Comment Re:Nokia have always been a leader in mobile devic (Score 1) 112
I just did: "devel-su" => "rootme" => "dmesg | less" and it worked.
Comment Re:So, the headline ought to be (Score 2) 239
I hear headlines are better with a question mark. How about: "Has Sony's PSN been hacked again?"
Comment Re:Screw you, anonymous! (Score 1) 239
Some men aren't looking for anything logical, like money. They can't be bought, bullied, reasoned or negotiated with. They don't feel pity, or remorse, or fear.
And they absolutely will not stop, ever, until you are dead.^W^W^W^W^W^W^W^W^W^W^W
Some men just want to watch the world burn.
And they absolutely will not stop, ever, until you are dead.^W^W^W^W^W^W^W^W^W^W^W
Some men just want to watch the world burn.
Comment Sony's says this is fake (Score 5, Informative) 239
http://www.videogamer.com/news/psn_hack_claims_are_false_says_sony.html
Last night someone claiming to be a member of Anonymous posted what was alleged to be information obtained from 50GB of compromised PSN data, but it turned out the data was the same as that released last year when PSN was hacked. "We've confirmed that the recent claim that PlayStation Network was illegally hacked and that customer passwords and email addresses were accessed is completely false," assured Sony in a statement.
Comment "Prototype" out too (Score 1) 3
Grab it here
Every 100K they raise, they're releasing an updated prototype which gives a taste of what they're thinking in terms of art and humour. Which is very familiar if you've played the old Space Quest games. It's done in HTML5 (link above is for Chrome, but I think there's a non-Chrome version somewhere), but that's just for quick prototyping purposes -- the proper thing will be a standalone executable.
Here's hoping the Sierra revival continues...
Comment Re:Fly by wire.... (Score 3, Funny) 319
Does it do this at the same time as saying "STALL STALL STALL STALL" ?
Comment Re:now called “low-energy nuclear reactions& (Score 1) 556
Watch the SRI talk linked in the comments above. I'd hardly call 90 sigma "barely statistically significant".
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Comment Re:Supernovas (Score 1) 442
The supernova produced anti-neutrinos, not normal neutrinos.
At 7:35 a.m. Universal time, Kamiokande II detected 11 antineutrinos, IMB 8 antineutrinos and Baksan 5 antineutrinos, in a burst lasting less than 13 seconds. Approximately three hours earlier, the Mont Blanc liquid scintillator detected a five-neutrino burst, but this is generally not believed to be associated with SN 1987A
Other possible reasons for the discrepancy have been mentioned (energies, vacuum vs. crust, etc.). Have a look at the experimental results for the mass squared of a neutrino, in light of the OPERA results. Notice something?
Comment Re:That is the modus operandi (Score 1) 373
... 2 bit encryption. There is only two keys. 1 and 0.
Wouldn't that be 1-bit encryption?
More Evidence For Steam Games On Linux 256
SheeEttin writes "Back in November 2008, Phoronix reported that Linux libraries appeared in the Left 4 Dead demo, and then in March, Valve announced that Steam and the Source engine were coming to Mac OS X. Now, Phoronix reports that launcher scripts included with the (closed beta) Mac version of Steam include explicit support for launching a Linux version."
Comment Re:I looked into this problem recently (Score 1) 5
The reason you're getting slowness is because you've disabled hardware acceleration as part of your troubleshooting.
I meant to say - the hardware acceleration in the flash settings, which is one of the more extreme measures you can take to workaround the problem. Apparently that's the only workaround for 64-bit builds.
Comment I looked into this problem recently (Score 1) 5
Problem is Firefox, has been fixed in latest builds (not yet officially released). It's fixed in 3.5.3 apparently, there's a patch you can apply to the source on the bugzilla somewhere. There's a workaround in the meantime, if you want to wait for the fix to make it to the stable releases, you need to set the environment variable LD_PRELOAD to /usr/lib/libGL.so.1
There's a few ways to do this, I put "export LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libGL.so.1" into my .bashrc as a quick hack; prior to that (because I couldn't be bothered restarting X) I modified the .desktop file so that it ran "env LD_PRELOAD=/usr/libGL.so.1 firefox %s" instead of "firefox %s".
The reason you're getting slowness is because you've disabled hardware acceleration as part of your troubleshooting.
There's a few ways to do this, I put "export LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libGL.so.1" into my
The reason you're getting slowness is because you've disabled hardware acceleration as part of your troubleshooting.
Comment Re:Chrome OS? (Score 1) 278
Pretty easy to comprehend 10^6. A googol is of course 10^100, which is a lot harder since that is twenty orders of magnitude larger than the number of atoms in the observable universe.
Comment Re:Let's get this straight... (Score 1) 278
That's not a bug, its a feature - for a long time the bit the supplied "uninstaller" didn't uninstall was the same bit they relied on to stop users from getting new trial subscriptions by simply uninstalling and reinstalling (just some stuff sitting under %userprofile%\application data)
Comment Chrome is the new Emacs? (Score 5, Funny) 1089
Chrome is a nice operating system, but it could do with a decent web browser.
