Comment Is it okay if (Score 4, Insightful) 321
I just answer everything with Homestuck?
Comment Personally (Score 1) 1009
What if Broadwell is JUST for tablets/thin laptops/etc. and they introduce an updated Haswell the year after its original release?
Comment Re:http://leaverou.github.com/prefixfree/ - Fixed. (Score 1) 373
http://leaverou.github.com/prefixfree/
Break free from CSS prefix hell! Only 2KB gzipped -prefix-free lets you use only unprefixed CSS properties everywhere. It works behind the scenes, adding the current browser’s prefix to any CSS code, only when it’s needed.
Now why hasn't MS discovered this.
Comment Just move to Saskatchewan (Score 1) 419
SaskTel has unlimited data on all plans for high-speed. Only problem is that its still over copper/fibre to the node, and they've only just begun rolling out fibre to the home in select areas now. Until you get switched to it, you can't get any higher than a certain speed tier without dropping their IPTV service from the bundle (however, their IPTV service is pretty good; its based off the same hardware as AT&T U-verse)
Comment The benefit? (Score 1) 566
The benefit is that it gives us proof that Fox News is constantly making dumb editorial decisions. They are performing a public service, mainly because people enjoy watching the mass media goof up, especially if it involves Fox News.
Comment Re:Next on FOX: Open source is now a crime (Score 1) 343
What kind of stupid reporting is this, to make a suggestion that this is (1) open source is a movement, which (2) commits acts of terrorism and (3) will occur more often? The suggestion sounds awfully rhetorical, and will probably be picked up by some retarded right wing news agency.
First of all, the guy had everything backed up. No damage done, just some inconvenience.
Secondly, America is not a democracy - they just claim to be one, just like Iran. So attacking a US politician is certainly not an attack on democracy itself.
And remember that one teacher who said there is no such thing as free software? She's right, you know
Submission + - Texas Opens Fastest US Highway With 85 Mph Limit 1
Hugh Pickens writes writes: "Most highways in the US top out at 75 mph while some highways in rural West Texas and Utah have 80 mph speed limits but all that is about to change as Texas opens a stretch of highway with the highest speed limit in the country, giving eager drivers a chance to rip through a trip between two of the state’s largest metropolitan areas at 85 mph for a 41-mile toll road between Austin and San Antonio. “I would love it,” says Austin resident Alan Guckian. “Sometimes it’s fun to just open it up.” But while some drivers will want to test their horsepower and radar detectors, others are asking if safety is taking a backseat as a 2009 report in the American Journal of Public Health found that more than 12,500 deaths were attributable to increases in speed limits on all kinds of roads and that that rural highways showed a 9.1 percent increase in fatalities on roads where speed limits were raised. “If you’re looking at an 85 mph speed limit, we could possibly see drivers going 95 up to 100 miles per hour,” says Sandra Helin, president of the Southwestern Insurance Information Service. “When you get to those speeds, your accidents are going to be a lot worse. You’re going to have a lot more fatalities.""
Comment Great job... (Score 1) 400
You know, this seems to be the common solution to the "used book sales are worse than Piracy, how can we stop it?" problem.
Even the video game industry has been pulling off this stupidity with their fixation on online passes lately.
Nice job, bureaucratic commercial money-hogging idiots.
Submission + - Google Extends Patent Search to Prior Art - I wonder why? (i-programmer.info)
mikejuk writes: As well as buying up patents to defend itself against the coming Apple attack on Android, Google is also readying its own technology. It has extended its Patent Search facility to include European patents and has added a Prior Art facility.
The new Prior Art facility seems to be valuable both to inventors and to the legal profession. In order to be granted a patent the inventor has to establish that it is a novel idea — and in the current litigious environment companies and their lawyers might want to show that patents should not have been granted. My guess is that this is one Google facility that won't be closing any time soon as one of its main users is likely to be Google.
The new Prior Art facility seems to be valuable both to inventors and to the legal profession. In order to be granted a patent the inventor has to establish that it is a novel idea — and in the current litigious environment companies and their lawyers might want to show that patents should not have been granted. My guess is that this is one Google facility that won't be closing any time soon as one of its main users is likely to be Google.
Submission + - Secure Operating System Qubes Officially Released (net-security.org)
Orome1 writes: Joanna Rutkowska, CEO of Invisible Things Lab, today released version 1.0 of Qubes, a stable and reasonably secure desktop OS. It is the most secure option among the existing desktop operating systems — even more secure than Apple's iOS, which puts each application into its own sandbox and does not count on the user to make security decisions. Qubes will offer users the option of using disposable virtual machines for executing tasks they believe could harm their computer. These VMs will be lightweight, easily and extremely speedily created and booted, and would be just as easy to discard.
Comment Well (Score 1) 45
Now that it's legal to sell good video games in Australlia, I guess this type of pan-pacific expansion is a good thing.
Submission + - Don't download that app: US presidential candidates will STALK you with it (theregister.co.uk) 1
puddingebola writes: Apps released by both the Obama and Romney campaigns have been found to have "privacy issues." From the article: "Experts at GFI Software looked at the Android versions of both apps, discovering both to be surprisingly invasive.
Obama for America and Mitt’s VP request permissions, access to services and data and capabilities beyond their core mandate."
Obama for America and Mitt’s VP request permissions, access to services and data and capabilities beyond their core mandate."
Submission + - Google talks about the dangers of user content (blogspot.com)
An anonymous reader writes: I stumbled on an interesting, in-depth article on the Google security blog about the dangers faced by modern web applications when hosting any user supplied data. The surprising conclusion is that it's apparently almost impossible to host images or text files safely unless you use a completely separate domain. Is it really that bad? Why after 15 years we still can't get it right?
Submission + - World's first 3D printed racing car can pace at 140 km/h (techtripper.com)
An anonymous reader writes: A group of 16 engineers named “Group T” have unveiled a racing car “Areion”. The group is competing in Formula Student 2012 challenge, and the car they have unveiled is world’s first 3D printed race car. The Areion is not wholly 3D printed but most of it actually is. It was tested on Hockenheim race circuit and went from zero to 100km/h in just four seconds. Maximum speed Areion achieved on the same circuit was 141km/h. The car is eco-friendly as well as a motivation for innovative fields of technology. Cutting-edge technologies integrated into their environmentally friendly race car included an electric drive train, bio-composite materials and 3D printing on a big scale with Materialise.
Submission + - Microsoft denies Windows 8 app spying via SmartScreen (theregister.co.uk)
An anonymous reader writes: Microsoft has denied Windows 8 SmartScreen spying after research by Nadim Kobeissi indicated otherwise.
