Comment Re:"small scale MMO"? Jumbo shrimp! (Score 1) 192
Bonus points for the first person to make an MMO where all the characters are photons, and refer to it as "Masslessly-Mulitplayer"
Comment Re:Not Facebook! (Score 1) 326
"Give me a few of your tired, some of your poor, and a reasonable proportion of your huddled masses ..."
Comment Re:ZFS was developed and trademarked by Sun (Score 1) 231
It's about patents - NetApp claim that ZFS contains their patented technology (that NetApp incorporated into their WAFL filesystem).
Comment Re:Footprints? (Score 2, Informative) 105
Don't be silly, those are obviously the footprints of the Martian gorillas.
Comment Re:Just like desktop linux. (Score 1) 636
To be fair, an SSH client/terminal emulator isn't exactly stretching the limits of Windows APIs, as compared to e.g. GTA 4.
Comment Patent number in Kodak press release (Score 1) 285
Kodak press release containing the patent number - 6,292,218 - and also stating that Kodak has won a ruling that the patent is valid and relevant in a similar case against Samsung.
Comment Re:illegal? (Score 5, Funny) 773
Not to be confused with "Tortoise interference", which severely disrupted the 2009 hare-racing world championship.
Comment Slight misunderstanding by the journalist (Score 3, Funny) 518
They were actually having a flamewar on LKML about what the best scheduler for the Linux kernel is.
Comment Difference from the T1/T2 on-chip cryptography? (Score 3, Interesting) 59
As I understand it, the T1 and T2 chips both have on-chip crypto accelerators (one per core) already - what's the difference with the Rainbow Falls version?
Comment Re:King Canute tried and failed (Score 1) 1100
<pedantry>I assume that you RTF link, and realised that the point Canute was making was that even the king couldn't make the tide turn on his command.</pedantry>
Linguistic Clue Pushes Back Origin of "World's Oldest Computer" 141
Calopteryx points out a piece at New Scientist which suggests that the Antikythera mechanism may be even older than previously thought; an ancient Greek word on of the device's dials suggests the device may date to the early second century BC. The article is accompanied by a great animation of its (deduced) workings, too.
Comment Re:Oh the possibilities (Score 1) 64
I used to wonder it the Windows 98 Critical Update Notification Utility was originally going to have been a Tool.
Also, Sun supply the Solaris Crash Analysis Tool, and trust me - if you're googling for the documentation, make sure you turn Safe Search on
Comment Re:Already made one (Score 2, Funny) 66
/me turns on short_open_tag in php.ini, then cackles maniacally ...
New PHP Interpreter Finds XSS, Injection Holes 66
rkrishardy writes "A group of researchers from MIT, Stanford, and Syracuse has developed a new program, named 'Ardilla,' which can analyze PHP code for cross-site scripting (XSS) and SQL injection attack vulnerabilities. (Here is the paper, in PDF, and a table of results from scanning six PHP applications.) Ardilla uses a modified Zend interpreter to analyze the code, trace the data, and determine whether the threat is real or not, significantly decreasing false positives." Unfortunately, license issues prevent the tool in its current form from being released as open source.
Comment Re:Liquify what? (Score 1) 259
Let's freeze-dry Darl and sell him by the pound.
"Why?"
"Oh, it's got a million and one uses
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