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 Kuro5hin

  • Ogg Frog Magazine #6
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  • The Secret: A Review of Dulcinea Technologies Corporation's Debut Product
    After weeks of e-mails and days of phone calls, yesterday I drove to San Jose for a demo of Michael David Crawford's secret project. Michael was eager to show off his work, but urged me not to share my interest with the K5 community.
  • Cars, Value Engineering, and Bugs
    Two trends in automotive development, value engineering and drive-by-wire have the potential to reduce driver safety. Toyota's recent travails provide some food for thought.
  • Hopeless romantic Chinese Ph.D candidate arrested
    He did it for love and he is a model employee with his employer The Rutgers University according to his friends and colleagues And the TSA security officer that should have been stationed where the 'trespass' occurred is on administrative leave. So why aren't the security guard and his supervisor being charged with negligence for leaving a gaping security hole and causing this whole mess? It is an equal embarrassment for TSA , not an embarrassment for the lover man who was only too stupid to know better not to let love blind him Isn't US Justice system badly need an overhaul?
  • The Jarmidor, Part 3
    Having discovered that I'm not the only pipe-faggot on Kuro5hin I decided to see whether I could get my loose shag as moist as a 14 year old baptist girl at her first Jonas brothers concert. Unfortunately my girlfriend doesn't like handlebar moustaches around her lady-garden, so, thus rebuffed, I decided to see whether I could replicate Mr Tiber's success in the improvement of my tobacco. Similarly to Ghost of Tiber, I had issues with knowing precisely the humidity of my jarmidor, which I eventually decided to ignore; and with a bit of serendipity, I was able to get a result which was, if not correct to a scientific degree of accuracy, at least was palatable and a definite improvement on the moisture content of tobacco as bought.
  • 15 Yards: The Unsportsmanlike Tax Evasion of the NFL
    Superbowl XLIV approaches, pitting two potent offensive teams against one another. The inimitable Peyton Manning, this year's winner of the National Football League's MVP award (his fourth, most of any player all time), will try to use his bottomless well of receivers to outscore the Saints. The deadly accuracy of the Saints under Drew Brees will be tested by the solid defensive front of the Colts, albeit possibly without perennial Pro-bowler Dwight Freeney. Drama abounds. Both teams are top seeds in their respective conferences. Peyton Manning will be competing against the team his father quarterback'd for 11 seasons. Although the Hall of Fame is a certainty for Peyton, a win would cement his legendary status. A Superbowl win for Mr. Brees might punch his ticket to the Hall of Fame. His team, the New Orleans Saints, plays every home game in the Superdome: a living reminder of a tragedy that took place in their city five short years ago. Amid all this pageantry, the expectations of a scoring frenzy, a tale of avarice and thievery is shouted down. For who would have guessed that the NFL, a seven-billion-US-dollar-per-year enterprise, could be considered a non-profit?
  • Obama The First Year
    He's accomplished quite a lot his first year. Here's my list of the most talked about on liberal blogs.
  • Our Trip to Cuba
    It's next to impossible to get an objective opinion on Cuba. Most Americans can't go there and form their own opinion. We went there because it promised to be an affordable family vacation with a direct flight from Quebec that avoided any of the latest TSA nonsense. If any of my American friends want a firsthand account of place that's been off limits to them since before I was born, here it is.
  • Applying the First Amendment to Corporations: Well established and a good idea
    There's been much hang-wringing about the recent Citizens United U.S. Supreme Court decision that struck down a ban on direct electioneering by corporations in a window before elections. Much of the buzz, especially from left-leaning corners, sees it as a revolutionary advance in corporate personhood, imbuing corporations with the free-speech rights of individuals. While I agree there are quite negative consequences of the case, and I'm wary of the influence of money in politics overall, I can't really see how this is as revolutionary a decision as people seem to be claiming. In particular, the basic principle that the First Amendment restricts the ability of the government to regulate any speech or publications, including that by corporations or any other entity, has been well established for decades, and indeed almost never questioned until now. Nor, if you are a civil libertarian, would it be desirable to campaign for a wholesale reversal of that position.
  • Tweaking K5
    Some loosy penis has loads of fun shitting around page-lenghtening and/or widening comments or diar(rh)ies. I suggest Rusty fixes that annoyance by adding a tiny bit of code in K5.
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 The Register

  • Intel's redemos six-core Gulftown
    Gamers watch and wait Intel has given developers another peek at its upcoming Core i7-980X Extreme Edition processor.The power of collaboration within unified communications
  • Citrix tunes XenApp for Windows Server R2
    App-V virtual embrace Citrix has unveiled XenApp 6 after re-architecting the product from the ground up to take full advantage of Microsoft's Windows Server 2008 R2.Web threats: Why conventional protection doesn't work
  • Google boss says something will happen in China 'soon'
    Seven weeks and counting Google CEO Eric Schmidt has reiterated that the company is currently in negotiations with the Chinese government over its future in the country - despite the Chinese government's claims to the contrary - and he expects some sort of development "soon."Web threats: Why conventional protection doesn't work
  • Google flips switch on mobile YouTube banner ads
    Phone vid traffic up '160%' Google is now serving ads on the mobile incarnation of YouTube.Offloading malware protection to the cloud
  • LG 3D TV line to debut in May
    Freeview HD and internet connectivity on board too LG will release its 3D TV range in May, the company said today. The line-up will comprise a pair of LED TVs and a Blu-ray Disc player.
  • Voltaire brings InfiniBand switch to the masses
    Accelerators speed up cluster work InfiniBand and Ethernet switch maker Voltaire this morning rolled out its Grid Director 4200, a midrange 40 Gb/sec InfiniBand switch that shoots the gap between its entry and high-end switches, and that is the product that Voltaire expects companies to buy as they adopt InfiniBand for database clustering and other HPC jobs.Web threats: Why conventional protection doesn't work
  • Pistol fired on Olympic honour campaign for Turing
    Celebrated cryptographer was accomplished runner The campaigner who led a successful effort last year to secure a public apology for the UK government's mistreatment of Alan Turing is calling for recognition of the celebrated cryptographer during the 2012 London Olympics.Case Study: WhatsUp keeps Legoland turnstyles ringing
  • Cryptome: PayPal a 'liar, cheat and a thug'
    Account still restricted "PayPal is a fucking liar, a cheat and a thug," says Cryptome operator John Young. The eBay-owned payment service closed the Cryptome account last week, with over $5,000 of donations intended for Young in limbo.Case Study: WhatsUp keeps Legoland turnstyles ringing
  • Underground mole-satnavs to work off lightning strikes
    'Sferic' zap-sniff tech for future subterranean warriors News has emerged of a secret US military programme intended to let troops navigate about inside huge underground enemy tunnel complexes by measuring energy pulses given off by lightning bolts.Case Study: WhatsUp keeps Legoland turnstyles ringing
  • Ex-Sun boss punts Apple-Microsoft-world 'tried to sue me' missive
    My own brother, a goddamn, shit-sucking vampire Former Sun Microsystems boss Jonathan Schwartz has claimed that Apple chief Steve Jobs threatened to sue the server and software maker in 2003.What is your recession sales strategy?
  • Zero* welcome for 200 Welsh TV shows - in Wales
    Nid wyf yn deall gair rydych chi'n dweud Almost 200 Welsh language programmes broadcast by S4C last month attracted precisely zero viewers, leaked audience figures show.The power of collaboration within unified communications
  • MoJ halves consultancy spending
    Don't need no good advice The Ministry of Justice reduced its consultancy spending from £20.7m in 2007-08 to £10.5m in 2008-09, despite the failure of other departments to meet government cost-cutting targets.
  • Samsung to bundle glasses with 3D TVs
    Tackles hidden cost of 3D TV viewing In a bid to become the leading supplier of 3D TVs, Samsung will bundle every one of its 3D tellies and Blu-ray Disc players with two pairs of active-shutter specs and a copy of Monsters vs Aliens, the company announced last night.Case Study: WhatsUp keeps Legoland turnstyles ringing
  • Freesat BBC iPlayer beta gets red button access
    Code-only entry ended Humax and the BBC have extended their iPlayer trial to all of the manufacturers' Freesat set-top boxes, making the catch-up service available through remotes' red buttons.Offloading malware protection to the cloud
  • Saviour likely for titsup training firm
    Advent students still waiting for a saviour Administrators for Advent Computer Training, and its sister school for plumbers, believe they have found buyers for the company.
  • Government spends £11k on ID card 'branding'
    £1m spent on advertising, no public relations The government still seems to be shying away from spending too much money advertising its ID card and National ID Register schemes.Web threats: Why conventional protection doesn't work
  • 'Phantom Eye' hydrogen strato-spy drone starts building
    Cruises 12 miles up on pair of Ford car engines Global arms'n'aerospace behemoth Boeing says it will now begin work in earnest on its "Phantom Eye" high-altitude hydrogen spy drone, powered by a pair of modified Ford car engines.What is your recession sales strategy?
  • UK plastic fraud losses fall for first time in 3 years
    Online banking losses up though A rise in online banking fraud losses took some of the shine off the overall fall in debit and credit fraud in the UK last year.The power of collaboration within unified communications
  • Mozilla Jetpack flies out of laboratory into loving arms of Firefox
    SDK lands with a bump Mozilla has promoted its web extensions prototype package - Jetpack - by pushing it upstairs and readying it for production with its Firefox browser.What is your recession sales strategy?
  • SpringSource adds springiness to Tomcat server
    Free licenses lure cloud army to VMware Open-source Java framework specialist SpringSource has unveiled a new incarnation of its Apache Tomcat-based tc Server, offering application developers and operators additional tools for building, deploying, and monitoring their software on the lightweight runtime platform.What is your recession sales strategy?
  • Twitter adds filter to cut phishing lines
    Every twt.tl bit helps Twitter has tightened up security procedures in order to curtail phishing attacks against users of the micro-blogging service, which have become rampant over recent weeks.Offloading malware protection to the cloud
  • Microsoft whitewashes MSN in latest Web2.0rhea whimsy
    Still not shining Silverlight on UK video player Microsoft has taken the beta wraps off its MSN homepage, which the company relaunched in the US in November 2009.Offloading malware protection to the cloud
  • Y2.01K hits Garmin satnav
    Routing like it's 1949 Garmin's Geko 201 GPS kit can't decide what year it is, flipping between decades every time it's switched on, though it's performing better on days of the week.Case Study: WhatsUp keeps Legoland turnstyles ringing
  • UK is safer from al-Qaeda 'bastards', says security minister
    Well done chaps, no damage to society at all The minister responsible for counter-terrorism has said that despite "some very nasty bastards out there who aim to do us harm", government security initiatives have made the UK safer from attacks in recent years.What is your recession sales strategy?
  • Young people are lazy, think world owes them a living - prof
    Trick-cyclist blasts Googleplex massage parlour It's official. Proper actual science* has confirmed that the young Westerners of Generation Y (people now in their 20s) are idle, workshy loafers by comparison to their elders. They are also think that the world owes them a handsome living, having higher expectations of salary and status than their predecessors.Web threats: Why conventional protection doesn't work
  • BT boss urges fines for filesharing customers
    Corporate crusaders for free speech unite Mandybill Ian Livingston, the boss of Britain's biggest ISP BT, is lobbying for the government's proposed technical sanctions against filesharers to be replaced with fines.Case Study: WhatsUp keeps Legoland turnstyles ringing
  • Microsoft boffin scoops Turing Award
    Hardware guru wins computing's 'Nobel prize' A Microsoft researcher has received the Turing Award in recognition for his pioneering work in personal computing hardware and networking technology development.The power of collaboration within unified communications
  • WD targets Win XP users to ease 4KB drive upgrades
    Sector inspector Western Digital is to help Windows XP users more easily make the transition to so-called '4K' hard drive technology, the new standard for basic drive formatting.Case Study: WhatsUp keeps Legoland turnstyles ringing
  • Palm pops out plug-in dev kit
    WebOs goes native Palm has released its Plug-in Development Kit, enabling native development for those who find AJAX just can't cut it.What is your recession sales strategy?
  • Sharp preps Freeview HD set-top kit
    Connect-your-own-storage DVR too Sharp will release the first of two Freeview HD set-top boxes at the end of April. It's also preparing a regular Freeview DVR that uses USB-connected storage to make it a doddle to transfer taped programmes to a PC.Case Study: WhatsUp keeps Legoland turnstyles ringing
  • NY chef offers mam cheese canapes
    Wife is 100% free range and foie gras fed A New York chef is offering samples of cheese made from his wife's breast milk with the promise that it's "100 per cent organic, free range and foie gras fed".Offloading malware protection to the cloud
  • Brown promises Budget in a fortnight
    Warns of more bumps ahead Gordon Brown is set to announce the Budget will happen at the end of the month, increasing the likelihood that the election will be on 6 May.Case Study: WhatsUp keeps Legoland turnstyles ringing
  • Max Clifford takes £1m to drop hack probe
    Kiss and don't tell Celebrity publicist Max Clifford has agreed to accept a £1m plus payoff in exchange for dropping phone hacking allegations against the News of the World.Offloading malware protection to the cloud
  • Google goes cycling
    Turn left here and jump that red light Google is offering a cycling option for users of its map service.Offloading malware protection to the cloud
  • Google Nexus One Android smartphone
    Hard to resist Review The flourishing Android operating system has appeared on phones made by Motorola, Sony Ericsson, Samsung, LG and HTC. Now Google has launched its own handset, though it’s actually made by HTC, which has made the bulk of Android handsets so far.
  • Suburban woman accused of using net to recruit terrorists
    Feds cuff JihadJane A suburban Pennsylvania woman who went by the online alias JihadJane used the internet to recruit Islamic terrorists and to plot the assassination of a Swedish cartoonist who depicted the Prophet Mohammed, according to a federal indictment unsealed Tuesday.Offloading malware protection to the cloud
  • Sepaton in anti-Data Domain pitch
    Dual-node MS2 cluster Criticising the pain of single-silo deduplication products, Sepaton has introduced a dual-node clustered product that can be upgraded to its larger ES2 system.What is your recession sales strategy?
  • Tablet maker threatens, then robs Apple
    The non-iPad iPad clone The publicity whores at China's Shenzhen Great Loong Brother tablet-PC maker are at it again.What is your recession sales strategy?
  • UK pol touts canine chip implants
    Doggies digitized for your protection Even if your beloved Westie is spending her declining years curled up by the hearth, Home Secretary Alan Johnson suggests she should be microchipped for the protection of her potential victims, and you should pony up for dog-attack insurance.Case Study: WhatsUp keeps Legoland turnstyles ringing
  • Google opens Google Apps app store
    One stop Google bolt-on shop The Mountain View Chocolate Factory has unveiled an online marketplace for third-party applications that hook into its Google Apps suite of web-based businessware.The power of collaboration within unified communications
  • Floating IT lab mimics multi-tiered networks
    Is it real? Or is it Skytap? Skytap - the Jeff Bezos-backed startup that lets you mimic internal IT infrastructure in the so-called cloud - has introduced a new set of automation tools designed to facilitate the creation of complex network topologies on its floating interwebs service.The power of collaboration within unified communications
  • Fraud-prevention service ponies up $12m for 'false' ads
    Agrees to safeguard customer data An Arizona company that sells services designed to prevent identity theft has agreed to pay $12m to settle charges it oversold their effectiveness and didn't adequately protect sensitive customer data.Offloading malware protection to the cloud
  • Pillar juices flash drive box
    Reliability boost roadmap Pillar Data Axiom storage arrays can go a whole lot faster, use less energy and be more reliable, thanks to a range of new features from flash drive enclosures to pre-emptive copies.The power of collaboration within unified communications
  • Apple's draconian developer docs revealed
    The first rule of iPhone Club is... In the 1999 movie Fight Club, Brad Pitt famously tells a huddle of pugilistic aspirants: "The first rule of Fight Club is: you do not talk about Fight Club."Offloading malware protection to the cloud
  • It's official: Adobe Reader is world's most-exploited app
    The new Microsoft Adobe's ubiquitous Reader application has replaced Microsoft Word as the program that's most often targeted in malware campaigns, according to figures compiled by F-Secure.Web threats: Why conventional protection doesn't work
  • Cisco 'forever changes internet' with... a router
    322 Tbps of bandwidth (not quite) here How will Cisco "forever change the internet"? With a new router.Offloading malware protection to the cloud
  • Google tests TV set-top search, says report
    Satellite TV meets YouTube meets online ad machine Google is privately testing a television set-top box that lets users search satellite TV programming as well as video websites like its very own YouTube, according to a new report.Web threats: Why conventional protection doesn't work
  • New Internet Explorer code-execution attacks go wild
    IE 6 and 7 users targeted Online thugs are exploiting a security bug in earlier versions of Internet Explorer that allows them to remotely execute malicious code, Microsoft warned on Tuesday.Offloading malware protection to the cloud
  • Dell intros restyled biz laptops
    Vostro 3000 line debuts Dell has introduced a set of new Vostro notebooks, pitching the products as "a range of new thin, lightweight and durable laptop computers".
  • FA launches security probe after England team bugged
    Lancaster Gate-gate Reported attempts to sell recordings of conversations between England squad players and coaches have sparked a security breach investigation at the FA.Offloading malware protection to the cloud
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