Comment Harder to... (Score 4, Informative) 166
make a creative 500 page.
Comment Re:Irony (Score 1) 299
If he can do it, so can the bad guys.
Not quite. If he can do it, maybe some bad guys can. If he publishes it, anyone who cares can.
Orbit Your Own Satellite For $8,000 208
RobGoldsmith sends word of Interorbital's TubeSat Personal Satellite Kit, which allows anyone to send a half-pound payload to low-earth orbit for $8,000. Your satellite will fly to orbit from Tonga atop an Interorbital Systems NEPTUNE 30 rocket along with 31 other TubeSats. It will function for several weeks, then its orbit will decay and it will burn up in the atmosphere. Interorbital plans to send up a load of 32 TubeSats every month. If you pay in full in advance, you get slotted onto a particular scheduled launch. Here are Interorbital's product page and brochure (PDF).
Comment Re:Editorialise much ? (Score 1) 277
In fact... I've just looked around for kicks.
Comment Re:Editorialise much ? (Score 1, Offtopic) 277
What about arbitrary javascript on web pages? By your logic, a Flash player would be out of the question.
Yes it would. Don't think for a second that Apple would let you sell your own browser of Flash plug-in. It doesn't mean that you are not allowed to use an existing Flash plugin or webbrowser tough.
Comment Re:"prior" art? (Score 1) 96
No it is not in any jurisdiction that I know of. You're thinking of trademarks.
Comment Re:Your Action, My Reaction (Score 1) 126
If my DPI reveals encrypted data, I give you the lowest QoS. What's your reaction now ?
Comment Re:Posting in the april fools article (Score 1) 1582
Nope, just got it.
Comment Re:Posting in the april fools article (Score 2, Interesting) 1582
I want to see if that feature actually works in real-time.
Comment Re:Which way is this impressive? (Score 1) 287
While the 11 KB code footprint might not be all that impressive (altough I think it is), the 13 is very impressive for an IPv6 stack. I haven't RTFA but if it accepts a largeish number of simultaneous connections, I highly doubt they got it working at all with that kind of footprint.
Heck, 13KB is only slightly over the space required to load a 64 by 64 24 bits bitmap in memory. And you haven't displayed it yet.
Submission + - VMware attacks Microsoft?
An anonymous reader writes: On Monday VMWare will release a white paper detailing its concerns with license changes on Microsoft software that may limit the ability to move virtual-machine software around data centers to automate the management of computing work. This was reported by Steve Lohr of the New York Times in an article published on February 24, 2007. Two choice quotes: "Microsoft is looking for any way it can to gain the upper hand," said Diane Greene, the president of VMware. ... "This seems to be a far more subtle, informed and polished form of competitive aggression than we've seen from Microsoft in the past," said Andrew I. Gavil, a law professor at Howard University. "And Microsoft has no obligation to facilitate a competitor."
Submission + - Are exclusive games GameStop's secret weapon?
An anonymous reader writes: It's one thing to try to muscle out the competition, but when you start to lock down the sales of certain games, consumers lose. This is how GameStop hopes to compete against the big box retailers.
