Comment Yes, often (Score 1) 257

by lorax on Saturday September 15, 2018 @05:02PM (#57320454) Attached to: Slashdot Asks: Have You Ever Gotten Someone Else's Email?

I have a domain name similar to a financial company and every month or two someone sends an email to me instead of their broker. Sometimes I respond, but often I delete it without bothering to read the email.

Comment Re: An Honest Question (Score 1) 213

by lorax on Saturday December 14, 2013 @08:40PM (#45692065) Attached to: Surge In Litecoin Mining Leads To Graphics Card Shortage

Lets see, there is Gold, Silver, Platinum, Palladium, and Rhodium. That is quite a selection of precious metals available.

Comment Re:Has anyone made a "companion" camera yet? (Score 1) 316

by lorax on Sunday June 02, 2013 @10:05PM (#43892789) Attached to: Chicago Sun Times Swaps iPhone Training For Staff Photographers

Lots of the Nikon Coolpix cameras come with wifi and claim to connect to your smartphone/tablet. Haven't used one so I don't know how well it works, but look at the S5200, S6500, or S9500.

Comment Re:What is the FPU performance of these things...? (Score 1) 202

by lorax on Wednesday September 07, 2011 @09:59AM (#37326212) Attached to: AMD Starts Shipping First Bulldozer CPU

There's a whole lot of variables in play and I don't think we'll know until people really start using this. Intel's first viersion of AVX didn't extend all SSE instructions to 256 bits, I don't know if AMD's does so you might give up performance in some workloads there. I think for desktop use this will be a real win since you rarely run two applications that both use floating point.

Comment Don't you just hate it (Score 4, Interesting) 503

by lorax on Friday June 17, 2011 @09:25AM (#36473498) Attached to: Microsoft Brands WebGL a 'Harmful' Technology

Don't you just hate it when Microsoft takes the high road on security and raises some valid points. We've been through this scenario a bunch of times where some class of programs that used to only be used by local programs became accessible on the web and suddenly there is a rash of exploits (jpeg and pdf come to mind), I'd rather not go through it again.

That said, I think Microsoft laid out the problems with enough specificity that they could be addressed.

PSN Outage Continues, Console Hack Claimed To Be Responsible 404

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday April 26, 2011 @03:29PM from the house-of-cards dept.

Over the weekend, we discussed news that the PlayStation Network had been down for days, with Sony saying little other than that it was caused by an "external intrusion" and that they were "rebuilding their network." Many of you have written to point out that the outage continues, with Sony saying they "don't have an update or timeframe to share at this point." One theory about the cause behind the network's downtime was recently espoused on Reddit by 'chesh,' a moderator at PlayStation-modding enthusiast site PSX-Scene.com. According to him, recently released custom firmware called Rebug allowed people to essentially turn their PS3s into dev consoles, though some features were missing. A different group supposedly used this firmware to get on PSN through the developer networks, and also found that fake credit card numbers were not being validated for game purchases, leading to what chesh called "extreme piracy." He acknowledges that this theory is speculation. Sony's handling of this outage is starting to draw attention from the government. Update: 04/26 20:47 GMT by S : Sony just posted more details, saying that a massive data breach occurred: An "unauthorized person" has PSN users' "name, address (city, state, zip), country, email address, birthdate, PlayStation Network/Qriocity password and login, and handle/PSN online ID." Billing address, password questions, and credit card info may also have been taken.

Comment My RSS headline said. (Score 1) 366

by lorax on Tuesday March 22, 2011 @03:05PM (#35577304) Attached to: China Starts Censoring Phone Calls Mid Sentence

Quite apropos that the headline showed up in my rss reader as "China Starts Censoring Phone Calls Mid Sent..." I had to open the story to see if it was intentional.

Submission + - Asus Motherboard Box Doubles as PC Case (itworld.com) 1

Submitted by

itwbennett

on Wednesday March 02, 2011 @03:37PM

itwbennett writes: "Taiwan's Asus has a novel idea to cut down on shipping waste: What if the shipping container became the PC case? That's the idea behind a box the company will begin using to ship one of its Mini ATX motherboards. It holds the motherboard snug for shipping and is constructed so additional components required to make a PC can be added, said Debby Lee, a spokeswoman for the Taipei-based company. An example of the box is showing at this week's Cebit trade show in Hanover, Germany."

Comment Re:Already made it months ago (Score 1) 139

by lorax on Friday February 11, 2011 @05:00PM (#35180108) Attached to: BitTorrent and Khan Academy To Distribute Education

what format are the video files in the torrent? Also, what resolution, bitrate, and codec?

Comment Re:Worth every penny (Score 1) 240

by lorax on Thursday December 09, 2010 @09:39PM (#34509808) Attached to: Amazon Fake Products and Fake Reviews

Oh the memories. I remember that top review when it was on slashdot.

Comment Re:That long ago? (Score 2) 721

by lorax on Wednesday December 01, 2010 @10:45AM (#34403936) Attached to: Greg Bear, Others Cry Foul on Project Gutenberg Copyright Call

In the linked case, the short story wasn't renewed, but the longer compilation (with a different title) was. Since the compilation was copyrighted within 2 years of the short story, its renewal extended the copyright of the short story as well, so the first half isn't in the public domain, neither is the short story.

Copyright is complex, PG made an error, admitted it, and pulled the story.

Comment Re:So we like open source, but not open protocols? (Score 1) 286

by lorax on Tuesday October 05, 2010 @09:46AM (#33793688) Attached to: Skype Officially Available For Android

I'd much rather use SIP, but I have had a lot of trouble with SIP to SIP calls when using different VOIP programs. I have had almost no luck with video over SIP, skype video works. This app doesn't have video so I probably won't use it much.

Comment No video (Score 1) 286

by lorax on Tuesday October 05, 2010 @09:12AM (#33793382) Attached to: Skype Officially Available For Android

It doesn't look like it can do video, that's too bad. You can also have only one account active (so you can't have both a work and a personal account). It takes over 10MB installed and can't be installed on the SD card. Other than that, it looks good.

Google Renames Itself "Topeka" 84

Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday April 01, 2010 @09:26AM from the not-as-much-zazz dept.

techmuse was one of several readers to note Google's official response to recent news that a town in Kansas would rename itself Google. The search engine company has announced a name change of its own, although I'm not sure saying "Let me Topeka that" has quite the same ring to it.

Breaking the Squid Barrier 126

Posted by timothy on Sunday February 14, 2010 @09:33PM from the calimari-for-the-5000 dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Dr. Steve O'Shea of Auckland, New Zealand is attempting to break the record for keeping deep sea squid alive in captivity, with the goal of being able to raise a giant squid one day. Right now, he's raising the broad squid, sepioteuthis australis, from egg masses found in seaweed. This is a lot harder than it sounds, because the squid he's studying grow rapidly and eat only live prey, making it hard for them to keep the squid from becoming prey themselves. If his research works out, you might one day be able to visit an aquarium and see giant squid."

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