Comment Re:It has to be said (Score 1) 305
On Windows, maybe.
Comment Re:It has to be said (Score 5, Informative) 305
But OpenGL right now does not seem to be geared towards games in any way.
I think some folks at Valve would have something to say about that.
Comment Re:They Authorised The Charge (Score 1) 173
Even if the company did send something, the customer could file a chargeback.
"There is no chargeback category for this" - there is a chargeback code for "item not as described" or similar:
Visa: 53
MasterCard: 4853
Discover: 4553
Comment Re:Too good to be true? (Score 1) 147
Net neutrality is not about preventing ISPs from capping users. It's about preventing ISPs from prioritizing traffic to some sites over others.
Comment Re:Geez! I tell ya... (Score 1) 385
What backbone? There isn't one; the internet is a distributed network.
The closest you could get is probably one of these. Of course, these companies are ISPs, too.
The closest you could get is probably one of these. Of course, these companies are ISPs, too.
Comment Re:where did he get this factor? (Score 3, Informative) 752
OK, let's say AJAX didn't exist for a moment. People would have to refresh their browsers to display/submit forms, which would require Apache/PHP to serve a *full web page* for every form displayed and submitted. This in itself causes a load on servers, before dynamic content is even considered.
If anything, AJAX *lowers* server load.
Comment Re:In the terribly elegant words of... someone? (Score 5, Funny) 118
It's not for debugging, it's for troubleshooting.
Submission + - "Lawful spying" price lists leaked (cryptome.org) 1
ogaraf writes: Wired has a story about how the site Cryptome leaked the price lists for "lawful spying" activities of Yahoo and other companies, and subsequently received a DMCA takedown notice from Yahoo. The documents are however still online and in them you can learn for instance that IP logs last for one year, but the original IPs used to create accounts are kept since 1999. The contents of your Yahoo account are bought for $30 to $40 by law enforcement agencies.
Submission + - German president refuses to sign censorship law
thetinytoon writes: German federal president Horst Köhler has refused to sign the censorship treaty that passed parlament earlier this year, stating that he 'needs more information'. In germany, the federal president has the right to reject a law only by reasons of an unlawful realisation in the legislative process, but not for reasons of being unconstitutional (as long as it's not obviously against the constitution).
Political observers guess, that the political parties would like to get rid of the law without loosing face, but since it already passed the parlament, they can't simply abandon it. Politics — everyone knows what needs to be done, but no one wants to admit he was wrong in the first place.
Source (google translation): http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=de&tl=en&u=http://www.golem.de/0911/71529.html
Original story (german): http://www.golem.de/0911/71529.html
Political observers guess, that the political parties would like to get rid of the law without loosing face, but since it already passed the parlament, they can't simply abandon it. Politics — everyone knows what needs to be done, but no one wants to admit he was wrong in the first place.
Source (google translation): http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=de&tl=en&u=http://www.golem.de/0911/71529.html
Original story (german): http://www.golem.de/0911/71529.html
Comment Stop with the quick fixes! (Score 1) 932
Perhaps it didn't occur to anyone, but maybe switching to Ubuntu/Linux/OS X/[insert quick-fix OS] is not the best idea. One of the "security flaws" is a nine-year-old. Do you want to explain to him/her why running games doesn't work perfectly anymore (yes, I am aware of WINE)? Or why they can't play any of their iTunes-purchased songs?
IMHO, you can't fix stupidity by switching OSes. You fix stupidity by making people less stupid.
Comment Re:It'd be nice if they stopped lying. (Score 1) 555
No, but I did say "average". It included data from a variety of places with a variety of different speeds, ranging from 50 kilobits/s in the middle of nowhere to the 1.9 megabits/s to which you are referring.
Comment Re:It'd be nice if they stopped lying. (Score 1) 555
From what I've seen, the average total throughput (download plus upload) is around 900 kilobits per second.
Convert that to gigabytes and you get 0.000107288361.
0.000107288361 * 60 seconds * 60 minutes * 24 hours * 30 days = around 278.1 gigabytes.
So yes, it's certainly possible to go over 5 GB in a month.
Comment Yep, it's true (Score 1) 399
I can definitely attest to this. I've tried converting many people to open-source, and the first thing they say is "It's free? I'll take it!".
