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Submission + - Loch Ness Monster found? (foxnews.com)

Submitted by The Non on Friday June 01, 2007 @04:26AM

The Non writes: I'm more then a bit skeptical, but it does seem interesting — anyone seen the video?

An amateur scientist has captured what Loch Ness Monster watchers say is among the finest footage ever taken of the elusive mythical creature reputed to swim beneath the waters of Scotland's most mysterious lake.

Submission + - New AACS "fix" hacked in a day

Submitted by

VincenzoRomano

on Friday June 01, 2007 @03:56AM

VincenzoRomano writes: "ArsTechnica has just published an update to the neverending story about copy protection used in HD DVD and Blu-ray discs and hacker hefforts against it. Quoting the original article:

The ongoing war between content producers and hackers over the AACS copy protection used in HD DVD and Blu-ray discs produced yet another skirmish last week, and as has been the case as of late, the hackers came out on top.
The hacker "BtCB" posted the new decryption key for AACS on the Freedom to Tinker web site, just one day after the AACS Licensing Authority (AACS LA) issued the key.

The article proposes a simple description of the protection schema and a brief look back at how the cracks have slowly chipped away at its effectiveness.
It seems it'll be a long way to an effective solution ... if any.
One could also argue whether all those money spent by the industry in this reace will be worth the results and how long it would take for a return on investment."

Submission + - Martin Fowler on Being Transactionless

Submitted by

aacool

on Friday March 23, 2007 @12:14PM

aacool writes: "Martin Fowler, OO- and UML-pioneer, writes on the nature of the design of large programs. How would you build a large program to make it scalable like eBay? What 'best-practices' would go out of the window? Martin talks about one such practice — transactions."

Submission + - Cutting through the hype on Second Life's economy

Submitted by

RogueyWon

on Wednesday February 21, 2007 @06:38AM

RogueyWon writes: "The Register, which often takes a sceptical view of Second Life, has an article up that claims to cut through much of the hype surrounding the online world's economy. From the article:

"In other words, this economy has a population about the size of Ilkeston, Derbyshire, or Troutdale, Oregon. And each business has the prospect of a market of no more than 100 people in one place — a number easily accommodated by a church hall."
Unwarrented grumbling, or an valid rejoinder to the latest online media darling?"

Lightroom Vs. Aperture 192

Posted by kdawson on Wednesday February 21, 2007 @06:18AM from the snapshootout dept.

Nonu writes "Adobe has officially released its Aperture killer, Lightroom, and the reviews are starting to come in. Ars looks at Lightroom and concludes that it's a better choice for those without bleeding-edge hardware. 'Aperture's main drawback is still performance as it was designed for bleeding-edge machines. On a quad Core 2 Duo Xeon, it is very usable but Lightroom just feels faster for everything regardless of hardware. Since Aperture relies on Core Image and a fast video card to do its adjustments (RAW decoding is done by the CPU), it's limited to what the single 3-D card can do. Lightroom does everything with the CPU and so it is likely to gain more speed as multicore systems get faster.'"

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