For those of you deciding to wait for the next operating system and bypass Vista you may be in luck. Bill Gates announced and an international technology summit recently that they may be pushing up the release date of Windows 7 to sometime in the next year. This is almost a full year earlier than their prior date of 2010. This obviously is conjunction with massive concerns of Vista's stability even though SP1 has been released and widely hailed as a huge improvement.
CanSecWest's PWN 2 OWN held a competition to see which computer
operating system could be hacked the fastest. Show organizers offered
a Sony Vaio, Fujitsu U810 and the Mac Book as prizes, saying that they
could be won by anyone who could find a way to hack into each of them
and read the contents of a file on the system, using a previously
undisclosed "0day" attack.
After they relaxed the rules a bit to allow the users to
manipulate the computers to do certain activities online, Charlie
Miller was able to crack the code in 2 minutes. The rules required that
he was only able to manipulate the O.S. using only software and bugs
that were built into the system. Miller was a former NSA operative who
is best known for cracking the Iphone. For his efforts he won
$10,000. The contestants had to sign a nondisclosure agreement so he
can't release what he did or how he cracked it. Apple started patching
their software right after the competition.PC owners have to take some
relief that their Vista operating system wasn't the first to be
hacked.
Many would have picked the Windows OS to be the first to be hacked and
the Mac to be hacked last. This points out a major reason why Apple
has less infections and less attacks. It is not because the machines
are so much more well built, don't get me wrong, Mac makes Windows
looks stupid, but why try to hack something that only 3 percent owns.
Windows OS are so much more mainstreamed that you can attack so many more
people on PC than Mac. At least now when Mac owners brag about their
systems, Windows owners will have something to say.
For those of you who havent seen any of Johnny Lee's hacks on youtube before here's the culmination of them. Off of about $50 worth of material you can have your own digital white board, video point recognition and head tracking. Check out the tech demo he gave at a conference. I'd like to note its worth watching the original higher res version from TED here .
Couldn't tell ya, though I imagine they'll be a Japanese attachment to do it sooner or later. What I can tell you is that it takes 16 PS3's to create a PS3 Gravity Grid and simulate a collision of two black holes. The University of Massachusetts Dartmouth is using 16 "stock" PS3's running Linux after what they describe as a "very generous partial donation" by Sony. Long story short they've networked them together to work with each other to generate these crazy feats of physics.
Bioware has shed some light into dialog production with a
PowerPoint slide at one of their recent GDC pannels,
expecially in regards to how far away an actor should be from the mic.
Apparently 18 inches. Or Penis length, which ever is longer.
No really, slide attached below. With this information Joystiq has also managed
to shed some light on why Ron
Jeremy never voice acts for video games.
Source : Joystiq
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CanSecWest's PWN 2 OWN held a competition to see which computer
operating system could be hacked the fastest. Show organizers offered
a Sony Vaio, Fujitsu U810 and the Mac Book as prizes, saying that they
could be won by anyone who could find a way to hack into each of them
and read the contents of a file on the system, using a previously
undisclosed "0day" attack.
Couldn't tell ya, though I imagine they'll be a Japanese attachment to do it sooner or later. What I can tell you is that it takes 16 PS3's to create a 
Bioware has shed some light into dialog production with a
PowerPoint slide at one of their recent 