Comment Re:Wouldn't the target phone need to be turned on (Score 1) 126
Robber is the one with the phone. Victim is the one with the card.
Comment Re:TrueCrypt? (Score 4, Informative) 467
Which is what the two key "Plausible Deniability" feature is all about:
http://www.truecrypt.org/docs/?s=plausible-deniability
http://www.truecrypt.org/docs/?s=plausible-deniability
Submission + - Britain's BPI goes after Google -- with US DMCA ! (p2pnet.net) 1
An anonymous reader writes: The BPI, the RIAA's UK counterpart, has gone up against the Holiest of Holies, American online advertising conglomerate Google, says Chilling Effects. The BPI contributed to the British government's Digital Ecomy bill, complete with its ACTA Three Strikes and you're Off The Net element, with hardly a murmur from the UK lamescream media. Now Chilling Effects quotes a missive directed at Gargle by the BPI. It states, in part, "We have identified the following links that are available via Google's search engine, and request the following links be removed as soon as possible as they directly link to sound recordings owned by our members ... " And what's even more interesting is: this British 'trade' outfity is using the American DMCA to attack Google. Can it do that?
Caffeine Addicts Get No Additional Perk, Only a Return To Baseline 506
Dthief writes "Bristol University researchers found that coffee drinkers develop a tolerance to both the anxiety-producing and the stimulating effects of caffeine, meaning that it only brings them back to baseline levels of alertness, not above them. 'Although frequent consumers feel alerted by caffeine, especially by their morning tea, coffee, or other caffeine-containing drink, evidence suggests that this is actually merely the reversal of the fatiguing effects of acute caffeine withdrawal,' wrote the scientists, led by Peter Rogers of Bristol's department of experimental psychology."
Submission + - Titanium Oxide Could Be Used For Optical Storage (thinq.co.uk)
Stoobalou writes: A Japanese research team has discovered that titanium oxide — a material most commonly used in white paint and sunscreen, of all things — could be used in future optical storage disks.
Boffins at the University of Tokyo said that the material could be used to make low-price 'Super Disks' with a storage capacity thousands of times greater than DVD.
The material, which is a new crystalline form of titanium oxide, switches between metal and semiconductor states when exposed to light at room temperature effectively creating an I/O state which is repeatedly reversible.
The team has successfully created the material in tiny particles measuring as little as five nanometers which would give standard-sized disks a theoretical storage capacity a thousand times greater than Blu-ray.
Boffins at the University of Tokyo said that the material could be used to make low-price 'Super Disks' with a storage capacity thousands of times greater than DVD.
The material, which is a new crystalline form of titanium oxide, switches between metal and semiconductor states when exposed to light at room temperature effectively creating an I/O state which is repeatedly reversible.
The team has successfully created the material in tiny particles measuring as little as five nanometers which would give standard-sized disks a theoretical storage capacity a thousand times greater than Blu-ray.
Comment Re:American cars.... (Score 1) 378
Toyota IQ has a pair of buttons on the doors where you press them in and it locks and for the next 5 seconds, you can wiggle the door handles and it will not open (i.e. it is locked) but if you wait longer than that it will open because it thinks you have forgotten something or there is some reason why you haven't gone away.
Comment Find out for yourselves. (Score 1) 203
http://jobs.cambridge-news.co.uk/jobs/show_job.asp?index=2&sa_id=329197651
Obviously you can't tell anyone once you have found out but there you go.
Comment Save money on licences... (Score 5, Insightful) 374
... but spend money on developing an operating system. Can they not just save all the hassle and choose Red Hat / Ubuntu / Debian / SlackWare / Mandriva / anything else at http://distrowatch.com?
Seems like reinventing the wheel here.
Comment Re:Think of the children (Score 1) 1044
You can think of the children just don't look at the children.
Comment Damn, they we just about to change their logo (Score 1) 711
Comment Re:No Archive.org either (Score 1) 711
I was going to post that they had enough nous to get a robots.txt but not to actually maintain their system. I wouldn't want that company on my CV even if I was the janitor. This is going to be a millstone for anyone who was involved in this going back from day 2 (I can just about forgive them for being stupid on day 1)
Comment Re:check your upload (Score 1) 279
And in other news, I managed to get over the line and I am now 3.06 ratio.
Not that I expect people to care, but it made my day
Comment Re:check your upload (Score 1) 279
Yeah. The router is old and not very sophisticated so it has to go the journey. The asymmetry was never a surprise for me but I didn't realise that they monitored the upload stream also. You live and learn.
Comment Figures are out of date (Score 1) 279
Well, I upgraded from 2Mbit/s to 20Mbit/s (Virgin Media) on Friday so the balance has swung a small distance the other way. ;-)
However, I have now noticed that my router is only allowing ~6Mbit/s through it so I really need to get to a shop and buy a new one. Fortunately the torrent uploads are going at nominal values. I expect to have a Demonoid ratio of 3 later this week. Sad, but it gives me something to strive for.
Comment Re:Duh. (Score 1) 1601
Ah spit.
I was going to mod this informative but the damn laptop glidepad made me select Redundant instead. Just posting to remove my negative moderation.
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