Comment "Submarine cable"? (Score 1) 132
Interesting concept. Or maybe it's just a subsea cable.
Submission + - Avira Premium causes premium problems (avira.com)
Adesso writes: Seem Avira is having difficulty with a update of all there Premium customers. A update that has been downloaded over 70 million times is causing the 32-bit version in Windows to block almost all critical application. Avira has responded promptly on a interim solution for this problem.
In most cases this causes Windows to not boot properly.
In most cases this causes Windows to not boot properly.
Comment Re:Id releases Engine, tech demo... (Score 3, Insightful) 192
more like "iD releases tech demo in guise of a game, marketed and sold to consumers for 60 bucks"
In that context harsh critics are righly deserved
In that context harsh critics are righly deserved
Comment Oxymoron of the day (Score 1) 1014
"Evangelical scientist"
Comment Re:Paul Erdos (Score 1) 228
Yes. Slashdot - a place with noone but maths geeks with no other purpose in life than achieving the highest possible Erdos number. (who's this Kevin Bacon anyway...?)
Comment Strange conclusion looking at their own stats (Score 4, Interesting) 199
Looking at the table presented in the article, their conclusion seems a bit odd...
Fallout: New Vegas - Downloads: 962,793 Avg. rating: 83.7
TRON Evolution - Downloads: 496,349 Avg. rating: 59.5
Starcraft 2 - Downloads: 420,138 Avg. rating: 89.5
"Metacritic Scores explain 10% of the variance in the unique peers per game on BitTorrent,”. I guess the remaining 90% is just noise then...?
Fallout: New Vegas - Downloads: 962,793 Avg. rating: 83.7
TRON Evolution - Downloads: 496,349 Avg. rating: 59.5
Starcraft 2 - Downloads: 420,138 Avg. rating: 89.5
"Metacritic Scores explain 10% of the variance in the unique peers per game on BitTorrent,”. I guess the remaining 90% is just noise then...?
Comment Re:profit??!!?!? (Score 1) 545
the thing is that the company this guy used to work for is most likely the copyright holder in this case
Comment Re:Really? (Score 1) 568
Not if your external disk is USB 3.0. Firewire 800 = nearly 800 mbit/s, USB 3.0 peaks at 3.2 gbit/s (5gbit/s before removing protocol overhead).
An external USB 3.0 SSD drive smokes any previous external disk.
Submission + - DuckDuckGo Search Engine Erects Tor Hidden Service (3g2upl4pq6kufc4m.onion)
An anonymous reader writes: Viewable with Tor installed, Search
Engine DuckDuckGo has erected a hidden service for secure, encrypted searches through the Tor network. While past attempts at hidden service search engines failed due to uptime or quality issues, DuckDuckGo marks the first time a real company operating a public search engine has offered a solid search engine as a hidden service for Tor users. Tor users may find DuckDuckGo's hidden service here.
Engine DuckDuckGo has erected a hidden service for secure, encrypted searches through the Tor network. While past attempts at hidden service search engines failed due to uptime or quality issues, DuckDuckGo marks the first time a real company operating a public search engine has offered a solid search engine as a hidden service for Tor users. Tor users may find DuckDuckGo's hidden service here.
Comment Tree fiddy you say,,,? (Score 0, Offtopic) 217
And that's when I understood it was the Loch Ness monster! I ain't givin' no god damn Loch Ness monster tree fiddy!
Comment Easy to circumvent (Score 1) 76
1. Obtain full body x-ray scan of Fall Guy
2. Create a custom skeleton suit based on x-rays
3. Pass through security wearing skeleton suit
4. ???
5. Profit!
2. Create a custom skeleton suit based on x-rays
3. Pass through security wearing skeleton suit
4. ???
5. Profit!
Comment Re:Obviously... (Score 1) 380
slightly painful if you have to revoke it...
Comment Re:While I admire their goals... (Score 2, Interesting) 295
RTFA - this is decentralized, there is no centralized hub which registers/keeps track of millions of users, hence no siren call to heed
Comment Next up is design (Score 1) 293
I could probably come up with 50 book recommendations for you, but to keep things simple:
- Get a better feeling for OO design. I'd suggest "Head First Design Patterns"
- As many others have suggested, grab a copy of "Effective Java, 2nd ed". Read a few items now and then, it'll improve your understanding of the language tremendously.
As you read these books, come up with a hobby project where you actually implement something.
Comment Re:Duplicate story (Score 1, Funny) 64
you must be new here... it should be more like:
DUP3!
1. Post dupe on Slashdot
2. ????
3. Profit!
In soviet russia you dupe slasdot!
DUP3!
1. Post dupe on Slashdot
2. ????
3. Profit!
In soviet russia you dupe slasdot!
