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NASA

Submission + - NASA to morph Kennedy Space Center (networkworld.com)

Submitted by coondoggie
coondoggie writes: Whether or not NASA launches two or three more shuttle missions, NASA's venerable hub of operations, the Kennedy Space Center will need a new mission. That's why NASA today said it was looking to morph the center's unique space rocket facilities into a new more commercial role after the shuttles stop flying. While its facilities would likely rise far above others, NASA could find some competition in any commercial launch venture.
Idle

Submission + - Pope promotes Christian netiquette (idg.com.au)

Submitted by
angry tapir
angry tapir writes: "Pope Benedict XVI Monday gave his blessing to social networking, urging Catholic Internet users to adopt a respectful Christian netiquette when spreading the Gospel online. The pope said new technologies were creating unprecedented opportunities for establishing relationships and building fellowship but warned against creating false online profiles out of vanity or diluting the Christian message to achieve popularity."
Security

Submission + - Schneier: US Will Overreact to Moscow Airport Bomb (esquire.com)

Submitted by mattnyc99
mattnyc99 writes: This morning we talked briefly about Moscow's additional security in the wake of a terrorist attack on its airport. But the bombers did, in fact, dodge security checks that were already in place, you can bet America's Homeland Security people will come back with the equivalent of a baggage-claim body scan. Security guru Bruce Schneier has weighed in on Esquire's politics blog: "This is the sort of thing that yes, people are likely to overreact to, and do all sorts of things that'll do nothing to solve the problem but make people feel better.... it doesn't matter how much money Moscow spent on security checkpoints and passenger screening and ID checks. All that was irrelevant. The attackers said 'Oh yeah, airport security's too hard. I'm going to go someplace else.'
User Journal

Journal + - Journal: [geek + query] Looking for HTML component for Delphi/C++ Builder 4

Journal by GeckoFood

I know I am asking this to the wrong crowd - Delphi is a Windows product and this is a mostly Unix/Linux/Mac kind of place. Nervertheless, I have a project I'm fiddling with and I need to be able to render HTML. I had planned on wxWidgets as my platform but I cannot get it to compile properly anymore for some odd-ball reason. So... My fallback is that I have the latest and greatest version of Delphi on my Windows partition, and I am willing to go that route to get down to it. The problem is t
Google

Submission + - Google adds to Mozilla's push for "do not track" (blogspot.com)

Submitted by
AndyAndyAndyAndy
AndyAndyAndyAndy writes: "In a morning blog post, Google announced the release of a Chrome plug-in called 'Keep My Opt-Outs,' which hopes to block all tracking cookies. Interestingly, it is released as open-source with the hopes that it will gain quick deployment on non-Chrome browsers and find a robust foothold against ads.

The story is also covered in Computerworld, which has a more broad insight to the issue, looking at Google, Mozilla, and Firefox and seems to indicate more rapid change is looming — potentially from the FCC itself."
Linux

Submission + - Fedora 15 Changing Network Device Naming Scheme (digitizor.com)

Submitted by dkd903
dkd903 writes: Fedora developer, Matt Domsch, has announced that Fedora 15 is breaking the conventional ethX naming scheme used for Ethernet devices by adopting a new scheme called Consistent Network Device Naming. The ethX naming scheme works fine as long as the system has only one Ethernet port. However if there are more than one Ethernet ports, the actual problem starts.
Transportation

Submission + - How Chrysler's Battery-Less Hybrid Minivan Works (greencarreports.com)

Submitted by thecarchik
thecarchik writes: Chrysler announced Wednesday that it would partner with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to build and test prototypes of a different kind of hybrid vehicle , one that accumulates energy not in a battery pack but by compressing a gas hydraulically. The system in question, originally developed at the EPA labs, uses engine overrun torque to capture otherwise wasted energy, as do conventional hybrid-electric vehicles. The engine is Chrysler's standard 2.4-liter four-cylinder, the base engine in its minivan line. But rather than turning a generator, that torque powers a pump that uses hydraulic fluid to increase the pressure inside a 14.4-gallon tank of nitrogen gas, known as a high-pressure accumulator.
Security

Submission + - Facebook: Tunisian Govt. tried country-wide hack (threatpost.com)

Submitted by chicksdaddy
chicksdaddy writes: Facebook's security team has been saying for months that account integrity is a top priority, and that so-called "social authentication"- using your knowledge of your own network to help authenticate yourself — was their preferred method to secure account access. Now an exclusive report in The Atlantic says that the company employed social authentication earlier this month to secure the accounts of Tunisian protesters calling for the ouster of that country's ruthless dictator, Zine El Abidine Ben Ali. According to the report, Facebook security engineers detected large scale efforts by Tunisian ISPs to intercept user logins to Facebook and to remove protest pages set up on the social network. They responded by forcing Tunisian users to connect through a secure HTTP server and required Tunisian users to complete social authentication challenges before accessing their accounts. The company's efforts seem to have worked — the protests succeeded in driving Zine El Abidine Ben Ali from the country on January 15. Vive la Facebook!
Microsoft

Submission + - Italian consumer sues Microsoft about MS-Tax (channelregister.co.uk)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: The Italian consumer watchdog is suing Microsoft over the "Windows Tax". The class action case says Microsoft makes it too difficult for people who buy a computer with Microsoft software on it to remove that software and get their money back. In the past, they have already won a "pilot case" – against HP.
The Internet

Submission + - Puppy cams threaten the Internet (networkworld.com)

Submitted by stinkymountain
stinkymountain writes: Speaking at the 33rd annual Pacific Telecom Council meeting last week in Hawaii, Dr. Robert Pepper, Cisco vice president for global technology policy, presented findings from the company's Visual Networking Index, which showed that global IP traffic is expected to increase more than fourfold (4.3 times) from 2009 to 2014. In fact, global IP traffic is expected to reach 63.9 exabytes per month in 2014. This is equivalent to 766.8 exabytes per year — almost three-quarters of a zettabyte.The most surprising trend is that video traffic surpassed peer-to-peer volumes in 2010 for the first time.

An unexpected driver in this overall growth of Internet traffic is the surge in ambient video. This is so-called "puppy cam" traffic — fixed video sources featuring pets, so-called "nanny cam" child care and health monitoring video streams, and especially security camera applications.

``This a much bigger deal than anyone thought,'' said Pepper. He added that the popular Shiba Inu Puppy Cam site was said to have more Internet viewing hours than all of ESPN online video. In fact, of the top online video sites in Europe last year, "three of the top 20 are ambient video, and these didn't exist a year ago."
News

Submission + - Terrorists bomb Moscow Airport (cnn.com)

Submitted by jayme0227
jayme0227 writes: "Terrorists detonated a bomb at Moscow's busiest airport on Monday, killing 35 people and wounding another 152, Russian authorities said.

President Dmitry Medvedev, who called the bombing a terrorist attack, ordered additional security at Moscow's other airports and transportation hubs, and Moscow police went on high alert in case of additional bombs."

Submission + - Mobile phones blast into space (silicon.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Researchers in the UK are sending an Android handset into space in order to test whether mobile phone chipsets are robust enough to be be used at the basis for controlling future space missions — greatly reducing the cost and weight of spacecraft electronics.
Politics

Submission + - Vermont to Vote on Corporate Personhood (alternet.org)

Submitted by buswolley
buswolley writes: Resolution calling to amend the constitution banning corporate person-hood was introduced in Vermont. This resolution is a reaction to the Supreme Court's Citizen United ruling that ruled freedom of speech of corporations is constitutionally protected.
Music

Submission + - An album in a month - The 2011 RPM Challenge (rpmchallenge.com) 1

Submitted by janap
janap writes: In January of 2008, I discovered the RPM Challenge through an article on Slashdot. What I read was this: "Record a whole album in the month of February. Just do it!" — Yea right, as if I'm able to do that...

But, in dire need of a creative kick in the butt, I decided to throw myself at the chance to prove myself, to myself. I came out at the other end of it a changed man, and I've been back for more of the same every year since. The sense of accomplishment that this little artificial deadline you impose upon yourself carries with it upon completion is incredible, and has to be experienced. By you? Yes, why not? Anyone can come up with an excuse to say no, so don't. Remember — this doesn't have to be "the" album, all it takes is "an" album. And there's a great community of peers to draw experience from, in blogs and boards at the site. Welcome!

Submission + - Mozilla Proposes ‘Do Not Track’ Additi 1

Submitted by MozTrack
MozTrack writes: The emergence of data mining by third party advertisers has caused a national debate from privacy experts, lawmakers and browser supporters. Mozilla's Firefox, a popular browser company, has proposed a new feature that will prevent people's personal information from getting mined and sold for advertising. The feature would users to set a browser preference that will broadcast their desire to opt-out of third party, advertising-based tracking. It would do this via a "Do Not Track" HTTP header with every click or page view in Firefox.

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