Comment Re:NO! (Score 1) 491
No, clearly, the release is about the Tea Party's involvement in rigging the results of Dancing With the Stars.
Comment Seriously? (Score 1) 119
Oh, come on! What kind of hacker, ESPECIALLY the ones who work on the Zeus botnet code, would let a string go unescaped?
It's even a login string, and that's step 1 in learning to stop SQL injections.
What's more depressing is that the security researchers actually thought they could get in via sql injection. Wow.
Comment Re:Lie to them (Score 1) 240
... as a music major (graduating in November) working at a small indie game development firm, I wholeheartedly endorse your message ;)
But seriously - I didn't expect to read that here. This gives me hope whenever I'm stuck behind an impenetrable wall of code.
Comment Is it April 1st again? (Score 1) 208
Did I miss the memo? Is it April 1st again?
Comment Re:So, by next year.... (Score 1) 184
Sure, the Chinese have clones - but it's only the hardware that's copied (very very expertly, by the way). The software is not installed on the chinese phones.
In fact, the software that IS on is pretty shitty, but the only reason why they sell so well in China is because of this one reason:
People in China want cheap phones, they'd rather pay $500 RMB as opposed to $500 USD. They're not interested in Maemo, or Meego, or all the cool things phones can do, they just want a cool looking phone.
Believe it or not, Americans, the Chinese copycats are creating their clone phones for themselves, not for the curious few Americans who buy them.
Comment Re:Summary wrong (Score 1) 10
Yeah... I was wondering about that - seeing as I find it a little offensive to hear a white dude saying "we do things differently"...
Comment Re:The internet wasn't always unlimited. (Score 1) 381
This.
Bell and the CRTC are in cahoots to stifle conpetition in Canada, and allow their monopolistic decisions to reign over telecommunications in Canada.
The general public sits back and lets Bell rape 'em up the ass because they mistakenly believe that the CRTC is "on their side".
Frig - fun while it lasted though.
What Every Programmer Should Know About Floating-Point Arithmetic 359
-brazil- writes "Every programmer forum gets a steady stream of novice questions about numbers not 'adding up.' Apart from repetitive explanations, SOP is to link to a paper by David Goldberg which, while very thorough, is not very accessible for novices. To alleviate this, I wrote The Floating-Point Guide, as a floating-point equivalent to Joel Spolsky's excellent introduction to Unicode. In doing so, I learned quite a few things about the intricacies of the IEEE 754 standard, and just how difficult it is to compare floating-point numbers using an epsilon. If you find any errors or omissions, you can suggest corrections."
Comment OpenID (Score 1) 4
Sure, it exists. Simply install your forum's OpenID module, or code one yourself if your forum software doesn't support it.
Problem solved.
Comment D. Melanogaster? Nay. (Score 1) 1
Apparently, t'is no longer Drosophila. It's been moved to the Sophophora subgenus.
Somehow, S. Melanogaster doesn't have the same ring to it.
Submission + - The end of the 3.5 inch floppy (examiner.com)
JoshuaInNippon writes: In a brief press released buried within Sony Japan's website, the company announced that they would be ending sales of the class 3.5 inch floppy disk in the country in March of 2011. Sony introduced the size to the world in 1981, which saw its heyday in the 1990s. Sony has been one of the last major manufactures to continue shipments of the disk type they helped develop, but had ended most worldwide sales in March of this year. The company's production of the 3.5 inch floppy ceased in 2009. Sony noted the demand, or a lack there of, as the reason. The company's withdrawal is one of the final marks in the slow death of the floppy era.
Submission + - Ubisoft's DRM cracked. For real this time. (pcpowerplay.com.au)
therufus writes: A few days after the release of Assassin's Creed II, naughty piracy sites were announcing they had cracked Ubisoft's Online Services Platform. Turns out, that wasn't entirely true. While it was possible to load into the game, players were unable to advance past a certain memory block. But now, it seems like they'll need to draft a new response. Less than 24 hours ago, a crack began circulating that removes the DRM entirely. PC Powerplay Australia has been covering the development.
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