Comment Honeywell (Score 1) 253
I thought these guys made washers and dryers!
Comment This phone would be perfect for me... (Score 1) 437
if it didn't look retarded and had an electronic contact/phone book.
Comment Re:Seriously? (Score 1) 764
I am sure karma will catch up to her one of these days.
Comment Re:What automobile ? (Score 1) 1141
I'll take an H1 over a bike, thanks.
Comment Re:Diesel (Score 1) 1141
Sorry over 6 seconds 0-60 is not high performance.
Comment Re:This is Not all Bad News (Score 1) 804
Amen.
Comment This isn't (Score 1) 380
rocket science...
Comment Re:It's ok people (Score 1) 367
It's already in the wrong hands.
NVIDIA Driver Update Causing Video Cards To Overheat In Games 155
After a group of StarCraft II beta testers reported technical difficulties following the installation of NVIDIA driver update 196.75, Blizzard tech support found that the update introduced fan control problems that were causing video cards to overheat in 3D applications. "This means every single 3D application (i.e. games) running these drivers is going to be exposed to overheating and in some extreme cases it will cause video card, motherboard and/or processor damage. If said motherboard, processor or graphic card is not under warranty, some gamers are in serious trouble playing intensive games such as Prototype, World of Warcraft, Farcry 3, Crysis and many other games with realistic graphics." NVIDIA said they were investigating the problem, took down links to the new drivers, and advised users to revert to 196.21 until the problem can be fixed.
Comment Re:Sounds like resistance is easy. (Score 1) 268
I wasn't referring to the difference between Linux and Windows, rather the differences between the major Linux distros.
devent was implying that the diversity of Linux flavors available somehow made Linux more secure on the whole, which is simply false.
Comment Re:Sounds like resistance is easy. (Score 1) 268
There is hardly any difference in security as far as all the standard distros of Linux go(Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, Suse, RedHat, CentOS, Arch, Gentoo). And the kernel versions(2.6.30, 2.6.18, 2.6.31, 2.6.32, 2.6.33) are different from windows service packs and the individual security patches how?
Linux could be targeted just as easily... if it was WORTH targeting.
Comment Average developers working on the kernel? (Score 1) 289
I don't think an average developer salary is the accurate number to use in this estimate. The developers working on the kernel are probably anything but average.
Submission + - Game company abandons employees, takes IP. (tsumea.com)
snicho99 writes: A US owned gaming company has fled Australia, leaving unpaid employees and a massive tax bill. Apparently many staff have been working unpaid for months to allow their game to ship and hopefully the company to recover. Interzone's Perth (Western Australia) office was created with the assistance of a state government grant.
Last week Interzone's (American) CEO entered the building at night and removed all the servers and IP so that Interzone could continue production at a new company they have opened in Ireland. The staff cought him on camera: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYyr_lX98Bw .
More background here:
http://kranzky.rockethands.com/2010/02/13/interzone-the-downward-spiral/
Last week Interzone's (American) CEO entered the building at night and removed all the servers and IP so that Interzone could continue production at a new company they have opened in Ireland. The staff cought him on camera: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYyr_lX98Bw .
More background here:
http://kranzky.rockethands.com/2010/02/13/interzone-the-downward-spiral/
Mozilla Debates Whether To Trust Chinese CA 276
At his Freedom to Tinker blog, Ed Felten has a thoughtful, accessible piece on the debate at Mozilla about whether Firefox, by default, should trust a Chinese certificate authority (as it has since October). Felten explains in clear language why this is significant, and therefore controversial. An excerpt: "To see why this is worrisome, let's suppose, just for the sake of argument, that CNNIC were a puppet of the Chinese government. Then CNNIC's status as a trusted CA would give it the technical power to let the Chinese government spy on its citizens' 'secure' web connections. If a Chinese citizen tried to make a secure connection to Gmail, their connection could be directed to an impostor Gmail site run by the Chinese government, and CNNIC could give the impostor a cert saying that the government impostor was the real Gmail site."
Tiny ARM-Based Sensor System Makes Battery Replacement Obsolete 96
An anonymous reader writes "University of Michigan researchers have crammed an ARM Cortex microcontroller, a thin-film battery, and a solar cell into a package that is only 9 cubic millimeters in volume. The system is able to run perpetually by periodically recharging the on-board battery with a solar cell (neglecting physical wear-out of the system)."
