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Cyber War Mass Hysteria Is Hindering Security 75

Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday February 17, 2011 @11:59AM from the hysteria-is-hawesome dept.

jhernik writes "International cyber threat initiatives are in danger of becoming overblown, the US government's security chief told the RSA Conference in San Francisco. 'Cyber war is a terrible metaphor,' said the US government's cybersecurity czar Howard Schmidt. 'Don't make it something it's not.' Internet attacks from hackers, spies and terrorist groups deserves serious attention, he said, but this should not be 'to the extent of mass hysteria.'"

Porn Industry Tiptoes Into 3D Video 292

Posted by timothy on Wednesday January 13, 2010 @05:43PM from the been-there-seen-that dept.

itwbennett writes "The 3D porn experience is coming (eventually) to a home theater near you. Most adult filmmakers are moving slowly toward 3D video because of higher production cost, the small number of 3D TVs in the home, and, of course, the glasses. Rob Smith, director of operations at Hustler Video Group says he hopes that market penetration of 3D TVs in the home is high enough that 'by the fourth quarter of this year it will be at the point where we can justify doing a 3D product.' The average adult movie costs around $25,000 to $40,000 to make, and 3D movies cost about 30% more, says Ali Joone, founder of Digital Playground. But Joone thinks the biggest hurdle for 3D isn't so much the cost as the glasses: people don't want to be encumbered by eyewear when viewing a film, says Joone."

Comment Re:Not quite ... (Score 0) 543

by Tiiba on Sunday September 09, 2007 @11:50PM (#20534415) Attached to: Smarter-than-Human Intelligence & The Singularity Summit

"No sooner would your spreadsheet application spontaneously become a 3D game engine than an intelligence designed for help spontaneously become a harmful entity." The problem is that even when you give a super-AI a job that would be benign in the hands of a human, the AI can do the job so well that it will cream us in the process. One danger that is often brought up is an AI created by a company. If you think Bill Gates is anticompetitive...

How Not to Steal a Sidekick 424

Posted by timothy on Thursday June 08, 2006 @01:13PM from the quick-add-a-buddy dept.

timmit was one of many readers to point out the story of a stolen Sidekick, writing with this excerpt from the site: ""When my friend realized that she had left the Sidekick in the taxi she asked me to immediately send a message to the phone saying that we would give a reward for the phone. There was no response. After a day of waiting, she had to go to the store and spend over $300 on a new Sidekick. When she put her SIM card in, she saw that the person(s) that had taken the phone had not only signed on to AOL leaving their name and password in the phone, but they had taken pictures of themselves." I can sympathize, after someone with the address Rmluckyguy@aol.com tried to sell me back the Visor Deluxe stolen from my car last year in Philadelphia. I hope Evan has better luck.

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