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  1. Re:infrared beam and camera? on The Mouse Vanishes · · Score: 1

    Yes, this is just that, a large touch sensitive surface. But then your entire table can be the touchpad, instead of a designated area. The simulated mouse is just an example, if you look at the video it just detects the places where your finger touchthe table.

    One problem i see in this implementation is that there is a lot of lag by using simple webcam video. Look at the video. You need some high speed frame solution or you will have to adapt your applicatoin to lag. DPI and different user interface is something you can get used to. input lag will be a killer stopper.

    If that problem is solved it will be a great space save on ultra-portable hardware.

  2. Hold on. on Man Claims 84% of Facebook, Gets Order Blocking Assets · · Score: 1

    I first need to move my crop of tomatos to an other games network.

    And did i mention i just got a orange cow?

  3. Brand damage, not copyright viola on Fring Calls Skype 'Cowards'; Skype Responds · · Score: 1

    The api license cannot be based on normal copyright like most other software licenses. You do not copy software of skype in ways that are bound by copyright based licenses. So instead they use the brand moniker: Ik you use the word "skype" or claim to use the "skype network" you use the brand name.

    The one other possibility skype has is to technically block certain users, for which a user might find a workarround. Not a road you want to take first since blocking/banning customers is bad for business.

  4. Software patent on Open Source Music Fingerprinter Gets Patent Nastygram · · Score: 1

    This is a patent involving signal processing. That is different from a pure software patent where you take an existing process and describe it done by computer.

    However the takedown of the blog part is pure powerplay IMHO, The whole point of a patent is that enough information is published so anyone skilled in the art can reproduce the invention. If they did describe their invantion too fuzzy then there would not be a practical use.

    Anyway, the developer lives in europe and there the patent only protects against commercial use with profit, so landmark dow not have a real case.

    By the way, is landmark associated with the controversial landmark education ?

  5. Re:md5? on Crack the Code In US Cyber Command's Logo · · Score: 1

    MD5 is weak and already broken which more or less might be symbolic for the v1 version .

  6. Re:SSH on Tunneling Under the Great Firewall? · · Score: 4, Informative

    Yup.

    -Setup a ssh server outside of china, always on. for windows use some port like copsshd.
    -Set ip up at an alternate port (not 22, use 443), it will obfuscate it a little bit.

    In china run ssh client, putty can do this, tunnelier has some more options
    https://calomel.org/firefox_ssh_proxy.html
    Then use proxy options of firefox to send traffic over this proxy. Be careful no to leak too much dns info.

  7. No reverse polarity. on MS Design Lets You Put Batteries In Any Way You Want · · Score: 2, Funny

    Scotty will turn in his grave. MS killed the hyperdrive fix.

  8. Re:100 W? 2 Amp at 50 volt..! on HDBaseT Supporters Hope To Kiss HDMI Goodbye · · Score: 1

    Cat 5e is rated to about 0,5 A per conductor, so at 8 conductors you have a max of 4 Amp (2 Amp if you take the ground into account) . You will have a voltage of about 50 volt however to reach 100Watt. It too much heat is generated it will not be approved. Power over Ethernet uses also 48 volt at 0,5 ampere with dedicated lines.

    It is possible to use the same conductor wires for signal and power, just a matter of specification, interference and power spikes is just a matter of specification.

    The only problem i can see is that if you connect a HDBASE powered cable to a tradition network connector in your "old" tv you will blow up the tv. That really is not a problem since this is all about upgrading all the hardware again anyway.

  9. Never used a real name on the internet. on White House Unveils Plans For "Trusted Identities In Cyberspace" · · Score: 1

    Most of you never use a real name on the internet. I use this alias "leuk_he" for over 10 years.

    Why? because what you put on the internet can never be deleted. And because you cannot be sure how some internet forum will use your privacy. Privalcy never was very important on the internet. And this was worked arround all this time by using handles/aliases. THere is a new generation now that freely uses their real name on facebook. But those same induviduals will bump their head in 5 year because a new boss will be able to find their view on vampires a little bit disturirbing.

    A real-ID on internet will only make this privacy thing more urgent.

    --leuk_he

  10. anitpodes.... on Cheap ADSL Holds Up 802.11n Router Design · · Score: 1

    You forgot the fact that Australian needs different boxes that have the buttons on the other side, you know everything is upside down at the other side of the word. You would think it would be easy to develop in Europe, and deploy in Australia, but it is easy to forget that all electrons are upside down at the other side of the world.

    A simple mirror won't fix that either.

  11. No conspiracy.. on The South Carolina Primary and Voting Machine Fraud · · Score: 1

    Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.

    --Halons razor

  12. Upgrade path. on Volume Shadow Copy For Linux? · · Score: 1

    Isn't there some upgrade path to convert "old" partitions to LVM partition? Just like windows supports upgrading to dynamic partitions and FAT32 -> NTFS conversions.

    Yes, you always need a backup, but having a backup + doing inplace upgrade is far more convinient.

  13. In the US. on BP Buys "Oil Spill" Search Term · · Score: 4, Informative

    If i google "oil spill" here (Netherlands) it does not show sponsered links.

  14. Why cannot boats do that? on Google-Backed Wind-Powered Car Goes Faster Than the Wind · · Score: 1

    Just because current sail boats do not do it, that does not mean it is impossible. If it is economical is a different issue. YOur intuition tells you it was not possible for a car, and now they prove you wrong. You can apply the same kind of aerodynamics to a ship Just that is is much less practical:Propelling the ship through water creates its own inefficiencies (hull drag, propeller efficiency) you will have to overcome.

    And oil getting more expensive it becomes more important to understand all of the aerodynamics of a big ship.

  15. Re:Rediculous. on Free Software Wins Court Battle in Quebec · · Score: 1

    "upgrade their AutoCad 2000 license to AutoCad 2010 licenses,"

    They have to specify that the new program van read autocad 2000 data files and whatever features they require to have the autocad 2010.

    The good burocrats write "AutoCad 2010 or comparable" , the lazy ones write "AutoCad 2010".

  16. This has nothing to do with virtualisztie. on AMD's Fusion Processor Combines CPU and GPU · · Score: 1

    No, YOu cannot offload CPU work to GPU work with a virtualisation solution. Even if it was possible the network bottleneck would be far larger than most advantages gained.

    And second, the GPU that is integrated has the same kind of processing power as current integrated (on the motherboard) solution. You can offload a little bit, but since there are power limits you do can expect very high gains. THe gains that exist will be used for power efficient laptops/notebooks or cheap desktops.

    If you really have large amounts processing work to do that fits a GPU well, you can invest in a GPU card better that has a high power envelope. There are not many applications for this (relative to number of PC boxes), this will be a niche market (but even a small % of all pc sales is a big market...)

    That all said, distributed project file like Boinc will only benefit from more opengl capacle GPUs in the field.

  17. Expect repost.... from 1979! on BP Says "Top Kill" Operation Has Failed · · Score: 5, Informative

    This is all deja vu. This has occures before. In 1979 a oil well in the gulf blew and it took 9 months to close the gap, using the same techniques they used so far.

    So expect repost of failed attempts for the next 9 months.... in the true /. tradition. If it is important it will be posted again. ;)

  18. Re:*WebM* is open sourced? on Google WebM Calls "Open Source" Into Question · · Score: 1

    In theory you can create software that is compatible with the format, in practice the software is the format. It is too complex otherwise.

  19. you misunderstood ssl. on Tabnapping Scams Around the Corner? · · Score: 1

    You are not to blame, because even the browser creators misunderstand ssl.

    -Ssl does not mean that it is save to input credentials.
    -More gui does not not help much.
    -If a site makes an error with ssl (expired, or changed subdomain) you only have a all or nothing option.

    As your parent article states, there already is an option to only enable javascript on trusted sites, (noscript), but this relies on whitelisting particular sites. Only securityparapoid people (like me) use it.

  20. The loophole is bigger... on Do Build Environments Give Companies an End Run Around the GPL? · · Score: 2, Informative

    However, as a special exception, the source code distributed need not include anything that is normally distributed (in either source or binary form) with the major components (compiler, kernel, and so on) of the operating system on which the executable runs, unless that component itself accompanies the executable.

    (from same link)

    If the compiler is a special case then you have a problem there. If the target device is some special dedicated OS, it all comes under this exception? Notice that they do not require to release the compiler (unless is was adapted for this target).

    Also remember a term called Tivoization. You are starting the same discussion all over again.

    But they are missing the largeste advantage of the GPL. They can have free mod version and bug fixes if they release their complete environment.

  21. Re:You do not give users acces to a application DB on Microsoft Dynamics GP "Encrypted" Using Caesar Cipher · · Score: 1

    It is trivial, if you have good design goals. I fail to see the point of symmetric encryption in database fields. If you can access protect the keys you can use the same protection method to protect the fields. That is access control, and should not be confused with encryption.

    And still: you will need to access an application Db with the correct API. Databases of large enterprise "application" have all kinds undocumented of oddities.

  22. You do not give users acces to a application DB on Microsoft Dynamics GP "Encrypted" Using Caesar Cipher · · Score: 1

    It would be very obvious to me you do not give users access to a application database. Unless it is some BI kind of application. The obfuscation in this database is only to underline this. With normal BI tools you cannot retreive data from the database since it is obfuscated.

    You can access a SAP/oracle fusion DB diectly also but a good rule is NEVER TO DO THAT unless it is documented, since it is always unclear what state the tables are in and/or you need to take some extra data for your queries.

    And all databases allow to grant access based on user is to a limited set of data, so normal user access controls should also appy.

    Having encryption on user data in a database is a bad idea because the key storage is not as simple as you would think, and a lost encrypion key will render the data completely useless (by design!)

  23. But it is already running.... on Toyota Partners With Tesla To Make Electric Cars · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The important part is that now the foucs is on fuel efficienty and not on maximum power.

    And i am still suprised there are no diesel hybrids yet from anyone. Maybe the extra diesel noise would give a strange driving expierence?

    There is one small detail:

    One can buy a running toyta prius 5 years ago, but a nissan leaf is not yet for sale. You cannot compare a previous generation car with a future generations car. Well actually you can because parent poster did just that.

  24. Vista scrapped a lot on Ballmer Says Microsoft Wasted Time On Vista · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Longhorn as it was called during its development scrapped some functionality during its development cycle. (It even got so much redefined that it was renamed from blackcomb to longhorn)

    One very noteworthy is that everything was supposed to run on top of winFS, a database instead of a file system. On a lot of tools this was never completed. Also there would be more diversification between server and client versions. But as you know server and client diversification OS versions in vista/server 2008 are the same as XP/server 2003 edition.

    But this just seems normal in any development process. In Unbunto you also see software tools that are no longer in the main package after a couple of years. If you knew what would be important in 4 or 5 years you could do optimal development, but the reality is that nobody can see that much in the future.

  25. If breakers goes off at 10 minutes, buy at 9 min? on New "Circuit Breaker" Imposed To Stop Market Crash · · Score: 1

    First thought: If there is a stop at 10 minutes, then all the automated trader systems will get an extra rule to do their trading within those 10 minutes? And after that go to to other markets?