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Submission + - Apple Discontinues Mac Pro in EU (macworld.co.uk)

Submitted by jones_supa on Saturday February 02, 2013 @03:32AM

jones_supa writes: Apple has been forced to remove the Mac Pro from sale in European Union after an amendment to a safety regulation left the machines incompliant. The updated electronics safety standard IEC 60950-1 increases requirements around electrical port protection and the fan guards in the system. Apple does not plan to modify their machines and will simply pull them from market in the EU. Apple wishes to warn customers and partners about the change so that they would have sufficient time to order Mac Pro units and meet any needs prior to 1 March, when the amendment comes into effect.

Comment Re:Good (Score -1, Troll) 271

by Herrieman on Sunday February 05, 2012 @09:20PM (#38938331) Attached to: Job Seeking Hacker Gets 30 Months In Prison

IT should be a 'business enabler' ... I often need to send encrypted files (because the policies of my customers don't allow me to send the docs un-encrypted). And those files are often blocked ... Do you really think there is a danger? Hackers targeting your company would simply send the latest 0-day, which your anti-virus wouldn't catch anyway. I don't care about little Hitlers in IT that talk about staff as 'The user has no basis or justification to' ... WTF! Anything the user needs for business you should provide! And that doesn't mean that he/she can get anything he/she wants, but instead of 'being reasonable' and blocking everything you should provide a solution to enable that user in secure file-sharing with people if there is a business need... And yes, my docs are confidential and none of you IT monkeys should be able to read them ...

Comment Recommended keylengths/algorithms (Score 4, Informative) 223

by Herrieman on Saturday June 04, 2011 @11:52PM (#36340042) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Is SHA-512 the Way To Go?

You might want to have a look at http://www.keylength.com/ (overview of all 'official' recommendations regarding protocols and minimal keylengths).

If you work for banks: take into account the Payment Card Industry standard (https://www.pcisecuritystandards.org/ - strictly speeking only valid for credit card handling systems) and look at national compliancy requirements ...

Microsoft CEO Says Kinect To Support PCs Eventually 47

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday January 11, 2011 @04:28AM from the within-one-to-seventeen-years dept.

Ken writes "Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has said that the company will support Kinect for PCs sometime in the future. The motion controller is currently only officially supported for the Xbox 360, although it has been hacked and tweaked to work on pretty much any platform that can be plugged into via a USB port. 'We're trying to move beyond gaming to include the world of socialization, movies, TV, music, and we're trying to make the whole experience accessible to everybody in the family not just the traditional gamer.' When Ballmer was asked, 'Will you plug-in the Kinect to the PC, will you go for that in the near future?' he replied, 'We'll support that in a formal way in the right time and when we've got an announcement to make we'll make it.' Note that this is completely separate from the Kinect-like controller from PrimeSense and Asus." Other readers have tipped related articles about Kinect being used to enable 3D teleconferencing and help drive a small helicopter drone.

T-Mobile Slashes Fair Use Policy, Says Download At Home 364

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday January 11, 2011 @03:12AM from the data-not-allowed-on-our-network dept.

nk497 writes "T-Mobile in the UK has revealed a new fair use policy, cutting caps from 1GB and 3GB to 500MB, saying mobile browsing doesn't include videos or large downloads. 'If you want to download, stream and watch video clips, save that stuff for your home broadband,' the company said. All those people who have bought smartphones with the aim of doing such things on the go may not agree with the mobile operator, however. Any user that goes over the new limit won't be charged, but will be blocked from downloading or streaming for the rest of the month."

AMD CEO Dirk Meyer Resigns 123

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday January 11, 2011 @01:07AM from the quick-exit dept.

angry tapir writes "Advanced Micro Devices has announced that Dirk Meyer has resigned from the post of CEO, and that the company is beginning to search for a new chief executive. Meyer resigned in a mutual agreement with the board of directors, and the company has appointed Thomas Seifert, the company's chief financial officer, as the interim CEO. Meyer was installed as CEO in 2008 as a replacement to Hector Ruiz, just as the company was making its way out of rough financial times. In October, AMD posted a third-quarter net loss of US$118 million."

Gulf Bacteria Quickly Digested Spilled Methane 136

Posted by Soulskill on Monday January 10, 2011 @11:08PM from the om-nom-nom dept.

masterwit writes "From an AAAS news release: 'Bacteria made quick work of the methane released by the Deepwater Horizon blowout, digesting most of the gas within the four months after its release, according to a new study published online at ScienceExpress.' This study, however, did not deal with other chemicals (oil) from the disaster's fallout. A glimpse of good news from the disaster's aftermath." Reader iamrmani points out a related article suggesting that things may be looking up for BP after the Presidential Commission said blame for the disaster should be shared with service contractors and government regulators.

New Zealand Government Opens UFO Files 100

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday December 23, 2010 @05:38AM from the the-truth-is-down-there dept.

astroengine writes "Following hot on the heels of a series of international UFO sighting disclosures, the New Zealand government has joined the party and made public 2,000 pages of UFO eyewitness accounts dating back to 1952. Helpfully, the NZ newspaper The Dominion Post has scanned the documents and has made them available online. Among the accounts of alien encounters and strange lights in the sky is one of New Zealand's most famous UFO mystery: the Kaikoura sighting. But was it aliens? Probably not, but it makes for an entertaining read."

PlayStation App Coming To iOS, Android 47

Posted by Soulskill on Saturday December 18, 2010 @01:17AM from the psphone-looking-more-likely-all-the-time dept.

Sony has announced plans to launch PlayStation-centric apps for iOS 4 and Android devices. While the apps doesn't actually let users play games, it allows them to interact with various PlayStation Network functions. "This includes allowing players to view various trophies they and their friends have won in order to validate their self-worth. Players will also be able to view friends' online status and browse games for the PS3, PS2, and PSP with the app, as well as catch up on news and any relevant hardware announcements. If they see anything they like, the app will integrate with Facebook, Twitter, and e-mail to make for easy sharing." The app will be released for several European countries to start, with more versions and languages to follow.

Pac-Man's Ghost Behavior Algorithms 194

Posted by Soulskill on Friday December 03, 2010 @06:58PM from the i-hate-the-pink-one dept.

An anonymous reader writes "This article has a very interesting description of the algorithms behind the ghosts in Pac-Man. I had no idea about most of this information, but that's probably because it's difficult to study the ghosts when I die every 30 seconds. Quoting: 'The ghosts are always in one of three possible modes: Chase, Scatter, or Frightened. The "normal" mode with the ghosts pursuing Pac-Man is Chase, and this is the one that they spend most of their time in. While in Chase mode, all of the ghosts use Pac-Man's position as a factor in selecting their target tile, though it is more significant to some ghosts than others. In Scatter mode, each ghost has a fixed target tile, each of which is located just outside a different corner of the maze. This causes the four ghosts to disperse to the corners whenever they are in this mode. Frightened mode is unique because the ghosts do not have a specific target tile while in this mode. Instead, they pseudorandomly decide which turns to make at every intersection.'"

Analyzing Game Journalism 98

Posted by Soulskill on Friday December 03, 2010 @04:35AM from the wicked-awesome-is-not-an-impartial-phrase dept.

SSDNINJA writes "Joseph Jackmovich of gamrFeed analyzes 161 articles from Kotaku, Joystiq, and Destructoid to discover how well they report gaming news. He looks to find out if the stereotypes of game journalism being poorly sourced and sexist are anecdotal or based in fact."

Student Googles Himself, Finds He's Accused of Murder 184

Posted by samzenpus on Tuesday November 30, 2010 @03:36PM from the be-careful-what-you-search-for dept.

University of Florida student Zachary Garcia was more than a little surprised to find out he was wanted for murder after Googling his name. It turns out the police were looking for a different man but had mistakenly used Garcia's photo. From the article: "Investigators originally released a driver's license photo of Zachary Garcia — spelled with an 'A' — but it was Zachery Garcia — spelled with an 'E'— who was charged in connection with the crime."

Comment Re:Google (Score 1) 393

by Herrieman on Monday November 08, 2010 @12:08AM (#34158922) Attached to: TV Tropes Self-Censoring Under Google Pressure

It is even worse: description of companies in Google Places cannot use certain words anymore (I perform penetration tests and 'penetration' is now in that list of forbidden words). Crazy enough 'penetration' is allowed as Adword!

See http://blog.astyran.sg/2010/11/google-term-penetration-is-not-allowed.html.

A JavaScript Gameboy Emulator, Detailed In 8 Parts 62

Posted by timothy on Friday November 05, 2010 @09:20PM from the behind-the-scenes dept.

Two9A writes "JavaScript has shed its image of being a limited language, tied to DOM manipulation in a browser; in recent years, new engines and frameworks have given JS a reputation as a language capable of bigger things. Mix this in with the new elements of HTML5, and you have the capacity to emulate a game console or other system, with full graphical output. This series of articles looks in detail at how an emulator is written in JavaScript, using the example of the Gameboy handheld: starting at the CPU, and (as of part 8) running a copy of Tetris."

Real Reason Why the White iPhone 4 Is Delayed 182

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday October 27, 2010 @04:52PM from the no-phone-for-you dept.

tekgoblin writes "There have been numerous reasons why the White iPhone 4 may be delayed with one reason being the color mismatch between the home button and the body. Well this time there is another reason. A source has told CultofMac that the reason for the delay is a light leakage issue caused by the case being clear. Light from the case leaks into pictures taken by the back and front camera on the white iPhone 4, causing distorted pictures. This problem is non-existent on the black iPhone 4, because of its already black case, so Apple has been looking for a solution to this problem, thus the delay of the White iPhone 4 till spring of next year."

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