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Comment Norway closed FM in 2017 (Score 3, Informative) 153

by mork on Tuesday July 02, 2024 @05:45AM (#64594219) Attached to: Swiss Broadcasting Corporation To Pull Plug On FM Radio

There was a lot of grumbling in Norway when FM was closed in 2017 and broadcasting switched to DAB+. https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2F...

Comment Similar to recent essay by Cory Doctorow (Score 4, Informative) 158

by mork on Tuesday January 31, 2023 @09:17AM (#63253525) Attached to: The Junkification of Amazon

This is very similar to the recent essay by Cory Doctorow Tiktok's enshittification

Comment Re:A bit overhyped... (Score 0) 92

by mork on Monday May 11, 2020 @04:32PM (#60049570) Attached to: Thunderbolt Bug Lets Hackers Steal Your Data in 'Five Minutes'

This DMA hack is not new, this was discovered several years ago with the 'inception' attack, which exploits this attack over FireWire, Thunderbolt, ExpressCard, PC Card and any other PCI/PCIe interfaces. Inception tool was created in 2014.
See https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fcarmaa%2Fince...

Submission + - Possibly fatal blow against a patent trolls. (computerworld.com)

Submitted by whoever57 on Thursday January 05, 2017 @09:55PM

whoever57 writes: Patent trolls rely on the fact that they have no assets and, if they lose a case, they can fold the company that owned the patent and sued, thus avoiding paying any the defendant's legal bills. However, in a recent case, the judge has told the winning defendant that it can claim its legal bills from the law firm. The decision is based on the plaintiff's law firm using a contract under which it would take a portion of any judgment, making it more than just counsel, but instead a partner with the plaintiff. This will likely result in law firms wanting to be paid up front, instead of offering a contingency-based fee.

Comment A better alternative... (Score 0) 83

by mork on Thursday November 12, 2015 @03:56AM (#50913625) Attached to: Head of Indonesia's Anti-Drug Agency Proposes Using Crocodiles To Guard Prisons

What? No laser sharks?

Comment Related article (Score 3, Informative) 95

by mork on Thursday October 08, 2015 @12:48AM (#50684021) Attached to: Google's Effort To Speed Up the Mobile Web

NY Times had an article about the cost of mobile ads, the article also had some interesting data about load-times and how much data was javascript, videos, images, embeds etc.
http://www.nytimes.com/interac...
Posting as its related to the efforts described above

Comment Re:sadness (Score 1) 299

by Zawash on Thursday March 12, 2015 @01:59PM (#49243677) Attached to: Sir Terry Pratchett Succumbs To "the Embuggerance," Aged 66

Beautiful; thanks for sharing! Be careful with the M-word, though, in case a certain orangutan is in within ear shot.

Comment Fusion cuisine? (Score 1) 300

by Zawash on Wednesday January 07, 2015 @05:58AM (#48753185) Attached to: The Search For Starivores, Intelligent Life That Could Eat the Sun

Mmmh - fusion cuisine - I like my black holes with a large helping of red giants and a smattering of dark matter...

Comment Too heavy (Score 3, Insightful) 300

by Zawash on Wednesday January 07, 2015 @05:56AM (#48753179) Attached to: The Search For Starivores, Intelligent Life That Could Eat the Sun

But then - wouldn't the organism necessarily be so large and massive that it would collapse under its own weight, and spontaneously self combust? Or "self fusion", as it were?

Comment gzip? (Score 1) 426

by mork on Thursday May 08, 2014 @03:03PM (#46952917) Attached to: Mathematical Model Suggests That Human Consciousness Is Noncomputable

> They say that the process of integrating information is equivalent to compressing it.
>

So human consciousness equals gzip?
Wait..what??

Comment Re:Dat's some likeable horseshit (Score 1) 535

by Zawash on Wednesday March 26, 2014 @07:34AM (#46583005) Attached to: Facebook Buying Oculus VR For $2 Billion

Where's that "like" button?

Submission + - Monty Montgomery: Next-Next Generation Video: Introducing Daala (livejournal.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 20, 2013 @10:42PM

An anonymous reader writes: Xiph.Org has been working on Daala, a new video codec for some time now, though Opus work had overshadowed it until just recently. With Opus finalized and much of the mop-up work well in hand, Daala development has taken center stage.

I've started work on 'demo' pages for Daala, just like I've done demos of other Xiph development projects. Daala aims to be rather different from other video codecs (and it's the first from-scratch design attempt in a while), so the first few demo pages are going to be mostly concerned with what's new and different in Daala.

I've finished the first 'demo' page (about Daala's lapped transforms), so if you're interested in video coding technology, go have a look!

Comment Re:Do not attempt to land (Score 2) 48

by Zawash on Friday October 26, 2012 @03:05AM (#41774939) Attached to: Crashed X-51A Test Results Released

..Which is a moon.

Comment Alternative uses (Score 1) 134

by mork on Wednesday May 09, 2012 @03:29AM (#39938857) Attached to: Controlling Bufferbloat With Queue Delay

> But you can avoid the worst problems by having someone actively managing the checkout
> queues, and this is the solution for bufferbloat as well: AQM (Active Queue Management).

Can someone please implement this system at Heathrow to reduce the queues there?

Comment More options needed. (Score 1) 112

by mork on Sunday March 25, 2012 @12:27PM (#39467211) Attached to: UT-Dallas Professor Adds 'Enemies' Feature To Facebook

Enemies? Where is the "Nemesis" button when you need it?

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