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Comment App Store? (Score 1) 335

by nerph (#29203523) Attached to: Report That OS X Snow Leopard May Include Antivirus
Apple doesn't need anti-virus software, they just need an App Store for macs, where all software is linked to and signed by the author. This makes the author accountable. Apple has already incubated an "App Store Culture" so it wouldn't be a hard sell. OS X could sandbox non-app store apps and locally compiled apps and allow the user to assign a level of trust and or privileges to each. The default security level would allow only app store apps. I haven't really put a lot of thought into this but it seems like a good idea on the surface. There wouldn't be a need to jailbreak a mac - you could just change the security level to allow non app store apps. It would also fit nicely into Apple's control-freak psycho personality. Just a thought.
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Secrets of Schizophrenia and Depression "Unlocked" 334

Posted by ScuttleMonkey from the just-a-little-less-crazy-loose-in-the-world dept.
Oracle Goddess writes "According to the US National Institute for Mental Health in Bethesda, Maryland, scientists have discovered a remarkable similarity between the genetic faults behind both schizophrenia and manic depression in a breakthrough that is expected to open the way to new treatments for two of the most common mental illnesses, affecting millions of people. Previously schizophrenia and depression were assumed to be two separate conditions, but the new research shows for the first time that both have a common genetic basis that leads people to develop one or the other of the two illnesses."
PlayStation (Games)

Developer Panel Gives Its Verdict On Sony's PSP Go 55

Posted by Soulskill from the thumbs-slanted-forward dept.
An anonymous reader writes "A panel of games industry veterans have given their final verdict on Sony's PSP Go. David Perry thinks the handheld is an excellent step in the right direction, though he wants it to include free-to-play games. Andrew Oliver of Blitz Games Studios was also optimistic: 'The iPod has demonstrated that, given a nice small device and a good interface and easy buying process, people are happy to download content. I think this will work and move gamers to accepting legal digital downloads, which is the way we want the market to go.' In total, a panel of eight developers discussed four key issues surrounding the handheld, including whether or not they will develop for it."

Comment How does I/O work? (Score 1) 209

by nerph (#26932581) Attached to: Coming Soon, 250 DVDs In a Quarter-Sized Device
Is this similar to CD/DVD with bumps and grooves and read/written by a laser? Or is it more like solid state drives/memory where the assembled block copolymers provide a foundation for the formation of transistors? More generally, is it random access or is there a seek time involved?

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It is masked but always present. I don't know who built to it. It came before the first kernel.

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