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Submission + - Youtube drops 2 billion fake music industry views (dailymail.co.uk) 1

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 29, 2012 @02:43PM

An anonymous reader writes: Youtube drops 2 billion fake music industry views and their offending videos leaving all major recording companies looking like the criminals they are. Ooops! http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2254181/YouTube-wipes-billions-video-views-finding-faked-music-industry.html

Comment Re:Instead of distracting it with 'climate change' (Score 1) 87

by baldrad on Monday October 29, 2012 @11:05PM (#41813667) Attached to: Titan Supercomputer Debuts for Open Scientific Research

Tell that to the people who made the 2-tonne black monstrosity in the loading bay down the hall.

Dude don't be so racist

Comment Re:At the end of the day (Score 5, Informative) 387

by baldrad on Tuesday August 28, 2012 @04:01PM (#41155251) Attached to: Why Juries Have No Place In the Patent System

The problem is, that the jury admitted to skipping entire parts of the case and just awarding apple money. Not just that, but some features that apple has patented were not even apple innovations. So whether Samsung did copy or not, Apple was awarded money for things it copied. It isn't the fact that people are pro Samsung or pro Apple, it is that Apple was awarded a giant sum of money due to a broken system and an uneducated jury when it comes to patents.

Comment Re:Barring? (Score 1) 416

by baldrad on Wednesday March 21, 2012 @04:12PM (#39432499) Attached to: Microsoft Barring Certain Staff From Buying Macs, iPads?

still doesn't make sense... Eating its own dog food, means that it eats its on product... im sure if a dog made dog food they would eat it...

Comment The war of the future (Score 1) 158

by baldrad on Wednesday March 21, 2012 @04:05PM (#39432369) Attached to: Meet the Hackers Who Get Rich Selling Spies Zero-Day Exploits

I think it will be interesting to see how the governments of the world start to evolve around this new threat.

Submission + - Chrome hacked in 5 minutes, 60k USD prize claimed (twitter.com)

Submitted by Skuto on Wednesday March 07, 2012 @06:49PM

Skuto writes: After offering a total prize fund of up to 1M USD for a successful Chrome hack (http://news.slashdot.org/story/12/02/28/1833229/google-offers-1-million-for-chrome-exploits), it seems Google got what it wanted (or not!). No more than 5 minutes into the Pwn2Own cracking contest team Vupen exploited 2 Chrome bugs to demonstrate a total break of Google's browser. They will win at least 60k USD out of Google's prize fund, as well as taking a strong option on winning the overall Pwn2Own prize. It also illustrates that Chrome's much lauded sandboxing (http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2011/12/chrome-sandboxing-makes-it-the-most-secure-browser-vendor-study-claims.ars) is not a silver bullet for browser security.

Submission + - Large Solar Flare To Glance Off Earth (spaceweather.com) 1

Submitted by JoeRobe on Wednesday March 07, 2012 @01:29PM

JoeRobe writes: According to spaceweather.com, a major X5 solar flare is on it's way to deliver a glancing blow to the Earth's magnetic field. This is the second x-class flare to be released by the same sunspot in the past few days, the first being an X1. In both cases, the sunspot (spot 1429) was not directly facing Earth, but it is still active, and poses a threat for a large, Earth-directed flare in the next few days.

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