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Comment Re:Duh. (Score 1) 897

by Miststlkr (#36924626) Attached to: The End of the Gas Guzzler
mod parent up please. It is amazing how few people understand this concept. It makes perfect sense when you see it this way, it it just never explained. At least, nobody ever explained it to me growing up in the States...

Comment Re:Hardly Surprising (Score 1) 291

by Miststlkr (#36829682) Attached to: Suppressed Report Shows Pirates Are Good Customers
I'd say this sounds about right for me and several of my friends. Price is a detriment, and frankly the convenience of having them all on a media server hooked up to the TV with a decent frontend to navigate it all is worth something too. DVDs on my bookshelf collecting dust, cases of CDs in a storage shed, and an HTPC on the entertainment center being used daily.
The Internet

Feds Plot Massive Internet Router Security Upgrade 101

Posted by timothy from the let's-like-totally-upgrade dept.
BobB-nw writes "The U.S. federal government is accelerating its efforts to secure the Internet's routing system, with plans this year for the Department of Homeland Security to quadruple its investment in research aimed at adding digital signatures to router communications. DHS says its routing security effort will prevent routing hijack attacks as well as accidental misconfigurations of routing data. The effort is nicknamed BGPSEC because it will secure the Internet's core routing protocol known as the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP). (A separate federal effort is under way to bolster another Internet protocol, DNS, and it is called DNSSEC.) Douglas Maughan, program manager for cybersecurity R&D in the DHS Science and Technology Directorate, says his department's spending on router security will rise from around $600,000 per year during the last three years to approximately $2.5 million per year starting in 2009."
Patents

IBM Wins Most Patents In a Single Year For 2008 99

Posted by timothy from the that's-a-lot-of-paperwork- dept.
eldavojohn writes "You might have heard or felt that there is little left to patent these days but IBM begs to differ. They came in at over four thousand for the year of 2008. Now, this isn't a good metric to measure success or progress but for those of you who like to keep track: 'IBM said it earned 4,186 U.S. patents in 2008, more than triple the number of patents earned by rival Hewlett-Packard. Microsoft Corp earned 2,030 patents, while Intel Corp had 1,776 and Hewlett-Packard 1,424, according to the report, which compiled data from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Korean electronics giant Samsung Electronics had the second-highest number of patents at 3,515.' You can find the original source of this study here as well as 2007's data and even 2006's data."

Comment Re:Global Warning (Score 2, Insightful) 877

by Miststlkr (#26291583) Attached to: Is the Yellowstone Supervolcano About To Blow?
You have clearly not been to New Orleans, have you? There is a huge majority of black people, whites are the minority. If you set a camera in front of a Walmart at any time it will likely still look like all black people were shopping/looting/malingering/loitering/shopping/shopping/smoking/walking-past there. It's just the way the racial distribution works there. Adding to that the fact that seemingly a majority of the white folk live in the better neighborhoods like the Garden District [where I lived, which had no water damage, BTW...] and the fact that property is and has been CHEAPER IN THE LOWEST PARTS OF TOWN... go figure... guess who lived in the most affected areas? Hey.. the lower income families! The water didn't care what color your skin was.

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