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Comment Old news, and very likely wrong (Score 1) 331

by thorin73 on Wednesday February 04, 2015 @01:09PM (#48980697) Attached to: Massive Layoff Underway At IBM

This was in Forbes on 22.1., and dismissed by IBM on 26.1. (http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/01/26/us-ibm-restructuring-forbes-idUSKBN0KZ1WF20150126) quite convincingly: "IBM does not comment on rumors, even ridiculous or baseless ones," the company said in the email. "If anyone had checked information readily available from our public earnings statements, or had simply asked us, they would know that IBM has already announced the company has just taken a $600 million charge for workforce rebalancing. This equates to several thousand people, a small fraction of what's been reported." Not sure why Slashdot is picking up on this several days later... Is there any new indication that the 100k number is correct at all?

New Service Converts Torrents Into PNG Images 297

Posted by Soulskill on Wednesday July 15, 2009 @09:42AM from the pretty-useful-pictures dept.

jamie points out that a new web service, hid.im, will encode a torrent into a PNG image file, allowing it to be shared easily through forums or image hosting sites. Quoting TorrentFreak: "We have to admit that the usefulness of the service escaped us when we first discovered the project. So, we contacted Michael Nutt, one of the people running the project to find out what it's all about. 'It is an attempt to make torrents more resilient,' Michael told [us]. 'The difference is that you no longer need an indexing site to host your torrent file. Many forums will allow uploading images but not other types of files.' Hiding a torrent file inside an image is easy enough. Just select a torrent file stored on your local hard drive and Hid.im will take care the rest. The only limit to the service is that the size of the torrent file cannot exceed 250KB. ... People on the receiving end can decode the images and get the original .torrent file through a Firefox extension or bookmarklet. The code is entirely open source and Michael Nutt told us that they are hoping for people to contribute to it by creating additional decoders supported by other browsers."

Comment Re:Finally (Score 1) 12

by thorin73 on Wednesday July 08, 2009 @08:22AM (#28619991) Attached to: Google OS Announced

Erm... how is this a new OS? Linux always came with different window managers and browsers. Granted, many OSes (incl. proprietary ones) are based on open source kernels. But they would usually modify the kernel in a major way (or just call it a distribution, i.e., "Google Linux") - but in the press statement I don't read "on top of a highly modified Linux kernel". I hope for their sake that they made some revolutionary, meaningful changes to the kernel; otherwise they will just get ridiculed by their competitors as well as the open source community before long.

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