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Comment SMS Backup does the same thing (Score 1) 415

by yourruinreverse on Tuesday November 02, 2010 @05:43PM (#34106066) Attached to: Google Bans Sale of Android Spying App

I've been using SMS Backup for months now. Install it (free), configure it and let it copy your text messages to a gmail account. Only it isn't caled s3cr3t SMS Backup so it's perfectly alright to use (and has better purposes than spying).

Digitally Filtering Out the Drone of the World Cup 602

Posted by timothy on Tuesday June 15, 2010 @07:23PM from the it's-called-an-off-switch-use-it dept.

qubezz writes "World Cup soccer fans may think a hornet's nest has infiltrated their TVs. However the buzz that is the background soundtrack of the South African-hosted games comes from tens of thousands of plastic horns called vuvuzelas, that are South Africa's version of ringing cowbells or throwing rats. It looks like the horns won't be banned anytime soon though. A savvy German hacker, 'Tube,' discovered that the horn sound can be effectively filtered out by applying a couple of digital notch filters to the audio at the frequencies the horn produces (another summary in English). Now it looks like even broadcasters like the the BBC and others are considering using such filters on their broadcasts."

Pentagon Seeking Out Wikileaks Founder Julian Assange 628

Posted by timothy on Saturday June 12, 2010 @12:48AM from the just-a-few-words dept.

a user writes "The Pentagon is desperately seeking the 'cooperation' of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, in order to stop him from releasing over 250,000 pages of confidential foreign policy documents. The documents were allegedly provided to Assange by Bradley Manning, the same solider who leaked a video showing a US Army helicopter killing unarmed civilians and international press correspondents."

The Need For Search Neutrality 203

Posted by samzenpus on Tuesday December 29, 2009 @12:07AM from the fair-and-balanced dept.

wilsone8 writes "The New York Times includes an op-ed today arguing for Search Neutrality: 'Today, search engines like Google, Yahoo and Microsoft's new Bing have become the Internet's gatekeepers, and the crucial role they play in directing users to Web sites means they are now as essential a component of its infrastructure as the physical network itself. The F.C.C. needs to look beyond network neutrality and include search neutrality: the principle that search engines should have no editorial policies other than that their results be comprehensive, impartial and based solely on relevance.'"

An Open Source Compiler From CUDA To X86-Multicore 71

Posted by timothy on Wednesday December 23, 2009 @03:06PM from the abstraction-gains-a-layer dept.

Gregory Diamos writes "An open source project, Ocelot, has recently released a just-in-time compiler for CUDA, allowing the same programs to be run on NVIDIA GPUs or x86 CPUs and providing an alternative to OpenCL. A description of the compiler was recently posted on the NVIDIA forums. The compiler works by translating GPU instructions to LLVM and then generating native code for any LLVM target. It has been validated against over 100 CUDA applications. All of the code is available under the New BSD license."

Comment SCO Unix success story? (Score 2, Insightful) 66

by yourruinreverse on Tuesday October 13, 2009 @10:18PM (#29740279) Attached to: Details Emerge of 2006 Wal-Mart Hack

Is this information about POS backends still valid?

FTA:
"Wal-Mart has thousands of servers nationwide, and any one of them crashing would ordinarily be a routine event."

"Someone had installed L0phtcrack, a password-cracking tool, onto the system, which //crashed the server// when the intruder tried to launch the program." [emph. added]

From http://www.sco.com/company/success/story.html?ID=21 :
"Nearly all of the 350 chains using PDI/RMS are deployed on SCO UNIX® technology [...]"

"McLane Co., Wal-Mart's wholesale subsidiary, acquired PDI in 1991. Fischer says one goal of the acquisition was to achieve tighter integration with some of the 30,000 c-stores that McLane serves. However, PDI continues to operate as a stand-alone entity and many of its customers are served by other wholesalers."

Heathkit Reincarnates the Hero Robot 119

Posted by timothy on Tuesday December 25, 2007 @03:42PM from the no-no-that-os-is-for-human-robots dept.

DeviceGuru writes "Heathkit, which produced and sold mobile robots aimed at hobbyists and students back in the 1980s, is about to reenter the educational robot business. Heathkit's new HE-RObot incorporates an onboard computer running Windows XP Professional on a Core 2 Duo Processor. It stands 21 inches tall, weighs 55 pounds, and has a built-in 80 GB hard drive, IR sensors, bright LED headlights, and lots of space for custom project circuitry." As robots go, it also looks very much like certain models of SGI workstation. Now I'll need to update my 1980 Christmas wishlist -- it's probably lost between pages of Popular Mechanics.

Comment Obligatory... (Score 2, Funny) 759

by yourruinreverse on Monday April 04, 2005 @11:19AM (#12134023) Attached to: Black Holes 'Do Not Exist,' Contends Physicist

"The first thing to realize about black holes, [yourruinreverse] says, is that they are not black.\nIt is also important to realize that they are not, strictly speaking, holes either, but it is easiest if you don't try to realize that until a little later, after you've realized that everything you've realized up to that moment is not true."

[Adapted from Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless]

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