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Comment manufacturing in brooklyn (Score 5, Informative) 87

"condos and restaurants...Except for MakerBot Industries"

Nope...you know, aside from three operating breweries, and hundreds of machine shops that dot my neighborhood. Or the medical instruments manufacturers, or the concrete and cement factories, or the furniture companies...

Just because it's not electronics, doesn't mean there's no manufacturing. A simple google search shows at least hundreds of companies.

PS - you must not go outside the gentrified parts of Brooklyn because the majority of the borough is still non-condo and sparsely restauranted.
Microsoft

Microsoft Announces ReFS, a New Filesystem For Windows 8 459

Posted by timothy from the comes-with-striped-shirt dept.
bonch writes "Microsoft has shared details about its new filesystem called ReFS, which stands for Resilient File System. Codenamed 'Protogon,' ReFS will first appear as the storage system for Windows Server and later be offered to Windows clients. Microsoft plans to deprecate lesser-used NTFS features while maintaining 'a high degree of compatibility' for most uses. NTFS has been criticized in the past for its inelegant architecture."

Comment Re:Then why isn't Half Life 2 Steamless? (Score 1) 466

by self assembled struc (#38174196) Attached to: Valve's Gabe Newell On Piracy: It's Not a Pricing Problem

How's that tinfoil hat feel on your head?

There are several ways to connect a windows machine to the Internet in a safe fashion. Run it through a firewall, turn off unneccessary services and use chrome or firefox.

Problem solved. I have several machines that all NAT through an old Linux box. Firewall blocks all incoming ports, allows ports 80, 443 and 22 out. one of those machines is a windows 7 box for playing games. It used to be xp. Ive had it an had it online for over 10 years now without a SINGLE infection ever.

You sound smart so just don't do dumb shit

Comment Re:How archaic (Score 1) 253

by self assembled struc (#37200312) Attached to: United Pilots To Use iPads For Navigation

If you have flown in a commercial airliner in the last 10 years, it is extremely likely that the takeoff and landing was done by the onboard system, and not the pilots>

Actually that's just 100% inaccurate. Even in a CAT IIIc ILS approach the captain or the first pilot has to command the plane to land via the flight instrumentation (either the yoke or the side stick depending on your plane) -- all the auto-pilot and auto-throttle do is line the plane up to the centerline of the runway and control the appropriate thrust for the engines (which, usually during descent, is baseline thrust -- the plane is essentially gliding during part the approach).

And there is no FAA allowance for an automated take-off. Rotation MUST be commanded by a human operator.

Your description of auto-pilot is so inaccurate it hurts my brain. Have you ever seen a commercial airline autopilot?

Comment Sort of... (Score 1) 133

by self assembled struc (#35010094) Attached to: Abusing HTTP Status Codes To Expose Private Info

Only he thinks I'm logged into Facebook. But I don't have a Facebook account, so I can't be. And this is my work computer which gets locked when I leave my desk so no one else has logged in (plus I have an office door that I lock behind me).

*tin foil hat time*
I even have *facebook.com and *fbcdn* blocked in AdBlockPlus though since I don't really want Facebook building a user-profile about me with all those nefarious "like" buttons it got chumps to place on none-facebook sites. They dont' need to know what articles I read on the NY Times and correlate to what articles I read on Wired cross-referenced with the articles I read on Slate.

So, really, this "sort of" works, but you can't rely on it.
Wireless Networking

Verizon To Offer iPhone Users Unlimited Data 327

Posted by Soulskill from the gambling-to-show-up-a-rival dept.
Hugh Pickens writes "The WSJ reports that Verizon Wireless, the country's largest wireless carrier, is confident enough in its network that it will offer unlimited data-use plans when it starts selling the iPhone around the end of this month, a person familiar with the matter says. Such plans would provide a key means of distinguishing its service from rival AT&T Inc., which limits how much Internet data its customers may use each month. Verizon has a lot at stake as it starts to carry the iPhone, which it is expected to announce Tuesday at an event in New York City. Verizon, more than any other US carrier, has built its reputation on its network quality, and any stumble in handling iPhone traffic will call into question Verizon's major selling point. On the other hand, if it does handle the iPhone well, then AT&T will have a harder time arguing it didn't mismanage its own network. Anthony J. Melone, Verizon's chief technology officer, says the company has invested heavily in its 3G network to handle surging smartphone traffic, including nine million Android subscribers, up from none a year earlier.'"
Security

UK Terror Chief Blocked From Boarding Aircraft 237

Posted by samzenpus from the tonight-on-security-theater dept.
Jeremiah Cornelius writes "Two days before toner cartridges threatened western civilization, Britain's Home Office minister Baroness Neville-Jones was en route to a Washington summit when she was found to have an over-sized aerosol can in her bag. While being questioned by airport security staff for transporting a container with more than 100ml of liquid, the Baroness seemingly took offense at being lectured on the importance of security procedure: 'Of course I know how important it is,' she said, 'I'm the Security Minister.' The Baroness is also former head of the British Joint Intelligence Committee, and was traveling at the time to discuss the war on terror with US security chiefs. According to a Home Office spokesman, trained in the use of the passive voice, 'Liquids were inadvertently left in a bag. The item was removed and the Minister fully complied with subsequent checks.'"
The Internet

Information Rage Coming Soon To an Office Near You 201

Posted by CmdrTaco from the just-having-a-bad-day dept.
digitaldc submitted the latest excuse to get a few days off: "A survey released this week revealed the latest affliction to hit white-collar workers. It's called 'information rage,' and almost one in two employees is affected by it. Overwhelmed by the torrent of data flooding corporate workplaces, many are near the breaking point. The aftermath of all this is the deterioration in quality that occurs when flustered employees — unable to sort through a pile of information fast enough — end up submitting work that's substandard. Almost three quarters of the survey's respondents declared their work has suffered as a result."
Programming

Microsoft Silverlight 4 vs. Adobe Flash 10.1 379

Posted by CmdrTaco from the there-could-be-only-one dept.
superapecommando writes "The richest RIA platforms today (and for the foreseeable future) come from clashing titans Adobe and Microsoft, whose Flash and Silverlight platforms both combine excellent tools for developers and designers, broad client support, strong support for server-side technologies, digital rights management capabilities, and the ability to satisfy use cases as varied as enterprise dashboards, live video streaming, and online games. And each has spawned new updates, to Flash 10.1/AIR 2 and Silverlight 4 respectively, which put them on a near-level playing field. Which one should you choose?"
Intel

How Much Smaller Can Chips Go? 362

Posted by Soulskill from the don't-call-me-tiny dept.
nk497 writes "To see one of the 32nm transistors on an Intel chip, you would need to enlarge the processor to beyond the size of a house. Such extreme scales have led some to wonder how much smaller Intel can take things and how long Moore's law will hold out. While Intel has overcome issues such as leaky gates, it faces new challenges. For the 22nm process, Intel faces the problem of 'dark silicon,' where the chip doesn't have enough power available to take advantage of all those transistors. Using the power budget of a 45nm chip, if the processor remains the same size only a quarter of the silicon is exploitable at 22nm, and only a tenth is usable at 11nm. There's also the issue of manufacturing. Today's chips are printed using deep ultraviolet lithography, but it's almost reached the point where it's physically impossible to print lines any thinner. Diffraction means the lines become blurred and fuzzy as the manufacturing processes become smaller, potentially causing transistors to fail. By the time 16nm chips arrive, manufacturers will have to move to extreme ultraviolet lithography — which Intel has spent 13 years and hundreds of millions trying to develop, without success."
The Almighty Buck

EVE Player Loses $1,200 Worth of Game Time In-Game 620

Posted by Soulskill from the sorry-about-your-luck dept.
An anonymous reader writes "Massively.com has reported that an EVE Online player recently lost over $1,200 worth of in-game items during a pirate attack. The player in question was carrying 74 PLEX in their ship's cargo hold — in-game 'Pilot's License Extensions' that award 30 days of EVE Online time when used on your account. When the ship was blown up by another player, all 74 PLEX were destroyed in the resulting blast, costing $1,200 worth of damage, or over 6 years of EVE subscription time, however you prefer to count it. Ow."

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