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Court Denies NSA Request To Hold Phone Records Beyond 5 Years 46

Posted by Unknown Lamer
from the destroy-evidence-protect-privacy dept.

Comment: Re:You keep using that word (Score 1) 476

by LocalH (#46449277) Attached to: Author Says It's Time To Stop Glorifying Hackers

Welcome to the real world, where old systems operate together in a mish-mash of different protocols and standards. Why do you think companies even exist solely to provide the service of screen-scraping old terminal-based servers in order to provide a "modern" GUI (that is often times just as archaic and messy, if not more so, than the old text-based setup).


Sony & Panasonic Next-Gen Optical Discs Moving Forward 250

Posted by samzenpus
from the slowly-but-surely dept.

Comment: Re:Why? (Score 1) 464

by LocalH (#46417465) Attached to: Apple Refuses To Unlock Bequeathed iPad

Technically correct, but pragmatically useless. Devices running iOS 7 with Find my iWhatever enabled will not be able to activate, even after a DFU restore, without the original Apple ID and password. The only way around this I know of would be to have an A4 device with the requisite SHSH blobs to downgrade below iOS 7.0, and whether one could then change the Apple ID and restore to iOS 7 I don't know.

Comment: Re: No, not those who don't understand... (Score 1) 921

by LocalH (#46362231) Attached to: Woman Attacked In San Francisco Bar For Wearing Google Glass

She didn't start recording until she was in fear of bodily harm. You know, in case she was actually attacked, there would be video evidence? She was demonstrating it to someone, and someone mouthed off to her out of fear, because they had obviously been misled into thinking that Glass is some sort of uber spy device that records everything that's happening with no external notification. Which is precisely how all the detractors paint the issue, so that's not unsurprising. What is surprising is the number of people on a supposedly tech-savvy site who have this misconception.

Comment: Re: Anything to not admit they screwed up (Score 2) 129

by LocalH (#46120975) Attached to: Nintendo Could Base Comeback On Improving Peoples' Health


NES/SNES weren't really slower than their counterparts. Sure, the number of CPU cycles per second was lower. However, the 6502-based architecture had lower IPC than the Z80 and 68000, and if you analyze that you'll see that the NES/SNES were a lot more competitive in performance than you might think by CPU speed alone.
