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Comment Re:Horribly misleading (Score 1) 351

by phemes on Wednesday April 21, 2010 @12:00PM (#31924326) Attached to: New Speed Cameras Catch You From Space

That's a distinct possibility. I went on a "speed awareness course" fairly recently where we found out that in the Thames Valley Police area, there were only some 13 cameras (as far as I remember) for the 300 fixed camera sites. The cameras are swapped from site to site fairly frequently. There are also quite a few "mobile" cameras which do indeed move round every day, covering multiple sites per day. Some of these are camera vans, others, cameras on a tripod manned by the Police. Integral GPS would improve the conviction rate I'm sure.

Submission + - Where are the Cheap Thin Clients? 1

Submitted by Darren Ginter on Saturday December 19, 2009 @03:17PM

Darren Ginter writes: I am compelled by many aspects of desktop virtualization with one exception: the cost of the thin clients, which typically exceed that of a traditional box. I understand all of the benefits of desktop virtualization (and the downsides, thanks) but I'm very hung up on spending more for less. While there are some sub-$200 products out there, they all seem to cut corners (give me non-vaporware that will drive a 22" LCD at full resolution). I can PXE boot a home brew Atom-based thin client for $130 but I'd prefer to be able to buy something assembled. Am I missing something here?

Submission + - Major bug in snow leopard deletes all user data (neowin.net)

Submitted by inglishmayjer on Monday October 12, 2009 @03:39PM

inglishmayjer writes: From the article:
"Reports have been cropping up on the Apple Support forums that users have been losing all their data due to a nasty bug in Snow Leopard, Apple's latest Operating System. Many users are reporting that all settings are being reset and most data is gone, according to iTWire."

The issue is caused by logging into a guest account, the user finds "that their account has been fully reset with all data wiped and lost — the account is like a brand new one."

D'oh.

Submission + - Intel caught cheating in 3DMark benchmark (techreport.com) 3

Submitted by EconolineCrush on Monday October 12, 2009 @12:32PM

EconolineCrush writes: 3DMark Vantage developer Futuremark has clear guidelines for what sort of driver optimizations are permitted with its graphics benchmark. Intel's current Windows 7 drivers appear to be in direct violation, offloading the graphics workload onto the CPU to artificially inflate scores for the company's integrated graphics chipsets. The Tech Report lays out the evidence, along with Intel's response, and illustrates that 3DMark scores don't necessarily track with game performance, anyway.

Significant Russian Attack On US Military Networks 270

Posted by kdawson on Friday November 28, 2008 @11:21AM from the my-agent.btz-will-call-you dept.

killmofasta notes an LA Times story on a severe and widespread attack on US military computers that may have originated in Russia. Turns out the military's recent ban on flash drives was a precursor to this attack, which was significant enough that the President and the Defense Secretary were briefed on it. "The 'malware' strike, thought to be from inside Russia, hit combat zone computers and the US Central Command overseeing Iraq and Afghanistan. The attack underscores concerns about computer warfare. 'This one was significant; this one got our attention,' said one defense official, speaking on condition of anonymity when discussing internal assessments. Although officials are withholding many details, the attack underscores the increasing danger and potential significance of computer warfare, which defense experts say could one day be used by combatants to undermine even a militarily superior adversary. ... [A defense official said] 'We have taken a number of corrective measures, but I would be overstating it if I said we were through this.'"

Don't Share That Law! It's Copyrighted 481

Posted by timothy on Wednesday September 03, 2008 @02:32PM from the there-would-be-these-rules-that-everyone-knows dept.

Nathan Halverson writes "California claims copyright to its laws, and warns people not to share them. And that's not sitting right with Internet gadfly, and open-access hero, Carl Malamud. He has spent the last couple months scanning tens of thousands of pages containing city, county and state laws — think building codes, banking laws, etc. Malamud wants California to sue him, which is almost a given if the state wants to continue claiming copyright. He thinks a federal court will rule in his favor: It is illegal to copyright the law since people are required to know it. Malamud helped force the SEC to put corporate filings online in 1994, and did the same with the patent office. He got the Smithsonian to loosen its claim of copyright, CSPAN to stop forbidding people from sharing its videos, and most recently Oregon to quit claiming copyright on state laws." Malamud's talk at Google ("All the Government's Information") is also well worth watching.

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