Comment Re:Using Incandescents means *more* mercury releas (Score 1) 1049
Do you have a coal-fired power plant in your bedroom, too? Proximity to mercury can't be ignored.
Comment Huh? (Score 2) 162
"30% and 34% of doctors lack basic anti-virus software and network firewalls" ... what? How is this legal?
Comment Unicode? (Score 4, Insightful) 2254
How about Unicode, do you support that yet?
Comment I must be from the future... (Score 1) 90
... because I have been streaming video from VLC on my Android phone for months. Using VLC Stream & Convert.
Comment Re:My experiences of Fallout: New Vegas bugs (Score 1) 397
If a game crashes, that means that it nearly wrote over memory it shouldn't have and could corrupt your data, your operating system, even your hardware. You were "saved" by things like DEP and similar but that doesn't mean it's acceptable.
Say what? The MMU prevents apps from writing crap onto the operating system, not DEP. If a game can corrupt your operating system or hardware, you should thank them for exposing critical flaws in your operating system or hardware.
Submission + - Google Releases WebP (google.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Google has released WebP, a lossy image format based on the image encoding used by VP8 (the video codec used in Google's WebM video format) to compress keyframes. According to the FAQ, WebP achieves an average 39% more compression than JPEG and JPEG 2000. A gallery on the WebP homepage has a selection of images which compare the original JPEG image with the WebP encoded image shown as a PNG. There's no information available yet on which browsers will support the WebP image format but I imagine it will be all the browsers which currently have native WebM support — Firefox, Chrome, and Opera.
Comment 404 not found? (Score 1) 154
While I was browsing it, the censorship map suddenly went offline and now returns a 404 Not Found error. Google stepping on somebody's toes?
Submission + - Breathing new life to old DirectDraw games (gfxile.net)
An anonymous reader writes: I bought a bunch of old Wing Commander games for windows, and these use DirectDraw, which Microsoft has deprecated. They don't work too well under Windows 7, so I ended up reimplementing ddraw.dll, using OpenGL to output the games' graphics. I wrote an article describing the process and all the fun workarounds I had to come up with, and released all related source code for others to hack on.
Submission + - Native ZFS Is Coming To Linux Next Month (phoronix.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Phoronix is reporting that an Indian technology company has been porting the ZFS filesystem to Linux and will be releasing it next month as a native kernel module without a dependence on FUSE. "In terms of how native ZFS for Linux is being handled by this Indian company, they are releasing their ported ZFS code under the Common Development & Distribution License and will not be attempting to go for mainline integration. Instead, this company will just be releasing their CDDL source-code as a build-able kernel module for users and ensuring it does not use any GPL-only symbols where there would be license conflicts. KQ Infotech also seems confident that Oracle will not attempt to take any legal action against them for this work."
Submission + - .Net on Android is safe, says Microsoft (techworld.com.au) 1
An anonymous reader writes: With Oracle suing Google over "unofficial" support for Java in Android, Microsoft has come out an said it has no intention of taking action against the Mono implementatoon of C# on the Linux-based mobile OS. That's good news for Novell, which is in the final stages of preparing MonoDroid for release. Miguel de Icaza is not concerned about legal challenges by Microsoft over .Net implementations and even recommends that Google switch from using Java. However, Microsoft’s Community Promise has been criticised by the Free Software Foundation for not going far enough to protect open source implementations from patent litigation, which is at the heart of the Oracle-Google case.
Submission + - Hackers accidentally send their code to Microsoft (zdnet.com.au)
joshgnosis writes: When hackers crash Windows in the course of developing malware, they'll often accidentally agree to send the virus code straight to Microsoft, according to senior security architect Rory Heckman
Submission + - Pentagon confirms 2008 computer breach
jowifi writes: The New York Times [nytimes.com] reports that the Pentagon has confirmed that, in 2008, a foreign agent instigated "the most significant breach of U.S. military computers ever" using a USB flash drive. While the breach was previously reported on Wired.com [wired.com] and the LA Times [latimes.com], this is the first official confirmation of the attack that led to the banning of USB drives on government computers.
Comment Re:What is the actual cost to the ISP? (Score 1) 276
I wish I lived in your country. Here in New Zealand, we get data at NZ$1/GB. 2.7TB would cost us US$1900.
We currently download 180GB/month. If we had a truly unlimited data connection, we'd do our darnedest to pull 3TB!
Comment Wow! (Score 1) 154
I did the manual install linked in TFA. Using the web browser is so fast now, it's like having a whole new phone. I can read 10 pages in the time it used to take to browse through 3. I quite enjoyed some of the Flash games over at kongregate.com as well.
Comment Re:They're Terrified (Score 1) 731
Flash just needs to target HTML5 instead of Obj-C in their next release. Problem solved.
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