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[Tech News] Interesting technology

GrahamC
7-Dec-2010
[5394]
If only we could build software like this
Anton
7-Dec-2010
[5395]
Never mind the noise of construction at four o'clock in the morning.
TomBon
7-Dec-2010
[5396]
lego
Henrik
8-Dec-2010
[5397]
Not sure if it's new, but I stumbled onto the Chrome Web Store:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore
Kaj
8-Dec-2010
[5398x2]
It was opened yesterday
I've been preparing to publish Try REBOL in it
GrahamC
9-Dec-2010
[5400]
http://www.stuff.co.nz/technology/gadgets/4436338/Google-unwraps-Chrome-PCs-too-late-for-holidays

the Chrome store was opened to service the now late Chrome OS PCs
Pekr
9-Dec-2010
[5401]
For techno-freaks to check-out :-) http://www.osnews.com/story/24115/Verve_A_Type_Safe_Operating_System
BrianH
9-Dec-2010
[5402]
I'm half-way through the video interview. They use really interesting 
techniques. I want to look at that source, barring license restrictions.
Pekr
9-Dec-2010
[5403]
The news was posted here for you, because I knew that you would be 
the one wanting to see it :-)
BrianH
9-Dec-2010
[5404x2]
Yeah, I caught it yesterday :)
The video interview is 74 mins though, and I haven't had 74 uninterrupted 
mins of a working brain since I started the video.
AdrianS
9-Dec-2010
[5406x2]
if you're running Windows, you could use something like MySpeed from 
Enounce - it can let you play back videos at faster than real-time. 
I find that for most content 2x is still very understandable.
Actually, the VLC player (free) lets you do that, but you have to 
provide it the link to the stream, whereas with MySpeed, embedded 
videos play at a speed controlled by a little tool tray UI
GrahamC
9-Dec-2010
[5408x2]
This cyber war of wikileaks vs the world is interesting ... maybe 
someone will finally fix the internet to prevent these DOS attacks.
And curious that Russia is now the last bastion of democracy with 
Putin asking .. why ina democracy Assange is imprisoned!
Kaj
10-Dec-2010
[5410]
Same reason why a democracy elected Hitler, I guess
Anton
10-Dec-2010
[5411]
I don't think you can ever get rid of DoS attacks.
Henrik
10-Dec-2010
[5412]
at best, servers can probably be made to tackle DoS attacks better, 
but I don't think we'll be rid of them either.
GrahamC
10-Dec-2010
[5413]
Routers run by ISPs could be made smarter
Geomol
10-Dec-2010
[5414]
And curious that Russia is now the last bastion of democracy with 
Putin asking .. why ina democracy Assange is imprisoned!


Has former Soviet become a better democracy than the 'western' world? 
If so, it only took them 20 years.
Anton
10-Dec-2010
[5415]
Smarter probably means using more resources, which opens up more 
vectors for attack, not to mention the extra complexity requiring 
smarter humans to administer.
Pekr
15-Dec-2010
[5416]
Scary if true - http://www.osnews.com/story/24136/_FBI_Added_Secret_Backdoors_to_OpenBSD_IPSEC_
Henrik
15-Dec-2010
[5417]
I wonder if it would not have been seen during code reviews.
Pekr
15-Dec-2010
[5418]
The code will be surely reviewed, but some ppl are speculating about 
so called GCC hacks, so that your code might be clean, but it is 
the compiler, which does some changes ...
Reichart
15-Dec-2010
[5419]
It could also just be "Tricky logic" that would not seem out of place 
when reviewed.
TomBon
15-Dec-2010
[5420x3]
the problem is also a simple buffer overflow at the right position 
could be what? unintentionally or not?
and btw the backdoor is found!
it's here:


http://img696.imageshack.us/img696/9687/openbsdbackdoorlocated.jpg
Reichart
16-Dec-2010
[5423]
That was a very funny pun on Blowfish :)
Anton
16-Dec-2010
[5424]
:)
AdrianS
17-Dec-2010
[5425]
OnLive seems to be available now in the app store. Seems to work 
quite well if you can believe this video. I had forgotten about this 
tech - it's got significant implications to the platform fragmentation 
issue. See around the 8 min mark where they're running Maya on an 
iPad.


http://video.allthingsd.com/video/dive-tech-onlive-now-more-than-just-a-game/2D385273-C40C-41D7-B01D-39A6E3B50F9F/
Henrik
17-Dec-2010
[5426]
I only have barely enough bandwidth to run Onlive on my macbook, 
but for some of my friends, it seems to work well.
AdrianS
17-Dec-2010
[5427]
I find it hard to believe that the lag can be acceptable for gaming. 
You can't avoid the network delays.
Henrik
17-Dec-2010
[5428]
I'm not sure how much lag there is.
Maxim
17-Dec-2010
[5429x3]
When I used citrix, which is basicaly the same, it was very painfull.
onlive does look much better implemented though.
wrt the maya trick... its obviously a bit misleading since its  noted 
that they are using networked processing within autodesk which actually 
has nothing to do with onlive  :-)
AdrianS
17-Dec-2010
[5432x4]
I just played a bunch of trial games. Not bad at all.
FPS, racing - totally playable
this was using the Windows client
it's amazing that the graphics quality is determined by the hardware 
on the remote end - and it seems to be top notch
Kaj
17-Dec-2010
[5436]
You'd get a similar effect if you were to pipe R3 Draw definitions 
over the network
Reichart
17-Dec-2010
[5437]
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/12/genspace-diy-science-laboratory/


The FBI now uses pictures of our space to show people what a [methamphetamine] 
drug lab doesn't look like,

 Grushkin said. One of the FBI contacts even showed up at the grand 
 opening last week to congratulate Grushkin.

LOL
Maxim
17-Dec-2010
[5438]
that community lab is a really cool idea.
Cyphre
17-Dec-2010
[5439]
Just tried to run OnLive: "We are sorry, this application requires 
gfx card that supports Pixel Shader 2.0...."

LOL I thought they made it 'cloud powered' so it can run on low-end 
HW. So it's just kind of marketing trick.
Henrik
17-Dec-2010
[5440x2]
really? A friend of mine ran it on a low-end notebook.
notebook = netbook.
Cyphre
17-Dec-2010
[5442]
Pixel Shaders 2.0 doesn't  sound to me as low-end feature. IIRC it 
was introduced roughly when netbooks came on market  which is not 
too long. So maybe they took it as 'low end' to show that if it runs 
on visually 'small PC' it uses low-end HW. I have different meaning 
of 'low end' though.
Kaj
17-Dec-2010
[5443]
Sigh, netbooks are like supercomputers when running Syllable on them