Shinatosh - Slashdot User

Comment All Your Data Belong To Us! (Score 0, Redundant) 1089

by Shinatosh on Wednesday July 08, 2009 @08:05AM (#28620535) Attached to: Google Announces Chrome OS, For Release Mid-2010

-Will the Chrome OS licensed with the standard Google license, that was used "by mistake" in the Chrome browser first?
-Will the Chrome OS give me targeted ads on the desktop/taskbar/whatever based on my OS usage?
-Can one trust his/her computer and data to an OS/Web application system that was made by a company, primarily living off collecting/categorizing data?

Comment All Your data belong to us (Score 1) 1089

by Shinatosh on Wednesday July 08, 2009 @08:02AM (#28620493) Attached to: Google Announces Chrome OS, For Release Mid-2010

-Will the Chrome OS licensed with the standard Google license, that was used "by mistake" in the Chrome browser first?

-Will the Chrome OS give me targeted ads on the desktop/taskbar/whatever based on my OS usage?

-Can one trust his/her computer and data to an OS/Web application system that was made by a company, primarily living off collecting/categorizing data?

Comment Re:Down to 95% of the world's arsenals! (Score 1) 413

by Shinatosh on Tuesday July 07, 2009 @09:51AM (#28608223) Attached to: US, Russia Reach Nuclear Arsenal Agreement

Agreed.
Also lets say someone nukes a city like New York. Just one tiny 10 Megaton bomb is dropped. Beyond the shockwave, the radioactive fallout and direct radiation, the surrounding area woluld be seriously polluted, and I doubt anyone could survive there. Just imagine, all that plastic, rubber other dangeourus materials in our everyday appliances burned into the atmosphere. You probably have seen pictures or videos of burning oil wells in Kuvait. Well thats nothing compared what would be generated after a nuked city.
Now what if someone nukes just 12 of the major US cities? Or a lots of cities around the world? Maybe the nukes itself would destroy only the cities in a few km radius, but the products of all those things that would burn in our cities would surely cause some ugly consequences on the rest of the world.

Comment Re:Just wipe it once (Score 1) 527

by Shinatosh on Thursday January 08, 2009 @09:00PM (#26381045) Attached to: "Smash Your Hard Drive" To Fight Identity Theft

If You were a company that lives of recovering data, and would happen to know the answer for this challenge, would You release to the public the method You have used to recover the data for some $500 dollars and a drive You have hacked useless?

Comment profit lost (Score 5, Funny) 292

by Shinatosh on Friday October 03, 2008 @10:31AM (#25246757) Attached to: An Open Source Legal Breakthrough

1, wait for some guy to code something cool
2, In all .c and .h files do a "s/guys name/my name/g"
3, relase as closed source application
4, PROFIT!!

Oh, wait... It does not work anymore?

Well I hope all copying, greedy suckers will learn the lesson!

Cheers

US Court Gives 15 Months' Jail, $415,900 Fine For Game Piracy 525

Posted by timothy on Monday August 25, 2008 @01:18AM from the make-it-up-on-volume dept.

An anonymous reader writes "A Florida man has been sentenced to 15 months in prison and ordered to pay US$415,900 in restitution for selling video game systems that were preloaded with more than 75 pirated copies of games." If that fine sounds a bit steep, note that his profits on the devices "exceeded $390,000."

Study Concludes "Planet" Was Just Stellar Spots 132

Posted by timothy on Sunday August 24, 2008 @10:01PM from the waste-of-missiles dept.

Kligat writes "Back in January, it was reported that the youngest planet ever to be discovered, about ten times the mass of Jupiter, was orbiting the eight- to ten-million-year-old star TW Hydrae. Now a Spanish research team has concluded that TW Hydrae b doesn't exist, and that cold spots on the star's surface actually produced the dip in brightness instead of a transiting planet. Not as cool as if a planet had actually been there, but refutations are science, too, right?"

California Classes LED Component Gallium Arsenide a Carcinogen 495

Posted by timothy on Sunday August 24, 2008 @03:41PM from the tooth-fairy-is-a-cat-burglar dept.

Reader LM741N, pointing to a report released this month by California's Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment, writes "Gallium Arsenide has now been listed as a carcinogen. Given the increasing usage of gallium arsenide, the main constituent in LEDs, and their recent championing as more efficient light sources in recent news stories and Slashdot, there may be significant environmental concerns as related to their disposal. Morover, workers in industries using the substance may be at risk of cancer as well."

Nvidia Claims Intel's Larrabee Is "a GPU From 2006" 278

Posted by Soulskill on Sunday August 24, 2008 @07:44AM from the dem's-fightin'-woids dept.

Barence sends this excerpt from PC Pro: "Nvidia has delivered a scathing criticism of Intel's Larrabee, dismissing the multi-core CPU/GPU as wishful thinking — while admitting it needs to catch up with AMD's current Radeon graphics cards. 'Intel is not a stupid company,' conceded John Mottram, chief architect for the company's GT200 core. 'They've put a lot of people behind this, so clearly they believe it's viable. But the products on our roadmap are competitive to this thing as they've painted it. And the reality is going to fall short of the optimistic way they've painted it. As [blogger and CPU architect] Peter Glaskowsky said, the "large" Larrabee in 2010 will have roughly the same performance as a 2006 GPU from Nvidia or ATI.' Speaking ahead of the opening of the annual NVISION expo on Monday, he also admitted Nvidia 'underestimated ATI with respect to their product.'"

Submission + - Nvidia: Intel's Larrabee "a GPU from 2006" (pcpro.co.uk) 1

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Barence writes: "Nvidia has delivered a scathing criticism of Intel's Larrabee, dismissing the multi-core CPU/GPU as wishful thinking — while admitting it needs to catch up with AMD's current Radeon graphics cards. "Intel is not a stupid company," conceded John Mottram, chief architect for the company's GT200 core. "They've put a lot of people behind this, so clearly they believe it's viable. But the products on our roadmap are competitive to this thing as they've painted it. And the reality is going to fall short of the optimistic way they've painted it. As [blogger and CPU architect] Peter Glaskowsky said, the 'large' Larrabee in 2010 will have roughly the same performance as a 2006 GPU from Nvidia or ATI." Speaking ahead of the opening of the annual NVISION expo on Monday, he also admitted Nvidia "underestimated ATI with respect to their product.""

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