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Submission + - New AACS "fix" hacked in a day

Submitted by

VincenzoRomano

on Friday June 01, 2007 @03:56AM

VincenzoRomano writes: "ArsTechnica has just published an update to the neverending story about copy protection used in HD DVD and Blu-ray discs and hacker hefforts against it. Quoting the original article:

The ongoing war between content producers and hackers over the AACS copy protection used in HD DVD and Blu-ray discs produced yet another skirmish last week, and as has been the case as of late, the hackers came out on top.
The hacker "BtCB" posted the new decryption key for AACS on the Freedom to Tinker web site, just one day after the AACS Licensing Authority (AACS LA) issued the key.

The article proposes a simple description of the protection schema and a brief look back at how the cracks have slowly chipped away at its effectiveness.
It seems it'll be a long way to an effective solution ... if any.
One could also argue whether all those money spent by the industry in this reace will be worth the results and how long it would take for a return on investment."

Submission + - Dell to sell Novell's version of Linux

Submitted by unchiujar on Monday May 07, 2007 @09:13PM

unchiujar writes: Newsfactor reports Dell's part of the pact with Microsoft and Novell is to purchase SUSE Linux Enterprise Server certificates from Microsoft and establish a program to migrate existing Linux users who are not Dell Linux customers to Novell's SUSE Linux Enterprise Server. The deal is geared to companies dealing with a mixture of SUSE Linux and Windows.

Submission + - The World's Complicity in Somalia

Submitted by

kingsindian1

on Monday May 07, 2007 @08:35PM

kingsindian1 writes: "Democracy Now! is reporting on the growing humanitarian catastrophe in Somalia.
"The UN says that more than 350,000 people have been displaced in Somalia in the past three months, more than anywhere else in the world."
"The escalating war in Somalia has received little attention in the U.S. media especially on broadcast television. Using the Lexis database, Democracy Now examined ABC, NBC and CBS's coverage of Somalia in the evening newscasts over the past three months. The result may surprise you: ABC and NBC has not mentioned the war at all. CBS mentioned the war once. The network dedicated a total of three sentences to the story.""

Submission + - EU Theorists Respond to Tim Thompson

Submitted by pln2bz on Monday May 07, 2007 @08:33PM

pln2bz writes: This past weekend, Slashdot permitted an article that suggested that Electric Universe Theory might have some basis in reality, and a total meltdown on Slashdot's forum ensued. In the past, many Slashdot forum contributors have pointed to Tim Thompson's rebuttal to Don Scott's Electric Sun Hypothesis as a compelling argument against EU Theory. However, just this week, Don Scott has published his own response to Tim Thompson's rebuttal that everybody should take note of. Whether you like it or not, it doesn't appear that Electric Universe Theory is going away any time soon.

Submission + - Gentoo Linux has a new release

Submitted by Ptolomeu on Monday May 07, 2007 @07:58PM

Ptolomeu writes: The Gentoo Linux 2007 release is available after much delay.

http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/releng/release/2007. 0/2007.0-press-release.txt

Submission + - Does Dell Have A Linux Problem?

Submitted by

taoman1

on Monday May 07, 2007 @07:43PM

taoman1 writes: "Forbes Magazine reports that Dell became a hero to Linux fans worldwide when it announced last week that it would begin selling PCs loaded with the Linux operating system instead of Microsoft's Windows. But a week later Dell may have blown that good will away. Monday the Round Rock, Texas, computer maker announced another Linux deal — but this one is going to anger Linux supporters. That's because many of the people who embrace Linux are very particular about the kind of Linux they want to hug. And Dell's decision to work with Microsoft and Novell to promote Novell's version of Linux is not going to go over well. Is this true?"

Submission + - New fabrication process promises faster chips

Submitted by unchiujar on Thursday May 03, 2007 @07:58PM

unchiujar writes: BBC reports chips could run faster and be more energy efficient thanks to a process from IBM that copies nature's creation of seashells and snowflakes. The process, called airgap, enables trillions of microscopic vacuum holes to be placed between the copper wire in chips to act as an insulator.

Submission + - Russia to build floating nuclear power plant

Submitted by unchiujar on Tuesday April 17, 2007 @08:55PM

unchiujar writes: Russia has started building the world's first floating nuclear plant, designed to provide power for remote areas. The plant, costing £100m ($200m), is due to be launched in 2010.(BBC)

Submission + - US Censoring Internet?

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 17, 2007 @08:18PM

An anonymous reader writes: It would appear that wikipedia viewers in the US see a "sanitized" version of some articles. For example Shaha Ali Riza (an important part of the Wolfowitz Scandal), both the Background and the Wolfowitz Scandal section are different for users in US locales (generally painting a much better picture of the people involved) than those presented to users in other locales (including, but not limited to, other english language locales such as Australia and the UK).

Submission + - Transgenic Cows producing Insulin in Milk,

Submitted by

Anonymous Coward

on Tuesday April 17, 2007 @05:57PM

Anonymous Coward writes: "A Laboratory from Argentina, produced cows with the gen of insulin in their genome. Alowing them to produce insulin as a precursor in their milk. This is a great news, in the point of view, that no Multinational Laboratory did it before. Thanks"

Journal SPAM: Articles of Impeachment To Be Filed On Cheney by Kucinich 3

Journal by Jeremiah Cornelius on Tuesday April 17, 2007 @05:52PM

Kucinich's office had no comment on the Congressman's "Dear Colleague" letter -- which apparently was drafted over the weekend, before the school massacre -- or on what the focus of articles of impeachment against Cheney would be.

Submission + - Deadly cell phone virus rumors frighten Afghans

Submitted by

Anonymous Coward

on Tuesday April 17, 2007 @05:35PM

Anonymous Coward writes: "Rumors swept through Afghanistan on Monday that a deadly virus was being spread by mobile telephone calls, and government officials scrambled to reassure the public the talk was rubbish. Many worried Afghan mobile phone users called family and friends, warning them not to answer calls from strange numbers. Some people said they had heard that several people had been killed by the mystery virus in Kabul at the weekend.

"Don't answer any strange number because it contains a virus that will kill you," said Ahmad Fawad, a shop owner in Kabul. The rumors appear to have spread from neighboring Pakistan where last week a similar scare frightened countless mobile phone users. Afghan officials appeared on television and said the talk was baseless.

http://news.com.com/Deadly+cell+phone+virus+rumors +frighten+Afghans/2110-7349_3-6176870.html?tag=st_ lh"

Feed Determina experts explain how to exploit an animated-cursor flaw (com.com)

From feed by cnetfeed on Wednesday April 04, 2007 @06:32PM

Video: Determina experts explain how to exploit an animated-cursor flaw. Security experts at Determina show how a Vista PC can be compromised by exploiting a flaw in the way the operating system handles animated-cursor files. They've determined that Firefox users are at a higher risk than IE 7 users.

Submission + - Massive star burps, then explodes

Submitted by

gollum123

on Wednesday April 04, 2007 @03:46PM

gollum123 writes: "Tens of millions of years ago, in a galaxy far, far away, a massive star suffered a nasty double whammy ( http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2007/0 4/04_supernova.shtml ). Signs of the first shock reached Earth on Oct. 20, 2004, when the star was observed letting loose an outburst so enormous and bright that Japanese amateur astronomer Koichi Itagaki initially mistook it for a supernova. The star survived for nearly two years, however, until on Oct. 11, 2006, professional and amateur astronomers witnessed it blowing itself to smithereens as Supernova (SN) 2006jc. All the observations suggest that the supernova's blast wave took only a few weeks to reach the shell of material ejected two years earlier, which did not have time to drift very far from the star. As the wave smashed into the ejecta, it heated the gas to millions of degrees, hot enough to emit copious X-rays. The Swift satellite saw the supernova continue to brighten in X-rays for 100 days, something that has never been seen before in a supernova. All supernovae previously observed in X-rays have started off bright and then quickly faded to invisibility."

Feed Seagate ships hardware-encrypted notebook drives (theregister.com)

From feed by registerfeed on Wednesday April 04, 2007 @03:32PM

Should be popular

Analysis Seagate Technology has announced that it is now shipping its Momentus 5400 FDE.2, an encrypting 2.5-inch notebook PC hard drive for notebooks, to ASI Computer Technologies. The Momentus 5400 FDE.2 (Full Disc Encryption) hard drive offers up to 160GB of capacity, Serial ATA interface, and hardware-based AES encryption. The encrypting hard drive is also positioned as a means by which organizations can easily repurpose or retire laptops without compromising sensitive information and comply with data privacy laws.

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