Comment Re:Yay I suppose (Score 1) 25
MegaUpload's current captchas. Oh lordy are those awful.
On the subject of CAPTCHAs, the one used in gmail is just horrible, I could not get it right and had to resort to the voice option to get past it
Comment Re:And will be unavailable anyplace else.... (Score 1) 571
The UK and Europe as well as the USA will never EVER see this car.
Really? I just read today on magazine that the Tata NANO already has an european release date. the price has gone up a bit tho, as Europe has stricter safety requirements that they need to implement.
Comment Re:Yawn. (Score 1) 610
I can't believe he's spending 6 weeks on "If we have free will then so do things that we interact with." I wouldn't think that was meat enough for a good paper, more less six weeks of lectures...Though I guess that's snarky, since I've read innumberable goddamn books about free will, even one's with this guy in 'em (Freedom Evolves by Daniel Dennet, had a long bit about the Game o' Life.)
You misunderstand, the publics requirement to attend the explanation is an age requirement of atleast six weeks. Looks like he managed to simplify the matter a lot!
Comment Re:Ok then... (Score 1) 244
Exactly how is someone going to get photo of you of sufficient quality to fool the recognition system without you knowing about it? You'll see the person taking the photo, and thus be able to deal with the potential breach before it ever happens.
And how exactly would I be supposed to deal with it? Visit my plastic surgeon?
Comment Re:race? (Score 1) 397
No if we had worked together things would still be tied up in a international comittee and at best we would have a non-binding resolution to send a strongly worded letter to the moon stating our intentions to visit it someday.
And said letter would have been delivered in person by a private courier company
Comment Re:How nifty! (Score 1) 166
Actually, Googles current servers reside in Sweden, where it recently became possible to snoop on all traffic passing trough the country.
Google itself, or maybe after some prompting from Russians might have found it prudent to move to a country that at least yet does not allow any snooping.
Lex Nokia is currently encountering resistance in all media, so it might not pass after all.
RIAA Loses $222K Verdict 342
jriding writes "The $222,000 verdict against Jammy Thomas for copyright infringement by P2P is no more. US District Court Judge Michael Davis dismissed the verdict, saying it was based on the faulty 'making available' theory of distribution."
Comment Also affects OS X and linux (Score 5, Informative) 282
This same vulnerability also affects OS X as reported here: http://blog.juhonkoti.net/2008/02/29/automated-os-x-macintosh-password-retrieval-via-firewire
As well, as Linux, as reported in an earlier 2005 report about this firewire feature: http://www.matasano.com/log/695/windows-remote-memory-access-though-firewire/
As well, as Linux, as reported in an earlier 2005 report about this firewire feature: http://www.matasano.com/log/695/windows-remote-memory-access-though-firewire/
