Comment Re: Nobody ever questioned if the scam worked (Score 1) 131
Excellent answer.
Comment Re: Nobody ever questioned if the scam worked (Score 1) 131
Well I did the math and you should do it. This actually is very efficient.
Comment Re: FWIW (Score 1) 96
The problem with this reasoning, especially when we see all the articulations of coherent multipart deductive thinking working in the latest language model and transformers AI, if that it is already off with reality.
And if we understimate the rate at which AI takinging over language related functions brings it much closer to AGI, we risk being set for a dangerous awakening !
15-Year-Old Arrested For Hacking 259 Companies 153
An anonymous reader writes "Austrian police have arrested a 15-year-old student suspected of hacking into 259 companies across the span of three months. Authorities allege the suspect scanned the Internet for vulnerabilities and bugs in websites and databases that he could then exploit. As soon as he was questioned, the young boy confessed to the attacks, according to Austria's Federal Criminal Police Office (BMI)."
Erasing Neuronal Memories May Help Control Chronic Pain 80
An anonymous reader writes "A team of researchers led by McGill neuroscientist Terence Coderre, who is also affiliated with the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, has found the key to understanding how memories of pain are stored in the brain. More importantly, the researchers are also able to suggest how these memories can be erased, making it possible to ease chronic pain."
India Turns Down American Fighter Jets, Buys From France 600
An anonymous reader writes "While America had offered the F-16, F-18 and now the stealth F-35 fighter, India picked for its new multi-role attack jet a low cost, older French plane. Why? For one, it's cheaper, and two, if American/Indian relations go bad, can they get the parts and equipment to keep the planes in the air? It seems prudence beat out the latest in technology."
Comment some Food for Thought (Score 1) 251
[edit : sorry, that's the repost under my account. My bad.]
On the first point I would recommend you stick with a simple ecosystem of same vendor / same model, or better then, with a spare one of another model of another vendor, just in case
Another interesting choice : Make a map of the estimated coverage interlap of the routers in the field. Then colorize it with a color for each choosen channel, so that never two neighbors (closest overlapping person in that direction) share the same color.
With channel 1, 6 and 11, you would get 3 colors, but nstead of using 3 colors, use 4 colors by letting frequencies overlap better if 3 don't suffice. That would make channels 1, 5, 8, 11 (I prefer to give the extra space to the lowest frequency, on the logic that it spreads a bit better, so would be the least at ease).
Then, of course, if you could use some power control. Listen to neighbors, estimate their activity relatively to yours, and scale your power according to that difference. The less you're active, the less you merit to dispensate your imprint on the local spectrum.
My 2 cents, of course. But I admit I did a Ph.D in a related field.
Gaming Netflix Ratings? 235
Nom du Keyboard writes "Not for the first time, I've noticed a new film that hasn't yet even reached the theaters, yet has hundreds of positive votes and/or reviews recorded on Netflix. This time the movie is Inkheart. For a movie that doesn't even hit the theaters until January 23, it already has 428 votes and a rating of 4.3 (out of 5) on Netflix. Seems more than a bit fraudulent to me. Also, it has a review that doesn't even review the movie, but instead says the books are great, therefore the movie should be too. Does the word 'shills' come to mind? With millions spent to promote a movie, are a few hundred of that going to phony voters? Or have that many people actually seen the film and just can't wait to rush home and log onto Netflix to vote? Just what is Netflix's responsibility here to provide honest ratings?"
(Useful) Stupid Regex Tricks? 516
careysb writes to mention that in the same vein as '*nix tricks' and 'VIM tricks', it would be nice to see one on regular expressions and the programs that use them. What amazingly cool tricks have people discovered with respect to regular expressions in everyday life as a developer or power user?"
CO2 To Fuel, Closing the "Carbon Loop" 316
leprasmurf writes "Inhabitat has posted an article detailing a recent announcement of a process to turn CO2 into fuel. The process, which used to be considered too energy inefficient, uses a multi-step, low pressure, and low temperature biocatalyst to break the CO2 into 'basic hydrocarbon building blocks.'"
Judge Suppresses Report On Voting Systems 192
Irvu writes "A New Jersey Superior Court Judge has prohibited the release of an analysis conducted on the Sequoia AVC Advantage voting system. This report arose out of a lawsuit challenging on constitutional grounds the use of these systems. The study was conducted by Andrew Appel on behalf of the plaintiffs, after the judge in the case ordered the company to permit it. That same judge has now withheld it indefinitely from the public record on a verbal order."
Linux Rescues Battery Life On Vista Notebooks From Dell 200
nerdyH writes "Dell is preparing to ship two enterprise-oriented Windows Vista notebooks with an interesting feature — a built-in TI OMAP (smartphone) processor that can power instantly into Linux. The 'Latitude ON' feature is said to offer 'multi-day' battery life, while letting users access email, the web, contacts, calendar, and so on, using the notebook's full-size screen and keyboard. I wonder if someday we'll just be able to plug our phones into our laptops, switching to the phone's processor when we need to save battery life? Or, maybe x86 will just get a lot more power-efficient. Speaking at MontaVista's Vision event today, OLPC spokesperson and longtime kernel hacker Deepak Saxena said the project is aiming for 10-20 hours of battery life during active use, on existing hardware (AMD Geode LX800 clocked at 500MHz, with 1GB of Flash and 256MB of RAM)."
Can Static Electricity Generate Votes? 377
artgeeq writes "A recent local election in Washington, DC resulted in 1500 extra votes for a candidate. The board of elections is now claiming that static electricity caused the malfunction. Is this even remotely possible? If so, couldn't an election be invalidated pretty easily?"
Comment Re:folding at home? (Score 1) 174
Yeah, it's doing 3.4+ sustained petaflops and growing, but heck it's not general purpose, so it won't get into the top500 anytime soon.
Besides, the perf/watt ratio is not so good given all these windows machines contributing 6% of the power with 60% of the cpus
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