals running this system) are planning for example, to try breaking SSL-encrypted communications in real time?"
Music

Creative's credit card size media player reviewed

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes "Here's a first look at the new Creative Zen media player. Not only is it slim and light, but it also plays AAC files, so you can export your iTunes library. With Xvid and Dixv support thrown in, this could be a serious competitor to Apple. http://www.trustedreviews.com/mp3/review/2007/09/0 2/Creative-Zen-Hands-On-Preview/p1"

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