Comment Re:What would be great (Score 1) 233

by crunchy666 on Wednesday February 27, 2013 @11:24PM (#43030989) Attached to: Dennis Tito's 2018 Mars Mission To Be Manned

I wouldn't rate this funny... Think of the scientific research possible? A human born in zero gravity?

Comment Re:So now (Score 2) 656

by crunchy666 on Sunday January 13, 2013 @12:01PM (#42574729) Attached to: US Attorney Chided Swartz On Day of Suicide

The police have absolutely nothing to do with the decrease in crime in the 1990s... http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2013/01/lead-crime-link-gasoline

Comment Re:The Single Patent? I Thought It Was Six? (Score 4, Insightful) 149

by crunchy666 on Thursday December 20, 2012 @06:32PM (#42353299) Attached to: Apple's Pinch+Zoom Patent Invalidated By Preliminary USPTO Ruling

The problem is that the jury didn't allocate amounts to any particular patent, so that case will probably end up back in front of another jury that is able to follow directions.

SHA-3 Winner Announced 100

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday October 02, 2012 @06:20PM from the cryptic-announcement dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has just announced the winner of the SHA-3 competition: Keccak, created by Guido Bertoni, Joan Daemen and Gilles Van Assche of STMicroelectronics and Michaël Peeters of NXP Semiconductors. 'Keccak has the added advantage of not being vulnerable in the same ways SHA-2 might be,' says NIST computer security expert Tim Polk. 'An attack that could work on SHA-2 most likely would not work on Keccak because the two algorithms are designed so differently.' For Joan Daemen it must be a 'two in a row' feeling, since he also is one of the authors of AES."

Comment Re:quite some time ago? (Score 0) 34

by crunchy666 on Tuesday November 15, 2011 @05:56PM (#38066264) Attached to: New Malware Signed With Stolen Government Certificate

Does it matter how long ago? A world government doesn't even think this is worth reporting to anyone.... Is SSL even secure anymore?

Comment Monetization (Score 1) 1

by crunchy666 on Friday August 13, 2010 @12:53AM (#33235912) Attached to: Oracle Sues Google (Android) over Java

And the monetization of Java begins...

Comment Monetization (Score 1) 2

by crunchy666 on Friday August 13, 2010 @12:50AM (#33235906) Attached to: Oracle Sues Google

And the monetization of Java begins....

Security Vulnerability Bingo 21

Posted by samzenpus on Friday July 02, 2010 @02:28PM from the fun-and-games dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Ben Bitdiddle of MIT fame sends an open letter to system administrators encouraging them to stop patching their systems so they can play 'Security Vulnerability Bingo.'"

Submission + - Library of Congress to Release OS Software (digitalpreservation.gov)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 29, 2010 @04:24PM

An anonymous reader writes: The Library of Congress has established an internal process to start creating more open source software which will make it easier for software developers and sponsors within the Library to produce software that can be freely redistributed to users worldwide. The Library has released some open source software to this point, concentrating on developing tools that support digital preservation processes, including the secure transfer of digital files. This includes the release of a full suite of digital content transfer tools that support the Bagit specification.

Comment Re:spending time on opportunities ? (Score 1) 747

by crunchy666 on Tuesday October 06, 2009 @12:15PM (#29658335) Attached to: De Icaza Responds To Stallman

So the "foundation" from the outset is surrounded by ambiguity and attempting to cause confusion between "Free" and "Open Source" software?

Comment Re:Really? The infamous? (Score 1) 198

by crunchy666 on Thursday May 28, 2009 @02:23PM (#28127087) Attached to: The Unexpected Patents of Steve Jobs

Business is unpleasant. Anyone who thinks otherwise should not go into business for themselves.

Novell and Intel Team Up For Moblin On Netbooks 29

Posted by Soulskill on Saturday May 09, 2009 @09:40AM from the os-names-that-sound-like-they-might-eat-you dept.

ruphus13 writes "The Mobile and Netbook space already has several Open Source OS providers. Android has been making its way into netbooks, and Moblin, LiMo and Ubuntu are also alternatives for OSes on netbooks and mobile handhelds. Now, Novell has also joined the fray, but rather than porting openSuSE, they have teamed up with Intel to get OEMs to use Moblin for their mobile devices. From the article: 'With the other tools and benefits that Moblin offers OEMs and developers, it's really a rather smart approach that could potentially yield a better netbook experience (for developers and consumers), maximize development resources, and produce quality software in minimal time. I don't think Novell is eschewing SUSE, but in its current form, it's not as suited for netbooks as it is systems like the HP ProBooks. Paired with Moblin's netbook-centric bent and coming from a desktop/server market (rather than a true mobile device background), bringing a SUSE/Moblin system to netbooks has as much potential (if not more) for success as an Android adaptation does.'"

Comment Re:Er, no (Score 1) 286

by crunchy666 on Monday September 15, 2008 @08:55PM (#25019617) Attached to: Twilight of the GPU — an Interview With Tim Sweeney

You're thinking about this the wrong way. What you would be programming for is a general purpose language, with extensions (C/C++), then a compiler would generate the necessary binary code specific to the hardware. The compiler would handle the chip specific portions, leaving you to contend with creation of the graphics routines to render your scene (handling parallelism, vectorization, optimizations, etc.), in any way you see fit (rasterization, ray tracing, etc.) There is no reason why this would be any more difficult to support than the current DirectX/OpenGL APIs.