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Comment Re:You're looking at it wrong. (Score 1) 750

by RotsiserMho (#31288968) Attached to: Should I Take Toyota's Software Update?
Care to back that up with any facts? Matlab/Simulink definitely DOES drop into such systems. In fact, by using RTW Embedded Coder as mentioned by another poster, you can (and usually do) generate the entire binary in Simulink.
See here: http://www.mathworks.com/support/solutions/en/data/1-4Z7I7F/?solution=1-4Z7I7F

And it conforms to a myriad of automotive and software standards that I'm sure involve more testing than the OP would have time to accomplish in any reasonable amount of time.
See here: http://www.mathworks.com/automotive/standards/maab.html

Comment Re:You're looking at it wrong. (Score 5, Insightful) 750

by RotsiserMho (#31288768) Attached to: Should I Take Toyota's Software Update?
Or the first guy is using it wrong and taking the chance of introducing even MORE bugs (more cooks in the kitchen) while the second guy is relying on code that has been tested time and time again, not only by the Mathworks, but by all of their customers as well. Tell me, when writing code for Linux do you re-evaluate every line of the kernel or treat it as a black box? One of our largest customers (a Fortune 100 heavy equipment manufacturer) relies on generated code to control their engines. And these are big engines. The Mathworks produces very solid code allowing developers to create control systems very quickly that are time-tested to be reliable. That being said, that doesn't mean Toyota simply didn't connect the blocks wrong in this case. A human is still responsible for the logic.
Portables (Games)

HEN TIFF Exploit Cracks PSP-3000 Open For Homebrew 77

Posted by Soulskill from the finding-a-way dept.
indrora writes "The PSP community was rocked this weekend by the Homebrew Enabler (HEN) from developers Davee and Bubbletune. One of their friends on the Team Typhoon development team posted a YouTube video showing proof of the TIFF Exploit running on Firmware 5.03, changing the firmware version and MAC address for a reboot. This comes after a picture of gpSP running on a PSP-3000 via the HEN exploit. From the QJ.net article: 'First [things] first: No, Davee hasn't finished the HEN yet. Which means it isn't out yet. What we do have today is some visual confirmation that the HEN can indeed run emulators, in this case the GBA emulator gpSP.' And from the more recent article showing the exploit demo video: 'Be patient, everyone. Davee's HEN Kernel exploit will eventually arrive, given time. "This is a demo of the 5.03 firmware running the tiff exploit and booting into a HEN environment on a PSP 2003 (3000 Support also) on 5.03 Official Firmware. This proves that the code survives a reboot and the system software and MAC address can be changed. This is something that only can be done with a kernel exploit. A video launching homebrew will be posted later."' Hopefully, we'll soon have PSP-3000s playing homebrew games and running PSP uCLinux."
Wireless Networking

White Space Plan Would Reuse TV Spectrum 150

Posted by timothy from the this-time-for-good-not-for-evil dept.
An anonymous reader writes "A collection of companies including Microsoft, Google and Motorola are teaming up for a new white space wireless network plan. The White Spaces Database Group, as it will be known, plans on formulating a plan to create, govern and maintain a wireless broadband network on abandoned analog television spectrum. When the spectrum is finally vacated in June, the group hopes that system in place which will allow for the creation of an open wireless broadband network which will be accessible by any device. The FCC officially approved keeping the spectrum open back in November, despite staunch opposition from telco firms."

Comment Re:Has the format changed for a "slashdot intervie (Score 3, Interesting) 402

by RotsiserMho (#25388151) Attached to: Blizzard Answers Your Questions, From Blizzcon
I noticed the format change too, and frankly, I liked it. I think in a lot of previous interviews, the questions could have used some editing. But the best part about the new format in my mind, is that they asked followup questions a couple times -- something the old format didn't really allow for. I liked it. It was much more coherent.
Space

Naphthalene Found In Outer Space 180

Posted by timothy from the wake-me-up-when-they-find-remulac dept.
Adam Korbitz writes with an excerpt from his blog on an exciting discovery in space: "A team of researchers led by Spanish scientists has published their discovery of the complex molecule naphthalene in an interstellar star-forming cloud, indicating many prebiotic organic molecules necessary for life as we know it could have been present when our own solar system formed. According to the new research — published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters — the naphthalene molecules were discovered 700 light-years from Earth in a star-forming region of the constellation Perseus, in the direction of the star Cernis 52."
Music

Submission + - Oink.CD Shut Down

Submitted by Marie
Marie writes: Looks like popular invitation-only BitTorrent tracker Oink.cd (formerly Oink.me.uk) has finally been shut down. The homepage reads that the shutdown was due to an investigation by IFPI, BPI, Cleveland Police and the Fiscal Investigation Unit of the Dutch Police. Sounds like it took an international effort to take them down (and no, that's not the International Federation of Pirates Interests). The most worrisome part? "A criminal investigation continues into the identities and activities of the site's users."

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