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Comment Coincidence? (Score 1) 157

“All this begs the question,” Ditto said, “what is fundamentally going on with these stars that they end up with a ratio near the golden mean?”

Yeah. What is fundamentally going on with miles and kilometers that they end up with a ratio near the golden mean?

Comment Not towers (Score 2) 237

The article doesn't say they are towers. It says that, to phones, they look like towers. Presumably, to people, they don't look like towers.

Interceptors look to a typical phone like an ordinary tower. Once the phone connects with the interceptor, a variety of “over-the-air” attacks become possible, from eavesdropping on calls and texts to pushing spyware to the device.... Interceptors vary widely in expense and sophistication – but in a nutshell, they are radio-equipped computers with software that can use arcane cellular network protocols and defeat the onboard encryption.

Comment Re:Dangerous... (Score 2) 399

California parent of public school HS students here. It takes two years to get tenure in CA. That's just not long enough.

There are some cheap, inexperienced, (and bad) teachers with tenure. Overall, I'm very grateful for most of my children's teachers. But this year one of my daughter's teachers was clearly completely incompetent: young, arrogant, lazy, and intellectually vacuous. We complained to the principal (we were not the first to complain). Their hands are tied. It's almost impossible to dismiss an incompetent, tenured teacher.

Data Storage

Flash Memory Won't Get Cheaper Any Time Soon 166

jfruh writes "Some melancholy news from the Hot Chips symposium last week: NAND memory, which powers the solid-state drives that have revolutionized storage, has broken the $1 per gigabyte barrier and isn't getting any cheaper. 'They will always be ten times the cost of a hard drive,' says analyst Jim Handy. There are newer technologies in development, but they won't be able to beat NAND on price for years."

Submission + - Jury finds Google guilty of standards-essential patents abuse against MS

recoiledsnake writes: A federal jury in Seattle ordered Google to pay Microsoft $14.5 million in damages for breach of contract for failing to license at reasonable terms standard essential patents covering wireless and video technology used in the Xbox game console. Motorola had demanded Microsoft pay annual royalties of up to $4 billion for use of patents that are part of the H.264 video and 802.11 wireless standards, which are baked into Windows and the Xbox video game console. Microsoft said it was willing to pay royalties but not at the 2.25 percent of the product price that Motorola sought. We previously covered Motorola's exorbitant demands.
Movies

Buy the WarGames IMSAI 8080 and Possibly Impress Ally Sheedy 103

ilikenwf writes "Todd Fischer, the man behind this iconic prop from WarGames, the movie that spawned countless hackers, has come forward recently to announce its sale in the near future. Interestingly enough, the IMSAI 8080 still works, although the disk drive was damaged in shipping after the movie's conclusion, and was trashed."

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