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http://stacksmashing.net/2010/11/15/cracking-in-the-cloud-amazons-new-ec2-gpu-instances/


Using amazon's GPU cloud machines to break SHA1 passwords in 49 minutes 
at the price of about 2.10$ an hour.

Taken from OSNews - AMD joins MeeGo - http://www.osnews.com/story/24034/AMD_Joins_MeeGo_Linux_Open_Source_Project


I hope Nokia wakes up and dismisses Symbian ASAP. And the EU parliament 
is so stupid, that they want to sponsor Nokia a bit, just to have 
some EU competitor to other mobile OSes.

Divide and conquer

Oldes, does the tracking work only if you have a FaceBook account?

Likely to be so

The tracking works even you don't have FB account. They just don't 
know your name. But they have your IP and some info from cookies. 
For example :

Referer	http://domaci.ihned.cz/c1-48204850-brezina-proc-je-lepsi-dohoda-s-ods-nez-top-09-tak-vite-no-dali-nam-vyhodnejsi-nabidku

Cookie	datr=1250632065-19088ceda338e871e9ee01df712a37723a429d0d3c22849a1d7fc; 
lu=ThbkryR2mVGidAGoXhmTtO6A; presence=DJ289860316BchADhA_22106.channelH0_5dBF289860315007WMblcPBsndPBbloMbvtMctMsbPBtA_5b_5dBfAnullBuctMsA0QBblADacA9V289859900Z400K289859900QBalAD1O1171579986ADiA0QQQQ; 
cur_max_lag=20; x-referer=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fpermalink.php%3Fstory_fbid%3D1573166021199%26id%3D1597009707%26notif_t%3Dwall%23%2Fhome.php; 
e=n; xs=2cf8155631bb0bfe623410554919f283; sid=60; sct=1289859896; 
c_user=1597009707
The FB's cookie life is 2 years.

Of course you can delete your cookies, but how many ordinary people 
do that?

Hmm.. so they're just like other web-bugs.

The new Mathematica 8 allows for natural language input - pretty 
nice. Also, you can now export anything you've developed there as 
a C library, or an executable.


http://blog.wolfram.com/2010/11/15/the-free-form-linguistics-revolution-in-mathematica/

Stephen Wolfram's following blog post on using natural language for 
programming is a good read too.


http://blog.wolfram.com/2010/11/16/programming-with-natural-language-is-actually-going-to-work/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQgnuupBUI4&feature=player_embedded


How to use the Kinect sensor bar from the XBox 360 in a different 
way.

Looks to me that they solved a big problem in robotic vision.

so now we just need to add wheels to xboxes and fire thousands of 
them on Mars:)

Correction: The problem was solved years ago with socalled Time of 
Flight cameras. The kinect is just a much cheaper way to do the same 
thing, so now, everyone can do it.

This will make security cameras about 99% better, removing false 
positives, and in fact IDing who someone is.

25 years ago, 20th November 1985, Windows 1.0 was released.

Black Saturday... well, not black Friday.

Acer dual screen notebook - I wonder how it'll live to its expectations 
....


http://www.engadget.com/2010/11/23/acer-rivals-libretto-w105-with-iconia-dual-screen-laptop-table/

World's worst Android device reviewed here:


http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/reviews/2010/11/worst-gadget-ever-ars-reviews-a-99-android-tablet.ars

These reviewers totally missed the point.  This product shows that 
a $100 olpc is close to being feasible.

That's what they said half a decade ago. Then why isn't the OLPC 
close to $100?

Intel experiments with Lego and kinect-like 3D object recognition 
- nice for kids to play with :-) 


http://www.engadget.com/2010/11/26/intel-research-projects-bring-legos-to-life-make-groceries-inte/

Nice spider :-) http://www.engadget.com/2010/11/26/land-crawler-extreme-robot-carries-175-pounds-of-human/

RIM buys TAT design group (they did Android 1.0 design) ... probably 
for their PlayBook tablet purpose -  QNX UI is not modern enough 
imo - http://www.tat.se/

this is pretty crazy: The latest version of the Linux kernel currently 
consists of approximately 13 million lines of code

http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2010/12/linux-kernel-13-million-lines-over-5-patches-per-hour.ars?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss

Adobe finally comes-up with full video pipeline acceleration for 
Flash on Linux:

http://www.osnews.com/story/24092/Flash_Player_10_2_Beta_Delivers_Hardware_Acceleration_on_Linux

Well, currently only on Nvidia

13 million lines of code


Linux is on the wrong track! The same can be said about OpenOffice. 
I downloaded it the other day for my new Mac, and I just checked, 
it takes up 427 MB of my disc. It simply takes too much time to deal 
with such software, it being maintenance or just figuring out as 
a user how it works.

That's just the kernel, that's nothing. Try building an operating 
system around it...

Minix 3 is 6000 lines of code.

Not really :)

[Minix 3] is extremely small, with the part that runs in kernel mode 
under 6000 lines of executable code.

well, I assume that is because much more of it exists in user space.

No doubts that Minux 3 is very small indeed.

Minix* :)

Minix is a micro-kernel. Most of Minix runs in user space.

Still, I'd be shocked if Minix had nearly as many lines of code as 
the equivalent in Linux. Most of Linux's code is device drivers, 
and Minix doesn't have good driver support (though its drivers also 
run in user space, so they're not counted in those 6000 lines).

And Minix only supports a single platform, at the moment.

It supports a whole platform? Cool. I thought it only supported part 
of a single platform.

Linux's arch/ has 23 subdirectories.

Minix also doesn't have anything beyond the kernel and drivers. As 
with Linux, you have to put a userland, X11, toolkits and a desktop 
environment on top of it

Only then are you ready to add the half a gigabyte of OpenOffice 
:-)

Heh :)

But you'll be able to gloat about running your gigabyte on top of 
only 6000 lines ;-)

Linux and Minix tend to run the same amount of code, when you include 
drivers. Minix just runs a lot of that code in user space instead 
of kernel space.

Linux doesn't run all 13mil lines of code on one installation. When 
you just include the drivers that it is actually using then the code 
count gets a lot smaller.

I think, it's true that "less is more".

Less is more, because less code is more managable. On the upside, 
Git may never have seen the light of day, if Linux was a nice and 
small kernel.

Rebol Tutorial guy posted interesting link to programming languages 
future panel. He mentioned Crockford (JSON) mentioned REBOL there. 
What is really nice is the second guy from right, author of pleny 
JAVA libraries, describes that the main problem is rishing complexity. 
He says, that if you add functionality, it will only add-up, but 
never shrink. And also - that in future there might be a winner, 
who does it all, not like nowadays, where for web apps you need 3-4 
technologies. I think his description fits REBOL ...


http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Future-of-Programming-Languages