Comment Its very simple (Score 1) 202
What the government creates the government controls.
US Air Force Buying Another 2,200 PS3s 144
bleedingpegasus sends word that the US Air Force will be grabbing up 2,200 new PlayStation 3 consoles for research into supercomputing. They already have a cluster made from 336 of the old-style (non-Slim) consoles, which they've used for a variety of purposes, including "processing multiple radar images into higher resolution composite images (known as synthetic aperture radar image formation), high-def video processing, and 'neuromorphic computing.'" According to the Justification Review Document (DOC), "Once the hardware configuration is implemented, software code will be developed in-house for cluster implementation utilizing a Linux-based operating software."
Modern Warfare 2 Not Recalled In Russia After All 94
thief21 writes "After claims that console versions Modern Warfare 2 had been recalled in Russia due to complaints from politicians and the gaming public over the infamous airport slaughter scene, it turns out the stories were completely untrue. Activision never released a console version of the game in Russia."
Instead, they simply edited the notorious scene out of the PC version. They did this of their own volition, since Russia doesn't have a formal ratings committee.
Comment Re:What do you bet... (Score 1) 509
"Now, I doubt that death threats against pro-gun actors and celebrities are so numerous (if there were a way to measure it). Did Selvester, Tom Selleck, Ah-nold, Kurt Russel, Ted Nugent, Heston, ever get so much hate mail? Probably not--but most of them are much more passive in their beliefs than the two above counter examples."
Yup... That's Ted Nugent... A really passive, quiet sort of fellow.
Comment Re:What do you bet... (Score 1) 509
"Maybe, but then how do you account for the differences in places with the gun laws - for instance, France has over 400% the number of murders as Saudi Arabia, yet just under 50% less than the US? That tells me there is more to those numbers than meets the eye.
Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics..."
Obviously the real issue behind all the violence was women's suffrage!
Comment Re:What do you bet... (Score 1) 509
"In the real world, it seems your opinions do not correlate with reality - for example New York City has strict laws against gun use, and has a very low crime per capita rate compared to other US cities like LA where carrying guns is more. There is no positive correlation between low crime and carrying guns, and there may even be a negative correlation. See table of cities half way down this page."
Seriously? Did you just claim that carrying a gun in LA is easier than New York? LA, New York, and Chicago are all in states with extremely restrictive gun laws and those are the top three cities on that list on Wikipedia....
Of course the 4th highest is Houston, Texas so maybe the issue isn't gun laws at all... hmmm?
Comment You've got a little evil there on your mouth... (Score 0) 332
Wow, if the allegations in the article are even partially accurate,
Google deserves to take a massive PR hit on this at the least
and probably owes these guys some serious money.
Comment Re:Keypad (Score 1) 102
No, they were just stupid.
By and large I've found that the reason we say crime doesn't pay is that we only catch the dumb ones.
As I like to say, "crime doesn't pay, but only because when it does we call it politics."
By and large I've found that the reason we say crime doesn't pay is that we only catch the dumb ones.
As I like to say, "crime doesn't pay, but only because when it does we call it politics."
Submission + - Thermal noise encyrption
Light Licker writes: Measuring the thermal properties of existing cables can offer encryption more secure and cheaper than quantum cryptography, says New Scientist. A scheme from Texas A&M University exploits the fact thermal noise is related to resistance. Sender and receiver transmit over a wire using resistors to manipulate the noise — any eavesdropping attempt can instantly be spotted because it will change the resistance. Messages have been transmitted this way over more than 2000 kilometres — much further than any quantum security scheme.
How Do You Keep Track of Your Web-Based Research? 150
time961 asks: "I use the Web extensively to research a wide variety of topics (weird, huh?). However, much of the time I end up printing out web pages and filing them on paper, because that's the easiest way I know to say 'OK, that was interesting, I'll hold on to it until I actually do something about this topic'. Often, I'll run across something that seems relevant to a long-term project or interest and just want to grab it without even reading the details. Paper is OK for reading, browsing, and scribbling, but it's hard to search, it's heavy, and it's wasteful (and I yearn for a day when browsers can reliably print what's on the screen, instead of cutting it off at the margin because some designer doesn't understand layout!). How do others deal with organizing the results of browsing?"
Submission + - Zune team getting amnesty for iPod use
MsManhattan writes: The Zune development team at Microsoft is apparently offering amnesty to employees who give up their iPods in favor of using the Zune MP3 player. An MSNBC employee has posted a photo on Flickr of the company's "iPod Amnesty Bin," which sports an image of a bitten green apple and the words "Bite me." Whether it's to be taken seriously or is a joke to boost employee morale is anyone's guess, and naturally no one at Microsoft was available for comment. From what can be seen in the photo, only a few early-model iPods have been deposited.
Submission + - Best Presidential Candidate for Geeks
blast writes: I was wondering who the community thinks best candidate for geeks. I.e, regarding the war on privacy, "total information awareness" or whatever they're calling it these days, Internet regulation and taxation, copyright/patent reform, the right to read, the right to secure communications, the right to tinker, etc.
Journal Journal: Aussies back tougher anti-terrorist steps for airports 2
The ABC (Australia) reports that the Australian public continue to be more than willing to continue to trade freedoms for perceptions of safety when it comes to air travel.
Submission + - Sun Says OSS Developers Need To Be Compensated
krelian writes: "Talking at Netbeans Day, Rich Green, Sun executive vice president for software, expressed doubts about the current model in which open-source developers create free intellectual property and have others scoop it up to generate huge amounts of revenue.
"It really is a worrisome social artifact," Green said. "I think in the long term that this is a worrisome scenario [and] not sustainable. We are looking very closely at compensating people for the work that they do.""
Submission + - Disaster recovery
moogoogaipan writes: After a few days thinking about the quickest way to bring my website back to the internet users, I am still stuck at DNS. From experience, even if I set the TTL for my DNS zone file as low as 5 mins, there are still DNS servers out there won't update until a few days later(yeah you, AOL).
Here is my situation. Say, I have my web servers and database servers at a remote backup location. They are ready to serve. So my question for ./ers is that if we get hit by an earthquake at our main location, what can I do in a few hours to get everyone to go to our backup location?
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