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Submission + - Asus Transformer drops quad-core in favor of dual-core (extremetech.com)

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MrSeb
MrSeb writes: "In a move that will shock and disgust bleeding-edge technophiles everywhere, Asus has announced at Mobile World Congress 2012 that its new Transformer Pads — the high-end Infinity Series — will use the recently-announced dual-core Qualcomm S4 SoC. The critically acclaimed Transformer Prime, the Infinity Series’ predecessor which was released at the end of 2011, used the quad-core Nvidia Tegra 3. Why the sudden about-face? Well, the fact that quad-core processors don't really have a use case in mobile devices is one reason — but it doesn't hurt that the Krait cores in the S4 are significantly faster than the four Cortex-A9 cores in the Tegra 3, too. The S4 is also the first 28nm SoC, while Tegra 3 is still on 40nm, which means a smaller and cheaper package, and lower power consumption to boot. The S4 is also the first SoC with built-in LTE, which was probably a rather nice sweetener for Asus."

Comment Re:Color me impressed (Score 0) 406

by emton (#34895562) Attached to: New York Times Reports US and Israel Behind Stuxnet
They don't need to have spys in the company itself, all equipment exported to Iran are under Export Control https://my.tennessee.edu/portal/page?_pageid=43,618777&_dad=portal&_schema=PORTAL So Siemens needs to report all equipment exported to Iran to the German government, and this is relatively easy to access this information. As a spy, all you would need to do is to see who is exporting and what to Iran. Of course you need the experts to tell you what kind of equipment can be used...
The Almighty Buck

EVE Player Loses $1,200 Worth of Game Time In-Game 620

Posted by Soulskill from the sorry-about-your-luck dept.
An anonymous reader writes "Massively.com has reported that an EVE Online player recently lost over $1,200 worth of in-game items during a pirate attack. The player in question was carrying 74 PLEX in their ship's cargo hold — in-game 'Pilot's License Extensions' that award 30 days of EVE Online time when used on your account. When the ship was blown up by another player, all 74 PLEX were destroyed in the resulting blast, costing $1,200 worth of damage, or over 6 years of EVE subscription time, however you prefer to count it. Ow."
Security

Two Unpatched Flaws Show Up In Apple iOS 171

Posted by samzenpus from the rotten-apple dept.
Trailrunner7 writes "The technique that the Jailbreakme.com Web site is using to bypass the iPhone's security mechanisms and enable users to run unapproved apps on their phones involves exploiting two separate vulnerabilities. One of the vulnerabilities is a memory-corruption flaw that affects the way that Apple's mobile devices, including the iPad and iPod Touch, display PDFs. The second weakness is a problem in the Apple iOS kernel that gives an attacker higher privileges once his code is on a targeted device, enabling him to break out of the iOS sandbox. The combination of the two vulnerabilities — both of which are unpatched at the moment — gives an attacker the ability to run remote code on the device and evade the security protections on the iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch. The technique became public earlier this week when the Jailbreakme.com site began hosting a set of specially crafted PDF files designed to help users jailbreak their Apple devices and load apps other than the ones approved by Apple and offered in its official App Store."

Comment Re:The Bleak Future of the U.S. - (Score 0) 444

by emton (#19539211) Attached to: US Can't Meet The "Grand Challenges" of Physics
1) We know where all their hidden runways are: we run the satellites and Global Hawk. Fly that Saab out of that hole *BANG*

hmmm... if there are 50 hidden runways, are you going to keep you interceptors on the all the time? As happens to be that Sweden has one of the largest air forces in Europe... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_military_airc raft_of_Sweden/ And Grippen happens to be a fourth generation fighter.

2) They get *no* GPS. Magellan has 1 bird aloft so far as I know, and no weapons that can use it.

Yes, but they have maps. You remember? Things used before GPS...

3) We make all their weapons.

No you don't. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BAE_Systems_Bofors/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kockums/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saab/

4) Presumably we're striking first, so we get the element of surprise. If you want to say that a carrier group cannot move without the element of surprise, I think your imagination is broke. Who is going to tell them where it is? Also, we still have Ohio and Los Angeles class subs and they can carry Tomahawks: I think 2 Ohios are being refitted to carry 154 Tomahawks apiece. See Wikipedia.

First strike is always a good idea, but from where? Are you going to take your carrier group to the Baltic sea? Or just bomb them over Norway? Same goes for the subs, put two Ohios in the Baltic http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltic_Sea/? Not a good idea...

5) What Swedish Navy?

You know, Swedish Navy, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_Navy/ I'm sure that they would love to use their subs against your carrier group in the Baltic.

6) Do you think the Swedes can penetrate the shell of air defense over a modern U.S. carrier group? How? 1st there's F-18s. Then there's cruisers with Aegis and Standard Missile. Closer in we go to RAM and Phalanx and lots of AAA.

That's true, carrier groups are damn hard to knock out, by air force. But I wouldn't worry, because you can't get a carrier group close to Sweden anyway. And intercepting fighters is a lot more easy...

7) Do you think that they train for this fight?

Maybe not, but it's their country and they will defend it. People usually don't like foreign nations bombing them...

8) Do you think that their anti-ship missiles are things we (a) don't make (b) haven't taken apart and examined in great detail? One of the few heartening things from the Falklands is how it seems to have motivated the U.S. to take ship protection very, very seriously.

Yes, but taking things apart doesn't usually help when they are fired at you... http://www.military.cz/sweden/RBS15/default_en.htm /

What you seem to forget is that most of West-European countries spend lot of time and money in preparing for the Soviet invasion. Ok, today most armies have been cut down, but do you think that they have forgotten everything? They still have bunkers and infrastructure to fight off invasions.

And no, I'm not Swedish.
Operating Systems

Submission + - Inside Apple's Leopard Server OS

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Mac expert John Welch, author of the widely read OS X versus Vista comparison, delves into Apple's Leopard Server OS, with a deep dive into what's known so far about OS X Server 10.5, which will be showcased at Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference in June. He weighs in on Leopard's iCal, Wiki, file, Quicktime, and mail services, along with Xgrid 2, Open Directory 4, and 64-bit capabilities. What does it all add up to? His assessment: Apple probably isn't aiming at "big" enterprises. But has says Leopard Server is shaping up to be a great SMB (small and mid-sized business) product. Welch writes: "For about a thousand bucks on existing hardware, or for the cost of an Xserve, you get a really solid server, able to support Web services, collaboration, groupware, IM, and file services. You can run it with its own directory service, or as part of an Active Directory implementation out of the box. It provides some features that due to pricing and/or setup requirements, have traditionally been reserved for "big" enterprises — in particular clustering of both email and calendaring servers." Do you agree that, with Leopard, Apple has probably has something that's unmatched in terms of bang for the buck, at least on the server front?
United States

Submission + - New anti-terror list impacts business

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HangingChad
HangingChad writes: "MSNBC is running a story about yet another government database designed to thwart terrorist and drug dealers that is having impact on people with similar names. Like the no-fly list for business, the The Office of Foreign Asset Control's list of "specially designated nationals" has long been used by banks and other financial institutions to block financial transactions of drug dealers and other criminals. Use of the list was expanded after 9-11 and now includes almost any financial transaction. "Businesses have used it to screen applicants for home and car loans, apartments and even exercise equipment, according to interviews and a report by the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay area to be issued today." Bummer for people with similar sounding names. Overreact much?"
User Journal

Journal Journal: Loss of USENET access 4

Journal by Alioth

For the best part of the last two years, I've accessed Usenet news by running slrn on my dedicated server, hosted at ThePlanet in Dallas. The server 'news.theplanet.com' happily served me via NNTP.
The Media

Protests Move From the Streets To YouTube 156

Posted by kdawson from the getting-word-out-of-the-Phillipines dept.
weighn writes "One factor driving the move of political statements to YouTube, and away from old-style street protest, is that on the Internet the chances of being personally associated with a protest are lower. Mounting your political message online is also safer in countries where taking part in a protest can result in your death or injury at the hands of your country's army. We've seen how street protests and online polls alike are being shunted aside and ignored. What is the future for the common person who yearns to be heard?"
Privacy

Submission + - Death threats or freedom of speech?

Submitted by magman
magman writes: Kathy Sierra, author of several java books, posted on her blog about death threats and sexual harassment from several named "prominent" bloggers. Is it easier to cross the line between freedom of speech and harassment online than it is in real life?

"For the last four weeks, I've been getting death threat comments on this blog. But that's not what pushed me over the edge. What finally did it was some disturbing threats of violence and sex posted on two other blogs... blogs authored and/or owned by a group that includes prominent bloggers. People you've probably heard of. People like respected Cluetrain Manifesto co-author Chris Locke (aka Rageboy)."

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