quark101 - Slashdot User

YouTube Hands Over User Info To Fox 396

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Wednesday February 14, 2007 @04:34PM from the their-tube dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Tech Crunch has an article about YouTube identifying and handing over a user's information after a request from Fox. 'Three weeks after receiving a subpoena from the U.S. District Court in Northern California, YouTube has reportedly identified a user accused by 20th Century Fox Television of uploading episodes of the show 24 a week prior to their running on television. That user, named ECOTtotal, is also alleged to have uploaded 12 episodes of The Simpsons, some quite old. Apparently Google and YouTube were willing and able to identify the owner of the username ECOTtotal, according to a report on InternetNews.com.'"

Submission + - AMD's 'Frantic Price Cuts' May Pressure Intel

Submitted by kog777 on Wednesday February 14, 2007 @04:31PM

kog777 writes: Price competition is sparking up again between the world's largest chip makers, Intel Corp. (Nasdaq: INTC) and Advanced Micro Devices (NYSE: AMD). As Intel took a technological lead late last year, AMD responded with "frantic price cuts" after a weak start to its first quarter, Needham analyst Y. Edwin Mok said in a note to clients on Tuesday.

Submission + - Teacher convicted for porn pop-ups

Submitted by

jlorenzatti

on Wednesday February 14, 2007 @04:16PM

jlorenzatti writes: "A substitute teacher in Winham Connecticut was convicted of exposing her students to pornography through pop-ups occurring on her classroom computer .

This story raises an interesting discussion:

Where does the responsibility lay for spyware/adware/viruses/porn pop-ups not occuring on a network? Is it the user, the IT Department, or both?"

Submission + - Law requires ISPs to record all surfing activity

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 14, 2007 @03:54PM

An anonymous reader writes: A bill introduced last week by Representative Lamar Smith (R-TX) is beginning to raise eyebrows. (...) Under the guise of reducing child pornography, the SAFETY (Stopping Adults Facilitating the Exploitation of Today's Youth) Act is currently the gravest threat to digital privacy rights on the Internet. Given the increasing tendency of people, especially young people, to use the Internet as a primary means of communication, this measure would affect nearly all Americans in ways we are only beginning to understand. Also, given the fact that the Act requires all Internet Service Providers to record the web surfing activity of all Internet users, this amounts to the warrantless wiretapping of the entire Internet.

Submission + - The Top 12 Movies that Were Ahead of Their Time

Submitted by

Alex Billington

on Wednesday February 14, 2007 @03:37PM

Alex Billington writes: "What makes a movie years down the road be referred to as ahead of its time? It's the visual effects and technical achievements that the filmmakers implemented, from the miniatures in Star Wars to the time-freezing camera system in The Matrix, these movies were vastly ahead of their time. FirstShowing.net has comprised a comprehensive list of the top 12 movies in history that were ahead of their time, ranging from Psycho and 2001 to The Matrix."

Sony Considers Outsourcing Cell Production 70

Posted by Zonk on Wednesday February 14, 2007 @01:58PM from the get-on-up-get-on-out dept.

Gamasutra reports on comments from the Sony home office, where executives are considering plans to outsource production of the expensive/complicated Cell chips that power the PS3. Executive deputy president Yutaka Nakagawa is quoted in a Reuters report, saying that when the PS2 launched there just weren't other companies to turn to. With the chip market better-developed in 2007, there are third parties Sony is now considering to take on the task of advancing/producing the Cell. Outsourcing could also help financially with their beleaguered semiconductor division. The next move for the Cell is to 45 nanometer manufacturing, from the 90/65 the company is currently using. This scale change could not only help with profits, but may eventually make dropping the price on the PlayStation 3 an easier pill to swallow.

Supercruncher Applications 58

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Wednesday February 14, 2007 @01:44PM from the many-processors-make-light-work dept.

starheight writes "Bill McColl has written an article contrasting traditional massively parallel supercomputing with a whole new generation of compute-intensive apps that require massively scalable architectures and can deliver both incredible throughput and real-time responsivenes when processing millions or billions of tasks."

Submission + - IBM Pares Speed Gap in Memory Circuitry

Submitted by

Carl Bialik from WSJ

on Wednesday February 14, 2007 @11:27AM

Carl Bialik from WSJ writes: "IBM researchers are claiming a breakthrough in developing circuitry to store data on future microprocessor chips, the Wall Street Journal reports. From the article: 'Exploiting a manufacturing technology called silicon-on-insulator, the company has developed unusually fast DRAM circuitry for use as cache memory. Subramanian Iyer, a director of IBM's manufacturing-process development, estimates it takes 1.5 nanoseconds — or billionths of a second — to fetch data from its enhanced DRAM technology, compared with 10 to 12 nanoseconds for conventional DRAMs and 0.8 to 1 nanoseconds for SRAMs. Mr. Iyer said three times more data can be stored in the same amount of space by switching from SRAM to DRAM circuitry; he expects the technology to be incorporated on microprocessors that will be manufactured next year using a new production process.'"

Submission + - 10 Signs an Employee is About to Go Bad

Submitted by ancientribe on Wednesday February 14, 2007 @10:51AM

ancientribe writes: Tomorrow is the two-year anniversary of ChoicePoint 'fessing up to its credit-card data exposure fiasco. A Dark Reading article today gives 10 warning signs that an employee is about to flip on you or give away the company jewels or other sensitive information — and what to do about it.

http://www.darkreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=117 323&WT.svl=news1_1

Submission + - The Next Big Programming Language

Submitted by

narramissic

on Wednesday February 14, 2007 @10:29AM

narramissic writes: "In a recent ITworld article, Sean McGrath muses on the future of software development, speculating that the next programming language may not be 'so much a language as a language for creating languages.' From the article:

... Outbreaks of this sort of thinking can be seen in the programming community, typically under the moniker of Domain Special Languages or DSLs. Programming languages are again starting to sprout DSL capabilities. Ruby and Fortress — of the two languages already mentioned — are examples.

I think the time is right for this sort of thinking to become mainstream. The industry is at the point where the irrational exuberance surrounding using XML as a DSL for programming languages has passed (thank goodness!). Something needs to take its place which is significantly — not just incrementally better. I think a DSL-enabling programming language will fit the bill.

"

Submission + - P = NP Finally Proved?

Submitted by Yosi on Wednesday February 14, 2007 @08:15AM

Yosi writes: Ashay Dharwadker claims to have proved that P = NP. In a paper he publishes on his website he claims to have found a polynomial algorithm for finding maximal independent sets in a graph and provides actual source code implementation of the proposed algorithm. If this is indeed true, I guess a lot of professors will start looking for a new job.

Submission + - TGV breaks speed record

Submitted by zeux on Wednesday February 14, 2007 @05:50AM

zeux writes: While testing the new Paris — Strasbourg line, the TGV broke a 17 years old speed record (babelfish translation), travelling at 553 km/h (343 mph). The last record, of 515 km/h (320 mph), was set on May, 18th 1990. According to the French National Railroad Company (SNCF) the testing campaign will continue and speeds up to 570 km/h (354 mph) could be atteigned by June of this year.

Submission + - Malicious Vista Voice Recognition

Submitted by TitusC3v5 on Friday February 02, 2007 @04:32AM

TitusC3v5 writes: According to an article at BBC, there are some outstanding issues with Vista's new voice recognition abilities. Opening yet another hole for attackers to exploit, Microsoft insists that we shouldn't be alarmed. ""The firm also said that voice commands could not be used for privileged functions such as creating a new user or formatting a drive."

Dreamworks Dumps Wallace and Gromit 189

Posted by CowboyNeal on Friday February 02, 2007 @04:11AM from the just-need-some-space dept.

Tiger4 writes "Aardman Animation and Dreamworks are splitting their relationship. Apparently Dreamworks feels they lost money on 'Wallace and Gromit: Curse of the Were Rabbit' and 'Flushed Away.' So off to their separate ways they go. Aardman is going back to stop motion and clay, Dreamworks will be staying with their CGI ways." In addition, Aardman Animation announced that a new Wallace and Gromit film is in the works.

Submission + - Vista's DRM defeated: Interview with Alex Ionescu

Submitted by K. Friedl on Friday February 02, 2007 @04:06AM

K. Friedl writes: As Vista's deployment ramps up, news has begun to circulate that its highly regarded Protected Media Path (DRM) has been defeated. The individual that has been labeled responsible for this feat is Alex Ionescu whose primary work concentrates on the community-based ReactOS project, an open source operating system based on the Windows NT series architecture.
Alex talks in this interesting interview about that his latest work is not a crack, hack, or a patch that defeats Vista's DRM, but instead it's simply a proof of concept idea that demonstrates that indeed the potential to defeat Vista's DRM exists.

Slashdot Top Deals