Comment Re:Wouldn't the target phone need to be turned on (Score 1) 126
Robber is the one with the phone. Victim is the one with the card.
Marvell Launches First Triple-Core Hybrid ARM Chip 117
Blacklaw passes along an excerpt from Thing.co.uk that begins "While other manufacturers are content to develop dual-core ARM processors, Marvell has gone one better — literally — with a new triple-core chip called the Armada 628. The system-on-chip design, based on ARM's v7 MP series, features two dedicated 1.5GHz processing cores plus a third 624MHz core in a single application processor — making Marvell the first company to bring such a beast to market. While two of the cores are a pretty standard SMP setup, as seen in other dual-core ARM implementations, the third is a standalone processor designed for ultra-low-power draw. The idea behind such a design is that when the system is idle, or only running a low-performance application on a single thread, it can shut off the dual-core portion and save oodles of power."
Comment Re:TrueCrypt? (Score 4, Informative) 467
Which is what the two key "Plausible Deniability" feature is all about:
http://www.truecrypt.org/docs/?s=plausible-deniability
http://www.truecrypt.org/docs/?s=plausible-deniability
Submission + - Britain's BPI goes after Google -- with US DMCA ! (p2pnet.net) 1
An anonymous reader writes: The BPI, the RIAA's UK counterpart, has gone up against the Holiest of Holies, American online advertising conglomerate Google, says Chilling Effects. The BPI contributed to the British government's Digital Ecomy bill, complete with its ACTA Three Strikes and you're Off The Net element, with hardly a murmur from the UK lamescream media. Now Chilling Effects quotes a missive directed at Gargle by the BPI. It states, in part, "We have identified the following links that are available via Google's search engine, and request the following links be removed as soon as possible as they directly link to sound recordings owned by our members ... " And what's even more interesting is: this British 'trade' outfity is using the American DMCA to attack Google. Can it do that?
Caffeine Addicts Get No Additional Perk, Only a Return To Baseline 506
Dthief writes "Bristol University researchers found that coffee drinkers develop a tolerance to both the anxiety-producing and the stimulating effects of caffeine, meaning that it only brings them back to baseline levels of alertness, not above them. 'Although frequent consumers feel alerted by caffeine, especially by their morning tea, coffee, or other caffeine-containing drink, evidence suggests that this is actually merely the reversal of the fatiguing effects of acute caffeine withdrawal,' wrote the scientists, led by Peter Rogers of Bristol's department of experimental psychology."
Submission + - Titanium Oxide Could Be Used For Optical Storage (thinq.co.uk)
Stoobalou writes: A Japanese research team has discovered that titanium oxide — a material most commonly used in white paint and sunscreen, of all things — could be used in future optical storage disks.
Boffins at the University of Tokyo said that the material could be used to make low-price 'Super Disks' with a storage capacity thousands of times greater than DVD.
The material, which is a new crystalline form of titanium oxide, switches between metal and semiconductor states when exposed to light at room temperature effectively creating an I/O state which is repeatedly reversible.
The team has successfully created the material in tiny particles measuring as little as five nanometers which would give standard-sized disks a theoretical storage capacity a thousand times greater than Blu-ray.
Boffins at the University of Tokyo said that the material could be used to make low-price 'Super Disks' with a storage capacity thousands of times greater than DVD.
The material, which is a new crystalline form of titanium oxide, switches between metal and semiconductor states when exposed to light at room temperature effectively creating an I/O state which is repeatedly reversible.
The team has successfully created the material in tiny particles measuring as little as five nanometers which would give standard-sized disks a theoretical storage capacity a thousand times greater than Blu-ray.
Comment Re:American cars.... (Score 1) 378
Toyota IQ has a pair of buttons on the doors where you press them in and it locks and for the next 5 seconds, you can wiggle the door handles and it will not open (i.e. it is locked) but if you wait longer than that it will open because it thinks you have forgotten something or there is some reason why you haven't gone away.
Comment Find out for yourselves. (Score 1) 203
http://jobs.cambridge-news.co.uk/jobs/show_job.asp?index=2&sa_id=329197651
Obviously you can't tell anyone once you have found out but there you go.
Hadron Collider Relaunch Delayed 223
SpuriousLogic writes "There's been another delay in the schedule announced for getting the Large Hadron Collider switched back on — now it's September 2009, a year after it shut down due to a malfunction. Scientists had said they expected the $5.4B machine to be repaired by November 2008, but then pushed the date back to June 2009, before the latest delay."
Hackable Microcontroller-Powered Valentine's Card 133
compumike writes "If you have a significant other to impress this Valentine's Day, consider putting your programming skills to use. This video tutorial shows how to build an LED Heart Valentine's card, powered by a microcontroller running C code, with a neat randomized 'twinkling' effect in an interrupt handler. Think about it: how many ladies can say that their Valentine's card runs at 14 MHz?"
Comment Save money on licences... (Score 5, Insightful) 374
... but spend money on developing an operating system. Can they not just save all the hassle and choose Red Hat / Ubuntu / Debian / SlackWare / Mandriva / anything else at http://distrowatch.com?
Seems like reinventing the wheel here.
Is Microsoft Improving Its Image? 746
nk497 writes "Writer makes the case that Windows 7 is a turning point for Microsoft, and we all might start liking them soon ...
'While it's not winning everyone over, there are real signs that Microsoft has taken criticisms on board where it matters most: in the software and services that it provides. The idea of a faster, slimmer Windows is one that most Vista owners would automatically put on their wishlist, and it seems that Microsoft has genuinely done something about it. It's not just reignited interest in the Windows product line, but it's got users appreciating a fresh approach from Microsoft as well.'"
Comment Re:Think of the children (Score 1) 1044
You can think of the children just don't look at the children.
Comment Damn, they we just about to change their logo (Score 1) 711
Comment Re:No Archive.org either (Score 1) 711
I was going to post that they had enough nous to get a robots.txt but not to actually maintain their system. I wouldn't want that company on my CV even if I was the janitor. This is going to be a millstone for anyone who was involved in this going back from day 2 (I can just about forgive them for being stupid on day 1)
