Comment Re:Old news (Score 1) 112
Yep. This is one of the first stories I remember reading on /. Here's the paper from 2002.
Comment Re:You can't always eject first on Mac (Score 1) 521
I'm guessing you're defining "never" to mean "not in my 20 year life time"
Comment Re: yes, (Score 2) 521
There's some truth to it, even a completely idle system seems to delay writing. Try it yourself: mount a USB stick, and copy some stuff to it. The LED on the flash stick often doesn't even start blinking until you issue the command to eject, when it finally starts writing.
Comment Re: What could possibly go wrong? (Score 1) 370
The initial papers were published from Stanford, quite a few years ago (and so are hidden form the internet).
http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~lowe/keypoints/ Here's a page for SIFT, and early image keypoint detector
Comment Re: Why would you want this? (Score 1) 132
Unicode. Itâ(TM)ll happen to you one day.
Well, it still hasn't happened to Slashdot
Comment Re:Go ahead, get rid of the 'phone jack... (Score 1) 332
My friend, I hope this has been a valuable lesson for you. It should have been obvious several posts ago with all the ducking and weaving around sales vs market share that you're talking with an unrelenting Apple fanboy, but we're all only human, and in the heat of the moment it's easy to miss the signs.
Next time, I trust you'll spot the warning signs earlier and bow out before it's too late.
Ransomware Infects a Hotel's Key System (dailymail.co.uk) 203
An anonymous reader writes:
A luxury hotel "paid "thousands" in Bitcoin ransom to cybercriminals who hacked into their electronic key system. The "furious" hotel manager says it's the third time their electronic system has been attacked, though one local news site reports that "on the fourth attempt the hackers had no chance because the computers had been replaced and the latest security standards integrated, and some networks had been decoupled." The 111-year-old hotel is now planning to remove all their electronic locks, and return to old-fashioned door locks with real keys. But they're going public to warn other hotels -- some of which they say have also already been hit by ransomware.
UPDATE: The hotel's managing director has clarified today that despite press reports, "We were hacked, but nobody was locked in or out" of their rooms.
UPDATE: The hotel's managing director has clarified today that despite press reports, "We were hacked, but nobody was locked in or out" of their rooms.
Comment Re:This is stupid (Score 4, Insightful) 161
Actually, if the difference between life and death is 30 seconds, then a paramedic getting to you 30 seconds sooner will make all the difference. Take it from a paramedic.
Comment My host is the router (Score 1) 140
My default gateway already is 127.0.0.1, you insensitive clod!
Comment Re: Old school reflective lcd (Score 2) 294
Marriage tip: Just be a good fella and sort the damn LEDs out, eh? She's probably not making it all up.
Comment Re:As always (Score 2) 239
You know, by encouraging off-topic discussion in the first post you're polluting your own discussion forum, forcing people to scroll through pages and pages of off-topic crap to get to the actual discussion.
Comment Re:Your password is old. (Score 1) 30
Can users also log in and completely miss the point?
Comment Re: This is actually a good thing in the big pictu (Score 1) 118
You have a mental illness. Get some help before you hurt someone or yourself.
Comment Re:Whut? (Score 1, Flamebait) 365
Parking pawls are flimsy, and constant use will wear out transmission components, making it even more dangerous to rely on.
BULLSHIT.
Comment Re:Meh... (Score 1) 365
and you'll see that the "park" gear is a dinky soft cast iron pawl.
So? Hook a rope up to that car and try to tow it, and you'll find that "dinky soft cast iron pawl" stands up to the challenge perfectly, and the wheels will skid. There's no point in engineering it any better.
