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  1. foiled.... on Researchers Develop "Narrative Authentication" System · · Score: 1

    ... by twitter, facebook, etc.

  2. Re:Then a dual core should be plenty on Intel's Knights Landing — 72 Cores, 3 Teraflops · · Score: 1

    Not sure what you mean by that, but every man and his dog has a smartphone and a lot of them shoot video with it to either upload elsewhere (transcoded on their phone) or play with on their PC. Heaps of people run home servers to serve video to PS3, etc. They may not know it as transcoding, but there's a lot of format/codec shifting out there.

  3. Re:Requires parallelism on Intel's Knights Landing — 72 Cores, 3 Teraflops · · Score: 1

    Encryption, video transcoding and other compression, compilation (inc. just in time) and other stuff we don't do yet because it is not really feasible (e.g., real time ray-tracing, etc.).

  4. Re:Requires parallelism on Intel's Knights Landing — 72 Cores, 3 Teraflops · · Score: 1

    Not only that, if this goes in a server, it is going to be handling multiple tasks for multiple users so more threads are an easy win.

  5. Re:Then a dual core should be plenty on Intel's Knights Landing — 72 Cores, 3 Teraflops · · Score: 1

    I'd say probably 80-90% of normal users are doing video transcoding these days.

  6. Re:Yay more cores that I won't be using much of! on Intel's Knights Landing — 72 Cores, 3 Teraflops · · Score: 1

    For GPUs, until we have one core per pixel for ray-tracing, we're nowhere near the number of cores we could use without even trying too hard.

  7. Re:You can add that card on Apple's New Mac Pro Gets High Repairability Score · · Score: 1

    Did you perhaps miss the part where thunderbolt 2 is 20 gigabit?

  8. Re:Sorry Apple. on Apple Denies Helping NSA Subvert iPhone · · Score: 1

    Also Cisco and Juniper (as per the video). Good luck building your own router, on your PC with compromised BIOS and compromised hard drive firmware (also, as per the video).

  9. Re:Sorry Apple. on Apple Denies Helping NSA Subvert iPhone · · Score: 1

    Given that DOS has only one security context, and web browsers are available, the only reason for that is the lack of a userbase.

  10. Re:Sorry Apple. on Apple Denies Helping NSA Subvert iPhone · · Score: 1

    Where can I buy an Akamai smartphone?

  11. Re:Sorry Apple. on Apple Denies Helping NSA Subvert iPhone · · Score: 1

    Good luck with the Chinese companies.

  12. Re:They can't stop unlockers on Apple Denies Helping NSA Subvert iPhone · · Score: 1

    LOL. They're seeing their business crash... like Cisco, Juniper, Huwawei, who have also been implicated?

  13. Re:They can't stop unlockers on Apple Denies Helping NSA Subvert iPhone · · Score: 1

    You mean like this?

  14. Re:They can't stop unlockers on Apple Denies Helping NSA Subvert iPhone · · Score: 1

    I dunno, looks like Manning still got charged with aiding the enemy.

  15. Re:They can't stop unlockers on Apple Denies Helping NSA Subvert iPhone · · Score: 1

    You missed the bit about the "up to 1kw" (with external power source) of RF emitted by the hardware bug(s)?

  16. Re:They can't stop unlockers on Apple Denies Helping NSA Subvert iPhone · · Score: 1

    If you have an attacker with the NSA's resources, you're boned. They already can sniff all your data in flight before it gets on the device.

  17. Re:They can't stop unlockers on Apple Denies Helping NSA Subvert iPhone · · Score: 1

    You know the iPhone will wipe itself by default if the wrong pin is guessed 10 times?

  18. Re:They can't stop unlockers on Apple Denies Helping NSA Subvert iPhone · · Score: 1

    Because of course there's no way they possibly did that on the server end... by, you know... perhaps changing an authentication key or similar.

  19. Re:Apple won the last two hands down on Apple Denies Helping NSA Subvert iPhone · · Score: 1

    Don't let truth get in the way of a good anti-apple rant!

  20. Re:Orwell on Ask Slashdot: What Are the Books Everyone Should Read? · · Score: 1

    Like/dislike isn't why they are mentioned. They are educational.

  21. Re:Everything by C. J. Cherryh on Ask Slashdot: What Are the Books Everyone Should Read? · · Score: 1

    Reading her books is like watching a movie.

    They make you dumber? Comparing literature to a movie is NOT encouraging.

  22. Re:The Bible on Ask Slashdot: What Are the Books Everyone Should Read? · · Score: 1

    I got about halfway through the first page of the bible before the bullshit flag had been raised (not due to fantastic unbelievable events, but due to contradiction with itself), and I ceased, rather than further poison my mind.

  23. Re:The Bible on Ask Slashdot: What Are the Books Everyone Should Read? · · Score: 1

    Nah he means the militant atheists who used WMDs on civilians in WW2, invaded the Gulf, continually bomb weddings in Afghanistan, etc. oh wait...

  24. Re:"1984" by George Orwell, which could be renamed on Ask Slashdot: What Are the Books Everyone Should Read? · · Score: 1

    Bumping parent up: "1984" By George Orwell, I'll also add "A Brief History of Time" by Stephen Hawking.

  25. Re:Unix GUI on Ask Slashdot: Command Line Interfaces -- What Is Out There? · · Score: 1

    applescript + automator.