Comment Re:Fail (Score 1) 318
Maybe you haven't been following along but this unencrypted data was available on any computer you backed up to.
Comment Re:Good...? (Score 2) 318
How do you suppose the phone company knows what cell you're in, so they can route calls to your phone? How do you suppose they get their E911 data?
As long as you have the thing powered on, the phone company know where you are. And if the police want to know, they won't go to your house, hack your computer, and read the log backup. They'll just go to the phone company with a subpoena.
This whole controversy was much ado about nothing. The only thing that was different was that the user had access to the data that "the man" had all along.
Yes because the only people who would be interested in this data are those that already posses a legal method of obtaining it...
Submission + - ERP Vendors Get Into Medical Marijuana Business (itworld.com)
jfruhlinger writes: "As medical marijuana is legalized in more and more states, a new market is emerging for ERP applications that can handle this unique business. Many people running medical marijuana dispenseries aren't used to running legitimate businesses and need technical help doing so. In addition, the drug itself is tricky to keep track of; as one vendor puts it, "there's no other product that is sold by weight that evaporates, dehydrates and [turns into] shake,""
Comment Don't have my android yet... (Score 1) 1
...but I'd like to run some tests regarding these findings.
Mostly I'm curious about the state of these files on boot. Are they like their names suggest and simply caches of recent lookup results and empty on boot?
Comment Re:they have sent out an email (Score 1) 3
Ya I'm also now finding the story via Google cache on their page. Didn't bother looking before because their site provided a page re: the Amazon outage. So currently it looks like they are both dealing with DDOS and Amazon issues. Must be fun to be a Change.org admin right now :-)
Comment Not because of Amazon? (Score 1) 3
Change.org seems to think they are down because of the Amazon issues:
Uh oh.
The Internet is misbehaving
Change.org is currently unavailable due to a problem at our hosting provider, Amazon Web Services. You can follow Amazon's status here.
Submission + - China DDOS an online petition to free Ai Weiwei (change.org) 3
decora writes: "If you are reading this on April 21, 2011, then you probably won't be able to connect to the linked story. That is because: "For the past three days, the Change.org website has been repeatedly targeted by cyber attacks coming from China that aim to bring our site down, which would keep people from signing the petition.", which demands the release of artist Ai Weiwei."
Comment Re:Linux? (Score 3, Informative) 113
The vulnerability exists in Flash Player not Microsoft Word. A Word document is simply the package being used to distribute the payload.
Comment Re:OpenGazer (Score 5, Interesting) 67
Submission + - Red Hat response on kernel source (redhat.com)
Anonymous Coward writes: "Red Hat responds to LWN regarding kernel source tarball issue"
Comment Original Link? (Score 1) 1
Maybe I'm missing something but why the link to the blog when it simply regurgitates what is in the Nasa link: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/kepler/news/new_planetary_system.html
Comment Re:DNS replacement (Score 1) 252
Isn't the point of a temporary restraining order/seizure warrant to stop an action/take something before a full trial has occurred? Under whose laws should a full trial be held?
Am I naive in believing that ICANN delegates control of the TLDs?
Comment Outraged! (Score 1) 2254
Ok so not really...
Overall things look nice. Only real complaint is that you removed the "Home" link from the footer. The static top/side bars overcame this missing link (and sucked) but now that is gone as well. Overall minor inconvenience that I now have to scroll to the top of the page to click on the logo.
PS: Sure I could click back but that's not always where I want to go...
Submission + - Hypersonic Radio Black-Out Problem Solved (technologyreview.com)
KentuckyFC writes: Russian physicists have come up with a new way to communicate with hypersonic vehicles surrounded by a sheath of plasma. Ordinarily, this plasma absorbs and reflects radio waves at communications frequencies leading to a few tense minutes during the re-entry of manned vehicles such as the shuttle. However, the problem is even more acute for military vehicles such as ballistic missiles and hypersonic planes. Radio black out prevents these vehicles from accessing GPS signals for navigation and does not allow them to be re-targeted or disarmed at the last minute. But a group of Russian physicists say they can get around this problem by turning the entire plasma sheath into a radio antenna. They point out that any incoming signal is both reflected and absorbed by the plasma. The reflected signal is lost but the absorbed energy sets up a resonating electric field at a certain depth within the plasma. In effect, this layer within the plasma acts like a radio antenna, receiving the signal. However, the signal cannot travel further through the plasma to the spacecraft. Their new idea is to zap this layer with radio waves generated from within the spacecraft. These waves will be both absorbed by the plasma and reflected back inside the spacecraft. However, the key point is that the reflected waves ought to be modulated by any changes in the electric field within the plasma. In other words, the reflected waves should carry a kind of imprint of the original external radio signal. That would allow the craft to receive external signals from GPs satellites or ground control. And the same process in reverse allows the spacecraft to broadcast signals too.
Comment The article summary is just wow... (Score 1) 1
Eight days after this encounter, on August 2nd, 1990, Iraq began the Gulf War by bombing Kuwait City, the capital of Kuwait.
A move which was unanimously condemned by all major world powers; even Iraq's allies. Apparently being sick of war doesn't hold true when you are going to war against the people you owe money to.
