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Submission + - Finnish ISP announces 5 terabyte DVR service (saunalahti.fi)

Submitted by nlitement
nlitement writes: Saunalahti, a Finnish telecommunications subsidiary of Elisa Oyj, has announced a (Finnish) novel DVR content storage service that offers up to 5 terabytes of space per user, named SaunaVisio. The service is bundled with a dedicated DVR unit which is connected to the Internet. The service is not tied to the ISP's Internet service, although Saunalahti claims a minimal required download speed of 8 MBit/s as the content will be streamed through the Internet for the user to watch. The DVR unit itself will include HDTV support and will come with an HDMI cable. The monthly fee is 14.95€ ($19.95) for the remote storage service and the rental of the DVR unit. The unit will not upload data to Saunalahti's servers as the recording of the user's choice will be done by the servers and stored on the user's account for the DVR to download. Because of this, it'll be possible for the user to program virtually any amount of simultaneous reocrdings, and remotely through the Internet or WAP. The service will not be available until July, but preorders can already be made.
Software

Journal Journal: Dear Japanese language speaking software coders... 7

Journal by Zarf
Do you have to write java.math.BigDecimal in English or is there a Japanese version of the library? Do you have to know English in order to program? Do some English programming constructs seem immensely stupid to you? Just wondering since I speak English as my native language and it occurs to me that this is not true of everyone in the world and yet we all seem to run software based on the same sets of source code files. If those files are in C/C++ and so on then they have a lot of English in th
Security

Submission + - India plans tag & release humans.

Submitted by
palewook
palewook writes: "Swadhin Kshatriya, the State Housing Department Principal Secretary, approved a plan to begin tagging residents living in the slums of Mumbai, India with a Bio-ID. The biometric identification system is based on creating an individual's unique number from the image of their eyeball and thumb impression. The Indian state of Maharashtra has yet to reveal how many of the 4.5 million people living in affected area of Mumbai will be placed into the "identification process"."
Power

Journal Journal: Mutant Wildlife at Chernobyl 337

Journal by ozmanjusri
The wilderness is encroaching over abandoned towns in the Chernobyl exclusion zone http://apnews.myway.com/article/20070607/D8PK6ID80.html.

Scientist are divided as to whether the animals are flourishing in the highly radioactive environment.

Robert J. Baker of Texas Tech University says the mice and other rodents he has studied at Chernobyl since the early 1990s have shown remarkable tolerance for elevated radiation levels.

Security

Submission + - Unpatched Symantec flaw leads to UC Boulder breach

Submitted by jcatcw
jcatcw writes: An unpatched flaw in a Symantec anti-virus management console resulted in the compromise of a server containing the names and Social Security numbers of nearly 45,000 students at the University of Colorado at Boulder. The students, enrolled at the university from 2002 to present, are presently being notified about a potential compromise of their information as a result of the breach.
Google

Submission + - OpenDNS says Google-Dell browser tool is spyware

Submitted by
PetManimal
PetManimal writes: "David Ulevitch, the founder of OpenDNS, claims that Google and Dell have placed 'spyware' on Dell computers. Ulevitch made the claim based on his observation of the behavior of the Google Toolbar and homepage that comes preinstalled on IE in new Dell machines. He says that a browser redirector sends users who enter nonexistent URLs to a Dell-branded page loaded with Google ads. Another observer, Danny Sullivan, says that this is a different result than what happens on PCs without the redirector. However, the original article notes that Ulevitch has a vested interest in the results of mistyped URLs:

Ulevitch's complaint also stems from the fact that the error redirector breaks some of OpenDNS's functionality. If an OpenDNS user types "digg.xom" by mistake, their browser pulls up the correct "digg.com" instead. But the redirector breaks the free service's typo correction — as well as the browser shortcut feature it unveiled last month. "Google's application breaks just about every user-benefiting feature we provide with client software that no user ever asked for," Ulevitch said.
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Wireless Networking

Submission + - How good is Muni Wi-Fi?

Submitted by
Chris Price
Chris Price writes: "Recently we've heard quite a bit about munis installing free/subsidized Wi-Fi for its residents and businesses. Google/Earthlink is doing one in SFO. While a lot of hype is generated in the market the reality is something else. Business Week recently ran a story about state of public wi-fi in Anaheim. I found a really good article that explains a little more in depth the current on state on Wi-FiGurus.com. Here is the link Is public Wi-Fi good enough?. Enjoy."
Microsoft

Submission + - Microsoft bans modified Xbox 360s from Xbox Live

Submitted by
An anonymous reader writes: Microsoft has now officially started banning Xbox 360s that have had their DVD drive firmware modified from Live, possibly using information brought in by the Crackdown-originated Halo 3 beta downloads. Scene site forums have already collapsed under traffic, and Microsoft has officially confirmed that they are banning modded Xbox 360s to keep the online playing field fair and level.
Censorship

Submission + - US Military launches YouTube channel

Submitted by Jenga717
Jenga717 writes: The US military has launched its own channel on YouTube, in efforts to shift the media's focus of Iraq from a negative to a more positive light, and to "counter the messages of anti-American sites." From the article:

The footage is not picked specifically to show the military in a good light...and is only edited for reasons of time or content too graphic to be shown on YouTube...And while all the clips currently posted have been shot by the military's combat cameramen, soldiers and marines have been invited to submit their own clips.

So, soldiers can submit their own videos, only to have them edited by the US military. The question is, where are they supposed to submit them? Starting "on or about 14 May 2007", the Department of Defense will block troop access to Myspace, Youtube, MTV, and more sites,, due to a "growing concern for our unclassified DoD Internet, known as the NIPRNET". The troops will be unable to access these sites from any computer on the DoD network, yet are still able to access them from their home computers — which they can't use on the DoD network.

So why the censorship? The DoD cites security reasons, but the Commander of Global Network Operations (DoD's Joint Task Force)"has noted a significant increase in the use of DoD network resources tied up by individuals visiting certain recreational Internet sites." The PDF released by the DoD reminds troops that this "benefits not only you, your fellow Servicemembers, and Civilian employees, but preserves our vital networks for conducting official DoD business in peace and war."

Sounds like quite a sticky situation.

Programming

Submission + - Shredded secret police files being reassembled

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: German researchers at the Frauenhofer Institute said Wednesday that they were launching an attempt to reassemble millions of shredded East German secret police files using complicated computerized algorithms. The files were shredded as the Berlin Wall fell in 1989 and it became clear that the East German regime was finished. Panicking officials of the Stasi secret police attempted to destroy the vast volumes of material they had kept on everyone from their own citizens to foreign leaders.
Security

Submission + - California to start review of voting machines

Submitted by
An anonymous reader writes: California Secretary of State Debra Bowen just announced details about the previously slashdotted "top-to-bottom review" of almost all voting and counting systems used in the state. The team features big names in e-voting security: David Wagner, Matt Bishop, Ed Felten, Matt Blaze, and Harri Hursti, among others. Vendors have time to submit their machines including documentation and source code until July 1st or face severe restrictions, including decertification, for the 2008 elections. Scheduled to start next week, the review will include a red-team attack and going through the source code.
Movies

Submission + - Lucas To Make New Live Action Star Wars films

Submitted by DrNASA
DrNASA writes: An article that quoted George Lucas as saying that SpiderMan 3 is a 'silly movie' also had this interesting bit of King Geek speak: "And here's a little news: Lucas tells me he will make two more live-action films based in the "Star Wars" era. "But they won't have members of the Skywalker family as characters," he said. "They will be other people of that milieu." " TFA — http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,270874,00.html
Security

Submission + - Over 10,000 malware sites hosted by IPowerWeb

Submitted by
mdm42
mdm42 writes: "Ethan Zuckerman blogs that a friend's website, hosted with IPowerWeb, got hacked. Turns out that almost eleven-thousand websites hosted by IPowerWeb have also been hacked in the same manner, but IPowerWeb denies that they have a security problem. The crack injects malicious JavaScript into hosted web pages; the purpose of the JavaScript? To load Windows trojans onto client machines that access the websites.

To the rest of us it looks like their systems have been compromised from the ground up. Or perhaps an inside job...?"

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