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Comment Re:May not take as long as you think (Score 1) 47

by daviee on Tuesday March 24, 2020 @12:16AM (#59865434) Attached to: Some Amazon Prime Deliveries May Take a Month As Demand Surges

Same here. It's not as quick as before but it's not one month delay (other than those better than nothing masks "n95 equivalent" masks from China).

One thing though - how are the actual essential items shipping? I've been looking at TP, hand soap refills, flour, kids' tylenol for a while. They don't even have stock so I'm not exactly sure what is being optimized.

Perhaps because they don't have much essential items available that can be shipped, thus the non-essentials are getting shipped faster?

Comment Re:How is this a good idea? (Score 1) 249

by daviee on Wednesday June 11, 2014 @04:12PM (#47216285) Attached to: New Permission System Could Make Android Much Less Secure

1) A user review a long list of permissions and what it means per app, then grants/denies them individually
2) Group things into familiar/simple terms so even a non-technical user can easily see "this doesn't look right"

Comment ET transporter (Score 1) 123

by daviee on Friday June 14, 2013 @06:21PM (#44011917) Attached to: Flying Bicycle Is Real, Takes First Flight

If they can make it last longer than 6 minutes to fly over the cliff.

Submission + - Decade-old espionage malware found targeting government computers (arstechnica.com)

Submitted by alancronin on Wednesday March 20, 2013 @06:19PM

alancronin writes: Researchers have unearthed a decade-long espionage operation that used the popular TeamViewer remote-access program and proprietary malware to target high-level political and industrial figures in Eastern Europe.

TeamSpy, as the shadow group has been dubbed, collected encryption keys and documents marked as "secret" from a variety of high-level targets, according to a report published Wednesday by Hungary-based CrySyS Lab. Targets included a Russia-based Embassy for an undisclosed country belonging to both NATO and the European Union, an industrial manufacturer also located in Russia, multiple research and educational organizations in France and Belgium, and an electronics company located in Iran. CrySyS learned of the attacks after Hungary's National Security Authority disclosed intelligence that TeamSpy had hit an unnamed "Hungarian high-profile governmental victim."

Comment Re:Not getting into the chip making business (Score 1) 108

by daviee on Monday October 15, 2012 @04:02PM (#41662409) Attached to: Amazon Considering Buying Texas Instrument's Chip Business

Maybe good for TI, but not sure about other companies/products that depend on the OMAP. Amazon after all has not yet demonstrated they are a good R&D/chipset company. It's also (not yet) one of their core businesses. Unless you're developing a one-off product with not too much plans for future evolution, would you develop it based on a chipset that has an unknown future? Will Kindle requirements become the main driving force of future OMAP updates?

Amazon has the money to take a snapshot of the OMAP design now, but do they have the drive to continue to invest R&D to make future revisions (OMAP5/6/7/8) that others depending on OMAP may want? Will the current state be the technological peak of OMAP?

Comment Need to change the name... (Score 1) 163

by daviee on Monday September 10, 2012 @02:54PM (#41291227) Attached to: Toys R Us Unveils Android Tablet For Kids

From TRU's website: "Over 6,000 free downloadable apps available in the Tabeo Store"

Google search for "Tabeo Store" and most results are not kids friendly at all!

As for the tablet itself, it would be quite useful if their app store is already optimized for kids app and their bundled apps are full versions of fun and education apps.

Comment Re:How inconvenient for TSA (Score 1) 121

by daviee on Thursday January 26, 2012 @07:18PM (#38834657) Attached to: Railroad Association Says TSA's Hacking Memo Was Wrong

How can TSA help with cyber attacks/hacker issues on railroads. Are they going after railroad workers and IT staffs to make sure they follow security protocols; then station TSA staffs at train control room doors?

Comment Re:Why I care as a developer (Score 2) 99

by daviee on Wednesday December 21, 2011 @03:07PM (#38451630) Attached to: Intel Demos Phone and Tablet In New Mobile Chip Push

This is in terms of application developer. The x86 for Android is much faster than the one with ARM emulation, but is the ARM emulation speed that much of a hinder for usual development?

What about the actual application usage by end-users? Will the x86 Android phone come with an ARM emulator to run applications that has native ARM libraries (at least until there are enough generic or x86-specific Android apps)?

Comment Re:so? (Score 1) 770

by daviee on Thursday October 27, 2011 @12:59PM (#37857870) Attached to: Android Orphans: a Sad History of Platform Abandonment

Unless the OS level it comes with is buggy or lacking some features that one is let to believe it'll be fixed because Android is so open... but then again, some of the official OS updates for older Android devices are half-baked...

Comment Re:Upgrades. (Score 1) 770

by daviee on Thursday October 27, 2011 @12:56PM (#37857832) Attached to: Android Orphans: a Sad History of Platform Abandonment

Even if you move up to Gingerbread, some official releases (e.g. HTC EVO 4G) still doesn't have the up-to-date version of it that supports Google Talk video chat.

Comment Re:Think of it as 4.0.2 (Score 1) 599

by daviee on Tuesday June 28, 2011 @03:05PM (#36602216) Attached to: The Enterprise Is Wrong, Not Mozilla

If only they started this versioning convention before FF gained popularity with people/companies coding based on it, this wouldn't have been a problem.

Comment Re:Status bar? (Score 1) 181

by daviee on Friday February 25, 2011 @11:01PM (#35320398) Attached to: Firefox 4 Beta 12 Released; Fixes Over 650 Bugs

It was horrible at the top. The space used in the URL box for that was way too short for screening the link before clicking on it...

Comment Or too many article dupes (Score 1) 356

by daviee on Thursday January 13, 2011 @09:44PM (#34872344) Attached to: Google vs. Bing — a Quasi-Empirical Study

Google search results are driving me crazy sometimes. Not sure if it's Google's through or "article duplicator" sites. Search for recent tech articles (e.g. specific CES product details) and it just comes back with many hits of the exact same article duplicated by many not-so-legit looking websites. I wish they have a "site blacklist" user feature where I can tell it to not bother returning results from that site ever again.

A few months/a year back, there were those *.info domains search hits too. Some sort of dynamic page generation that aggregates pieces of paragraphs with the search term. The whole article seems randomly composed, taking sentences from unrelated articles and mixing them up so that it "looks" complete... until you start reading through it and figured it doesn't make sense...

Google, please give me an "unlike"/"thumbs down" button for your search results, so that these junk site can forever disappear from my search radar... Equivalent to "Adblock" like or an option to "prompt for cookies" so I can manually get rid of it!

Results on specific tech question searches on the other hand are pretty good (e.g. gcc issues, etc.)...

Submission + - NASA Pitches Heavy Lift Vehicle to Congress (spacenews.com)

Submitted by BJ_Covert_Action on Wednesday January 12, 2011 @03:18PM

BJ_Covert_Action writes: Well, Congress demanded, last year, that NASA develop a budget plan and proposal for a new heavy lift vehicle in light of the Ares V cancellation. Recently, NASA gave Congress just what they wanted. On January 11th, Douglas Cooke pitched an interim report to Congressional members detailing the basic design concepts that would go into a new heavy lift vehicle. Congress required that the new heavy lift vehicle maximize the reuse of space shuttle components as part of its budget battle with President Obama last year. As a result, NASA basically copy-pasted the Ares V design into a new report and pitched it to Congress on the 11th. The proposed vehicle will require the five segment SRB's that were proposed for the Ares V rocket. It will utilize the SSME's for it's main liquid stage. It will reuse the shuttle external tank as the primary core for the liquid booster (the same tank design that is currently giving the Discovery shuttle launch so many problems). And it will utilize the new J-2X engine that NASA has been developing for the Ares V project as an upper stage. In other words, NASA proposed to Congress exactly what Congress asked for.

The catch is, NASA also admitted that they will not be able to complete the proposed rocket on the budget that Congress has given them. Neither will they be able to finish the rocket on time. Finally, NASA has commented that a current study being conducted by 13 independent contractors is still being conducted to determine if there is a better design out there that NASA has, 'overlooked.' NASA has stated that, should that study finds any alternate, interesting designs then, they will need to consider those seriously.

Submission + - Microsoft To Disable Windows Phone 7 Unlocking

Submitted by Alex on Wednesday January 12, 2011 @02:36PM

Alex writes: In the first update to Windows Phone 7, Microsoft is planning to block ChevronWP7, which allowed users to unlock any retail Windows Phone 7 device for application side-loading without having to pay $99 per year for a WP7 marketplace account. The update, which is slated for release this month, will also introduce copy and paste functionality, among other improvements. ChevronWP7 was discontinued less than a week after its release about two months ago. ChevronWP7's three developers, Long Zheng, Rafael Rivera, and Chris Walsh were approached by Brandon Watson, Director of Developer Experience for Windows Phone 7, and decided to kill their app.

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