IBM is far from not being player in the computing industry. Maybe not the OS segment, but they are doing just fine and they can always fall back on their typewriter patents.

IBM's closing value of $214 billion on September 29, 2011 surpassed Microsoft which was valued at $213.2 billion. It was the first time since 1996 that IBM exceeded its software rival based on closing price. On August 16, 2012, IBM announced it entered an agreement to buy Texas Memory Systems. [34] Later that month, IBM announced it has agreed to buy Kenexa. The acquisition is expected to close in the fourth quarter.[35] The deal is worth $1.3 billion dollars and was paid in cash by IBM.[36]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM#1980.E2.80.93present

If memory serves this was also linked in the related article above. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee663275.aspx
DirectX is just becoming part of the Windows 8 SDK. Then presumably the Windows 9, etc, SDKs as well. On until death.

ugh.. the WW1 ship was the FIFTH ship to bear the name.

Driving with a toddler or baby in the car is 10x more distracting than my cell phone map.

Will NVIDIA release a repsonse product or do they already have a "cloud" offering that is not announced?

anyone...

Open Source, Upstreamed, Accelerated OpenGL Linux Display Driver (vmwgfx) = Linux win for VMware.

Yeah, because the Euro is really working out perfectly.

Many conflicting articles have been released concerning when the flaw was disclosed to whom. IANAL, but I *think* this may have been the crux of the prosecution's case. If the flaw was disclosed to others before AT&T or perhaps the people whose emails were discovered = crime. If not = no crime.

I am not advocating this position as correct. Just trying to present an opinion.

One of the better articles on the subject of disclosure, still leaves many murky grey area problems for any professional security researcher.
http://www.wired.com/opinion/2012/11/hacking-choice-and-disclosure/

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John Broder would have still had a great article if he just plainly said what he did to kill the battery. I think it is totally within the bounds of a "test drive" to punish the vehicle's limits. Especially, the range since that is the biggest talking point with the electric car technology and the Tesla Supercharger network.

I would have driven like a road-racer on every leg. Carry my AAA card for free towing and make sure I understood how to ready the car for towing. Driving around a parking lot is so boring. A better story is how Bandit escaped Smokey in an Tesla S. Hid on a side road and waited for the Snowman to tow him back to the Supercharger station.

Providing all of the facts about the trip and how well or poorly it held up to Telsa's claims.

I hope journalists learn something, but I'm not holding my breath.
 

If you own the Windows or Mac version of a game and there is also a Linux version. Guesss what? That game is also available on Steam Linux for your enjoyment.

I forgot how awesome Half-Life is/was. I was pleasantly surprised about how well some of these older games hold up.
Half-Life, Team Fortress 2, Counter-Strike!

I was waiting for someone to state the obivous. RTFA before commenting about how "your" vehicle has 4 wheel disc brakes, a handbrake, a drag chute, and a pneumaticly fired grappling hook system to prevent runaways.

This guy is getting/has been paid for his effort to play with computerized light sequencing using the Bay Bridge to hold the lamps.

Don't lose the coolness factor just because the term "art hack" has raised your hackles. Sure the artist is not using assembly programming to make robot arm peel a banana faster. At least the hacker term is being used as a positive descriptor/moniker. I loathe to think of all the discussions 10-12 years ago when the /. discussion was that we would never educate the general public on cracker vs hacker.

As the the "art" of it. Here are the points to all art as created or transformed by me.
-The definition of art is in the eye of the beholder.
-Create something and call it art and yourself an artist. (doesn't make it "good", another subjective word)
-Appreciation of the "art' means it was successful (even if just the appreciation of the artist themselves)
-Money for Art is one of the most profound "life hacks" (see what I did there)

Ahhh...UO!

Magic Stealth Lumberjack Fletcher Archer here.

also

Super Stealth Sneak Pickpocket

And many many others.

I was on the other end of a story like that. In early BETA. I was simply walking around the edge of Britian when someone running from the wild into town was killed by a guard (bug). I spent the rest of that server cycle wearing the shiny full plate I looted from his body. Acting like I earned it. Well I did sorta.

Easy to do. RFID tag is implanted in the user if it travels beyond the designated distance BOOM. Dead user...eh....wait..

In version 2.0, the ...