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Submission + - Scientists Develop New Method to Improve Passwords (arxiv.org)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 03, 2011 @06:53AM

An anonymous reader writes: Scientists at Max-Planck-Institute for Physics of Complex Systems in Dresden, Germany have developed a novel method to improve password security. A strong long password is split in two parts. The first part is memorized by a human. The second part is stored as a CAPTCHA-like image of a chaotic lattice system.

Compared and Contrasted: OpenOffice V. LibreOffice 294

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday February 16, 2011 @02:00PM from the forks-and-spoons dept.

GMGruman writes "Oracle's imposition of fees for some OpenOffice capabilities caused some of the venerable open source office suite's creators to head out on their own and create LibreOffice as a truly free OSS tool. InfoWorld's Neil McAllister reviews the two OSS productivity tools side by side to figure out where they differ, and whether you can jettison Oracle's OpenOffice safely for the fully free LibreOffice."

RIAA Claims Ownership of All Artist Royalties For Internet Radio 458

Posted by Zonk on Sunday April 29, 2007 @01:22AM from the isn't-that-called-stealing dept.

ISurfTooMuch writes "With the furor over the impending rate hike for Internet radio stations, wouldn't a good solution be for streaming internet stations to simply not play RIAA-affiliated labels' music and focus on independent artists? Sounds good, except that the RIAA's affiliate organization SoundExchange claims it has the right to collect royalties for any artist, no matter if they have signed with an RIAA label or not. 'SoundExchange (the RIAA) considers any digital performance of a song as falling under their compulsory license. If any artist records a song, SoundExchange has the right to collect royalties for its performance on Internet radio. Artists can offer to download their music for free, but they cannot offer their songs to Internet radio for free ... So how it works is that SoundExchange collects money through compulsory royalties from Webcasters and holds onto the money. If a label or artist wants their share of the money, they must become a member of SoundExchange and pay a fee to collect their royalties.'"

Roomba + Wii remote + Perl = Awesome 175

Posted by timothy on Tuesday December 26, 2006 @10:48PM from the when-buzzword-compliance-is-a-good-thing dept.

Anonymous Wii Lov'n Coward writes "Check out the WiiRoomba, a mashup using a Wii remote, a perl script, and the Darwiin Remote software. While a little sluggish to respond, the Roomba is entirely controlled by the Wii remote accelerometers." All of the source code to do it yourself is available at the site linked, along with a youtube video of how it works.

Comment Re:No VC++ (Score 1) 413

by regis.c on Wednesday June 29, 2005 @08:18AM (#12940356) Attached to: Trolltech Releases Qt 4.0

The configure "script" (which is actually an executable) just seems to display the GPL (which you can edit in an accompanying text file so you don't have to hit enter repeatedly), ask if you agree and then bail out. Perhaps that's because I don't have mingw installed; I'm not sure, because it didn't give any kind of error.

In fact you need to give configure a platform with -platform xxx option. For mingw xxx is win32-g++ (cf. mkspecs dir and configure --help)

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