Comment Re:Bye bye Mac Books... (Score 1) 453
Foolish clod.
Comment Re:Why? (Score 1) 453
Yeah it takes a whopping 7 to 11 minutes at college. That's like...forever and stuff
Submission + - NASA Sees Southern Lights From Space (ibtimes.com)
gabbo529 writes: "Talk about a hell of a view. NASA satellites on the current Atlantis space shuttle mission were able to capture the geomagnetic phenomenon known as Aurora Australis while it was in progress. The phenomenon, which is called Aurora Borealis in the North, is a natural light display caused by the collision of energetic charged particles with atoms in the high altitude atmosphere."
Submission + - Brute-Force Password Cracking with FPGAs
BlueToast writes: "It was only about a month ago that there had been an article about how great GPUs can be at brute-force password cracking, and only recently about JPMorgan's FPGA supercomputer churning out a 9-hour job in only about 5 minutes. So now my curiosity is just how powerful could a datacenter-sized supercomputer of FPGAs be when it comes to brute-force password cracking?"
Submission + - Ask Slashdot: You Break RSA. What next?
An anonymous reader writes: A near 20-year hobby of mine has been searching for an algorithm to efficiently factor large numbers into their constituent primes. While I'm no closer to a solution, I sometimes fantasize about what I would do with one if I somehow succeeded--Lease it to the government? Release it into the public domain? Become paranoid and never leave my house? What would you do?
Comment Re:UPVOTE PARENT (Score 1) 457
Who is going to pay for it? Any takers? Volunteers? Hmmm? *voice of Stewie*
Comment Re:Highly-trained my ass (Score 1) 457
The TSA is the new Gestapo
Comment Re:No amount of security will prevent terrorism (Score 5, Insightful) 457
Incorrect. True security *has* stopped another 9/11.
That 'security' includes exactly 2 things:
Reinforced and 'locked' cockpit doors.
Flight #93 passenger response.
Those 2 things will prevent another 9/11 from happening. The TSA is preventing bombs 'on' planes which is *not* what 9/11 was. It was using planes as flying missles. Very. Different. Threats.
Reinforced and 'locked' cockpit doors are things that should have naturally been implemented into design by common sense. That would be passive security that works on its own without further human intervention after fabrication and production.
Submission + - Yes, We Can Stop The AT&T/T-Mobile Merger! (fcc.gov)
BlueToast writes: "Proceeding 11-65 on FCC's website is in regards to the potential merge between AT&T and T-Mobile. This merge would be a bad thing as it would result in less competition for consumers to choose from, providing the dominating players of the mobile telecom industry the capability of raising prices for the same plans. The greatest thing any one person can do right now is to submit a comment in petition for this merger (11-65) to not go through."
Submission + - SSD Killing Virus?
BlueToast writes: "Recently I had realized the very potential of a virus that is geared toward effectively shortening, if not killing, SSDs. One could write a virus to at first monitor system activity, and based on this data strike into action when the user of the system is supposedly not watching their system. The motive? Perhaps sheer evil, notoriety, perhaps they were paid by someone, or perhaps a combination. Imagine mass ruckus ensuing from a widespread hardware failure because of viruses that do specifically just this. Even if the virus writer and propagators would not be making money, someone else would. What do you think? Are these thoughts unrealistic or something to be very concerned about?"
Submission + - Hosting Giants Teaming Against Small Businesses (simplecdn.com)
BlueToast writes: "Hosting giants SoftLayer, ThePlanet, Hosting Services Inc., and UK2 Group are teaming up to wipe out small competitors like SimpleCDN. Though ThePlanet isn't directly involved in the slicing of SimpleCDN's throat, ThePlanet runs the sales chat scripts for SoftLayer (check your NoScript). As a loyal customer of SimpleCDN, I really do not appreciate the disruption of service to a company I have been with for over a year on fabulous cloud services. As a supporter of small and medium businesses, I will not bow and give my money to the top dogs of the hosting realm. I doubt I will get far in my frustration against these huge companies, but the least I can do is try in attempt of voicing my frustration across the internet."
Comment SimpleCDN (Score 1) 1
As a loyal customer of SimpleCDN, I really do not appreciate the disruption of service to a company I have been with for over a year on fabulous cloud services. As a supporter of small and medium businesses, I will not bow and give my money to the top dogs of the hosting realm. I doubt I will get far in my frustration against these huge companies, but the least I can do is try in attempt of voicing my frustration across the internet.
Submission + - SimpleCDN Hosting Fails Due to ISP Dispute (simplecdn.com) 1
An anonymous reader writes: We host some of our content with SimpleCDN. Yesterday we noticed some of the content not loading and we logged into SimpleCDN to find out why. The following letter was posted:
Dear SimpleCDN Customer,
I am writing this letter to update you on a situation that has been developing for the past 72 hours between SimpleCDN and our technology and infrastructure providers, SoftLayer and Hosting Services, Inc.
Two days ago these organizations decided to immediately terminate our contract and suspend service on much of our infrastructure in Dallas, Seattle and Washington, D.C. This infrastructure constitutes the majority of our delivery network for our value services, including on-demand and live streaming services.
Absolutely no valid reason or warning was or has been given for this termination, and our best guess currently is that these organizations could not provide the services that we contracted and paid for, so instead they decided that terminating services would be the best solution for them.
We have already started to take legal action against these organizations, however thus far we have not gotten either party to reconsider their position. As it stands now, certain SimpleCDN services will begin to fail within the next few days as additional services are terminated.
We believe the actions of Hosting Services, Inc. and SoftLayer constitute a deliberate attempt to cripple SimpleCDN’s current service offering.
SoftLayer and Hosting Services / UK2 Group also resell "CDN" services at a much higher price point, and it is clear these actions constitute a conspiracy to remove us, and many other corporations affected by their reckless actions, from the marketplace.
I invite you to contact these organizations directly to voice your frustration and opinions on this matter, while we’ll continue to ensure access is available to key services for backing up your data currently contained on the CDN for as long as possible.
I understand how difficult this is for you, and for the past two days we have been scrambling to make alternative arrangements, but not enough time has been given to secure additional delivery resources.
Our support team will be available 24/7 at support.simplecdn.com to answer any of your questions, and assist you with alternative services in any way possible.
You may contact me directly at: frank.wilson@simplecdn.com or via our corporate number at 800-269-3033 ext 704.
Sincerely,
Frank Wilson
Chief Engineer, SimpleCDN
Dear SimpleCDN Customer,
I am writing this letter to update you on a situation that has been developing for the past 72 hours between SimpleCDN and our technology and infrastructure providers, SoftLayer and Hosting Services, Inc.
Two days ago these organizations decided to immediately terminate our contract and suspend service on much of our infrastructure in Dallas, Seattle and Washington, D.C. This infrastructure constitutes the majority of our delivery network for our value services, including on-demand and live streaming services.
Absolutely no valid reason or warning was or has been given for this termination, and our best guess currently is that these organizations could not provide the services that we contracted and paid for, so instead they decided that terminating services would be the best solution for them.
We have already started to take legal action against these organizations, however thus far we have not gotten either party to reconsider their position. As it stands now, certain SimpleCDN services will begin to fail within the next few days as additional services are terminated.
We believe the actions of Hosting Services, Inc. and SoftLayer constitute a deliberate attempt to cripple SimpleCDN’s current service offering.
SoftLayer and Hosting Services / UK2 Group also resell "CDN" services at a much higher price point, and it is clear these actions constitute a conspiracy to remove us, and many other corporations affected by their reckless actions, from the marketplace.
I invite you to contact these organizations directly to voice your frustration and opinions on this matter, while we’ll continue to ensure access is available to key services for backing up your data currently contained on the CDN for as long as possible.
I understand how difficult this is for you, and for the past two days we have been scrambling to make alternative arrangements, but not enough time has been given to secure additional delivery resources.
Our support team will be available 24/7 at support.simplecdn.com to answer any of your questions, and assist you with alternative services in any way possible.
You may contact me directly at: frank.wilson@simplecdn.com or via our corporate number at 800-269-3033 ext 704.
Sincerely,
Frank Wilson
Chief Engineer, SimpleCDN
Comment Re:Weird to begin with (Score 2, Insightful) 393
When I shop for a video card, I don't care if it is ATI or NVIDIA as long as the choice I am making is cost effective. I would much rather spend my money on the card that is cheaper for the same performance -- which happens to be ATI in this case. Originally I was going to pair an 8800GT with an ATI card for Windows 7, but this news blows. NVIDIA should straighten up and get over their emotional attention whoring. They won't get my money now unless they grow up.
Comment Unread Messages (Score 1) 594
Why doesn't Google just check to see if the read status of that sensitive e-mail letter is still "Unread" in that GMail account? And if it is, check to see if POP3/SMTP/IMAP is disabled. If it is enabled, then check to see if this message was downloaded by that GMail account owner.
Wait, if the GMail account owner already downloaded the message through POP3/SMTP/IMAP, then why bother shutting down that person's GMail account? That's like the most childish thing I could imagine.
Point being, if the e-mail was never downloaded or opened by the owner of that GMail account, then Google ought to outright delete that sensitive letter from that account and duke it out with the bank. (Google is invincible after all, right?)
