Comment Re:Antitrust (Score 1) 893
Loved this movie, it was very important in my ultimate career trajectory, especially liked that I understood all the HTML code in the opening credits (Early High School for me).
Comment Re:Sahara 2005 (Score 1) 893
Been a huge fan of Clive Cussler's Dirk Pitt novels for years and when I heard that they were making the movie I was so excited, went to watch it and found it truly enjoyable, pity it bombed because I would have loved to see more of the Dirk Pitt novels in the Cinemas.
Comment Re:Titan A.E. (Score 1) 893
I also quite enjoy this movie. Think it's greatly underappreciated but my kids still know it as Planet Bob.
Comment Repo! The Genetic Opera (2008) (Score 1) 893
I enjoy this movie far more than I should admit... Great score, excellent cast and the cinematography captures the concept in a far more gory and appropriate way than other attempts.
Comment IT Admin in South Africa (Score 1) 63
Pricing here is a joke, if we are fair in our comparisons internet access here is even higher than it should be. 10MB ADSL here (which is mostly the best you get) for an uncapped connection will cost you around ZAR 3 500.00 or USD 258.76. For a 20MB Fibre connection to our office we were just quoted USD 2 217.90 for installation and USD 701.62 per month. This is for a 1:1 Uncapped Fibre 20MB with five dedicated IPv4 addresses. Taking into consideration that an average household income here is only about USD 700 per month (And even those figures are unrepresentative) you begin to get a picture of how extremely expensive connectivity is here. Home use internet with extremely stupid shaping and so-called "soft-capping" at about 300GB you are paying about USD 67 per month for an 8MB ADSL connection.
Submission + - Chemical evidence shows the Nazis weren't at all close to having the bomb (forbes.com)
TheAlexKnapp writes: The Nazis winning World War II by getting the bomb first is a staple of alt-history and it's the reason why James T. Kirk lost the love of his life, Edith Keeler. Einstein also noted possible German efforts to build one in his letter to FDR urging the U.S. develop an atomic weapon. But it turns out there really wasn't a race to build a bomb at all. Materials from Germany's atomic weapons program have been studied by an international team of researchers, who determined that Germany never achieved a self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction — something that Fermi and his colleagues had accomplished in 1942 — which was a key step to actually building an atomic weapon. This chemical evidence supports other historical accounts that the German atomic program never achieved this result.
Submission + - Obama invites Texas teen to White House after 'bomb' clock incident at school (upi.com)
The Grim Reefer writes: IRVING, Texas, Sept. 16 (UPI) — A Texas teen who made a digital clock and brought it to school, only to end up being arrested and accused of a bomb scare, has been invited to the White House to show off his creation.
President Obama
@POTUS
Cool clock, Ahmed. Want to bring it to the White House? We should inspire more kids like you to like science. It's what makes America great.
Ahmed Mohamed, 14, faces no charges after he was arrested in Texas for bringing to school a homemade clock teachers and administrators mistook for a bomb — a detention some claim was due to his Muslim background.
Irving Police Chief Larry Boyd said the event was a "naive accident," adding that the department is "confident" the clock is not a bomb and that the case is closed.
President Obama
@POTUS
Cool clock, Ahmed. Want to bring it to the White House? We should inspire more kids like you to like science. It's what makes America great.
Ahmed Mohamed, 14, faces no charges after he was arrested in Texas for bringing to school a homemade clock teachers and administrators mistook for a bomb — a detention some claim was due to his Muslim background.
Irving Police Chief Larry Boyd said the event was a "naive accident," adding that the department is "confident" the clock is not a bomb and that the case is closed.
Submission + - Interviews: Ask John McAfee About His Presidential Run
samzenpus writes: He's ran a a multi-billion dollar company, and hid in the jungles of Central America while being chased by Belizean authorities, but John McAfee's presidential bid may be his most interesting adventure yet. Last week John said: "Our government is in a dysfunctional state. It is also illiterate when it comes to technology. Technology is not a tool that should be used for a government to invade our privacy. Technology should not be the scapegoat when we fail to protect our digital assets and tools of commerce. These are matters of priorities," when announcing his run. According to his Cyber Party website: "Donkeys and elephants just don’t make sense in the modern world. If the federal bureaucracy adopts technology in a meaningful way, it will become much easier to adapt to changes in policy or procedure. 10 hour long congressional hearings will no longer be needed for a simple change in workflow. By adapting a lean approach to government, the amount of savings that can be realized by improved efficiency will eliminate the need for wholesale changes to foundational policies. Other parties consistently lag behind trends in technology – Cyber Party members are committed to staying ahead of the curve and remaining proactive in policymaking." John has agreed to answer any questions you have about his step into politics or any other questions you may have. As usual, ask as many as you'd like, but please, one question per post.
Submission + - Steve Jobs movie clip historically inaccurate, says Woz (networkworld.com) 1
An anonymous reader writes: Yesterday saw the first clip from the upcoming Steve Jobs biopic starring Ashton Kutcher as Jobs and Josh Gad as Steve Wozniak. The full film will be premiering at the Sundance Film Festival later today and is set for a wider theatrical release in April.
After seeing the clip, Woz chimed in and noted that the event depicted therein was completely false and never happened.
"Totally wrong. Personalities and where the ideas of computers affecting society did not come from Jobs. They inspired me and were widely spoken at the Homebrew Computer Club. Steve came back from Oregon and came to a club meeting and didn't start talking about this great social impact. His idea was to make a $20 PC board and sell it for $40 to help people at the club build the computer I'd given away. Steve came from selling surplus parts at HalTed he always saw a way to make a quick buck off my designs (this was the 5th time).
The lofty talk came much further down the line.
I never looked like a professional. We were both kids. Our relationship was so different than what was portrayed. I'm embarrassed but if the movie is fun and entertaining, all the better. Anyone who reads my book iWoz can get a clearer picture."
After seeing the clip, Woz chimed in and noted that the event depicted therein was completely false and never happened.
"Totally wrong. Personalities and where the ideas of computers affecting society did not come from Jobs. They inspired me and were widely spoken at the Homebrew Computer Club. Steve came back from Oregon and came to a club meeting and didn't start talking about this great social impact. His idea was to make a $20 PC board and sell it for $40 to help people at the club build the computer I'd given away. Steve came from selling surplus parts at HalTed he always saw a way to make a quick buck off my designs (this was the 5th time).
The lofty talk came much further down the line.
I never looked like a professional. We were both kids. Our relationship was so different than what was portrayed. I'm embarrassed but if the movie is fun and entertaining, all the better. Anyone who reads my book iWoz can get a clearer picture."
Submission + - Thousands of Publicly Addressable Printers Searchable on Google (port3000.co.uk)
Jeremiah Cornelius writes: Blogger Adam Howard, at Port3000, has a post about Google's exposure of thousands of publicly accessible printers. "A quick, well crafted Google search returns "About 86,800 results" for publically accessible HP printers." He continues, "There's something interesting about being able to print to a random location around the world, with no idea of the consequence." He also warns about these printers as a possible beachhead for deeper network intrusion and exploitation. With many of the HP printers in question containing a web listener and a highly vulnerable and unpatched JVM, I agree that this is not an exotic idea. In the meanwhile? I have an important memo for all Starbucks employees. ;-)
Submission + - BitTorrent Launches Dropbox Alternative With Unlimited Storage (ibtimes.com)
redletterdave writes: "On Friday morning, BitTorrent launched a new free public service called BitTorrent Sync, which allows users to securely backup and sync files over the Web using BitTorrent’s platform as both a backup and shared drive. BitTorrent Sync is also highly secure and works across all devices, but unlike competing services like Box or Dropbox, BitTorrent Sync doesn’t use the cloud (which means that no third-party has access to one’s files), and also has no storage limits."
Submission + - DIY BioPrinter Hack Lets You Print Biomaterials Using an Old Inkjet (instructables.com)
MikeChino writes: Instructables member Patrik has successfully transformed an old HP5150 inkjet printer into a DIY bioprinter. To do this he removed the plastic covers and panels and rewired the paper handling mechanism. Then he prepped ink cartridges to be able to handle biological materials by opening the lid, removing the ink, and washing it out with deionized water. For his first experiment, he printed a simple solution of arabinose onto filter paper.
Submission + - Alfred Russel Wallace: what I really thought about Darwin (newscientist.com)
Calopteryx writes: The correspondence of Alfred Russel Wallace has gone online for the first time (http://www.nhm.ac.uk/research-curation/scientific-resources/collections/library-collections/wallace-letters-online/index.html). New Scientist has opened a wormhole between the 21st and 19th centuries and has "interviewed" the great man
Submission + - Does Microsoft have the best app store for open source developers? (infoworld.com) 2
WebMink writes: "Microsoft seems to have been in combat against the GNU GPL throughout the history of free and open source software. But that may be changing. They have recently updated the terms of use for software developers in their Windows Phone app store to allow any OSI-approved open source license — even the GPL. They include extraordinarily broad language that gives the open source license priority over their own license terms, saying:
if your Application or In-App Product includes FOSS, your license terms may conflict with the limitations set forth in Section 3 of the Standard Application License Terms, but only to the extent required by the FOSS that you use
Could it be that the most open source friendly app stores will be the ones run my Microsoft?"
Submission + - 10 Years After SQL Slammer (threatpost.com)
Trailrunner7 writes: Ten years ago today, on Jan. 25, 2003, a new worm took the Internet by storm, infecting thousands of servers running Microsoft's SQL Server software every minute. The worm, which became known as SQL Slammer, eventually became the fastest-spreading worm ever and helped change the way Microsoft approached security and reshaped the way many researchers handled advisories and exploit code. This is the inside story of SQL Slammer, told by David Litchfield, the researcher who found the bug and wrote the exploit code that was later taken by Slammer's authors and used as part of the worm.
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