Comment: Re:I don't see how NASA's name got attached to thi (Score 1) 90
Hmm. That explains why it shows the Volga delta as massively flooded at +1m. In actuality the Caspian is -27m right now already, so of course +28m would be catastrophic.
Comment: Re:The devs were notified and ignored it (Score 4, Interesting) 202
Not precisely right: the devs were saying "good users know how to secure their installs" and then Homakov demonstrated just how untrue this was by breaking into what is probably the world's most important and professionally-run Ruby on Rails server, i.e., GitHub. That Rails itself is hosted on GitHub just makes it funnier.
Comment: The devs were notified and ignored it (Score 5, Interesting) 202
The best thing is this comment by a developer closing Homakov's original bug report, two days before Homakov hacked in:
fxn commented 3 days ago
There was a proposal about changing that flag in #4062 and the consensus is the pros of the default configuration outweigh the pros of the alternative.
Thanks!
Apparently GitHub's own admin isn't "pro" enough...
Comment: Re:Definition of irony (Score 4, Insightful) 180
The Kenyans - who are poor and value becoming less-poor over any fears (correct or not) over long-term environmental effects, and the Germans - who are rich and value said environment comparatively highly.
Comment: Re:Can they sell unused power back to the grid? (Score 1) 58
In this server farm we obey the second law of thermodynamics!
Comment: Re:Was it smart? (Score 4, Interesting) 126
More importantly, Saudi's official brand of Wahhabism dislikes anything that may be potentially idolatrous and proactively destroys historical monuments. Buildings found via excavation in Mecca have been bulldozed by royal edict.
Comment: Re:URL to page one? Or printer friendly? (Score 1) 185
This link - via a Google redirect - will take you directly to the NYTimes article, with full text.
The editor linked directly to the login page, which is dumb.
The editor linked directly to the login page, which is dumb.
Research Inches Toward Processor-Specific Malware 155
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samzenpus
from the acquiring-new-targets dept.
from the acquiring-new-targets dept.
chicksdaddy writes "The Windows/Office/IE monoculture is disappearing faster than equatorial glaciers — Mac OS X and iOS, Linux and Android ... and whole new application ecosystems to go with each. That's bad news for malware authors and other bad guys, who count on 9.5 out of 10 systems running Windows and Microsoft applications to do their magic. What's the solution? Why, hardware specific hacks, of course! After all, the list of companies making CPUs is far smaller than, say, the list of companies making iPhone applications. Malware targeting one or more of those processors would work regardless of what OS or applications were installed. There's just one problem: its not easy to figure out what kind of CPU a device is running. But researchers at France's Ecole Superiore d'Informatique, Electronique, Automatique (ESIEA) are working on that problem. Threatpost.com reports on a research paper that lays out a strategy for fingerprinting processors by observing subtle differences in the way they perform complex floating point calculations. The method allows them to distinguish broad subsets of processor types by manufacturer, and researchers plan to refine their methods and release a tool that can make specific processor fingerprinting a snap."
Comment: Re:Knew it was fake at "no Memory Stick" (Score 1) 124
The Sony Ericsson Android and WinMo phones already out do not use Memory Stick, and have not since 2008.
Here is a list of all the Sony Ericsson phones that use MicroSD instead of Memory Stick.
Here is a list of all the Sony Ericsson phones that use MicroSD instead of Memory Stick.
Comment: oblig. xkcd (Score 3, Funny) 109
Android Users Aren't As Disloyal As Reported 246
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kdawson
from the ask-the-right-question dept.
from the ask-the-right-question dept.
ergo98 writes "As we discussed recently, a CNN article had a statement that '77% of iPhone owners say they'll buy another iPhone, compared to 20% of Android customers who say they'll buy another Android phone.' This was a gross misrepresentation. The CNN story now has up this note: 'Correction: An earlier version of this story incorrectly said that 20% of Android customers say they'll buy another Android phone. The survey actually revealed that 20% of all smartphone customers say they'll buy an Android phone.' The Yankee Group has further sought to clarify the situation by saying that the 20% are people who explicitly said they would buy a 'Google-branded' phone (which excludes the overwhelming majority of popular Android phones) — as Google gets out of the business of selling branded phones. Summarizing their position on Android: 'Yankee Group still believes that Android will become the next breakout mobile phone platform, making it the third most popular platform behind iPhone and RIM's Blackberry in installed base for at least the next five years.'"
Comment: transistor density (Score 1) 27
Any impact on Moore's Law?
Comment: So (Score 4, Interesting) 438
What future disasters does someone in BP know about now?
Comment: Re:No surprise (Score 2) 334
The Conservative party used to back national ID cards; it moved onto the Labor platform when Labor won in 1997.
The simplest explanation is that the ruling party simply represented the interests of the Home Office, and the same now that the excessive cost has been amply demonstrated. Had the price tag not been so high, even a Lib Dem government wouldn't have dismantled it.
The simplest explanation is that the ruling party simply represented the interests of the Home Office, and the same now that the excessive cost has been amply demonstrated. Had the price tag not been so high, even a Lib Dem government wouldn't have dismantled it.
Seagate Launches Hybrid SSD Hard Drive 224
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CmdrTaco
from the sure-why-not dept.
from the sure-why-not dept.
MojoKid writes "Though there has been some noise in recent years about hybrid storage, it really hasn't made a significant impact on in the market. Seagate is taking another stab at the technology and launched the Momentus XT 2.5-inch hard drive that mates 4GB of flash storage with traditional spinning media in an attempt to bridge the gap between hard drives and SSDs. Seagate claims the Momentus XT can offer the same kind of enhanced user experience as an SSD, but with the capacity and cost of a traditional hard drive. That's a pretty tall order, but the numbers look promising, at least compared to current traditional notebook hard drives."