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Comment Re:Android is finished. (Score 1) 512

by Sappharad on Friday September 13, 2013 @06:38PM (#44844823) Attached to: Why Apple Went 64-Bit With the iPhone 5s

For most people, "changing a compiler switch" to get 64-bit builds for iOS is all you need to do. The situations where you need to make changes are the same ones that have existed for years in C, C++, and ObjC applications. In my case, flipping the switch just triggered some compiler warnings regarding ambiguous data types like size_t where I wasn't being specific as to their size. The compiled builds still worked perfectly fine out of the box, but I was able to go in and be more specific or cast when necessary to eliminate those warnings. An application like Infinity Blade 3 (which is the one you mention during the presentation) is fairly complex, maybe they had some native ASM code in there or something.

Anonymous Claims To Have Hacked Sony PSN Again 239

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday August 16, 2012 @08:03AM from the we're-back dept.

hypnosec writes "Anonymous has claimed a new attack on Sony's PlayStation Network, and this time around it seems they have information from nearly 10 million user accounts. As a proof of the hack they dumped more than 3000 credentials online in the form of a pastebin post. The notorious hacktivist group is claiming that the entire set of hacked credentials contains over 10 million PSN accounts and that the file is of around 50GB." Update: 08/16 13:12 GMT by S : Sony has denied this claim.

Apple eBook Rules Changing For Sellers 584

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday February 02, 2011 @01:58PM from the and-you'll-like-it dept.

An anonymous reader writes "In a 'pray I don't alter it again' moment for eBook sellers on apple iPad and iPhone devices, Apple is now requiring third-party eBook sellers like Amazon to also make their titles available through the Apple store, wherein the empire will take an additional 30% cut. 'Apple confirmed Tuesday that it would require app developers that sell e-books outside of their iPad and iPhone apps — through a Web site, for example — to also sell the books inside those apps. And purchases that originate in the app must be made through Apple, which keeps a 30 percent cut.'"

Simpler "Hello World" Demonstrated In C 582

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday March 16, 2010 @10:03PM from the non-obfuscated dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Wondering where all that bloat comes from, causing even the classic 'Hello world' to weigh in at 11 KB? An MIT programmer decided to make a Linux C program so simple, she could explain every byte of the assembly. She found that gcc was including libc even when you don't ask for it. The blog shows how to compile a much simpler 'Hello world,' using no libraries at all. This takes me back to the days of programming bare-metal on DOS!"

Comment Re:Discontinue effective June 23rd, confirmed (Score 1) 3

by Sappharad on Saturday June 07, 2008 @03:57PM (#23695433) Attached to: Usenet Access from Timer Warner being eliminated

Link, because I forgot to post it:
http://help.rr.com/HMSFaqs/e_newsgroups_termination.aspx

Student Makes a Million Online, Gets Deported 309

Posted by Zonk on Sunday November 26, 2006 @06:32PM from the probably-should-have-thought-this-through dept.

Via Kotaku, a story at the Mainichi daily news about an enterprising exchange student that got himself deported. Wang Yue Si, a Chinese student who went to Japan on a student visa, found himself in need of some spending money. Since he was a gamer, he decided to make some cash by selling virtual items online. He was so successful, the cops noticed. From the article: "He started selling items such as weapons and currency for online games through an Internet auction site in April this year, without obtaining the appropriate residency status. Wang, living in Kumamoto, has admitted that he sold the virtual goods for about 6 million yen ($US 1.3 Million), in violation of the Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Law. A bank worker became suspicious when Wang regularly sent money back home to China and alerted police in August, prompting Kumamoto police officers to investigate the student."

Wii Will Have an Updatable Linux OS 330

Posted by Zonk on Sunday October 08, 2006 @06:40PM from the penguin-with-a-wand dept.

eldavojohn writes "There's bits and pieces of information floating around that revolve around Iwata Asks interviews on Nintendo's website. What I found interesting was the tidbit about the updatable operating system: 'Wii is the first system from Nintendo that we can continue to be involved in (via operating system updates) after the customer buys it. This means that Wii will greatly expand and diversify the ways in which people will enjoy games in the future.' The Wii is reported to operate on top of a proprietary form of the Linux kernel, although there are already efforts to make a GNU/Linux for the console. So, the answer to the age old question is that it already runs Linux."

Undetectable Rootkits Through Virtualization? 237

Posted by Zonk on Thursday June 29, 2006 @06:28PM from the two-rooted-plants-die dept.

techmuse writes "eWeek has an article about a prototype rootkit that is implemented using a virtual machine hypervisor running on top of AMD's Pacifica virtualization implementation. The idea is that the target OS, or software running on it, would not be able to detect the rootkit, because the OS would be running virtualized on top of the rootkit. The prototype is supposed to be demonstrated at the Syscan conference and the Black Hat Briefings over the next month."

Office 2007 Delayed Again 211

Posted by Zonk on Thursday June 29, 2006 @05:51PM from the clippy's-triumphant-return dept.

Tyler Too writes "Ars Technica reports that Microsoft Office 2007 has been delayed again, this time into early 2007. 'Based on internal testing and the beta 2 feedback around product performance, we are revising our development schedule to deliver the 2007 system release by the end of year 2006, with broad general availability in early 2007.' Tough bit of timing after this week's online preview of Office 2007."

Interview With the Father of Java 107

Posted by Zonk on Friday March 31, 2006 @07:41PM from the hot-brewed-programming-language dept.

Eh-Wire writes "The Globe & Mail interviews James Gosling after a keynote talk to Sun developers in his home town of Calgary. His thoughts and comments regarding the 'dead end' oil industry, disconnected Telco strategist, and unleashing 'creative weirdoes' makes for an interesting read." From the article: "Java is evolving. It's sort of embedded in the social experiment that is the Internet. There's been tremendous adoption of Java for building large-scale enterprise apps. It's worked tremendously well there. There's been all kinds of growth lately in cellphones and more and more embedded systems. It's all about making the environment around us more intelligent."

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