Comment Re:For the paranoid... (Score 1) 38
But that negates the whole point of using a livecd for this in the first place.
Comment Re:I don't like it (Score 1) 501
Last time I checked, Google is not a player in the broadcasting business.
Not yet anyways.
Comment Re:I dont know what is an 'oops' situation if this (Score 1) 307
It's times like these that make me wish for modpoints because I am 100% in agreement with you. Xkcd is one of the few webcomics I read (along with Penny Arcade and Dinosaur Comics) but I'm starting to wish the editors would just post the "obligatory xkcd" along with TFS to get it over with.
Google Slams Viacom For Secret YouTube Uploads 307
An anonymous reader writes with this excerpt from Reuters: "Google, Inc. accused Viacom, Inc. of secretly uploading its videos to YouTube even as the media conglomerate publicly denounced the online video site for copyright infringement, according to court documents made public on Thursday."
As "statements from the corporate counsel's office" go, this post on the YouTube blog is pretty hot reading.
Comment Re:The (final) end? (Score 1) 131
Stargate Universe is still being produced, and they can always make new props if they need to.
Submission + - YouTube will support HTML5 with Free/Open formats (thesilentnumber.me) 1
shadowmage13 writes: "After the recent post about YouTube, so many votes were put in for HTML5 using Free and Open formats, that Google has already cleared them all out (to make space for others) and issued an official response (requires Google login): "We've heard a lot of feedback around supporting HTML5 and are working hard to meet your request, so stay tuned. We'll be following up when we have more information. We're answering this idea now because there are so many similar HTML5 ideas and we want to give other ideas a chance to be seen." -Mia, YouTube Team. Now all the top ideas are concerning copyright and DMCA abuse."
Submission + - Windows 7's Killer Feature: Multicore Performance (infoworld.com)
snydeq writes: When Randall Kennedy first performed his generational Windows multicore performance tests, Windows 7's quad-core advantage wasn't enough to allow Windows 7 to overtake the leaner, more efficient XP under heavy workloads. A year later, new benchmarks tell a different story, with Windows 7 blowing past XP, delivering results that are 47 to 178 percent faster and showing far superior scalability — by a factor of more than 3.5 — when moving from a single quad-core CPU to dual quad-core. 'Simply put, Windows 7 is significantly faster than Windows XP when running heavy, multitasking workloads on advanced, multicore hardware. And when considered in light of current trends in PC hardware design and multicore road maps, this advantage should be enough to sway even the most ardent fence sitters to finally jump on the Windows 7 bandwagon,' writes Kennedy, who provides extensive generational performance benchmarks, as well as a deeper look at his testing methodology. Some of this performance gain is due to NUMA and QPI advancements that have improved the Intel architecture, Kennedy admits, but 'to make the most of today's smarter CPUs, you need a smarter OS.'
Comment Re:Digital distribution has been needed for a whil (Score 1) 406
He probably got something more like a Staples gift card.
Comment Re:Can someone explain this more clearly? (Score 1) 393
No, PhysX is (and was) only ever hardware accelerated on Nvidia/Ageia hardware. Before you could add a second (Nvidia) card to your system and use it for PhysX. All this announcement is saying is that people using AMD as their primary GPU can no longer do this.
Comment Re:At the Risk of Sounding Like an Apologist (Score 1) 832
It's been awhile but IIRC the Endor troopers were wearing different armor.
Comment Re:Strongly typed language? (Score 1) 299
Comment Re:%n (Score 4, Informative) 94
Crashes usually turn into remote exploits.
Comment Re:Sunflowers aren't so bad (Score 2, Insightful) 247
I don't think it's really that big of a problem. First of all if you have passwords written down in your wallet and someone steals it, they're still going to have to figure out your username (unless you wrote that) and what password is for what service, what bank you use, etc. In the meantime you could just change all of your passwords to be safe.
Of course this wouldn't work if you didn't know your wallet was stolen (if they copied your passwords and returned it before you knew it was missing), but it seems like that would be a pretty targeted attack...
There's nothing wrong with ATMs running Windows, OS/2 or whatever as long as it's set up right. An ATM should NEVER be hooked up directly to the outside network (no matter what OS it is running), and should always be physically secured (in a very visible location, watched by cameras 24/7, etc).
Comment Pleasure Sensitive (Score 2, Funny) 212
I honestly read the summary title as "Microsoft Hardware Demos Pleasure Sensitive Keyboard".
Needless to say I was very disturbed...
Comment Re:NoScript and Adblock (Score 1) 207
What version of Firefox are you using?
I've experienced memory leaks in the past, but recently I've been using Firefox 3.5 (on Fedora 11) and Firefox doesn't get over a few hundred megabytes. That's with 7-8 tabs running for several weeks straight.
