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Comment Is it a joke? (Score 0) 345

This is so ridiculous that it has to be fake news or simply a joke And if true, this p.o.s. silly approach should be OPTIONAL and NOT mandatory If i want a portable, isolated home or work directory, id create say, a LUKS container or a TCPlay / Truecrypt compatible volume, where i have full control and not rely on such "major changes"
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High-Tech Microphone Picks Voices From a Crowd 221

Posted by Soulskill from the watch-your-mouth dept.
JerryQ writes with news of an impressive audio detection system from a company called Squarehead that was demonstrated during a professional basketball game. According to Wired, "325 microphones sit in a carbon-fiber disk above the stadium, and a wide-angle camera looks down on the scene from the center of this disk. All the operator has to do is pinpoint a spot on the court or field using the screen, and the Audioscope works out how far that spot is from each of the mics, corrects for delay and then synchronizes the audio from all 315 of them. The result is a microphone that can pick out the pop of a bubblegum bubble in the middle of a basketball game..."
Data Storage

Data Deduplication Comparative Review 195

Posted by samzenpus from the a-little-order-please dept.
snydeq writes "InfoWorld's Keith Schultz provides an in-depth comparative review of four data deduplication appliances to vet how well the technology stacks up against the rising glut of information in today's datacenters. 'Data deduplication is the process of analyzing blocks or segments of data on a storage medium and finding duplicate patterns. By removing the duplicate patterns and replacing them with much smaller placeholders, overall storage needs can be greatly reduced. This becomes very important when IT has to plan for backup and disaster recovery needs or when simply determining online storage requirements for the coming year,' Schultz writes. 'If admins can increase storage usage 20, 40, or 60 percent by removing duplicate data, that allows current storage investments to go that much further.' Under review are dedupe boxes from FalconStor, NetApp, and SpectraLogic."
Piracy

App Store Piracy Losses Estimated At $459 Million 202

Posted by Soulskill from the arrr-me-hearties dept.
An anonymous reader passes along this quote from a report at 24/7 Wall St.: "There have been over 3 billion downloads since the inception of the App Store. Assuming the proportion of those that are paid apps falls in the middle of the Bernstein estimate, 17% or 510 million of these were paid applications. Based on our review of current information, paid applications have a piracy rate of around 75%. That supports the figure that for every paid download, there have been 3 pirated downloads. That puts the number of pirate downloads at 1.53 billion. If the average price of a paid application is $3, that is $4.59 billion dollars in losses split between Apple and the application developers. That is, of course, assuming that all of those pirates would have made purchases had the application not been available to them for free. This is almost certainly not the case. A fair estimate of the proportion of people who would have used the App Store if they did not use pirated applications is about 10%. This estimate yields about $459 million in lost revenue for Apple and application developers." A response posted at Mashable takes issue with some of the figures, particularly the 75% piracy rate. While such rates have been seen with game apps, it's unclear whether non-game apps suffer the same fate.

Comment Engineering (Score 0) 736

by toxique (#30595388) Attached to: Why Do So Many Terrorists Have Engineering Degrees
Yes, those motherf**** use their degrees and knowledge to kill,harm and destroy the infidels instead of helping their "brothers" to relieve poverty, build and make a better life for them in their shithole countries. they give a damn for the degrees, it is just a weapon to fight the "infidels". Their goal is to turn back time and live like 1000 years ago in the darkness of the middleage. Those engineers are happy in Afghanistan/waziristan living in tents in the middle of the desert
Idle

Hand Written Clock 86

Posted by samzenpus from the up-to-the-minute dept.
a3buster writes "This clock does not actually have a man inside, but a flatscreen that plays a 24-hour loop of this video by the artist watching his own clock somewhere and painstakingly erasing and re-writing each minute. This video was taken at Design Miami during Art Basel Miami Beach 2009."

Comment US (Score 0) 327

by toxique (#30233706) Attached to: Man Pleads Guilty To Selling Fake Chips To US Navy
Is the Navy kidding? are they stupid? Why buy electronic components from unknown/obscure brokers who sell crap made in foreign countries? Why not buy directly from AMERICAN MANUFACTURERS, there are many: National Semiconductor, Freescale, Fairchild, just to mention. Or some other reputable manufacturers like Philips or Toshiba? Well, i'd rather buy from reliable american companies when national security is a major concern! It looks the Navy does not think so.

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