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Comment more than 3 is chaos (Score 2, Interesting) 240

by nohumor on Monday April 12, 2010 @03:17AM (#31814502) Attached to: Bloomberg Reports That Palm Is Up For Sale

buy out of palm will be great move if it leads to consolidation of mobile OSes. as of now, we have OS X, android, symbian, winmo, blackberry, webOS, etc... typically most industry have 3 big guys, that is the case for desktop too - win, mac, linux. i think blackberry should buy out palm. blackberry makes solid devices but lack the gee-whiz factor which webOS and ex-apple employees at palm can bring. nokia in turn should buy out blackberry to create a platform which is solid, functional and cool.

Comment and web developers breathe another sigh of relief (Score 3, Interesting) 152

by nohumor on Saturday March 27, 2010 @03:13AM (#31637480) Attached to: Microsoft Adopts SVG For Internet Explorer 9

this follows on the earlier announcement to support more HTML5 features on IE9. after killing netscape, IE has managed to thwart other upcoming browsers by tweaking standards in a way that developers specifically for IE and other standard compatible browser's rendering looked bad. now this was a fine business strategy except that the browser just refused to evolve. firefox happened followed by safari, chrome, etc. heck, even opera is getting more attention now, especially with euro mandated browser raffle for windows. now IE strategy of not following standards is stacking up against it, with some markets have IE share dropped to less that 50. it is trying to catch up now and actually have the audacity to suggest that they are doing a better job of following the standards, a case in point the adoption of long desired css border-radius. anyway, developers are 1 step closer to worry less about cross browser compatibility (cbc) and more about design and development

Comment Re:More accuracy (Score 1) 336

by nohumor on Monday March 22, 2010 @12:31AM (#31563614) Attached to: Carbon-14 Dating Reveals 5% of Vintage Wines May Be Frauds

i too hate the super expensive "gold plated monster cable" when a cheap $10 would do just fine but lets not blame monster for inflating wine prices

Comment Re:Solution (Score 1) 690

by nohumor on Wednesday March 03, 2010 @05:09AM (#31342312) Attached to: $1M Prize For Finding Cause of Unintended Acceleration

cutting the power will also kill the "power" brakes and "power" steering. which will mean we will need to push the brakes really hard and turn the steering wheel really hard, something we are no longer used to doing. even though the acceleration will stop, maneuvering the car will be really tough

Comment This will be devastating (Score 1) 403

by nohumor on Friday February 05, 2010 @06:17PM (#31040324) Attached to: India Ditches UN Climate Change Group

If India is out of IPCC, where are people going to call for tech support?

Gaining Root Access On Linux-Based Femtocells 102

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday February 02, 2010 @01:31PM from the feel-free-to-listen-in dept.

viralMeme writes "According to the Register, 'Security researchers have turned their attention to femtocells, and have discovered that gaining root on the tiny mobile base stations isn't as hard as one might hope.' One of the researchers said, 'After hours of sniffing traffic, changing IP address ranges, guessing passwords and investigating hardware pinouts, we had obtained root access on these Linux-based cellular-based devices, which piqued our curiosity [about] the security implications.' Whoever designed these devices should be sent back to computer school. An authentication device that can be bypassed is a contradiction in terms. Or, as some pen-pusher would put it in a report: an unantipicated security excursion.

Comment Now we know... (Score 5, Insightful) 266

by nohumor on Tuesday February 02, 2010 @12:46PM (#30997172) Attached to: Dying Man Shares Unseen Challenger Video

... that betamax did not just have great audio and video, *it can survive years in the attic* without losing much of the quality.

Dying Man Shares Unseen Challenger Video 266

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday February 02, 2010 @12:27PM from the new-perspective-on-an-old-tragedy dept.

longacre writes "An amateur video of the 1986 Space Shuttle Challenger explosion has been made public for the first time. The Florida man who filmed it from his front yard on his new Betamax camcorder turned the tape over to an educational organization a week before he died this past December. The Space Exploration Archive has since published the video into the public domain in time for the 24th anniversary of the catastrophe. Despite being shot from about 70 miles from Cape Canaveral, the shuttle and the explosion can be seen quite clearly. It is unclear why he never shared the footage with NASA or the media. NASA officials say they were not aware of the video, but are interested in examining it now that it has been made available."

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