Comment Dammit! (Score 1) 82
I this story went up as I hit submit on it.
Submission + - IBM announces "instantaneous memory (engadget.com)
NervousWreck writes: IBM announced a new kind of Phase Change Memory that stores four bits per cell. They also say it can write over a hundred times faster than flash
Comment Best Meta Ever!!! (Score 0) 166
'nuff said.
Comment Re:Interesting. (Score 1) 409
The saying is great advice. The problem is that people think it applies to improvements. In terms of cost vs. benefit there is no reason to go through the hassle of fixing/replacing something if what you fixed is will give you the same crappy benefits for the same obscene cost as before you started. Actually improving something whether in terms of efficiency or features is another story.
Submission + - Mobile Data in Canada for a US Citizen?
macwhizkid writes: I'm traveling to Canada for a week in July with youth group, and need a way to post blog updates on the trip and send back photos. I'll be staying on an island accessible only by boat, so a hard-wired connection is out of the question. I have a Verizon voice + data plan, and I've heard all the horror stories of multi-thousand dollar international data roaming charges. What I'd like to do is get 1-2 GB of data (5 GB would be great) to use on a Canadian provider's network for a reasonable fee (say, less than $100 total) as a wireless hotspot set-up. I have both a CDMA iPhone and a GSM iPad, so I really just need a micro-SIM or a way to register the IMIE. It appears that both Rogers and Bell offer "pay as you go" data plans (Rogers has a particularly attractive iPad option), but there are conflicting reports as to whether a US credit card can be used to buy service. I can't believe I'm the first US citizen to want mobile data in Canada. So, has anyone done this successfully? Is there another option I'm not considering?
Comment Re:Light in on the subject (Score 1) 86
Windows with southern exposure get light all day. Sometimes it gets a bit much, especially in hot areas in the summer. The windows are tinted anyway, why not get some use out of them?
Comment So the party of the free market... (Score 1) 31
... supports fiscal engineering through tax cuts.
Submission + - There Oughta Be a Standard: Laptop Power Supplies (hp.com)
Esther Schindler writes: "Every mobile device you own has its own power supply and its own proprietary plug. There oughta be a better way, says Alfred Poor. Fortunately, he reports, the IEEE is coming to the rescue. "Their Universal Power Adapter for Mobile Devices (UPAMD) Working Group is developing a new standard that will not just address the needs of laptops and tablets, but will be intended to work with just about any electronics device that required between 10 and 240 watts of power," Poor writes. It's about darned time."
Submission + - GitHub social coding app for Mac released (thinq.co.uk)
Stoobalou writes: GitHub has released a Mac application which gives easy access to its web-based hosting services for developers.
Submission + - AVG: big rise of stolen certs used to sign malware (computerweekly.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Security firm AVG released its Q2 threat report this week and raises the alarm about an alarming increase of the use of stolen certificates to sign malware. This bypasses many security mechanisms that have a blind trust in signed code.
"The report also highlights the rise of trusted malware, particularly in Q2, where cyber criminals are stealing legitimate security certificates to sign their malware, making it undetectable by many security systems.
As digitally signed code enables binary code to execute on a PC, cyber criminals are increasing their efforts to steal digital certificates, says AVG Threat Lab, which detected more than 53,800 pieces of signed malware in the first five months of 2011.
This represents a 38% increase over the figure for all of 2010 and a more than 300% increase on the monthly average."
"The report also highlights the rise of trusted malware, particularly in Q2, where cyber criminals are stealing legitimate security certificates to sign their malware, making it undetectable by many security systems.
As digitally signed code enables binary code to execute on a PC, cyber criminals are increasing their efforts to steal digital certificates, says AVG Threat Lab, which detected more than 53,800 pieces of signed malware in the first five months of 2011.
This represents a 38% increase over the figure for all of 2010 and a more than 300% increase on the monthly average."
Submission + - Intel Introduces AVX2 (intel.com)
David Greene writes: "A little over a week ago, Intel announced that its Haswell microprocessor will support a new SIMD extension dubbed AVX2. It brings 256-bit vector integer operations, gathers and some interesting permute and shift operations. Discuss."
Comment So they kill support for an old version... (Score 1) 445
before the new one is even fully ready for release. IOW, they deliberately break their own software. Can someone please explain what kind of sense this makes?
Submission + - little termite robot builds itself some stairs (ieee.org)
An anonymous reader writes: Kali is part of Harvard's Termes project, which is developing a swarm construction system where lots of little robots team up to build structures that would be impossible for any one single little robot to put together. It's called "Termes" after our noble and endlessly destructive pals the termites, who use teamwork to fabricate mounds of earth up to 30 feet high. Like termites, Termes robots are simple and autonomous, and are able to cooperatively move heaps of standard building blocks (specially designed to allow the robots to both lift and crawl around on them) to create just about anything, as long as you give them enough blocks and enough time.
Submission + - BAM! LulzSec Gets Hacked, Told Off by TeaMp0isoN_ (grindgadget.com)
DavidG2 writes: "Could this be the start of a hacker war? Popular hacking group LulzSec, responsible behind hacking the PSN, was taken down by a 17-year-old member of a hacking group named TeaMp0isoN_. While gaining attention through their acts of "hackery," the group annoyed some members of the hacking community, as a member of hacking group TeaMp0isoN_ hacked the site of a LulzSec member, posting the following message (after defacing the site):
"BREAKING NEWS: TEH LULZBOAT HAS OFFICALY SANK WITH 100S OF ANON MEMBERS ON BOARD!
No matter how many bots you gather, no matter how much people you lie to, no matter how much pre-made tools you use, you will _NEVER_ represent the real hacking scene, we warned you, we told you we do not make empty threats, we gave u 48hrs to secure your ircs yet u failed to do so, instead u posted hashes from public forums and then claimed you doxed us and laughed at the fact that i was 17years old. stop telling yourself that u are hackers, putting a ip into a irc is NOT hacking nor is using pre-made tools and scripts to grab databases you do not represent the anti-sec movement, u are not allowed to greet underground groups like zf0, ab, h0n0, el8 like your member “AnonSabu” was doing, you will never be apart of the underground scene, if anyone thinks you are underground and can actually hack they have no idea about what happens in the underground scene. oh and TeaMp0isoN Issue 2 is coming out VERY soon exposing lulzsec members (pictures, addresses, passwords, ips,phone numbers etc). . . . not so anonymous anymore are you? lets hope that you can swim because the lulzboat just got titanic’d""
"BREAKING NEWS: TEH LULZBOAT HAS OFFICALY SANK WITH 100S OF ANON MEMBERS ON BOARD!
No matter how many bots you gather, no matter how much people you lie to, no matter how much pre-made tools you use, you will _NEVER_ represent the real hacking scene, we warned you, we told you we do not make empty threats, we gave u 48hrs to secure your ircs yet u failed to do so, instead u posted hashes from public forums and then claimed you doxed us and laughed at the fact that i was 17years old. stop telling yourself that u are hackers, putting a ip into a irc is NOT hacking nor is using pre-made tools and scripts to grab databases you do not represent the anti-sec movement, u are not allowed to greet underground groups like zf0, ab, h0n0, el8 like your member “AnonSabu” was doing, you will never be apart of the underground scene, if anyone thinks you are underground and can actually hack they have no idea about what happens in the underground scene. oh and TeaMp0isoN Issue 2 is coming out VERY soon exposing lulzsec members (pictures, addresses, passwords, ips,phone numbers etc). . . . not so anonymous anymore are you? lets hope that you can swim because the lulzboat just got titanic’d""
Submission + - Is Apple's 'Spaceship' Campus Too Far Out? (discovery.com)
disco_tracy writes: Apple could be biting off more than it can chew with its ambitious new building.
