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Comment Paradox (Score 1) 685

by nimrod108 (#34054884) Attached to: 1928 Time Traveler Caught On Film?
There is also the time travel paradox that if someone did time travel (I personally don't think they did) and was seen on video, they could simply go back in time again and get themselves out of the video thus it would have never happened and YouTube would happily go on showing stupid cat tricks today. IF (and that is a bing IF) this is some sort of communication device then I would assume it was an alien in disguise. The fellow does point out that it is a very 'butch' woman. I think a little grey could easily sneak under that heavy coat. Personally I think it is something mundane that is common in the era. The guy who walks past her doesn't bat an eye. I still give a double take to people on Bluetooth headset when I don't see it so I am sure a lady talking into an ear box would turn some heads.

Comment Power Adapter Plug (Laptop) (Score 1) 715

by nimrod108 (#33613504) Attached to: The Last Component To Fail In My Computer Was The...
This has been the curse of 3 of my laptops. Two have just sort of worn out and another I stepped on but holy crap you think someone (besides Apple) can improve on the design! At the very least they should put the plug on a separate board (as was the case in the LG laptop I stepped on) so you don't have to bust out a soldering iron to fix them!
Encryption

Privacy With a 4096 Bit RSA Key — Offline, On Paper 232

Posted by timothy from the you'll-need-a-bigger-id-badge dept.
HavanaF writes "Online backup is practical, but can it offer any privacy? The Dutch security company Safeberg developed an Offline Private Key Protocol, with an asymmetric key scheme. The protocol demands that the private (decryption) key be stored away from the 'source' computer, which presumably is 'too vulnerable.' The catch is that the private key needs to be fairly large to be secure: a 4,096-bit RSA key should suffice for some years. But how to store an 800-character key offline? Safeberg introduces a machine readable paper key, with the 4k-bit key crammed in a giant 2D Datamatrix barcode. This video on key strength tells the story."
Books

Freescale's Cheap Chip Could Mean Sub-$99 E-Readers 158

Posted by timothy from the readership-growth dept.
eldavojohn writes "Last week, Freescale Semiconductor announced their i.MX508 chip and a few days ago released a rather bland and boring announcement that it's available. But there was at least one interesting line from that press release, 'The i.MX508 applications processor is expected to be priced at less than $10 (USD) in quantities greater than 250K units.' Yes, less than ten dollars. This sparked a wave of articles detailing how this new chip will allow the sub-$99 e-reader to emerge and according to market research, consumers are thirsty for something much more affordable than the Kindle."
Linux

Submission + - 1 Second Linux Boot! (embedded-bits.co.uk)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Less than one second Linux boot! This post/video shows an OMAP3530 capturing video data from a camera and rendering it to an LCD display — the video appears on the LCD display in less than a second from reset.

Submission + - Major Electronics Vendors Accused of Price Fixing (computerworld.com)

Submitted by Lucas123
Lucas123 writes: After the DOJ launched an investigation last fall into price fixing by major optical disk drive manufacturers, a home electronics retail store filed a class-aciton lawsuit this week seeking triple damages for what it is claiming to be long-standing collusion between Sony, Samsung, Toshiba, LG Electronics and Hitachi to raise and fix prices on the drives. The suit claims the vendors used trade organization forums as meeting places to discuss the price fixing. "These are big Asian smoke-stack industries where they're investing in big fabrication plants. You can't have a technology destroy the business," said the attorney representing the plaintiff. "If you fire up a big fab plant with CRT tubes, and the next generation technology destroys it, then you have a big fab plant manufacturing buggy whips. So they have to make sure the price points for these [newer] technologies ... don't destroy existing markets."
Iphone

Submission + - What has your phone survived? (togapit.com)

Submitted by NotAnIndividual
NotAnIndividual writes: On an ice fishing trip two months ago, I lost my iPhone somewhere in the snow. I searched and searched, but to no avail. But just this weekend when moving the ice hut, lo and behold there it was. I quickly threw it into a bag of rice and placed it under a lamp to defrost. Three hours later I plugged it in. I wasn't expecting much. I mean, really, it had been frozen in snow for the last two months! To my surprise, the Apple logo popped up. I put in the SIM card and voila, my iPhone was back. My apps, my contacts, my music and more importantly my life were back. And this is the same iPhone that I dropped in a cup of coffee a few months ago! This got me wondering how much damage a cell phone can actually take.

How have other slashdot users punished their phones without actually killing them completely?

Submission + - LG Launches Watch Phone in India (techzon3.in)

Submitted by roh2cool
roh2cool writes: If you are a watch freak and also happen to be a fan of ultra rare gadgets, this might just interest you. The LG GD910 watch phone looks like a normal watch – except for the fact that it can double up as your mobile phone when needed.
Image

Santa Hate II

Posted by samzenpus from the you-better-watch-out dept.
There is no escape from Santa #2.
The Media

Submission + - PR And The Game Media, The Rockstar Way

Submitted by simoniker
simoniker writes: Discussing PR and the media, former Rockstar Games PR rep Todd Zuniga discusses how the company tried to manipulate the game press as part of an in-depth article on how the two forces interact: "In part, it's a numbers game... Otherwise, it's history. Who wrote negatively about the games, and who hasn't? We never worked with [gaming website] GameSpot while I was there because 'they just didn't get it.'... Hilariously, we even had a list of journalist preferences: 'Likes cake, married, went to school at Indiana U'."

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