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Submission + - Primary WHOIS Servers Hacked, Apparently For Lulz (sophos.com)

Submitted by Titoxd
Titoxd writes: Sophos reports that the primary WHOIS servers for the web at whois-servers.net have been hacked, and that several high-profile websites (such as Microsoft, Google, Apple, Facebook, MySpace, and others) have had their WHOIS records altered. The attack seems to be more of a nuisance than anything more serious.
HP

Submission + - Oracle hired Mark Hurd (americanewsheadlines.com)

Submitted by newsheadlines
newsheadlines writes: Mark Hurd, 53, exited HP after an investigation of a sexual harassment allegation found inaccurate expense reports filed by Hurd or in his name. While the company determined that Hurd didnâât violate the harassment policy, it found that he concealed a personal relationship with his accuser, Jodie Fisher, a former actress who handled executive events. Hurd and Fisher, 50, settled her complaint out of court.

Submission + - MIT creates self-repairing solar cells (geek.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: If you put objects in direct sunlight they degrade quickly. Solar panels are no exception and current panels will degrade over time, eventually becoming useless. What we need is a solar cell that does not degrade, or as MIT has just created, a solar cell that repairs itself.

Michael Strano is the chemical engineer at MIT who headed up the research and development of the new cell. He explained:

Sunlight, when it hits oxygen, is very damaging. It’s the reason why we age, and the reason why when we leave paper or plastic out in the sun, it fades. There’s a kind of a horse race among scientists around the world to make the highest efficiency cell, but very few people are asking what happens with that cell when you plug it in for a few hours or for a week or for months

Strano’s answer to cell degradation is to mix together a number of different components that would form into a solar cell on their own. This meant using the photosynthetic reaction center of plants, lipids that create cell walls, carbon nanotubes, and a surfactant that helps keep specific molecules separate.
Google

Submission + - Major Malware Attack on MT Network (google.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: 1/6 of the sites hosted on the Media Temple network are being affected by malware. As of today, "Of the 64585 site(s) we tested on this network over the past 90 days, 12128 site(s), ..., served content that resulted in malicious software being downloaded and installed without user consent.". Most of those affected are victims of the oeaou hack. This result on a major ban by Google of those sites, but it also affects the ranking of all the other sites hosted on this network. The problem is getting worse everyday and nobody is acting on it to fix it. Internet is a battle field, you have to query on the fight, if you don't, you die !!!
Hardware

Submission + - MANCHESTER POLICE DUMP TERROR SECRETS IN STREET (dailystar.co.uk)

Submitted by Tootech
Tootech writes: POLICE chiefs were last night probing how a memory stick containing top secret anti-terror documents was found dumped in the street outside their own station.
The 4in stick contains more than 2,000 pages of highly-sensitive and confidential information intended to be seen only by senior officers.

Sections on countering the threat of terrorism on British streets include strategies for acid and petrol bomb attacks, blast control training and the use of batons and shields.
There is even a comprehensive list of officers’ names, ranks and their divisions.

Also covered are sections detailing the use and understanding of firearms as well as water cannons and CS gas.
Describing its contents as “an essential reference for all officers”, it goes on to outline methods to combat football violence, riots, public disorder and how to deal with violent people when entering a room.

Produced by the National Police Improvement Agency, the files, bearing the title Manual On Guidance Of Keeping The Peace, cover all aspects of counter terrorism and “tactical deployment”.
The memory stick was found dumped on the pavement outside the police station in Stalybridge, near Manchester.

Submission + - Broadband determines Australian Government (itnews.com.au)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Access to broadband especially in country areas emerged as the deal breaker in the recent Australian elections, with a hung parliament resting on the decision of two independents as to which side of politics they would support. Conservative independents Tony Windsor and Rob Oakeshott today threw their support behind Labor based in large part on the plan by the left-leaning party to roll out a $A43b, optical fibre network to 93% of Australian homes and businesses. My advisers in relation to broadband technology — of which I have many — suggest you do it once, do it right and you do it with fibre," Windsor said. "That has been one of the major influences I've had in making a decision."

Comment Re:Flamebait (Score 1) 1003

by Titoxd (#32415822) Attached to: Google Reportedly Ditching Windows
That mirrors my experience as well. Pages is relatively cumbersome to use, but not horrible; Numbers, on the other hand, is unusable. It is trying to force a visual presentation paradigm when all you're trying to do is some analysis. Worse, it beachballs any machine it runs into when trying to plot anything with more than 100 data points.

That said, iWork is still worth every penny I paid for it thanks to Keynote. I just wish the other two would match its quality. Oh, and by the way, OOo is not an option until it can produce real presentation-quality graphs...

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