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Submission + - Going Green with Your Cleaning Products (associatedcontent.com)

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sunsational
sunsational writes: "http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/337886/go ing_green_with_your_cleaning_products.html Thanks to Al Gore, going green is the hot trendy topic. Everyone from Celebrates to companies like Disney, who announced they started going green with the newest revamped ride " Finding Nemo Submarine Voyage" So it is time that we start to go green as well, a good way to start is with your cleaning supplies. Instead of going out and buying products, with manufactured fumes, items you have right there in your cupboards work just as well"
Caldera

SCO Loses 643

Posted by Zonk from the finish-him dept.
An anonymous reader writes "The one summary judgement that puts a stick into SCO's spokes has just come down. The judge in the epic SCO case has ruled that SCO doesn't own the Unix copyrights. With that one decision, a whole bunch of other decisions will fall like dominoes. As PJ says, 'That's Aaaaall, Folks! ... All right, all you Doubting Thomases. I double dog dare you to complain about the US court system now. I told you if you would just be patient, I had confidence in the system's ability to sort this out in the end. But we must say thank you to Novell and especially to its legal team for the incredible work they have done. I know it's not technically over and there will be more to slog through, but they won what matters most, and it's been a plum pleasin' pleasure watching you work. The entire FOSS community thanks you for your skill and all the hard work and thanks go to Novell for being willing to see this through."
Security

Submission + - Defensive Action Over Radiological Attacks (guardian.co.uk)

Submitted by Anon Techie
Anon Techie writes: A group of scientists warned yesterday that terrorists could learn from last year's murder of Alexander Litvinenko to carry out radiological attacks on cities far more devastating than a dirty bomb. While a dirty bomb — using explosives to disperse radioactive material — would be unlikely to kill more than a hundred people, the scientists argue, several hundred could be killed if they swallowed or inhaled the material, like Mr Litvinenko, who drank tea laced with a lethal isotope, polonium-210, in London last November.
Space

Submission + - Could alien life exist as DNA-shaped dust?

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David Shiga
David Shiga writes: "Could alien life exist in the form of dancing specks of dust? A computer simulation by Gregor Morfill of the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics and colleagues shows electrically charged dust can organize itself into DNA-like double helixes that behave in many ways like living organisms, reproducing and passing on information to one another, New Scientist reports. Whether it could be considered alive or not, there are many places in space where conditions might be favorable to self-organizing dust, such as the rings of Saturn."
Power

Submission + - How to Reach 200 MPH on Hydrogen Fuel Cells (popularmechanics.com)

Submitted by the_manatee
the_manatee writes: Ford's 999 hydrogen-powered speedster is making waves for its upcoming speed record attempt in the Bonneville Salt Flats, but details on what's actually going on under the hood have been scarce. As it turns out, there are NASCAR-style brakes, steering, and suspension components, along with 16 Ballard Mk902 fuel cells that produce 350 kW of electricity. All that juice spins up a 770-hp motor and the rest is (hopefully) history. One final ingredient: 400 lbs of ice for cooling, which will melt in seconds once the car gets up to speed.
Space

Submission + - Ten-year climate model unveiled (bbc.co.uk)

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gollum123
gollum123 writes: "Scientists say they have developed a model to predict how ocean currents, as well as human activities, will affect temperatures over the next decade ( http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6939347. stm ) . By including short-term natural events, such as El Nino, a UK team says it is able to offer 10-year projections. Writing in Science, Met Office researchers project that at least half of the years between 2009 and 2014 are likely to exceed existing records. But over the decade as a whole, they project the global average temperature in 2014 to be 0.3C warmer than 2004."
Security

Submission + - Two Attacks on Bitlocker (usenix.org)

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An anonymous reader writes: A paper at USENIX security describes two attacks which makes Microsoft's Bitlocker vulnerable if it relies only on a TPM for protecting the encryption key. The TPM attack allows to reset the TPM by hardware means und thus allows to replay any platform configuration later. Some guys from Darthmouth have confirmed the attack: http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~pkilab/sparks/ The BIOS attack allows to subvert the BIOS not to send any hashes to the TPM anymore. These both attacks allows an attacker with physical access to a machine to fool the TPM about the booting software. Thus the TPM protected encryption key of Bitlocker can be easily extracted under any other OS for example by a theft. The paper is also available here: http://os.inf.tu-dresden.de/papers_ps/kauer07-oslo .pdf
NASA

Blogger Finds Bug in NASA Global Warming Study? 755

Posted by Zonk from the not-such-a-good-thing dept.
An anonymous reader writes "According to an article at DailyTech, a blogger has discovered a Y2K bug in a NASA climate study by the same writer who accused the Bush administration of trying to censor him on the issue of global warming. The authors have acknowledged the problem and released corrected data. Now the study shows the warmest year on record for the contiguous 48 states as being 1934, not 1998 as previously reported in the media. In fact, the corrected study shows that half of the 10 warmest years on record occurred before World War II." The article's assertion that there's a propaganda machine working on behalf of global warming theorists is outside the bounds of the data, which I think is interesting to note.
NASA

Probe Shows Jupiter Moon 'Puking' Into Space 152

Posted by Zonk from the intergalactic-bodily-fluids dept.
Tablizer writes "The New Horizons probe caught the moon Io in the act of 'barfing' into space. A five-frame sequence from the New Horizons probe captured a beautiful plume of ash from Io's Tvashtar volcano. "Snapped by the probe's Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) as the spacecraft flew past Jupiter earlier this year, this first-ever "movie" of an Io plume clearly shows motion in the cloud of volcanic debris, which extends 330 kilometers (200 miles) above the moon's surface ... The appearance and motion of the plume is remarkably similar to an ornamental fountain on Earth, replicated on a gigantic scale.""
User Journal

Journal Journal: It is lonely being a Libertarian. But Dave Barry is! 8

Journal by robi2106

I guess you could say that I recently came out of the closet. I had been a party line Republican because the alternative, killing babies and taking all my money, is not attractive. But Republicans and still taking all my money and then wasting it still so over the past 3-5 years, I have trended more towards independence from the two party system.

Making Time With the Watchmakers 257

Posted by Zonk from the temple-fugate-would-be-proud dept.
PreacherTom writes "In the age of watches that have more computational power than Apollo 11's computer, one would think that the watchmaker has gone the way of the cobbler, the blacksmith and the Dodo. Quite the contrary. With the rise in interest for mechanical watches (especially luxury models), Rolex has sponsored a new school to train horologists in the arcane art. From the article: 'We were facing a situation today where we needed to foster a new generation of watchmakers,' says Charles Berthiaume, the senior vice-president for technical operations at Rolex and the Technicum's president 'Thirty to 40 years ago, there was a watchmaker at every jewelry store. That's not the case today,' he notes. Included are some remarkable examples of their training, dedication, and intricate patience as they take technology in an entirely different direction."

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