Comment ALL your file (Score -1, Offtopic) 260
ALL your files are belong to US
Comment money money (Score 1) 307
I agree with the general reaction I am reading.. and at the same time an ambitious group of people could see this as an opportunity to provide an installation and maintenance service to the neighborhoods and other associations. If it became popular and lucrative then surely the ISPs would start offering the same deal to keep their extorti.. er um, "business model" alive. Soon after the ISPs and telco's and cable co's and other monop.. er um, "companies" jump on board, we'll be right back to square one because the fiber lines will be driven up to at least $300 a month.
Comment LIKELY YOU WONT GET THIS FAR... (Score 1) 429
But if you do happen to make it to my comment, I have a potential solution for you. If you need to extend the framework to meet the new requirements, look into AOP. It will allow you to specify behavior and attach interactive code to anywhere in the call graph. A good example is caching. Say you framework didn't support it, but now they want it... you can point-cut the object hydration calls and (quickly) build a caching system and subvert the original call, or continue the original call flow, all under your precise control.
AOP is honestly, imfho, the best evolutionary leap in software design since OOP.
AOP is honestly, imfho, the best evolutionary leap in software design since OOP.
Comment Re:Two words (Score 1) 3709
If he does ONLY one thing, my hope is that it will be changing the system such that a group of greedy political criminals (or anyone for that matter) will no longer be able to change the fundamentals our country is based on.. i.e. the wiretaps, patriot act, etc, essentially restoring the checks and balances that were suppose to be immutable.
Fuel Efficiency and Slow Driving? 1114
vile8 writes "With the high gas prices and ongoing gas gouging in my hometown many people are trying to find a reasonable way to save gas. One of the things I've noticed is people driving exceptionally slow, 30mph in 45mph zones, etc. So I had to take a quick look and find out if driving slow is helpful in getting better mileage. I know horsepower increases substantially with wind resistance, but with charts like this one from truckandbarter.com it appears mileage is actually about the same between 27mph and 58mph or so. So I'm curious what all the drivers out there with the cool efficiency computers are getting ... of specific interest would be the hemis with MDS; how do those do with the cylinder shutoff mode at different speeds?" Related: are there any practical hypermiling techniques that you've found for people not ready to purchase a new car, nor give up driving generally?
McAfee Artemis Claims Protection Online, On-the-Fly 107
Seems like McAfee has created a new Internet-based service to provide active protection on the fly when a PC gets hit by malicious computer code. "[Artemis] is a lot faster than traditional methodologies and it closes the gap between when a piece of malware is written, discovered, analyzed and protected against ... Artemis is available at no charge as part of McAfee VirusScan Enterprise or McAfee Total Protection Service for small and medium-sized businesses. Artemis is also available for McAfee's consumer products, where the functionality is called Active Protection."
US DoD Poll On Leap Seconds 314
@10u8 writes "For time scales to leap, or not to leap, has been the question here before. The ITU-R will be considering leap seconds again in a few weeks. This week the USNO posted a survey about leap seconds by the US DoD. The issue has civil implications as well as technical ones, and there is a demonstrated way to respect the history, remove leaps from navigation and POSIX time, yet keep the sun overhead at noon."
TransferJet Consortium Works Towards Touch Data Transfer Tech 60
Iddo Genuth writes to tell us that many of the large tech companies have banded together in order to develop TransferJet technology. Discussed earlier this year, TransferJet promises to allow rapid data transfer between devices in close proximity. "The group of companies involved in the development of TransferJet has been tagged the 'TransferJet Consortium' and includes many industry giants such as Sony, Canon, Kodak, Nikon, Pioneer, Toshiba, Samsung and many others. The companies intend to market a broad array of products and services incorporating TransferJet technology with the intention of increasing its usage through the consumer electronics industry. With this new technology, there will be no need for access points or complex data transfer setups. By touching the two devices together, intuitive operation will kick in and the files will be transferred automatically."
The London Stock Exchange Goes Down For Whole Day 792
Colin Smith writes "TradElect, the Microsoft .Net based trading platform for the London Stock Exchange, was offline for about seven hours, meaning that their 5-nines SLAs are shot for approximately the next 100 years. The TradElect system was launched back in June of 2007 and was designed for increased speed and system capacity."
Are 68 Molecules Enough To Understand Diseases? 133
Roland Piquepaille writes "A researcher from the University of California at San Diego (UCSD) claims that 68 molecules can explain the origins of many serious diseases. After reviewing findings from multiple disciplines, he 'realized that only 68 molecular building blocks are used to construct these four fundamental components of cells: the nucleic acids (DNA and RNA), proteins, glycans and lipids,' and he said that 'these 68 building blocks provide the structural basis for the molecular choreography that constitutes the entire life of a cell.'"
World's First "Unclonable" RFID Chip 320
An anonymous reader writes to tell us that a new RFID chip from Verayo claims to be unclonable through the use of the new Physical Unclonable Functions (PUF), sort of an electronic DNA for silicon chips. "Basic passive RFID chips can be easily cloned by copying the data residing on one chip to another. Verayo's PUF-based RFID chips cannot be cloned, and provide a very strong and robust authentication mechanism. No other chip or device can be disguised as the original chip, even if the data is copied from one Verayo RFID chip to another."
DIY Hybrid Car Kit 309
Hybride And The Groom writes "Building hybrids uses machinery that pollutes the environment. The solution? Ship the parts of a hybrid individually and get your customers to put the car together themselves. That's exactly what Robert Q Riley Enterprises is doing, according to a story on CNet today, with its XR-3 hybrid. It'll cost you $25,000 for the bits, plus zero dollars in manufacture, I hope. Better yet, cough up $200 for the blueprints and schematics and even build the parts yourself. It's no secret that many hybrid drivers are smug enough as it is. Allow them to brag about having built the damn cars themselves and we might be entering obscenely smug territory."
The Cyber Crime Hall of Fame 145
DigitalDame2 writes "Not all hackers are bad guys, but a few fall prey to the dark side and use their talents for evil — not good. In compiling this list of the craziest cyber crimes, PC Mag looked for a few things: ingenuity (had it been done before?), scope (how many computers, agencies, companies, sites, etc. did it affect?), cost (how much in monetary damages did it cause?), and historical significance (did it start a new trend?). Read on about famous hackers John Draper, Robert Morris, Kevin Poulsen, and others."
