Comment Re:Video on mobile phones (Score 1) 90
http://developer.android.com/sdk/ndk/index.html Not really an issue?
Comment Re:Bittorrent (Score 2, Interesting) 248
Also, add in the other forms of digital distribution, and digital cable, can't the source providers just collect their own data?
Comment Bittorrent (Score 1) 248
Maybe they can justify Bittorrent "profit" losses by using download statistics to provide ratings. Nielsen is just an extrapolation anyways. At least for certain markets they could save a ton of money on this research.
Comment Re:But how would this be deployed? (Score 1) 328
Well, they talked about introducing the genes to the liver. And people can have liver transplants. And we can grow livers. Sounds like aftermarket possibilities. Even if not the liver, some effective organ.
Comment Re:I knew it! (Score 1) 610
Interesting idea... you should write a book on it. And maybe refer to those as Strange Loops.
Submission + - Using Google to crack MD5 passwords. (lightbluetouchpaper.org) 2
stern writes: "A security researcher at Cambridge, trying to figure out the password used by somebody who had hacked his website, ran a dictionary through the encryption hash function. No dice. Then he pasted the hacker's encrypted password into Google, and Shazzam — the all-knowing Google delivered his answer. Conclusion? Use no password any other human being is ever likely to use for any purpose, I think."
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