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Comment Re:Should i buy one? (Score 1) 252

by cederlov on Wednesday June 22, 2011 @04:59AM (#36525316) Attached to: Nokia Introduces MeeGo-Powered N9 Phone

Lets hope its not the last, but rather the first decent phone. (Not only developed by Nokia...) I am curious as to how Microsoft reacts to this, as they kinda have Nokia around their little finger... Also, its a big win for everybody that Nokia launches a MeeGo device at all! Openness is not common in the world of mobile devices, but releases like this might change that. Openness was not very common in the early days of computers either...

Comment Meego (Score 2) 193

by cederlov on Monday March 07, 2011 @10:01AM (#35404770) Attached to: Nokia Sells Qt

Another nail in the coffin for Meego. At least from Nokias side. Lets hope Intel can carry the burden alone...

Nintendo 3DS To Be Released In February/March 131

Posted by Soulskill on Thursday September 30, 2010 @01:14AM from the now-with-more-dimensions dept.

angry tapir writes "Nintendo's 3DS, the first portable game device with 3D graphic technology, will go on sale in Japan on Feb. 26 next year. The 3DS will cost ¥25,000 (US$298), Satoru Iwata, Nintendo's president, told a packed news conference in Chiba, Japan. It will launch in Europe, Australia and the US in March." Nintendo also detailed a number of games that will launch at or near the same time, and they said the online shop would get some improvements

Submission + - Canonical designer demos Ubuntu context-aware UI (thinq.co.uk) 1

Submitted by Blacklaw on Tuesday September 21, 2010 @03:52AM

Blacklaw writes: Canonical's Christian Giordano has posted details of what he believes could be the future of user interface design in Ubuntu — a system that detects physical context.
Designed to be paired with a webcam or other sensor system, the concept is that the computer is able to detect where a user is in proximity to the display along with an idea of roughly what he or she might be doing. Using this information, the operating system — in this case, Ubuntu Linux — can automatically make changes to the screen layout. For example, when the system detects that the user has leaned back in his or her chair, the system automatically makes the currently playing video full-screen. Lean forward again, and the video returns to its previous windowed mode.

Submission + - Ballmer, Bezos Fund Effort to Undermine Bill Gates

Submitted by theodp on Tuesday September 21, 2010 @03:11AM

theodp writes: You know what they say — it takes money to avoid paying money. TechFlash reports that Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos have contributed $100,000 each to an effort to defeat an income tax on individuals in Washington state making more than $200,000. The backers of Initiative 1098, which is set for the November ballot, include Bill Gates (Sr.), who has emerged as one of the most vocal proponents of the income tax. Under the proposal, which has drawn the ire of the Bezos and Ballmer-backed Defeat 1098, no tax would be due on the first $200K of income, 5% tax would be owed on income between $200K and $500K, and everything above $500K would be subject to a 9% tax (cutoffs are doubled for joint returns).

Submission + - Codec2: An Open Source Low-Bandwidth Voice Codec (rowetel.com)

Submitted by

Bruce Perens

on Monday September 20, 2010 @09:37PM

Bruce Perens writes: "Codec2 is an Open Source digital voice codec for low-bandwidth applications, in its first Alpha release. Currently it can encode 3.75 seconds of clear speech in 1050 bytes, and there are opportunities to code in additional compression that will further reduce its bandwidth. The main developer is David Rowe, who also worked on Speex.

Originally designed for Amateur Radio, both via sound-card software modems on HF radio and as an alternative to the proprietary voice codec presently used in D-STAR, the codec is probably also useful for telephony at a fraction of current bandwidths.

The algorithm is based on papers from the 1980's, and is intended to be unencumbered by valid unexpired patent claims. The license is LGPL2. The project is seeking developers for testing in applications, algorithmic improvement, conversion to fixed-point, and coding to be more suitable for embedded systems."

Distinguishing Encrypted Data From Random Data? 467

Posted by timothy on Sunday September 19, 2010 @03:50PM from the is-this-a-solved-problem? dept.

gust5av writes "I'm working on a little script to provide very simple and easy to use steganography. I'm using bash together with cryptsetup (without LUKS), and the plausible deniability lies in writing to different parts of a container file. On decryption you specify the offset of the hidden data. Together with a dynamically expanding filesystem, this makes it possible to have an arbitrary number of hidden volumes in a file. It is implausible to reveal the encrypted data without the password, but is it possible to prove there is encrypted data where you claim there's not? If I give someone one file containing random data and another containing data encrypted with AES, will he be able to tell which is which?"

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