mcbarry | 13 years ago | on: Copyright protectionism - The award for irony goes to...
They might be misunderstanding how video overlay acceleration works. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_overlay
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mcbarry | 14 years ago | on: RIM reportedly bails on PlayBook, considers exiting tablet market
Not to mention it shipped with Need For Speed preinstalled
mcbarry | 14 years ago | on: Microsoft has Abandoned Silverlight and All Other Plugins
This is referring to runtime environments like Flash and Silverlight, not browser extensions like Adblock.
mcbarry | 14 years ago | on: The Westfield’s iPhone app privacy smorgasbord
What was it? The server isn't serving the Silverlight app any more.
mcbarry | 14 years ago | on: Those 500K Bitcoins that caused the flash crash weren't real
A reminder that MTGOX originally stood for "Magic The Gathering Online eXchange". When a site designed for trading cards online turns into the world's biggest Bitcoin exchange you better believe there's not going to be an appropriate level of security underneath it.
mcbarry | 14 years ago | on: Sony officially 50% of all GitHub's DMCA notices
It's a driver to provide filesystem access to PS2 memory cards, using the USB Memory Card Adaptor designed for the PS3.
There's another tool using this to make bootable memory cards for bypassing region checks.
mcbarry | 14 years ago | on: 4800 Aussie sites evaporate after hack
As an ex-developer of a company who had servers co-located with them, I'm feeling mighty smug about using our own backup system instead of their in-house one.
As mentioned earlier, bandwidth in Australia is prohibitively expensive so the choice wasn't as simple as "use both".
mcbarry | 15 years ago | on: Google Maps visualization of marijuana prices, with over 800+ entries so far
Depends on your tolerance and method of usage, but I use it 2-3 times a week, using a vaporiser, and go through ~0.1 grams a session. Due to taxes where I live (Victoria, Australia) it's cheaper than alcohol.
mcbarry | 16 years ago | on: Conceptually, how does replay work in a game?
If it's anything like SNES/Genesis/other console emulators, the only entropy source is player input. I can't imagine many arcade machines would have a true persistant clock, and even then you could just store the start time as part of the replay data to ensure you get the same output for rand(time()) each time.
mcbarry | 16 years ago | on: Matasano hacked. A humbling lesson, even the pros are vulnerable.
That hurt to read.
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