Comment Strategic Bacon Reserve (Score 2) 65
Given the volatility of Bitcoin and the deliciousness of bacon, I think a Strategic Bacon Reserve would be a better policy.
Comment Already have this (Score 1) 178
My apartment complex has had this for the last year at least.
Comment 8 year old MBP (Score 1) 238
I have an 8 year old mid-range MacBook Pro (pre-unibody) that I upgraded to 4GB ram, a 120GB SSD, removed the optical drive & replaced with the original 5400 spinning platter and set up the SSD+HD as a "fusion" drive and the GeekBench scores are barely below the low-end 2016 MacBook. I was only able to do this because it's from before Apple's anorexia infected their laptops. Still a great machine aside from having to bake the logic board every month or so because of the bad solder on the graphics chip (which didn't start failing until just after apple ended their extended replacement for it). Apple doesn't make computers anymore, they make sealed-off, anorexic "devices"
Comment Re:Wha?!?!!! (Score 1) 172
OS X is an evolution of NEXTSTEP, which was started in the late 80s. They saw that OS 9 was a dead end and Apple needed something "new" and "modern", so they went with NEXT (and for a good while there was this set of compatibility APIs called carbon, PROBABLY had a lot of mac classic code). You can still see a lot of similarities between Xcode today and what they were using on NEXT in the early 90s.
new code, old code, it makes no difference. It ALL has flaws.
Industrial Control Software Easily Hackable 194
jfruh writes "CoDeSys, a piece of software running on industrial control systems from hundreds of vendors, has been revealed to be easily hackable by security researchers, giving rise to a scenario where computer hacking could cross the line into the physical world. Worse, many of these systems are unneccessarily connected to the Internet, which is a terrible, terrible idea."
Google's Engineers Are Well Paid, Not Just Well Fed 342
D H NG writes "According to a study by the career site Glassdoor, Google tops the list of tech companies in the salaries it pays to software engineers. Google paid its engineers an average base salary of $128,336, with Microsoft coming in second at $123,626. Apple, eBay, and Zynga rounded off the top 5."
Comment Re:The creation (Score 1) 658
Only to discover that the origin of the universe was an infinite number of you jumping back to the same point to 'settle that origin debate'
Comment Re:I'm part of the 96% (Score 2) 342
But it doesn't seem unethical for 5 banks to be contributing to a campaign?
Ask Slashdot: Personal Tape Drive NAS? 268
New submitter hey_popey writes "I would like to piggyback on a previous Ask Slashdot question. Do you know of any realistic way to use a tape drive solution at home, not as a backup, but as a regular NAS? I would like, for example, to save the torrents of my Linux distributions on it, and at the same time, play the family videos on a computer. It would seem at a first glance that the transfer rates and capacity of Linear Tape-Open (1.5TB, 280MB/s in 2010) and the functionality of LTFS would allow me to do that, but I don't know the details, or whether this would be economically viable."
DARPA Creates Machine Which Extinguishes Fires With Sound 121
SchrodingerZ writes "The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is known for making odd scientific advances ranging from hypersonic unnamed rockets to bionic prosthetic limbs to insect-sized reconnaissance drones. But recently DARPA has made a interesting advancement in the field of fire suppression. Using two speakers arranged on either side of an open liquid fuel flame, an acoustic field was emitted and engulfed the fire. 'The sound increases air velocity, which then thins the area of the flame where combustion occurs, known as the flame boundary.' This make the flame weak and much easier to douse. Another wonderful thing about this: it's not even that loud! DARPA began its testing in 2008, stating that despite extensive research in this area, there have been no new methods for extinguishing and/or manipulating fire in almost 50 years. The agency plans to expand on this experiment and try to make it successful on a practical scale."
Comment guest network (Score 1) 277
The only open network I see is my own guest network, which still requires a password on a login page before it gives you net access.
Diablo III Released 594
Almost 12 years after the launch of its predecessor, Diablo III has now been released. The game went live last night with over 8,000 midnight launch parties across the world. 2,000,000 players showed up for the beta test prior to launch, including 300,000 concurrently during an open beta weekend, but even so, the login servers struggled for the first few hours after launch. Diablo III had been in the works for quite some time — another example of Blizzard's notoriously long development cycle — and game director Jay Wilson said it was in "polish mode" for the past two years. "One of our sayings internally is 'polish as you go.' We have a belief that when you put a feature in, you should prototype, but then after you prototype you should do the real thing, and you should polish it to shipping quality." For those of you who are familiar with this type of game, there's an official game guide in which you can browse class skills, items, and other game information. There are also YouTube videos showing how each of the classes work.
Facebook Unveils Timeline, Updated Open Graph 98
An anonymous reader writes "Facebook today announced a new Timeline feature and a new type of social app under its Open Graph. They're not available yet, but almost all the details are finally official."
Can Google Save Us From Slow Internet 240
CoveredTrax writes "As part of the beta test of their new gigabit fiber network, Google has provided Stanford University with mouthwateringly high-speed Internet. Since the program was announced, the service, which is now being provided free to students and faculty in the Palo Alto area, has got a lot of people to asking (sometimes begging) that their city be next on Google's list for communication salvation. But can Google save us all from inferior web access? And more importantly, is it a good idea to let them?"
See the PyPy JIT In Action 109
derGoldstein writes "Project PyPy is an alternative implementation of Python, with the main advantage being a Just In Time (JIT) compiler which speeds up your code considerably. They've announced the first public release of jitviewer, which is a visualization tool that helps you understand how your code is being compiled by PyPy's JIT, all the way down to assembly. If you just want to see how it looks and play with it, they've set up an online demo — just select a file, and click 'Show Assembler.'"
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