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Bark Beetles Hate Rush Limbaugh and Heavy Metal 220

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday February 11, 2010 @02:24PM from the tiniest-minds dept.

Aryabhata writes "According to scientists, climate change and human activity have allowed bark beetle populations to soar. They decided to fight the beetles by using the 'nastiest, most offensive sounds' that they could think of. These sounds included recordings of Guns & Roses, Queen, Rush Limbaugh and manipulated versions of the insects' own sounds. The research project titled 'Beetle Mania' has concluded that acoustic stress can disrupt their feeding and even cause the beetles to kill each other."

How To Get Your Program Professionally Marketed? 131

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Friday July 03, 2009 @05:30PM from the doesn't-twitter-solve-all-problems-everywhere-now? dept.

one-man orchestra writes "I'm the sole programmer of a small, multi-platform, commercial audio program (a spectrogram editor). After over 6 months on the market, I realized that the program would never just sell itself, and that I need some real marketing done for it. Being a one-man orchestra is becoming increasingly difficult; I only can devote so much time to marketing, my skills in that department are lacking, and I'd much rather spend more time coding. Despite my lackluster part-time marketing effort, I still manage to make a modest living out of the sales. My logical assumption is that with someone competent taking care of that part, revenue could greatly scale up. But what's the right way to go about doing this? What type of people/company do I need to contact? What to expect? What to look out for?"

Submission + - ioquake3 1.36 Gold

Submitted by

Time Doctor

on Wednesday April 29, 2009 @08:13PM

Time Doctor writes: "The de-facto standard in Quake 3 engine technology, ioquake3, has hit version 1.36 recently. It includes a garbage bag full of improvements: in-game VOIP; optional external Mumble (voip); OpenAL; IPV6; Anaglyph stereo rendering; Full x86-64 architecture support; Rewritten PowerPC JIT compiler, with ppc64 support; New SPARC JIT compiler, with support for both sparc32 and sparc64; Improved console command auto-completion; Persistent console command history; Improved QVM (Quake Virtual Machine) tools; Colored terminal output on POSIX operating systems; Multiuser support on Windows systems (user-specific game data is stored in their respective Application Data folders); PNG format support for textures. Of course there are even more fixes for security holes and other bugs in there. So if you don't like ads and queues in your Quake 3 experience, get a copy off of Steam and copy your data files and key into your ioquake3 directory."

Elcomsoft Claims WPA/WPA2 Cracking Breakthrough 349

Posted by timothy on Sunday October 12, 2008 @02:12PM from the it-budget-excuse-par-excellence dept.

secmartin writes "Russian security firm Elcomsoft has released software that uses Nvidia GPUs to speed up the cracking of WPA and WPA2 keys by a factor of 100. Since the software allows them to network thousands of PCs, this anouncement effectively signals the death of wireless networking in business networks; any network handling sensitive data should start using VPN encryption on machines connecting over Wi-Fi networks, or stop using these networks altogether."

Comment Re:New competition components (Score 1) 64

by kevlarman on Sunday January 06, 2008 @03:54AM (#21930302) Attached to: High School Robotics Competition Kicks Off

i believe there's a replacement for IFI_loader on sourceforge somewhere, you'll need to run the compiler in wine, but it's probably a really bad idea to start trying this stuff on a team's first year. there's no way(that i know of) you'll get any C++ code on the robot, and no real need for it, in all likelyhood you'll be writing under 200 lines of your own code, and most of the difficulty with it will be making it work as you expect it (#define is your friend here). when you're dealing with 130lbs of robot, it's a lot harder than you would think to make it do what you want. whether or not your team will actually be using the kitbot frame, get them to assemble it and attach all the sensors to it so the programmers can start getting some idea of how to use them. -former team100 programmer

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