Comment Just like SSH (Score 0) 178
They're mostly brute force attacks. There need to be limits put in place.
Same thing happens with SSH all the time. Hasn't stopped for years. I doubt it will.
Comment AI (Score 0) 156
I've always wondered what it'd be like to have a userinterface that just pretends to give you control, when really it just arbitarily decides what moives you want to watch, what games you want to paly etc .. then when you're in it .. maybe it could just read your brain waves and guess what you'd like to do.
Comment What are they doing there? (Score 0) 317
I still don't understand what they're actually doing being in Afghanistan in the first place. Haven't they got enough problems at home to deal with?
Comment Re:Yeah. Or just legalize marijuana. (Score 0) 311
You must be entrenched in something, you're trying to add disclaimers to not be held responsible!
Don't worry it's only the internet!
Comment Re:Yeah. Or just legalize marijuana. (Score 1) 311
Just get rid of all of the polticians. What use are they anyway?
Comment War (Score 0, Flamebait) 311
Or they could just start another war.
Tech CEOs Tell US Gov't How To Cut Deficit By $1 Trillion 311
alphadogg writes "The US government can save more than $1 trillion over the next 10 years by consolidating its IT infrastructure, reducing its energy use and moving to more Web-based citizen services, a group of tech CEOs said in a report released Wednesday. The Technology CEO Council's report, delivered to President Barack Obama's National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform, also recommends that the US government streamline its supply chains and move agencies to shared services for mission-support activities. 'America's growing national debt is undermining our global competitiveness,' said the council, chaired by IBM CEO Samuel Palmisano. 'How we choose to confront and address this challenge will determine our future environment for growth and innovation.' If the cash-strapped US government enacted all the recommendations in the advocacy group's report, it could save between $920 billion and $1.2 trillion by 2020, the group said. The federal government could also reduce IT energy consumption by 25 percent, and it could save $200 billion over 10 years by using advanced analytics to stop improper payments, the report said."
Visible Light 'X-Ray' Sees Through Solid Objects 122
disco_tracy writes "Some day we may not need X-rays to see inside people, thanks to a new way to decipher light that passes through opaque surfaces. Normally visible light becomes too scattered to detect after passing through opaque surfaces. But scientists in France have developed a way to reconstruct images from light passing through such surfaces by deciphering just how the material makes the light scatter. In the short term the research will help improve the strength of telecommunications signals and fiber optics cables, but years from now the technology could supplement or even replace traditional ultrasounds for baby imaging and X-rays for weapons detection at airports."
Comment Re:Friends (Score 1) 300
I like them tight.
Comment Small text (Score 1) 1140
What I don't understand is why so few software supports making everything bigger on 1920x1080/1920x1200. It gets hard to see everything for me.
In windows 7 if you change the DPI settings higher then some dialogs don't work properly. And MacOS doesn't even seem to have a nice way to make things large.
Then in Linux all the fonts look terrible at higher text sizes..
That's one of the reasons I upgraded from a 24" 1920x1080 monitor to a 27" 1920x1200 monitor. It seems you actually want about 30" or so for 1920x1080 to be usable nicely though.
Comment Friends (Score 1) 300
Lots of friendships die anyway. You win some you lose some.
Comment 1920x1080 to 1920x1200 (Score 1) 1140
Yeah, it's really annoying. I upgraded from 1920x1080 to 1920x1200. It's quite a lot nicer. But to be able to get something affordable I went second hand from already owning a new monitor. That said, I upgraded from 24 to 27" at the same time, and I find it a lot nicer.
Curiously enough my 32" LCD TV that does 1080p isn't a lot bigger than the 27" monitor. I was using that as a monitor for a while, but I wanted more resolution.
Still, I'd like a bit more than 1200 pixels. But to go above that is EXTREMELY expensive.
Top Reason for Facebook Unfriending Is Too Many Useless Posts 300
alphadogg writes "The No. 1 reason why friends dump friends on Facebook is when they get fed up seeing too many useless posts, according to new research out of the University of Colorado Denver Business School. Posts about polarizing subjects such as politics and religion as well as inappropriate and racist comments also sever many Facebook relationships, according to Christopher Sibona, a PhD student in the Computer and Science and Information Systems program. 'Researchers spend a lot of time examining how people form friendships online but little is known on how those relationships end,' said Sibona, whose research will be published in January by the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. 'Perhaps this will help us develop a theory of the entire cycle of friending and unfriending.' Sibona surveyed more than 1,500 Facebook users to get to the bottom of why people dump each other. Not surprisingly, people who flood others with posts are at great risk of being unfriended. 'The 100th post about your favorite band is no longer interesting,' he said." Samzenpus likes this.
Building the Realtime User Experience 102
rheotaxis writes "Many professional web developers have spent years building dynamic, database-driven web applications, but some of us, like myself, want to make the user experience more interactive and instantaneous. The book Building the Realtime User Experience, by Ted Roden, is an introduction to some new techniques making that happen now. New web servers like Cometd and Tornado power solutions that keep HTTP connections open until data is available for the clients requesting it, a technique called 'long-polling.' This means web developers can provide a real-time user experience using HTTP for all sorts of client devices now connecting to the Internet, not just web browsers, but mobile devices as well." Read below for the rest of rheotaxis's review.
