Comment Re:Relax (Score 1) 245
I believe that it's StarForce.
Comment Re:Reminds me (Score 1) 179
First, you seem to have forgotten that the processor is called the Phenom II X3 720. That right there should tell you that it's a triple core. Secondly, how do you know the Athlon XP is the K7 core? Or the Pentium 4 is the Netburst core? Your average joe doesn't buy a processor. They buy a cheap Dell with a Celeron in it. They turn it on and it works. They don't care what happens, as long as it works. The people that buy processors usually look into them.
Comment Re:MS (Score 1) 402
Windows 3.1 came out in 1992, so I don't think that that's possible. Also, Windows 3.1 was not an "operating system", just an operating shell running over DOS.
Comment Re:Operating system (Score 1) 555
How about a Windows license so that apps and games that don't work in Wine still work?
It isn't quite $100, and I'm not sure about the restrictions this time, but: Windows 7 Home Premium is $104.
Comment Re:Sounds Good To Me (Score 1, Insightful) 404
Animal abuse and a sex offender are in entirely different leagues. I can see if people want to know if their neighbor touched children in the past, but this? What next? A public "traffic violation registry"? What happens after that?
Comment Sorry.. (Score 1) 3
Sorry, this is the copyright police. We're afraid that the copyright on this content will not expire until 2103. Because of that, we're going to have to have that video removed from YouTube. Sorry about that.
Submission + - Free Software Foundation urge Google to free VP8 (fsf.org)
jamesswift writes: The FSF have written an open letter to Google urging them to free the VP8 codec with an irrevocable royalty-free licence.
"With its purchase of the On2 video compression technology company having been completed on Wednesday February 16, 2010, Google now has the opportunity to make free video formats the standard, freeing the web from both Flash and the proprietary H.264 codec."
"With its purchase of the On2 video compression technology company having been completed on Wednesday February 16, 2010, Google now has the opportunity to make free video formats the standard, freeing the web from both Flash and the proprietary H.264 codec."
Submission + - What Happened to SkyOS?
An anonymous reader writes: As one of the (unlucky) users who bought into the SkyOS beta a few years ago, I have to ask: What happened to SkyOS? I've asked several questions and sent several emails to the developer, to get no response back. The latest I heard about SkyOS is that it is now running under the Linux kernel. Are there any other Slashdotters that bought into the "beta" and are asking the same questions?
Submission + - Did we lose the privacy war? 3
eihab writes: I have been fanatic about my online privacy for the last few years. I've been using no-script and blocking Google Analytics, disabling third-party cookies, encrypting IM and doing everything in my power to keep data-miners at bay.
Recently, I've been feeling like I'm just doing too much and losing! No matter what I do I know that there's a weak link somewhere, be it my ISP, flash cookies, etc.
I've recently got AT&T U-Verse who, according to their privacy statement, will be monitoring my TV watching habits for advertisement purposes. I'm extremely annoyed by that, but yet I love the service so much and I don't think I can cancel it.
I just can't take this anymore. I have nothing to hide, but I do not want to be profiled and become member #5534289 in a database somewhere with everything I do recorded. I know I'm not that interesting to anyone, but just the idea of someone being able to pull up everything about me with a simple SQL SELECT statement and a couple of JOINS makes me cringe.
One of the reasons I hate data mining is that data security is not understood and almost non-existent at a lot of places. Case in point, I changed my life insurance two years ago, and the medical firm that conducted my health screening was broken into and computers with non-encrypted hard drives and patients data were stolen. I received a complimentary 1 year identity theft protection and an apology letter stating that they are "not sure" if my data was stolen, but, "here's a complementary 1 year protection... enjoy".
That medical firm didn't really need my SSN, but then again neither did AT&T when I signed up for U-Verse. However, it's becoming more and more difficult to conduct business without giving up your SSN or other sensitive data.
Am I just too paranoid? Is privacy dead? Should I just give up and accept the fact that privacy is not the norm anymore (like Facebook's founder recently said) or should I keep fighting the good fight for my privacy?
Recently, I've been feeling like I'm just doing too much and losing! No matter what I do I know that there's a weak link somewhere, be it my ISP, flash cookies, etc.
I've recently got AT&T U-Verse who, according to their privacy statement, will be monitoring my TV watching habits for advertisement purposes. I'm extremely annoyed by that, but yet I love the service so much and I don't think I can cancel it.
I just can't take this anymore. I have nothing to hide, but I do not want to be profiled and become member #5534289 in a database somewhere with everything I do recorded. I know I'm not that interesting to anyone, but just the idea of someone being able to pull up everything about me with a simple SQL SELECT statement and a couple of JOINS makes me cringe.
One of the reasons I hate data mining is that data security is not understood and almost non-existent at a lot of places. Case in point, I changed my life insurance two years ago, and the medical firm that conducted my health screening was broken into and computers with non-encrypted hard drives and patients data were stolen. I received a complimentary 1 year identity theft protection and an apology letter stating that they are "not sure" if my data was stolen, but, "here's a complementary 1 year protection... enjoy".
That medical firm didn't really need my SSN, but then again neither did AT&T when I signed up for U-Verse. However, it's becoming more and more difficult to conduct business without giving up your SSN or other sensitive data.
Am I just too paranoid? Is privacy dead? Should I just give up and accept the fact that privacy is not the norm anymore (like Facebook's founder recently said) or should I keep fighting the good fight for my privacy?
Comment Re:Really? (Score 1) 430
The only driver I couldn't find for my x64 system was a crappy KWorld TV tuner. Funny thing that it died only 3 months after buying it. Every other device I have on my computer has working drivers for it. I prefer the XP interface, but I like to use all the RAM I payed for (5.5GB), and XP x64 lets me have it both ways.
Comment iScrew this! (Score 2, Funny) 322
iSwear, iF iHear another God-damn iPhrase iM going to kill everyone of those iFreaks. It's NOT a podcast, it's a SOUND CLIP you DOWNLOADED onto your MP3 PLAYER. People have jumped onto the iBandWagon the same way Businesses started calling all their services 'Solutions'... So yeah, definitely not a member of the iGeneration, oh how I hate that letter.
Comment Re:Let them do something about the memory leaks (Score 1) 415
I have 8 GB of memory and never reboot, nor close apps. The latest Firefox versions are much more efficient in their memory usage, or at least constant (2 GB fro me, but I have a lot of extensions and in-memory caching). When I run a profile without many extensions (only adblock some small stuff) it is much faster though. So, not many memory leaks, but it's still too slow and bulky.
Comment Re:What the hell... (Score 3, Insightful) 235
Shouldn't your i7 show 8 threads in the task manager as hyper-threading is on (by default, I would think, but I do not own an i7 system)?
Comment Re:Sure -- theoretically (Score 3, Insightful) 235
I wouldn't quite say that. Lower CPU utilization equates to less electricity utilized, which equates to a lower power bill. I would much rather have a processor use only 15% of my CPU's resources in order for me to be able to view a movie instead of having to use 85% of the CPU's resources in order to view a movie.
Comment What the hell... (Score 4, Insightful) 235
What the hell is up with their model numbers? Quick, is that i5 you have a dual core or a quad core!? At least Intel's older Core 2 processors differentiated with "Duo" or "Quad", and AMD's simply uses "X2","X3" or "X4".
