Comment Re:one (Score 1) 782
as in one tool to rule them all?
Comment They have destroyed it. Star Trek is not action. (Score 1) 514
What's next? The next Star Wars movie becoming a comedy? Oh wait..
Comment The start menu is STILL not back (Score 1) 491
If you thought that something is new:
The Start button will just launch the Win8-start screen, a screen full of annoyance.
Comment So many have tried. And failed.. (Score 1) 91
People have tried for so many years now, and I think we are seeing a trend here now. It's almost impossible to create a flying car that hoovers stable with the technology available today, tomorrow and I predict the same for the next 30 years. And even if they get them stable, the cars will be so dangerous concerning in-air malfunction that they would require a complete double set of engines and fuel and at least two pilots.
You do the math.
So many have tried. So many companies has invested and lost their money. Still people seem to think that this will come and they think of how much they could earn in patents etc if they are able to materialize a stable solution.
Comment Re:Now we just need one that shows... (Score 1) 114
Agree! Unfortunately smell is gas that may be hard to track down as it floats depending upon a lot of factors like wind etc.
Comment Re:I spy with my Google eye... (Score 1) 420
How about government regulations on the use of Google Glass by civilians?
I agree on this one. It's okay to film with a camera on your head but not on a radio-controlled plane?
Comment Re:I don't get it. (Score 1) 307
well it's because it's very easy to see when a smartphone starts recording. google glass can record everything without ANYBODY noticing. If there is some kind of indicator-light for recording, I'm sure it's not much hazzle to disable by either destroying it or patch it.
Comment I don't like them (Score 2) 307
It's clearly surveillance without warning. In my country, you may only use surveillance cameras in areas clearly marked with CCTV-warnings. The same should count for Google Glass as well.
Submission + - XBMC 12.0 "Frodo" released, PVR-support, HD Audio and more (xbmc.org)
fluor2 writes: Team XBMC have released XBMC 12 “Frodo”. Features for XBMC 12 include: HD audio support (including DTS-MA and Dolby True-HD) via the new XBMC AudioEngine (OSX/iOS not yet available), Live TV and PVR support, h.264 10bit (aka Hi10P), 64bit support in OSX to match the 64bit support in Linux, Improved image support, Support for the Raspberry PI, Initial support for the Android platform, Improved AirPlay support across all platform, Improved controller support in Windows and Linux, Advanced Filtering in the library, Video library tags to complement movie sets, Advanced UPnP sharing and more!
Submission + - UPnP Security Flaws Put Millions of Devices at Risk (securityweek.com)
wiredmikey writes: Security researchers from Rapid7 have uncovered that roughly 40-50 million network-enabled devices are at risk due to vulnerabilities in the Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) protocol.
Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) is a set of networking protocols that allows communication between computers and network-enabled devices. It is enabled by default on millions of devices, from routers to printers to IP cameras and network storage servers. UPnP support is also enabled by default on Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X and many distributions of Linux.
In its research, Rapid7 declares (PDF) that the UPnP protocol "suffers from a number of basic security problems" ranging from a lack of authentication implemented by device manufacturers to privileged common programming flaws plague common UPnP software implementations. These issues, the report notes, are endemic across UPnP-enabled applications and network devices.
According to Rapid7's HD Moore, the two most commonly used UPnP software libraries both contained remotely exploitable vulnerabilities. "In the case of the Portable UPnP SDK, over 23 million IPs are vulnerable to remote code execution through a single UDP packet," Moore noted. "All told, we were able to identify over 6,900 product versions that were vulnerable through UPnP. This list encompasses over 1,500 vendors and only took into account devices that exposed the UPnP SOAP service to the internet, a serious vulnerability in of itself."
Moore suggested organizations take immediate action to identify and disable any Internet-exposed UPnP endpoints in their environments.
Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) is a set of networking protocols that allows communication between computers and network-enabled devices. It is enabled by default on millions of devices, from routers to printers to IP cameras and network storage servers. UPnP support is also enabled by default on Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X and many distributions of Linux.
In its research, Rapid7 declares (PDF) that the UPnP protocol "suffers from a number of basic security problems" ranging from a lack of authentication implemented by device manufacturers to privileged common programming flaws plague common UPnP software implementations. These issues, the report notes, are endemic across UPnP-enabled applications and network devices.
According to Rapid7's HD Moore, the two most commonly used UPnP software libraries both contained remotely exploitable vulnerabilities. "In the case of the Portable UPnP SDK, over 23 million IPs are vulnerable to remote code execution through a single UDP packet," Moore noted. "All told, we were able to identify over 6,900 product versions that were vulnerable through UPnP. This list encompasses over 1,500 vendors and only took into account devices that exposed the UPnP SOAP service to the internet, a serious vulnerability in of itself."
Moore suggested organizations take immediate action to identify and disable any Internet-exposed UPnP endpoints in their environments.
Comment All your sites (Score 1) 480
Are belong to us
Comment Re:Tall 'U' Shaped Structure? (Score 0) 257
I think it's great we are living in a world where you can ask questions. Because, without questions - we would just have answers. And a question without an answer is just a statement.
Comment Will the IP range be banned? (Score 1) 317
Not that I support it, but it shouldn't be much problems to stop delivering to the IP range from this ISP for french newspapers. It's really a short-lived story for the customers of this ISP.
Comment Kindle-like screens (Score 1) 285
We're still missing Kindle-like screens that can display text without beaming your eyes with light.
Comment The worst thing that could happen (Score 1) 59
Meraki is all about what I expected Networking to be in the future. Now Cisco buys it.
I fear Cisco saw the increasing amount of customers asking why they don't do like Meraki. Hell, their battle cards even did not list anything negative about Meraki except that Meraki only had about one hundre employees.
Well, now Cisco will probably freeze the features and start moving in their own technology as new features, where you have to buy large complex and expensive licenses for getting it all.
Meraki was really starting to taking off, and Cisco got rid of a future competitor for lousy billion.
