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Comment two screens front and back (Score 2) 132

two screens front and back, second screen being an e ink, why not? you can better read text, and when you're note reading it can show notifications at little energy expense, for more fancy stuff like videos and web you use the other normal screen

(maybe this is not what's asked here, you want to know what you want on current existing phones)

Comment killing the habit of going to cinema is killing it (Score 1) 249

movies are declining for the same reason music declined,

before we had vinyl, you would make / find the time and predisposition to listen to music, you would have to turn the record to carry on listening

same with films, you would have to find time and predisposition to go watch a film,

now it's all consumption and disposable

compact disc killed the music industry, not the internet
killing the habit of going to cinema is killing movies

Security

Intel: We've Found Severe Bugs in Secretive Management Engine, Affecting Millions (zdnet.com) 207

Liam Tung, writing for ZDNet: Thanks to an investigation by third-party researchers into Intel's hidden firmware in certain chips, Intel decided to audit its firmware and on Monday confirmed it had found 11 severe bugs that affect millions of computers and servers. The flaws affect Management Engine (ME), Trusted Execution Engine (TXE), and Server Platform Services (SPS). Intel discovered the bugs after Maxim Goryachy and Mark Ermolov from security firm Positive Technologies found a critical vulnerability in the ME firmware that Intel now says would allow an attacker with local access to execute arbitrary code. The researchers in August published details about a secret avenue that the US government can use to disable ME, which is not available to the public. Intel ME has been a source of concern for security-minded users, in part because only Intel can inspect the firmware, yet many researchers suspected the powerful subsystem had bugs that were ripe for abuse by attackers.

Comment Re:Prepended or Appended Passphrase (Score 1) 1007

i do something similar:

i have a 3 level password list,

1st (xxxxxxxxxx) for most purposes like sites that require login, where they collect non personal compromising information
2nd (yyyyyyyyyy) sites that collect personal information, email, home banking
3rd (zzzzzzzzzz) my home server

(you could get a forth for home banking or use the 3rd for such matter)

i only need to remember these 3 passwords (i make new password regularly),
so far not completely bad but not really good either

then, i add to the password a combination that varies with the hosting site, like this:

service: gmail
user: someUser
password combination:
        - 1st non vocal on service: g
        - last vocal on user: e
        - last non vocal on user: r
        - 1st vocal on service: a
        - then i concatenate one of my three passwords according with the service

        my password for this service would be: gerayyyyyyyyyy or: gyeyyyyyyyyrya if you prefer to scramble it more

you could make your own combination algorithm,
mine's not exactly this either ;)

you only need to know:
        - 3 passwords,
        - one simple algorithm (keep it simple, it's human power that will run the algorithm)
        - the service and user, which you needed any way

Oracle Unveils New Open Source BerkeleyDB Release 103

Mark Brunelli writes to tell us that Oracle has released the newest version of the open source Oracle BerkeleyDB Java Edition. From the article: "The new release of the Java embeddable database is the third to come out in three years and the first new version to come out of Sleepycat Software since Oracle purchased the open source stalwart back in February. Rex Wang, Oracle's vice president of embedded systems and a former vice president of marketing at Sleepycat, said the latest release lets Java developers take advantage of a new Persistence application programming interface (API) that provides greater flexibility and new performance optimizations that enable applications to run faster."

130 Filesharer Homes Raided in Germany 431

Flo writes "Today, 130 homes have been raided in Germany under the allegation of filesharing. Law enforcement agencies had been monitoring an eDonkey-Server for two months. 3500 identified users are being investigated. Searches took place when users shared more than 500 files. Partners of the music industry helped identifying copyrighted material, but monitoring of the servers was solely done by law enforcement."

PostgreSQL 8.1.4 Released to Plug Injection Hole 162

alurkar writes to tell us that PostgreSQL released version 8.1.4 today in order to combat a security flaw allowing a SQL injection attack. From the article: "The vulnerability affects PostgreSQL servers exposed to untrusted input, such as input coming from Web forms, in conjunction with multi-byte encodings like (Shift-JIS (SJIS), 8-bit Unicode Transformation Format (UTF-8), 16-bit Unicode Transformation Format (UTF-16), and BIG5. In particular, Berkus says that applications using 'ad-hoc methods to "escape" strings going into the database, such as regexes, or PHP3's addslashes() and magic_quotes' are particularly unsafe. 'Since these bypass database-specific code for safe handling of strings, many such applications will need to be re-written to become secure.'"

U.S. Supreme Court Deals a Blow to Patent Trolls 289

Anonymous Coward writes "Forbes is reporting that the Supreme Court has just limited the power of patent trolls to obtain permanent injunctions against infringers as a matter of course. The court has ruled that the principles of equity apply, meaning that a court considering slapping an injunction on the infringer must consider how much damage is really being done ... which in the case of EBay's Buy It Now feature, isn't much, since the company that owns this so-called patent only has it for the purposes of suing other people." From the article: "The high court's decision deals a blow to patent trolls, which are notorious for using the threat of permanent injunction to extort hefty fees in licensing negotiations as well as huge settlements from companies they have accused of infringing. Often, those settlements can be far greater than the value of the infringing technology: Recall the $612.5 million that Canada's Research in Motion forked over to patent-holding company NTP to avoid the shutting down of its popular BlackBerry service."

Kororaa Accused of Violating GPL 843

AlanS2002 writes "The Kororaa Project, a pre-configured binary install method for Gentoo Linux which bundles nVidia's and ATI binary drivers in its Kororaa Xgl Live CD , has put its Live CD on hold after being accused of violating the GPL. The issue appears to be the distribution of the Linux Kernel and nVidia's/ATI binary drivers together. When the binary drivers are built the GPL'ed code is included in the binary result, which is a violation."

Oracle to Boost AJAX, Java 25

InfoWorldMike writes "Oracle will submit its AJAX render kit to the open source community, and announce a reference implementation of the Java Persistence Architecture at next week's JavaOne conference." From the article: "To bolster AJAX, Oracle will submit its AJAX render kit to the open source community as a follow-up to a previous donation of JavaServer Faces (JSF) components. 'It allows people to work with the JSF components but [they] can display that using AJAX technology, which basically allows them to [have] a much richer environment in the browser,' said Ted Farrell, chief architect and vice president of tools and middleware at Oracle. "

Multi-threaded Programming Makes You Crazy? 166

gduranceau writes "Help! My program deadlocks! I got several concurrent threads that write the same variable! Everything goes well on my mono processor but becomes an incredible mess on that 16 CPU monster! And of course, as soon as I add traces, problems disappear... Don't panic! Calm down and take a deep breath. "

Will Sun Open Source Java? 700

capt turnpike writes "According to eWEEK.com, there's an internal debate going on at Sun whether to open-source Java. (Insert typical response: "It's about time!") Company spokespersons have no official comment, as might be expected, but perhaps we could hear confirmation or denial as early as May 16, at the JavaOne conference. One commentator said, "Sun should endorse PHP and go one step forward and make sure the 'P' languages run great on the JVM [Java virtual machine] by open-sourcing Java." Would this move Java up the desirability scale in your eyes? Could this be a way to help improve what's lacking in Java?"

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