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Comment Re:Screen power (Score 2) 160

When Apple released their iPad with retina display I read that the additional pixels require more electronics in the display which block some of the light. This in turn means that a stronger backlight is needed to have the same light output compared to a lower resolution display. For LCD it was an important factor at that time. For OLED, this might not make that much of a difference unless some of the connections would be on top of the pixels or due to a minimum border size per pixel.
NASA

NASA Asteroid Capture Mission To Be Proposed In 2014 Budget 106

MarkWhittington writes "Included in President Obama's 2014 budget request will be a $100 million line item for NASA for a mission to capture and bring an asteroid to a high orbit around the moon where it will be explored by astronauts. Whether the $2.6 billion mission is a replacement or a supplement to the president's planned human mission to an asteroid is unclear. The proposal was first developed by the Keck Institite in April, 2012 and has achieved new impetus due to the meteor incident over Russia and new fears of killer asteroids."

Comment Re:exploit (Score 1) 154

Are you sure you don't mean sweep for every possible IP? In case of a private network, that would be 16 million addresses (1.6 * 10^7) which is a lot less than 2.81 * 10^14. Unless it filters MAC addresses somehow, exhausting the entire range would require going through 2.81 * 10^14 addresses. If that were possible using just 1 bit of traffic per address, it'd still take 2.81 * 10^14 / 10^7 (10Mbps) = 2.81 * 10^7 seconds which is just over 325 days.

That number is large.

Comment Re:So... (Score 3, Interesting) 47

You're supposed to put all your devices behind the "Whitebox". Using your solution would give them skewed results, according to their terms:

The Whitebox should be placed in between your existing router and your networked computers. Any devices that connected via ethernet cable to your existing router should instead connect to the Whitebox. This ensures that the SamKnows device is always aware of the network being used and will never run tests at a time when you require your full bandwidth to be available. (Whitebox faq)

Comment Re:cracked? (Score 1) 164

The problem of factoring a large number is hard when it's a semiprime where both factors are very large numbers around the same magnitude as the square root of the semiprime. In this case 191605050401140404051920181528 can be factored into 2^3 * 3 * 23 * 222647 * 694079 * 8335727 * 269462689 which is easy to factor as the one but largest factor is only ~= 8 million. A naive program that just divides by 2 and all odd numbers up to 8335727 can give you the answer in less than a minute on a moderate computer nowadays. After finding the 8335727 factor you know that you will not have any more factors in 269462689 since sqrt(269462689) ~= 16415 which is the largest divisor you'd have to try to factor it.
The Internet

Network Neutrality Is Law In Chile 180

An anonymous reader writes "Chile is the first country of the world to guarantee by law the principle of network neutrality, according to the Teleccomunications Market Comission's Blog from Spain. The official newspaper of the Chilean Republic published yesterday a Law that guarantees that any Internet user will be able to use, send, receive or offer any content, applications or legal services over the Internet, without arbitrary or discriminatory blocking."
Data Storage

Submission + - Seagete Releases World’s First 3 TB External (net-security.org)

An anonymous reader writes: Seagate announced the world’s first 3 Terabyte (TB) external desktop drive. Available immediately, the 3TB FreeAgent GoFlex Desk external hard drive which can store up to 120 HD movies, 1,500 video games or countless hours of digital music.

Comment Re:Two reasons for SSL (Score 4, Informative) 269

Don't click the 'Get certificate' button. Once you click 'Add exception' and the pop-up is shown, Firefox is already retrieving the certificate. When it has retrieved the certificate, the 'Permanently store this exception' box is checked. If you click, 'Get certificate', the process starts over again. So what happens is that you uncheck the 'Permanently' checkbox and the 'Get certificate' process will re-check it again just before your click on the 'Confirm' button is processed. Indeed, very annoying.
Graphics

Photoshop CS5's Showpiece — Content-Aware Fill 378

Barence writes "If you're looking for reasons to upgrade to Photoshop CS5 when it arrives, a new demo video might just persuade you. Narrated by Bryan O'Neil-Hughes, a product manager on the Photoshop team, the video shows the new content-aware fill tool, which has the potential to revolutionise the way you clean up photos. If you're not happy with an item in your picture, select it, delete it, and Photoshop will analyse the surrounding area and plug the gap as if it never existed."

Comment Re:Quality Support? (Score 2, Informative) 165

Then again, check the news section after logging on to Metalink:

Later this year, Oracle will retire the Classic MetaLink support portal and provide a single support interface through My Oracle Support.

So it does appear that it won't take too long before you'll be unable to use Metalink without flash.

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