Comment DOGE? (Score 1) 95
How can this be more efficient negotiating with many countries rather then negotiating an exemption here or there?
Submission + - OpenSSL Patches Eight New Vulnerabilities (itworld.com)
itwbennett writes: Server administrators are advised to upgrade OpenSSL again to fix eight new vulnerabilities, two of which can lead to denial-of-service (DoS) attacks. Although the flaws are only of moderate and low severity, 'system administrators should plan to upgrade their running OpenSSL server instances in the coming days,' said Tod Beardsley, engineering manager at vulnerability intelligence firm Rapid7.
Comment Re:This post should be deleted. (Score 1) 271
I agree. All the chips in the FX TDP arena are 95-125W. I'm thinking it'll be more, but not almost double. More in the 140-165W range. AMD is going for the 5 GHz media sensation buzz, not power buzz.
Comment Sound Quality (Score 3, Interesting) 361
Most of the people listening to mp3s (that I know, self included) don't listen to the music on a nice system. Earbuds rarely provide definition or range of the actual recorded material. Yes, they may provide frequencies from 50-15,000 Hz, but you're not really feeling the bass line as recorded. Even if listening to a CD/DVD with 5.1, with the earbuds on, it may as well be a mp3.
Comment Exposure Exposure Exposure (Score 1) 1264
When I go a big box or electronic store, I see a dozen Windows machines. Maybe a Macbook or iMac here and there. I've never seen a Linux box on display, never mind the distro. I have Fedora at home, but stuck with XP at work. I see iPhone/iPads/Macbooks all over, so those must be popular too. I just don't see many linux distros out there, unless everyone has an environment which mimics Windows!
Yes, I can tell people how cool it is, but if they don't see it at stores or at work, I'm just a lone computer geek!
Comment Neptune Massive (Score 1) 33
I can't find it on there. Laurentian Abyssal Plain (canal) - check. Reykjanes Ridge (Red Route One) - check. Neptune Massive.......nope! Is Russia suppressing this info? Wait, what's 'Neptune Massive' in Russian?
Submission + - 3D on iPad (tuaw.com)
johkir writes: "The Engineering Human-Computer Interaction (EHCI) research group has created an apparent 3D effect on the iPad 2. Called the Head-Coupled Perspective, it uses the front camera to track the relative changes in the position of the users head. It looks promising, at least in video."
Comment And I would call it...... (Score 1) 243
Lava
Russia Mandates Free Software For Public Schools 271
Glyn Moody writes "After running some successful pilots, the Russian government has decided to make open source the standard for all schools. If a school doesn't want to use the free software supplied by the government, it has to buy commercial licenses using its own funds. What's the betting Microsoft starts slashing its prices in Russia?"
Submission + - Geoengineering to Cool the Earth
johkir writes: "As early as 1965, when Al Gore was a freshman in college, a panel of distinguished environmental scientists warned President Lyndon B. Johnson that CO2 emissions from fossil fuels might cause "marked changes in climate" that "could be deleterious." Yet the scientists did not so much as mention the possibility of reducing emissions. Instead they considered one idea: "spreading very small reflective particles" over about five million square miles of ocean, so as to bounce about 1 percent more sunlight back to space--"a wacky geoengineering solution,"
In the decades since, geoengineering ideas never died, but they did get pushed to the fringe--they were widely perceived by scientists and environmentalists alike as silly and even immoral attempts to avoid addressing the root of the problem of global warming. Three recent developments have brought them back into the mainstream."
Comment Missing (Score 1) 6
Where's the 4th girl, with the matching powder blue dress accents and gun?
Journal Journal: Science and the Candidates
As the field of candidates narrows, and America starts to feel like they've heard the survivors hash and rehash their positions on the major issues, topics not previously covered are starting to bubble up. Business Week is reporting that there has been a call for a debate on science, tentatively scheduled for April. The candidates haven't exactly jumped on the bandwagon, possibl
Feed Science Daily: Coral Reef Fish Harbor An Unexpectedly High Biodiversity Of Parasites (sciencedaily.com)
A grouper fish found off New Caledonia was found to be parasitized by 12 species of microscopic monogenean worms. This diversity of parasites has just been confirmed also in the malabar grouper, another the coral reef species. If such a level of parasite diversity prevails in all coral-reef fish, tens of thousands of parasite species are in this ecosystem waiting to be discovered.
Feed Science Daily: Pivotal Hearing Structure Revealed (sciencedaily.com)
Scientists have shed light on how our bodies convert vibrations entering the ear into electrical signals that can be interpreted by the brain. Exactly how the electrical signal is generated has been the subject of ongoing research interest.
Feed Science Daily: Parasitic Battles Can Involve Gene Transfer That Aids Evolution (sciencedaily.com)
Scientists have recorded the entire genomic expression of a host bacterium and infecting virus over the eight-hour course of infection. Their study leads them to speculate that the meeting between a marine bacterial host and its virus may be not just a battle between individuals, but an evolutionarily significant exchange that helps both species become more fit for life in the harsh ocean environment.
