Comment Instant? (Score 2) 266
Most of my files are backed-up instant with an encrypted Dropbox-folder...
Comment Only harmful for Alzheimer? (Score 1) 116
"a practice that scientists say could hamper the progress of research into combating the dreaded disease."
I think this is something that we can extrapolate to every field. This is why we need to get rid of them...
Comment Belgian BS (Score 3, Insightful) 337
I genuinely hate these people as much as Sony...
Some of the taxes they ask:
1. Tax on a blank cd/dvd (you might use it to pirate music)
2. Tax on a DVD/CD-Burner (you might use it to pirate music)
3. Tax on music you buy (you might pirate it)
4. Extra tax if you buy the music online (you might pirate it more easely)
5. Tax on HDD/USB/Media players (you could store some of their music on it)
6. Tax on listening to the radio at work
7. Tax when you give a party and play music
8. Tax when you are a DJ and use the music at a party
When is the last time you had to go to jail because you bought a screwdriver? (You could kill someone with it, you know...)
Crazy BS...
Comment Technology? (Score 1) 348
As far as I know, there aren't any technologies that haven't been cracked or have a work-around... So, why bother?
Submission + - Cloud Gaming With Ray Tracing (pcworld.com)
An anonymous reader writes: As real-time ray tracing on a single desktop machine is still too slow for gaming Intel has worked on a research project that puts the heavy workload up into the cloud consisting of multiple 32-core chips working together. That enables new special effects for games like realistic reflections (e.g. on cars or the scope of a sniper rifle), glass simulations and multi-screen surveillance station. The paper also takes a closer look at various sources of latencies that become relevant in a cloud-based gaming approach.
Submission + - $30 GPS jamer - jams your life (newscientist.com)
An anonymous reader writes: A simple $30 GPS jamer made in china can ruin your day. Not just affecting your car navigation — ATM machines, cell phone towers, plane, boat, train navigation systems all depend upon GPS signals that are easily blocked. These devices fail badly — with no redundancy. These jamers can be used to defeat vehicle tracking products — but end up causing a moving cloud of chaos. Next wave of anti-GPS devices include GPS spoofers to trick or confuse nearby devices — scary.
Comment Only if ssh-password is 'alpine' (Score 1) 186
If you already have a jailbroken iphone and you changed your ssh-pasw for root, you should be fine....
Comment Progress (Score 2) 137
You can check the progress on Google's Transparency Report: http://www.google.com/transparencyreport/traffic/?r=EG&l=WEBSEARCH&csd=1288218432558&ced=1296644400000
Comment Re:AT&T's Fault? (Score 0) 265
Indeed... If they would of have turned 3G/Data off, OK. But it is never stated....
Example.com Has Changed 109
An anonymous reader writes "The familiar example.com domain, reserved for private testing, has been updated. Visiting the domain in a web browser no longer displays any content; instead, visitors are redirected to an explanatory page on IANA's website at iana.org/domains/example/. Other example domains such as example.net are also affected. Is this a bad change? Will the redirect cause problems for anybody?"
A Kinect Princess Leia Hologram In Realtime 112
mikejuk writes with this snippet from I, Programmer: "True 3D realtime holography is not only possible — it makes use of a Kinect as its input device. A team at MIT has recreated the famous 3D Princess Leia scene from the original Star Wars — but as a live video feed! It's a great stunt but don't miss the importance — this is realtime 3D holography and that means you can view it without any glasses or other gadgets and you can move around and see behind objects in the scene. This is more than the flat 3D you get in movies."
Comment killer text message (Score 1) 573
Talk about a 'killer text message'...
