VincenzoRomano - Slashdot User

Comment I wish I could (Score 1) 182

by VincenzoRomano on Monday June 20, 2011 @09:26AM (#36499346) Attached to: Bittorrent and uTorrent Sued For Patent Violations

file a patent for "patent filing" process. Then I could sue anyone filing patents...
This thing of patenting is getting more and more annoying now.

Comment Fictional names? (Score 1) 722

by VincenzoRomano on Monday June 20, 2011 @06:41AM (#36498044) Attached to: I Name My Servers After:

Why just fictional people?
You have plenty of names from sagas (Star trek, Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, Borges' novels ...)
And, yes, I do confirm, whatever they put in this poll stuff there will always be at least a trivially missing option.

Comment Good advise! (Score 1) 503

by VincenzoRomano on Friday June 17, 2011 @08:48AM (#36473126) Attached to: Microsoft Brands WebGL a 'Harmful' Technology

From a security centric company!

Comment More general it'd be better (Score 1) 79

by VincenzoRomano on Friday June 17, 2011 @07:09AM (#36472550) Attached to: Japan Criminalizes Virus Creation

Please, criminalize also the creation of biological ones!

Comment Why twitter? (Score 2) 55

by VincenzoRomano on Thursday June 09, 2011 @03:19AM (#36384708) Attached to: Twitter Helps Astronomers Zero-In On M51 Supernova

Any communication medium would have been enough to "help"!
From carrier pigeons and smoke signals to telephones and BBSes up to email, mailing lists, web sites and blogs ...
This claim about twitter should read instead "internet". But then the article would loose a lot ofits glamorous taste, I fear!

Submission + - Buy Your Own Quantum Computer (tomshardware.com)

Submitted by

VincenzoRomano

on Friday May 20, 2011 @09:40AM

VincenzoRomano writes: "A Canadian company in Burnaby, BC is now selling a quantum computer that you can buy, for a mere USD 10M, for your lab, or even your home if you have the resources and needs of Bruce Wayne or Tony Stark.
Ther manufacturer of the marvel, the "One", is D-Wave Systems and is not releasing a lot of information about the product.
Just that's built around a 128-qubit processor (and not the weird 129-qubit reported by Tom's hardware) called "Rainier".
The final selling price can be found in another article published by Engadget.
The computer itself is not a general purpose one. It can only solve optimization problems using Quantum Annealing approach.
So, as stated by TH,

No, it cannot play Crysis.

and I'd also add that you cannot use it to update your tweets as well."

Comment Don't think so (Score 2) 223

by VincenzoRomano on Thursday May 19, 2011 @10:01AM (#36178418) Attached to: Internet Could Mean End of "Snow Days"

Unless the wired and wireless infrastructure for broadband is made better and tougher.

Comment Not a piece of news since 10+ years (Score 1) 181

by VincenzoRomano on Thursday May 19, 2011 @09:16AM (#36178022) Attached to: 'Homeless' Planets May Be Common In Our Galaxy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space:_1999

Comment Two years ago! (Score 1) 585

by VincenzoRomano on Thursday May 19, 2011 @09:06AM (#36177934) Attached to: The world will end ...

Haven't you noticed?

Comment It's nice (Score 1) 381

by VincenzoRomano on Thursday May 19, 2011 @05:50AM (#36176600) Attached to: Windows 8 ARM Will Not Support Legacy Software

That Intel knows so much about MS plans and development policy.

Comment 1 in 14? (Score 1) 290

by VincenzoRomano on Wednesday May 18, 2011 @11:28AM (#36166534) Attached to: Microsoft: One In 14 Downloads Is Malicious

I think they also hacked the statistics system!

Comment Untraceable and unhackable? (Score 1) 858

by VincenzoRomano on Monday May 16, 2011 @10:05AM (#36139744) Attached to: BitCoin, the Most Dangerous Project Ever?

Anything with such features will be banned by governments.
Trivial!

Comment too late (Score 1) 233

by VincenzoRomano on Sunday May 15, 2011 @02:11AM (#36131530) Attached to: Sony Releases PS3 3.61 Update Ahead of PSN's Imminent Return

I think that Sony has lost a huge amount of psn customers. And also gaming networks did.

Confessions of a Computer Repairman 387

Posted by timothy on Saturday May 14, 2011 @06:54PM from the bwa-ha-ha-ha dept.

nk497 writes "What really happens to your PC when it's handed over to computer repair cowboys? We reveal the horror stories from computer repair shops — the dodgy technicians that install pirated software, steal personal photos, lie about hardware upgrades, upsell to the unsavvy, or simply steal your PC to sell on. Plus, we tell you how to avoid such dodgy fixers and find a trustworthy repairman."

Comment Copyright Infringement? (Score 1) 204

by VincenzoRomano on Saturday May 14, 2011 @03:55AM (#36125348) Attached to: Telehack Re-Creates the Internet of 25 Years Ago

Has anyone typed "starwars"? It's ... astounding!

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