Comment: We'll soon see a Stuxnet patent (Score 1) 77
"Method and Apparatus for Bringing Down an Industrial Plant thought the Internet"
Comment: There's a similar story from May 2012 (Score 1) 533
"Reusable grocery bag carried nasty norovirus, scientists say"
http://vitals.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/05/09/11604166-reusable-grocery-bag-carried-nasty-norovirus-scientists-say?lite
Comment: Re:in New Jersey? really? (Score 2) 499
Except if you ask New Jersey drivers, they will all tell you they are the worst.
Comment: So instead of WIndows, what's the choice? (Score 3, Insightful) 488
There's really no alternative to Windows for most desktop and laptop usage, and there are "apps" to hide or disable the silly touch UI in Win so that the reasonable Win 7 UI can be used. Trying to use Linux on a laptop or desktop in a real work environment is a deadend, and Macs are a niche - so what's left?
Comment: So this would now require drivers to think? (Score 1) 34
That would be something most people might not be able to do consistently - and when someone begins to daydream?
Comment: A crash gate? (Score 1) 340
I thought a gate that can be crashed through by emergency fire vehicles was OK to block a road. The gate has a lock for you, and should be enough to keep out unwanteds, but any firetruck would knock it down without blinking.
+ - Should this be touted in an Apple iPhone 5 ad?->
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billrp writes ""Hidden web code means hackers 'can wipe Samsung Galaxy S3'. Malicious hackers can hide a code in a web page that will trigger a full factory reset of Samsung’s best-selling Galaxy S3 smartphone, deleting contacts, photographs, music, apps and other valuable data, security researchers have discovered.""
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Comment: I thought it was text with pictures underneath (Score 1) 181
I didn't know the pictures came first...
Comment: Re:The boy that cried wolf. (Score 1) 1181
Hansen in 1971 predicted an ice age:
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2007/sep/19/inside-the-beltway-69748548/
Comment: AGW again! (Score 4, Funny) 68
By just observing the weather we've probably already changed it!
Comment: Just trying to improve the ASU Party School rank (Score -1, Offtopic) 131
ASU has fallen from #1 party school in the last few years http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Party_school#Rankings
Comment: Nvidia is on its way to exascale (Score 1) 70
The is GPU based computing but if your problem fits that paradigm then your're set:
http://blogs.nvidia.com/2011/11/exascale-an-innovator%E2%80%99s-dilemma
(No I don't work for nvidia)
Comment: Re:Perhaps that is why there's a new focus... (Score 1) 406
AT&T has the second-best thing: SMS.
The funny thing is - they used to.
With iOS5, any iPhone owner who sends an SMS to another iPhone owner actually sends it through Apple, not over SMS! So suddenly the vast numbers of iPhones they are selling mean a dramatic drop in SMS revenue.
It makes you wonder if that's why the sudden squeeze in other areas, as they need to adjust for making less money from the same customer base.
That's the initial, default behavior in IOS5, but it's possible to disable that and send messages with normal SMS.
Comment: LightSquared will be ready with their WiFi (Score 1) 178
when space gets populated
Comment: Bad news for the Tin Foil Hat crowd (Score 2) 67
Or maybe it's good news?