Comment I see what you did there. (Score 1) 364
The website's founder, Andrey Ternovskiy, hopes that blocking the offending members will help clean up Chatroulette's reputation.
Comment Re:Playstation, ask the Xbox how this one turned o (Score 1) 171
But it's Sony, one of the most anti-consumer companies ever to exist.
I won't argue there, but Sony hasn't been so bad with the PS3. Yeah, the install other OS option was attractive to me, but I never used it. I play games on the PS3, I run linux on my PCs.
Also, the PS3 supports quite a bit of standard hardware. Standard power cable, no expensive proprietary external brick. Bluetooth for headset connection. USB storage/charging. 2.5" SATA Hard Disk. Included 802.11g, as well as wired ethernet.
It's not like consumers have been totally shafted by Sony on this device.
Submission + - Another New AES Attack 1
Jeremy A. Hansen writes: "Bruce Schneier gives us an update on some ongoing cryptanalysis of AES:
Over the past couple of months, there have been two new cryptanalysis papers on AES. The attacks presented in the paper are not practical — they're far too complex, they're related-key attacks, and they're against larger-key versions and not the 128-bit version that most implementations use — but they are impressive pieces of work all the same.
This new attack, by Alex Biryukov, Orr Dunkelman, Nathan Keller, Dmitry Khovratovich, and Adi Shamir, is much more devastating. It is a completely practical attack against ten-round AES-256.
While ten-round AES-256 is not actually used anywhere, Schneier goes on to explain why this shakes some of the cryptology community's assumptions about the security margins of AES."
Comment Re:Peace (Score 1, Informative) 492
Not the governor of South Carolina.
Submission + - emacs 23 has been released (blogspot.com)
djcb writes: After only 2 years since the previous version, now emacs 23 (.1) is available. It brings many new features, of which the support for anti-aliased fonts on X may be the most visible. Also, there is support for starting emacs in the background, so you can pop up new emacs windows in the blink of an eye. There are many other bigger and smaller improvements, including support for D-Bus, Xembed, and viewing PDFs inside emacs. And not to forget, M-x butterfly. You can get emacs 23 from ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/ or one of its mirrors; alternatively, there are binary packages available, for example from Ubuntu PPA.
Comment Re:Micro-meetings over regular ones (Score 1) 274
http://liw.iki.fi/liw/texts/flow.en.html
"Because there are no disturbances inside your own head..."
Yeah, right.
Comment Re:Prosecute them. (Score 1) 643
Side note: You (in a general sense), are racist when you talk about the death of a few thousand american soldiers, but neglect to mention or even less, acknowledge the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Iraqi civilians.)
I'm not excusing ignorance, but the average guy on the average American street has no idea that Iraqi civilians are suffering and dying as a result of the invasion. Our mainstream media places no value on those lives, which frankly, doesn't shock me, given the amount of airtime they devote to our own fallen soldiers.
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