Posts by Tchou

Artists craft the ultimate iPhone fanboi holiday gift

Makes me want to retire in a remote forest.

Military contractor warns of new Adobe Reader exploit

Rarely...

...if ever have i seen so much pached softwares as Adobe ones.

And more are coming.

Wow.

Isn't there some sort of prize for that or something?

Dead at 13: Napster 1998-2011

Napster... G'd o'd times...

THAT was innovation at the time. Farewell then.

Facebook IPO said to set value at $100bn

Short sellers?

Probably quite a good deal on FB if you have some money.

Phobos-Grunt 'crippled by US aurora station', 'is a bio-weapon'

: p

Sometimes

the best you can hope for is that the minor of two evils if the funny one.

iPhone 4/4S 'self combusts' in airliner inferno

Our products are perfect. It is your imagination.

Okay ---------------->[ ].

iPhone 4S is for failures who work in coffee shops - Samsung

Isn't a Jesus phone supposed to come with a message of love and forgiveness for every customer?

'Apple's iPhone 4S ate our SIM cards'

Because people rarely think by themselves maybe?

RIP mice and keyboards: Kinect for PCs incoming

What if it's part of Microsoft efforts on behavior monitoring? The same system is currently tested for monitoring (spying !) employees !

Makes me shiver...

Apple boots MacBook Air wannabes out of slim case fabs

You're

obviously clueless. At least show some respect to reader and refrain from spitting your ignorance publicly.

@AnotherNetNarcissist

yeah and that remenber me that aluminium is a major threat for environment when produced (aluminium does not exist in nature, so must be entirely made from other stuffs).

Probably green Apple forgot to tell you that.

The main reason

is that unibody prevent user to open the case and easily upgrade the computer, thus making a large portion of the customers upgrading buy buying an entire new machine.

So unibody = cash flow.

Coders are creatives too: Where's our love?...

@Morg

Are you allright?

If you're

half decent in ASM, chances are that you will never bother with the C# super pig.

Thanks to Microsoft, programming is widely more complex than it ought to be.

C#

Hell. I thought it was about actual programmers, not self mutilated ready made lovers.

<- - - - High education not necessarily needed. Creativity required.

Microsoft tempts Kinect developers with bacon

Sounds like

a toasted idea!

Samsung v iPhone 4S French entrenchment: 'TOTAL WAR'

Don't worry bro. Nothing new under the sun.

No charge after woman gave fellow prisoner a cop-car BJ

Exactly Sun mode since...

it's been bought by Oracle.

China spacecraft masters the art of docking

Plus...

... Chinese girls are hot !

Ermm, *cough* *cough*, sorry for that.

Java's 'Steve Jobs' moment in 2012?

To say the truth

I was not sure with my own post either.

Java is a thing of the past

Well not really, but someone always have to say that.

New human-brain chip can be adjusted for cannabis effect

It doesn't

You assume the brain process information in a linear manner like a CPU. It is not the case, within its 10Hz the brain process an ammount of information in real time unreacheable by any computer today.

On the other hand, for linear processing, the brain does not "compute" as fast as a CPU. It simply doesn't have to anyway.

Human Brain

"You brain does it in 20 watts, but it will think many orders of magnitude slower"

Differents parts of the brain works at different clocks speeds. In fact the brain is like a multi core CPU, each core being specialized and working at a speed adequate to its task.

For example the first time you type on a keyboard, you do it with your "intellectual core", thinking about your moves and searching for the letters, slowly typing. Later, your "physical movement core" knows how to type, and you no longer bother on how to do it. You do it faster, and your "intellectual core' is free for formulating the phases that you type on the keyboard magnitudes faster.

It would be fascinating to benchmark the diffrent areas of this incredibly powerful computer, the human brain.

Army raygun to boost power with starlight de-twinkling tech

Exactly what i thought.

But the device might aim higher, possibly ennemy sattelites.

And what happens if the laser target is a very good reflective surface?

US stealth bombers finally get nuke-nobbling super bomb

@Xenobyte

Can't you feel something is wrong with this approach?

Security researchers break out of Apple's sandbox

Could you elaborate and enlighten me?

I remember when Apple pundits branded their systems as immune to any attacks...

.... G'd old times...

NASA working on nuclear rocket for manned Mars trips

How to lift heavy materials (radiation shielding)

The ISS was assembled in space, module by module.

Why not do the same for heavy deep space manned rockets?

Of course, we'll have to go first with orbiting an assembly docks station. Could be worth the trouble.

World's stealthiest rootkit pushes DNS hijacking trojan

Enjoy

What about OSX security issues? Its drivers, system files, font types, and all are just as targetable as anything else.

Some of Apple products security issues are listed here (1466 vulneranilities):

http://secunia.com/advisories/search/?search=Apple

And Microsoft ones are here (1313 vulnerabilities):

http://secunia.com/advisories/search/?search=Microsoft

No big number difference as you can see....

Meanwhile in Japan: Your new best pal is a vending machine

@Graham Bartlett

It might be only me but getting involved in something bigger than your self helps. For some people it is getting better at a sport, a technical field, overcoming challenges, ... You know, get some activity and involvement. The others stuffs follows if you magnetize on a goal.

What?

A personal relationship with a vending machine?

Do the conceptors of this hate humanity THAT much??

Dud Mars probe's explosion will spare Earth's cities

They actually do provide the only solution for sending Humans to the ISS.

Worked great so far.

Freebie Android anti-malware scanners flunk tests

In other words...

... Will you pay for the app damn it! If we want to beat Apple AppStore we have to play with real cash! We're no amateurs! Understood?

Mystery radioisotopes in Czech air are not from Fukushima

What about busting the President instead, some Mollahs, providing rebellion with weapons and kabooming the enrichment facilities?

Pretty limited (radioactive) fallouts.

Here comes the public opinion brainwashing to attack Iran.

Iran wrestles Duqu malware infestation

"cyber-defence unit works day and night"

>> "The elimination [process] was carried out and the organisations penetrated by the virus are under control... The cyber-defence unit works day and night to combat cyber attacks and spy [computer] viruses," he added.

I imagine them...

Configuration Panel -> Windows Update -> download MSE new definitions.

Half serious, security teams and firms have such a sense of drama when it comes to speak of their work...

European boffins on voyage of discovery to the Earth's core

Are you allright?

iOS upgrade swells iPhone battery-suckage grief

Wow...

Can't you see you're making this up to jutify YOUR choices, as a pure Apple puppet?

Paris icon, it's getting that low.

Fanboi called 911 repeatedly because iPhone didn't work

As studies have stated

Apple product owners are smarter!

Would YOU have thought calling 911?

Apple agrees to replace dodgy MacBook power cords

Technome

You posted 3 times on this thread to support Apple... I have to trigger a

FANBOI ALERT!

Russian probe engines crap out on way to Mars

You really think USA is more capable than others on this matter?

US army is 50% made up marketing and 50% brute force.

Good luck.

3 Days to patch the damn program

some techies are seeing real action these days...

Good luck guys! I'd love a Russian spacecraft on Phobos!

I'll drink to that obviously....

Where are all the decent handheld scribbling tools?

Because it would be impossible to read while writing?

Lost cities found beneath sands of Sahara by satellites

Right, but it is a constant even in modern history for Islam.

Right or wrong, it is like that.

Mmmm... Islamic countries have a pretty constant track record of suppressing and rewriting pre-islamic history.

Let's hope for the best.

Russian Mars mission launches after multi-year delays

"If all goes well, Phobos-Grunt will arrive at Mars in October of next year, circle the planet for a few months, then land on the Martian moon Phobos, where it will pick up a few hundred precious grams of pebbles and dust. A return vehicle will then lift off from that moon and arrive back on Earth in 2014."

Just wow. Good luck guys!

Secret US 'Jedi' ghost-copters kept out of bin Laden raid

PR operation?

It might just be a PR operation, because well having your top elite soldiers crash your top tech helicopter during a raid in a non-war zone can be kinda embarrassing...

Reminds me of the Monty Python's Black Knight: "An arm off? That's nothing! I have better in stock"!

Ultrabooks will rescue PC industry – beancounters

I recently opted for a Netbook to work on the go, and current models are cheap and powerful enough (once cleaned pre-installed crap, stupid scheduled tasks and added 1Go more RAM).

Atom N570 is a nice little beast. Even the small screen is very acceptable!

= D