The feds already have full access to your gmail or hotmail account, and everything in it.

Citation needed. Does this apply to accounts of non-US people?

While Win 8 may have a whole bunch of other problems, what you've stated is not one. If you assume AV technology is so primitive so as to be completely ineffective simply because virus writers will check against it, well, your assumptions need to be reconsidered. Do you think current viruses are not checked against Norton/McAffee/etc?

As long as users (or the software itself) updates the AV database regularly, the chances of an infection are indeed reduced to a huge degree. When a new virus hits, a few computers indeed will be compromised, but the flip side of that is that the signature will enter the database, so everyone else is safe.

Including a AV by default is a good thing. I only hope it is a competently designed application.

> SHA1 HMAC( PW, domain + salt ) -- Output as Base64 (where + is concatenation).

Interesting! So as long as the attacker does not have access to your local machine, you have more protection. (your password couls still be known for a single site, but could not be used elsewhere, does nto give away your 'formula' for passwords (like ending it with the site name, etc).

Do you have this integrated with keepass or something? This should be a desktop tool, hosted on github.

16K? Luxury!

The Babbage machine was the only true computer without bloat.

Or rather read his autobiography 'Ghost in the Wires' to get a first hand account of how he managed to successfully change his identity and evade the authorities.

I've noticed this in many slashdot summaries lately.. either as a result of poor selection by moderators, or by deliberate selection of yellowish content. Lets tag such stories with 'inaccuratesummary', and hope the editors take notice.

..In Switzerland they had brotherly love, 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce?

500 years of democracy and peace.

A GPU is till a CPU. Either your intel chip will render the text (which involves font files/ glyps/ floating point math), or your Nvidia GPU will, which has specifica hardware instructions optmized for the tasks which rendering text needs.

So really, I can see why offloading rendering text to GPU makes sense.

For small to medium software, the reason it isn't sold anymore is that it was probably not successful commercially. Find a way to reach out to them and see if they would be interested in releasing the code (and if they own the entire copyright).

I recently helped revive a 5 year old screenwriting software (http://www.trelby.org), which is a niche editing field, ruled by 200+$ alternatives (Final Draft/MMS). I work on this simply because this will more than serve the need of most of the market, and it's fun to program. I could do that because the original developer had opened it when it was not successful commercially.

I think Microsoft may have something to say about that. Is there an auction for a domain that two or more parties want? Is there anyway that Apple could bid on (and win) .google?

L.O.L!

It's funnier to me because you probaby did not catch him swearing in hindi. At around 17:32 he goes "madarchod have you put the dot", which transates to "Motherf**ker have you put the dot", and you go "Dot, yes".

Then at 19:28 he goes "kahan se ... behenchod" which is roughly "Where did this sisterf**ker come from?".

And then the end was epic! A++ would hear more recorded conversations

Actually, there exists a complete gcc based open toolchain to compile and flash programs. Google for "Openchronos gitorous".

It's a programmable watch by TI. sells for 50$, but 50% deals are regular.. so you can snag one for 25. Has a bunch of things inclusing heart monitor reciever, altimeter and temperature sensor.

While 24/48 fps is largely about what people are used to, film vs digital as a recoding medium is an actual loss for the art form.

Film still has an extremely versatile response to light, and no digital sensors have yet been able to capture all of the nuance. Some digital cameras have matched the dynamic range, some the color tones, and some everything, but under very strict conditions. Such cameras are The Red and Alexa.

Thus the move to digital is reducing the options available to autuers. A new generation of filmmakers is being inducted whose options are less than the previous generation. And the audience this has a lowered range as well.

This is what proponents of film are complaining about. This complain will be moot when a sensor comes along that will replace film. That day has not yet come.

(I'm a filmmaker, and I shoot digital, simply because I cannot afford film - yet. But i do understand what I lose when I shoot digital.)

For 24fps, you only shoot 1/48 with a 180* shutter. If you choose a 360 (or something close like 350 to allow for frame change) shutter, you can do so with 1/24 shutter speed. Thus 48fps could technically be shot with 1/48 shutter speed too, specially now that digital is picking up over film in many major films. You can get the same motion blur with 48fps!