Comment Re:Gaming? (Score 1) 110
In other words, they're bring back OCZ.
Comment Re:What's a CAGR? (Score 1) 110
Compound Annual Growth Rate
Comment Re:SSD to rule the world. (Score 1) 110
Our local city government is doing the same thing with its entire fleet - police, fire, electricity, water/sewer, and trash. It's not that many units, perhaps 100 computers (we're a small city), but they're still saving $250K by "refreshing" instead of replacing.
Nothing makes a slow computer feel faster than an SSD upgrade.
Comment Re:Plague, Inc. (Score 1) 183
No, you're not
I've been addicted to that game for a long time. My favorite strategy is to do whatever it takes to keep the disease from producing symptoms, even at a great upfront cost. The key is to let it spread as far as possible before it mutates symptoms.
Fun fun fun!
Comment What good timing (Score 1) 183
The WHO's timing is impeccable. 5:15 on the dot.
Cornering the Market On Zero-Day Exploits 118
Nicola Hahn (1482985) writes Kim Zetter of Wired Magazine has recently covered Dan Greer's keynote speech at Black Hat USA. In his lengthy address Greer, representing the CIA's venture funding arm, suggested that one way that the United States government could improve cyber security would be to use its unparalleled budget to buy up all the underground's zero-day vulnerabilities.
While this would no doubt make zero-day vendors like VUPEN and middlemen like the Grugq very wealthy, is this strategy really a good idea? Can the public really trust the NSA to do the right thing with all those zero-day exploits? Furthermore, recall the financial meltdown of 2008 where the public paid the bill for Wall Street's greed. If the government pays for information on all these unpatched bugs would society simply be socializing the cost of hi-tech's sloppy engineering? Whose interests does this "corner-the-market" approach actually serve?
While this would no doubt make zero-day vendors like VUPEN and middlemen like the Grugq very wealthy, is this strategy really a good idea? Can the public really trust the NSA to do the right thing with all those zero-day exploits? Furthermore, recall the financial meltdown of 2008 where the public paid the bill for Wall Street's greed. If the government pays for information on all these unpatched bugs would society simply be socializing the cost of hi-tech's sloppy engineering? Whose interests does this "corner-the-market" approach actually serve?
Comment AT&T HTC Vivid (Score 2) 127
This is not really related to T-Mobile, but I do know that the battery life on my wife's HTC Vivid **DOUBLED** when I installed CM11 on it.
It used to last 7-8 hours and now she can comfortably go all day and not have to carry a power pack around with her everywhere she goes.
Comment Re:Money, Mouth (Score 1) 502
No, but they have likely taken up short positions and are now trying to drive the price down.
Ancient Skulls Show Civilization Rose As Testosterone Fell 387
An anonymous reader writes Even though modern humans started appearing around 200,000 years ago, it was only about 50,000 years ago that artistry and tool making became popular. New research shows that society bloomed when testosterone levels in humans started dropping. A paper published in the journal Current Anthropology, suggests that a testosterone deficit facilitated the friendliness and cooperation between humans, which lead to modern society. "Whatever the cause, reduced testosterone levels enabled increasingly social people to better learn from and cooperate with each other, allowing the acceleration of cultural and technological innovation that is the hallmark of modern human success," says University of Utah biology graduate student Robert Cieri.
Google+ Photos To Be Separated From Google+ 114
An anonymous reader writes "Speculation on the eventual shuttering of Google+ has once more risen with news that Google+ Photos will soon be developed and run separately from the social media site. This news follows observations that Google+ "was barely mentioned at Google I/O 2014, while there were 15 sessions dedicated to the service in 2013" and that the company has ended its controversial real name policy. Google Hangouts was also separated from Google+ at the end of July." I've actually heard several people praising Google+ lately; scaling it back to "just a social stream" probably fits into some kind of corollary to Murphy's Law.
Comment NOT A Samsung SoC! (Score 1) 47
WTF Slashdot editors? It says plain as day right on the product page that it's a Broadcom SoC.
Comment Re:This can be extremely misleading. (Score 1) 570
Is the collection still on your credit report? Something similar happened to me where the hospital ignored a letter from the insurance company asking for more information, and so the insurance company never paid.
The issue was ultimately resolved however the credit bureaus initially refused to remove the item, since the hospital confirmed that I technically did owe the debt at the time it was turned over to collections. It took me six months and a court hearing demonstrating the hospital's lack of due diligence in cooperating with the insurance company to finally get it removed.
Comment Words mean things (Score 1) 317
"The Act protects against distributing digital audio recording devices whose primary purpose is to rip copyrighted material."
Look up the word "primary" in the dictionary. Ford does not install entertainment systems in their cars for the "primary" purpose of ripping CDs.
Words mean things.
Comment What partisan wrote this? (Score 1) 122
"There might not be much functional difference between a 93% and a 95%, but the person scoring higher will get promoted disproportionately quicker."
This weasel language implies that it's not fair that someone that scores higher on the test gets promoted faster, and also implies that any promotion due to higher grades is "disproportionate," which is media-speak for "unfair."
"This inspired a ring of officers to cheat in order to meet the unrealistic expectations of the Air Force."
Why is it unrealistic that those in charge of launching missiles that will end life on this planet as we know it pass a very high bar of excellence?
Comment Re:I find it interesting (Score 1) 868
"There's nothing like censorship by the mods to ensure that all viewpoints aren't heard equally. So with the expectation of being moderated down.."
Making sure all viewpoints have equal exposure is not why the moderation system exists.
