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Comment Bush's Torture Apologist (Score 1) 837

by aweiland on Monday August 02, 2010 @08:12PM (#33118056) Attached to: WikiLeaks 'a Clear and Present Danger,' Says WaPo

This was written by Marc Thiessen, the guy who was charged with justifying torture for W. He then went on and wrote a book about how torture is good. Jon Stewart dismantled this guy a few months ago when he was a guest on the Daily Show. Do not confuse what this guy writes with what the WaPo believes (of course the paper believes more and more along these lines in recent years).

Comment Re:PS3 held back by Xbox360, Wii under-used (Score 1) 160

by aweiland on Friday June 05, 2009 @10:35AM (#28222221) Attached to: Motion Control To Lengthen Console Hardware Cycles

We keep hearing it, but there's no real proof.

Unless you just take Sony's word for it. But their word is about as reliable as Dick Cheney's

Comment OnLive (Score 1) 160

by aweiland on Friday June 05, 2009 @09:55AM (#28221729) Attached to: Motion Control To Lengthen Console Hardware Cycles

Do people really expect this to take off any time soon? Do you realize the infrastructure that's going to be needed to be deployed regionally to make this work? In it's current state is nearly maxes out a basic cable connection. I just don't foresee it becoming standard any time soon.

Ars Examines Outlandish "Lost To Piracy" Claims and Figures 380

Posted by timothy on Thursday October 09, 2008 @02:03PM from the there-were-more-doubloons-here-I-swear-to-you dept.

Nom du Keyboard writes "For years the figures of $200 billion and 750,000 jobs lost to intellectual property piracy have been bandied about, usually as a cudgel to demand ever more overbearing copyright laws with the intent of diminishing of both Fair Use and the Public Domain. Now ARS Technica takes a look into origin and validity these figures and finds far less than the proponents of them might wish."

How Do I Talk To 4th Graders About IT? 531

Posted by kdawson on Friday October 03, 2008 @09:53AM from the just-promise-you-won't-introduce-them-to-basic dept.

Tsunayoshi writes "My son volunteered me to give a presentation on what I do for a living for career day at his elementary school. I need to come up with a roughly 20-minute presentation to be given to 4-5 different classrooms. I am a systems administrator, primarily Unix/Linux and enterprise NAS/SAN storage, working for an aerospace company. I was thinking something along the lines of explaining how some everyday things they experience (websites, telephone systems, etc.) all depend on servers, and those servers are maintained by systems administrators. I was also going to talk about what I do specifically, which is maintain the computer systems that allow the really smart rocket scientists to get things into space. Am I on the right track? Can anyone suggest some good (and cheap/easy to make) visual aids?"

Submission + - Social networking sites full of security holes (yahoo.com)

Submitted by

athloi

on Monday August 06, 2007 @12:16PM

athloi writes: "Social networking Web sites such as MySpace.com are increasingly juicy targets for computer hackers, who are demonstrating a pair of vulnerabilities they claim expose sensitive personal information and could be exploited by online criminals. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070806/ap_on_hi_te/so cial_networking_vulnerabilities"

Submission + - DRM Guru: New BluRay Won't Be Cracked For 10 Years (avsforum.com)

Submitted by

Mike

on Monday July 09, 2007 @11:40AM

Mike writes: "Supposedly the latest issue of HMM contains a quote from Richard Doherty, a Media analyst with Envisioneering Group which claims that "BD+, unlike AACS, which suffered a partial hack last year, won't likely be breached for 10 years." Doherty also said, "and if so, the damage would affect one film and one player." Will the BD+ format really be impervious to hackers for a decade? I've got ten bucks that says it won't. Any takers?"

Feed Xbox 360 getting 65nm GPU this fall? (engadget.com)

From feed by engfeed on Monday April 30, 2007 @02:13PM

Filed under: Gaming

While it's hardly a secret that the Xbox 360 will be getting a 65nm CPU upgrade sooner or later, China's Commercial Times (not always the most reliable source) is now reporting that the console's Xenos GPU will also be switching over to the cooler, lower-power chips, supposedly sometime this fall. According to the paper, an "engineering version" of the new and improved 65nm Xenos GPU has already been sent out, with production set to get underway in May, which would certainly seem to make a fall launch a possibility. Unfortunately, there's still no word on a possible disc drive upgrade to go along with these other revisions, which we all know is the real culprit for most of the console's noise problems.

[Via Joystiq]

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Feed Gene Critical For Sophisticated Brain Function Found (sciencedaily.com)

From feed by sdfeed on Monday April 30, 2007 @02:12PM

A gene found exclusively and at high levels in the brain appears to be a key player in enabling more sophisticated brain function, Yale School of Medicine researchers report in Science.

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