Posts by DarrDarr
16 posts • joined Wednesday 17th March 2010 12:16 GMT
Pluto's not a planet, remember?
They can't be moons, 'cause when illegitimate planets get things orbiting around them, they have the power to just shut that whole thing down.
Re: Now, they just need to find...
no kidding... I would rather have an iPad Max, with a 13 or 14 inch screen.
The capital gains tax rate should remain at 15% for the first $100,000... that would encourage savings and investment by the middle class, too. It's the guys making $10m, $20m (or in the case of Zucky, $6b) m and more who should pay a higher rate on that investment income over $100,000 per year.
Lower the corporate tax rate to 4%... and watch companies leave Ireland's 7% rate in droves.
Posted in Rooting Kindle Fire bricks videos
Are you implying that root privileges somehow bypass DRM restrictions on content?
Posted in Rooting Kindle Fire bricks videos
Are you implying that accessing root privileges somehow bypasses DRM restrictions on content?
BOINC ? That's what *she* said
You would think there would be some global funding for the BOINC project Orbit@home run by the Planetary Science Institute - http://orbit.psi.edu/ - which has as its objective using the idle cycles of computers worldwide to examine data from observatories and search for rogue asteroids with paths that might intersect earth's orbit at some time in the future. Have a look at that site - Pasquale has posted some nice animations showing how far inside the orbits of the GPS network satellites MD2011 will get. With as many of those that there are, it's amazing nobody is concerned about it hitting any of them. I wonder if they're even insured against such a possibility.
Personally, I would rather donate my spare CPU/GPU cycles to that than to the more-famous SETI@home project.
No kidding, ROTF...
Anyone that has bought anything from sony or had anything to do with them since the early 2000's, when sony decided it was a good idea to install rootkits on their customers' computers because they bought a CD from an artist signed by sony, deserves anything bad that befalls them.
When you go bareback with whores you should *expect* to get herpes.
Just another reason
Just another reason to not give Sony another dime of my money.
What scum.
Selective prosecution
He hardly "hacked" into her account... they kept track of their secure passwords the same way I do... writing them down in a note book kept next to the computer (theirs was a laptop HE bought and they both used, by the way).
Anyway, to get around to my Subject/Title... check out these links:
http://legislature.mi.gov/doc.aspx?mcl-750-29
http://legislature.mi.gov/doc.aspx?mcl-750-30
The female prosecutor has refused to charge the wayward wife with the felony count of adultery. How convenient.
Is "Delicious"
actually referring to the delicio.us domain name?
"not so much" ? Maybe because
you're off by a factor of over 1000.
Check out the http://www.allprojectstats.com/top.php page.
On the right, choose -BOINC- and "CPU statistics" from the picklists and click Show to filter down to the top 200 CPU types. Just the top 10 CPU types listed there amount to nearly 3,500,000 cores. (disregarding that some CPUs can do multiple threads per core, and counting only the cores.)
It's not clear if the article is using the perverted definition of a GB (1,000,000,000 bytes, or 10^8), instead of the original definition of a GB: 1,073,741,824 bytes (or 2^30) which ISO has designated with the unit "GiB" so HDD manufacturer's can't co-opt it like they did GB.
Still, even if they mean the larger GiB, it would require about 1.2Mb/s (152KB/s) for 3000 nodes (assuming 1 core per node), but that would fall to 138 Bytes per Sec with 3.5 million nodes, using BOINC. Even a POTS dialup could support the transfers for 25+ cores, at that rate.
They're reinventing the wheel
The parallel software framework is already in place and working.
BOINC - Berkeley Open Infrastructure Network Computing
http://boinc.berkeley.edu
Windows, Linux, Mac; and it's open source, so it can be compiled on about any other platform.
And there are already millions of cores working on various projects.
They might want to get in touch with Pasquale at http://orbit.psi.edu
whose project seems to be working at the same purpose, using available telemetry.
5+Mbps???
They better be glad ATT's choking their speeds or they would use up their monthly 2GB limit in less than an hour at 5+Mbps.
Posted in Adobe warns over unpatched PDF peril
So, how long before you break the story
that apple employees are developing these exploits, on the clock, using code obtained under non-disclosure agreements?
"Oh, we didn't disclose their source code, so we didn't violate the agreement."
Poor comprehension levels
Read it again. XP SP2 and higher (current is SP3) has the required Direct2D support.
If you're really running the original XP or XP SP1, then you don't have the ability to do WiFi or WPA2, either.
Posted in Microsoft cuts out paste
Microsoft's not the only corporate FAIL
When you build things by committee it's not unusual to end up with products that satisfy nobody.
Yet with Orwellian rationalization, the idiom "nobody's perfect" leads to RTM.
Over there where GSM is the accepted standard I can see why the iPhone is so popular, but over here in the states CDMA/EV-DO has over twice the coverage (e.g. an iPhone has 'no signal' within 5 miles of my home in any direction).
Still, most of the offerings from Samsung (I think they're Java/J2ME) that are offered by the CDMA carriers (e.g. Sprint, Verizon, et al) don't have copy/paste either.
Other universal features I'd like to see adopted by all manufacturers:
When I'm in the browser, being able to dispatch a text to someone with the URL of the site I'm currently viewing, instead of having to open the texting app and manually type in the URL (since, of course, there is no copy/paste).
Other keyboard layouts besides QWERTY on touch screens... if we have to type with our thumbs, at least put the most-used letters next to each other.
If a stylus is included, ALWAYS provide a storage slot/hole for it on the device.
Being able to edit the URLs of bookmarks, not just their titles.
