by Joseph Forbes | Feb 22, 2013 | Blog Entry, HARDWARE, NERD NEWS
from the only-765-fps-in-pong dept. A big shift in the way graphics cards and gaming performance are tested has been occurring over the last few months, with many review sites now using frame times rather than just average frame rates to compare products. Another...
by Joseph Forbes | Feb 22, 2013 | Blog Entry
Mandiant report citing Chinese government's role in cyberattacks might give more pause to some U.S. companies China has for years been developing an IT outsourcing industry aimed at bringing in business from the U.S. and Europe. It has succeeded, but then again...
by Joseph Forbes | Feb 22, 2013 | Blog Entry, HEALTH
Back in December, I decided to eat more fruits and vegetables. No matter what, I was going to eat more of them. And that’s saying something, especially since I’ve created a few excuses to avoid eating healthy food. Even though my main excuse wasn’t...
by Joseph Forbes | Feb 22, 2013 | INTERNET, NERD NEWS, SECURITY
from the call-the-internet-police dept. Recently, I had found out (through my log files) that my wireless router was subject to a Wi-Fi Protected Setup (WPS) brute force PIN attack. After looking on the Internet and discovering that there are indeed many...
by Joseph Forbes | Feb 21, 2013 | LAW, TECHNOLOGY
from the commons-problem dept. Some two million people have bought cell-phone wireless signal boosters and have been using them to get better communication between their phones and distant cell towers. But now, the FCC says they all have to turn their boosters off and...
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by Joseph Forbes | Feb 21, 2013 | Blog Entry, The Daily WTF
The tension in the conference room was thicker than black pudding and twice as vile. Marc and his boss, Greg, sat on one side of the table. Across from them were the Consultancy Drones, each in a grey suit with a Bluetooth ear-piece pinned to their ears. At the head...
by Joseph Forbes | Feb 21, 2013 | NERD NEWS
from the must-increment-version-number-faster dept. Microsoft watcher Mary Jo Foley has been collecting tips on Microsoft’s accelerated Windows development schedule, codenamed ‘Blue.’ She reports that the program, which is attempting to replace the...
by Joseph Forbes | Feb 21, 2013 | MONEY, NERD NEWS
from the drying-up-the-well dept. Google is in discussions with payment companies including Visa, MasterCard and PayPal to put illegal download websites out of existence by cutting off their funding. If Google goes ahead with the radical move, it would not mark the...
by Joseph Forbes | Feb 20, 2013 | Blog Entry, HARDWARE, MONEY, Technicals
I have a good pile of old computer equipment too, some of which is probably only valuable to people who really really want them at this point. IDE hard drives? Sure, I have those. AGP graphics cards? Maybe one or two left lying around in case an old system fails. The...
by Joseph Forbes | Feb 20, 2013 | Blog Entry, HACKING, NERD NEWS, SECURITY
from the for-higher-love dept. “You thought you had successfully avoided the tiresome password guessing bots groping at your SSH service by moving the service to a non-standard port? It seems security by obscurity has lost the game once more. We’re now...
