Comment Do as I say... (Score 1) 81
... not as I do.
Comment Re:Why are phones special? (Score 1) 262
Phones aren't special.
Cars ECU are also hacked on a regular basis.
Unitronic does it for VAG. Cobb tuning uses the OBD port to allow modification to the fuel maps.
Cars ECU are also hacked on a regular basis.
Unitronic does it for VAG. Cobb tuning uses the OBD port to allow modification to the fuel maps.
Submission + - Jon Stewart Slaps the Internet in the Face (foxnews.com)
Velcroman1 writes: Don't make Fark angry, Jon Stewart. You wouldn't like Fark when it's angry. But unfortunately, it may already be too late. Fark.com founder Drew Curtis is incensed that Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert haven't given the online community due credit for the success of the Rally to Restore Sanity. The rally, co-hosted by the Comedy Central comedians, drew a crowd CBS News estimated at 215,000 this past Saturday on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. — a crowd inspired and fueled by community activism on Fark.com and online bookmarking site Reddit. Yet when Reddit founder Alexis Ohanian asked Stewart what role the Internet played in convincing him to hold the rally, the response was clear: "it didn't hurt." Curtis says the snub was hard to understand. "It's not that credit is deserved, it just doesn't make any sense that it's not there," he said.
Comment Re:Lies. (Score 1) 353
No it doesn't auto-update.
Not on a mac. The adobe download offers an uninstaller, but does not offer an auto-updater.
Not on a mac. The adobe download offers an uninstaller, but does not offer an auto-updater.
Comment Re:The MacBook Air is a poor example to choose her (Score 1) 681
No the flash modules are not soldered to the logic board.
See this
The flash module uses a mini pci-e connector like the wireless module right above it. While it might require an Apple module at the moment, it is serviceable.
See this
The flash module uses a mini pci-e connector like the wireless module right above it. While it might require an Apple module at the moment, it is serviceable.
Submission + - Firefox 4's JavaScript Now Faster Than Chrome (conceivablytech.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Firefox 4's JavaScript engine is now faster than V8 (used in Chrome) and Nitro (used in Safari) in the SunSpider benchmark on x86. On Mozilla's test system Nitro completes the benchmark in 369.7 milliseconds, V8 in 356.5 milliseconds, and Firefox 4's TraceMonkey and JaegerMonkey combination in 350.3 milliseconds. Conceivably Tech has a brief rundown of some benchmark figures from their test system obtained with the latest JS preview build of Firefox 4: 'Our AMD Phenom X6-based Dell XPS 7100 PC completed the Sunspider test with the latest Firefox JS (4.0 b8-pre) build in 478.6 ms this morning, while Chrome 8.0.560.0 clocked in at 589.8 ms.' On x86-64 Nitro still has the lead over V8 and TraceMonkey+JaegerMonkey in the SunSpider benchmark.
Submission + - Oracle asks OpenOffice community members to leave (openoffice.org)
Elektroschock writes: In an unprecedented move with respect to other forks Oracle asks the founders of the Document Foundation and LibreOffice to leave the OpenOffice.org Community Council. Apparently there is a conflict of interest which concerns the Oracle employees.
Comment Re:Sure. (Score 1) 520
The same thing that is happening now.
Adobe products on the mac aren't all that great anymore.
Submission + - Facebook takes liberties with your iPhone contacts (techeye.net)
bossanovalithium writes: People using the iPhone Facebook app could unknowingly be sharing their number, their friend's numbers and their friend's friend's numbers thanks to a syncing feature.
Facebook's "Contact Sync" feature synchronises your friends' Facebook profile pictures with the contacts in your phone, but instead of keeping them safely on your handset it imports all the names and phone numbers you have on your phone, uploads them to Facebook's Phonebook app and lets you and your mates view everyone's details. It's taking data from your handset.
Facebook's "Contact Sync" feature synchronises your friends' Facebook profile pictures with the contacts in your phone, but instead of keeping them safely on your handset it imports all the names and phone numbers you have on your phone, uploads them to Facebook's Phonebook app and lets you and your mates view everyone's details. It's taking data from your handset.
Comment Re:On the desktop, perhaps (Score 1) 225
Using Subsystems for Unix Applications gets you a nice csh and ksh combo with vi, grep and an outdated gcc.
It feels weird to edit files in /dev/fs/c/windows/ but it's doable.
You can compile the necessary stuff to do grep ERROR logfile | mail -s "to_address" in a few minutes.
SUA
(Why yes, I hate myself a little for this comment)
It feels weird to edit files in
You can compile the necessary stuff to do grep ERROR logfile | mail -s "to_address" in a few minutes.
SUA
(Why yes, I hate myself a little for this comment)
Comment Re:Well that's stupid. (Score 1) 495
They could always add the CSOR as a CT team in counterstrike.
Comment Re:Numbers need a reference scale (Score 1) 510
Pirates usually aren't technically minded individuals. It may be hard to break the copy protection. But once it is figured out, it's really too easy to duplicate.
In this case, I'm really curious to see how they get their numbers. I mean from TFA and the company's website why would the app need network access? Aren't Android app updates managed by the Android store?
Submission + - Copyright License Fees drive Pandora out of Canada (theglobeandmail.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Online streaming music services such as Pandora are abandoning plans to launch in Canada, claiming licensing fees are too high: “These rates ... are astronomical,” Tim Westergren, founder of California-based Pandora wrote in an email to The Canadian Press.
The agency that collects music royalties in Canada on behalf of record companies and performing artists wants to charge web-based music sites that stream to mobile devices the greater of two figures: 45 per cent of the site's gross revenues in Canada or 7.5-tenths of a cent for every song streamed.
Meanwhile, record labels are blaming the lack of online music services in Canada on piracy: “Why would you spend a lot of money trying to build a service in Canada when Canadians take so much without paying for it?” said Graham Henderson, president of the Canadian Recording Industry Association, which represents major record labels.
The agency that collects music royalties in Canada on behalf of record companies and performing artists wants to charge web-based music sites that stream to mobile devices the greater of two figures: 45 per cent of the site's gross revenues in Canada or 7.5-tenths of a cent for every song streamed.
Meanwhile, record labels are blaming the lack of online music services in Canada on piracy: “Why would you spend a lot of money trying to build a service in Canada when Canadians take so much without paying for it?” said Graham Henderson, president of the Canadian Recording Industry Association, which represents major record labels.
Submission + - Competitor threatens suit - counter DMCA takedown?
An anonymous reader writes: Zen Magnets, a maker of neodymium magnets, has been under assault by the much larger and better distributed Buckyballs, a maker of a nearly identical toy. After Zen Magnets listed a couple of eBay auctions with a set of Buckyballs and a set of their own, asking customers to decide which was higher quality, Buckyballs replied with a legal threat. Zen Magnets responded with an open video response, in which they presented the voicemail from Buckyballs and demonstrated their claims of quality through repeatable, factual tests, providing quantitative data to back up their assertions.
Soon after, Buckyballs CEO Jake Bronstein got the video taken down from Youtube via a DMCA takedown, despite the fact that the only elements not made by Zen Magnets are the voicemail he left and some images of himself, which are low resolution and publicly available online.
Zen Magnets is now asking for help as they don't know what to do. It's appalling and I can't imagine that it is infringing, but I am not a lawyer. What would you do in this scenario?
(I am affiliated with neither company, although Thinkgeek sells Buckyballs...Slashdot & ThinkGeek share a corporate overlord.)
Soon after, Buckyballs CEO Jake Bronstein got the video taken down from Youtube via a DMCA takedown, despite the fact that the only elements not made by Zen Magnets are the voicemail he left and some images of himself, which are low resolution and publicly available online.
Zen Magnets is now asking for help as they don't know what to do. It's appalling and I can't imagine that it is infringing, but I am not a lawyer. What would you do in this scenario?
(I am affiliated with neither company, although Thinkgeek sells Buckyballs...Slashdot & ThinkGeek share a corporate overlord.)
Comment Re:What's wrong with XBMC? (Score 1) 516
On my Asus AT3IONT-I, the optical out and VDPAU work out of the box.
