Comment its paid dudes from big corp Security Teams (Score 1) 93
Of course they aren't going to bite the hand that feeds them. That said, I do think Microsoft owns at least a hefty share of the blame
Comment Re:If anyone still thinks... (Score 1) 518
TOTALLY SUBSTANTIATED. Who other than "raving fucking lunatics" would propose criminalizing vaccines that saved millions of our lives?
Comment hate speech (Score 2) 402
So if want to publish hate speech online that by law can't be removed I simply run for an office. Great.
Comment Re:Hard to believe (Score 1) 231
It's a 100% true. I have two teenage daughters who have iphones and they've told me all about it. The kids with Androids are kind of looked at as second class citizens and very often get left out of many of the group chats all because of the blue bubbles. Stupid as it may seem its a very big deal amongst high school kids.
Comment Re:What research? (Score 2) 61
After posting first and then clicking on the link to the article (I'm probably the first guy to ever do that) I see the article actually does link to another article which explains the math. The math is all predicated on bitflips occurring at an average value of "1.3e-12 upsets/bit/hour" and the math article provides a link to yet another article which supposedly shows how the frequency of bitflips was derived but it's a broken link.
Comment What research? (Score 1) 61
"Research from 2010 estimated that a computer with 4GB of commodity RAM has a 96 percent chance of experiencing a bitflip within three days"
If that were true I think computers would be far less stable than they are. Would be nice if they linked to the research so we could read for ourselves how the numbers were "estimated".
Comment Re: False ratings (Score 3, Interesting) 88
Exactly. This video convinced me to never buy Apple products.. https://youtu.be/FY7DtKMBxBw
Comment Re:Don't want residential customer service? (Score 1) 101
Good on MediaCom?? Their committing fraud.
Commission Affirms NVIDIA Violated Rambus Patents 35
MojoKid writes "The International Trade Commission has announced its findings in the NVIDIA/Rambus patent infringement lawsuit, and it's not the sort of ruling Team Green would've preferred. The commission found NVIDIA to be in violation of three Rambus patents. The trade panel also granted an injunction Rambus had requested, which theoretically prevents NVIDIA and the various companies attached to the lawsuit (Asus, HP, Palit, and MSI among others) from selling products that contain the infringing IP. The commission's decision this week affirms a January ruling that saw NVIDIA in violation of three Rambus patents while dismissing two additional claims of infringement Rambus made."
Plastic Bottle Catamaran Crosses The Pacific Ocean 56
The Plastiki, a catamaran made with plastic bottles, has completed a 8,000 mile trip between San Francisco and Sydney. Captain David de Rothschild said, "The Plastiki is literally a metaphorical message in a bottle about beating waste and reducing our human fingerprints on our natural environment." The boat will go on display at the Australian National Maritime Museum for the next month.
Geologists Might Be Charged For Not Predicting Quake 375
mmmscience writes "In 2009, a series of small earthquakes shook the region of L'Aquila, Italy. Seismologists investigated the tremors, but concluded that there was no direct indication of a big quake on the horizon. Less than a month later, a magnitude 6.3 earthquake killed more than 300 people. Now, the chief prosecutor of L'Aquila is
looking to charge the scientists with gross negligent manslaughter for not predicting the quake."
Low-Level Format For a USB Flash Drive? 252
Luyseyal writes "I unwittingly bought one of these terrible flash cards at Fry's and have managed to nuke two of them, successively. I have a USB flash card reader that will read/write the current one at USB 1.0 speed, but it locks up every Ubuntu and XP machine I've come across in high-speed access mode. I have read that if I low-level format it that it could be fixed, though my current one doesn't support it. My Google-fu must be weak because I cannot seem to find a USB flash reader that specifies that it will do low-level formatting." Can anyone offer advice for resurrecting such drives?
Blizzard Boss Says Restrictive DRM Is a Waste of Time 563
Stoobalou writes "Blizzard co-founder Frank Pearce reckons that fighting piracy with DRM is a losing battle. His company — which is responsible for one of the biggest video games of all time, the addictive online fantasy role player World of Warcraft — is to release StarCraft 2 on July 27, and Pearce has told Videogamer that the title won't be hobbled with the kind of crazy copy protection schemes that have made Ubisoft very unpopular in gaming circles of late. StarCraft 2 will require a single online activation using the company's Battle.net servers, after which players will be allowed to play the single-player game to their hearts' content, without being forced to have a persistent Internet connection."
A Genetically Engineered Fly That Can Smell Light 111
An anonymous reader writes "It sounds like a cool — if somewhat pointless — super-powered insect: a fly that can smell light! Researchers added a light-sensitive protein to a fruit fly's olfactory neurons, which caused the neurons to fire when the fly was exposed to a certain wavelength of blue light. Adding the protein specifically to neurons that respond to good smells, like bananas, makes for a light-seeking fly."
Google Stops Ads For "Cougar" Sites 319
teh31337one writes "Google is refusing to advertise CougarLife, a dating site for mature women looking for younger men. However, they continue to accept sites for mature men seeking young women. According to the New York Times, CougarLife.com had been paying Google $100,000 a month since October. The Mountain View company has now cancelled the contract, saying that the dating site is 'nonfamily safe.'"
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