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Submission + - How does Disney/Marvel Deal Affect Video Games? (crispygamer.com)

Ssquared22 writes: "Right now, Marvel's video game licenses aren't consolidated in one place but the possibility remains that Disney/Marvel could dangle enough cash to get their properties back, but could we see a blend of licensed Marvel titles co-existing with self-produced and self-distributed ones?"
Data Storage

Submission + - Build your own $2.8M petabyte disk array for $117k (backblaze.com)

Chris Pirazzi writes: "Online backup startup BackBlaze, disgusted with the outrageously overpriced offerings from EMC, NetApp and the like, has released an open-source hardware design showing you how to build a 4U, RAID-capable, rack-mounted, Linux-based server using commodity parts that contains 67 terabytes at a material cost of $7,867. It's open-source hardware! Their blog states: 'Our hope is that by sharing, others can benefit and, ultimately, refine this concept and send improvements back to us.'"
The Military

Submission + - SPAM: Airborne Boeing laser blasts ground target 2

coondoggie writes: "The airborne military laser which promises to destroy, damage or disable targets with little to no collateral damage has for the first time actually blown something up. Boeing and the US Air Force today said that on Aug. 30, a C-130H aircraft armed with Boeing's Advanced Tactical Laser (ATL) blasted a target test vehicle on the ground for the first time. Boeing has been developing the ATL since 2008 under an Air Force contract worth up to $30 million. [spam URL stripped]"
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Linux Business

Submission + - Linux powers world's fastest stock exchange (computerworld.com)

CWmike writes: "The Deutsche Borse Group has long used Linux as the basis of high-speed stock exchanges, including the International Securities Exchange, the Eurex and Deutsche Borse's own Xetra cash exchange. Now it's next generation — starting service later this year — is using a new trading infrastructure based on IBM WebSphere MQ Low Latency Messaging and Linux to make it the fastest stock exchange software on the planet. How fast is it? A Deutsche Borse representative said that their Linux-powered exchange software can "easily execute more than a million trades per second, dwarfing even the mighty NY Stock Exchange." This isn't speed just for the sake of speed. The company rep said there was "a technology 'arms race' among the exchanges who are using computerized algorithms to bundle hundreds of thousands of stocks into single, split-second transactions." all behind this race, though, you're at a competitive disadvantage. A much-publicized glitch in the London Stock Exchange's Windows-based system "shut down trading for a full seven hours, leading to enormous losses for listed companies, investors and the exchange itself," the rep said."
Government

Submission + - Judge Won't Lower $5M Bail For Jailed SF IT Admin (infoworld.com)

snydeq writes: "San Francisco County Judge Charles Haines has denied Terry Childs' motion to reduce his $5 million bail, alluding to 'public security concerns,' according to Richard Shikman, who is representing Childs in court. The ruling comes in the wake of a recent decision to drop three of the four changes that have been levied against Childs, who has spent the past 14 months in jail. The fourth charge — that Childs violated a California statute regarding illegal denial of service for the San Francisco FiberWAN — has been called into question by those closely monitoring the case. As a point of comparison, the San Francisco Felony Bail Schedule lists a $1 million bail for the most serious crimes, such as sexual assault of a child, aggravated arson, or kidnapping for ransom. Prosecutors have argued that the bail is appropriate because, if released, Childs could cause damage to San Francisco's network."
Internet Explorer

Submission + - IE's slide continues; Firefox gains the most (computerworld.com)

indian_rediff writes: IE's slide continues. Firefox has gained the most at the expense of IE's recent slide. According to a Computerworld article (which is quoting Net Applications' monthly survey of browsers used), the slide seems to be gaining traction. There is no compelling need to refer anyone to IE. Also, Firefox's lack of issues has pushed its profile in the public's eye.
Moon

Submission + - How NASA Restored Its High-Res Moon Pics (technologyreview.com)

Al writes: "This photo-essay explains how NASA engineers painstakingly restored high quality old images of the surface of the Moon. The original analog data, beamed down to Earth to plan landing sites for the Apollo missions in 1966 and 1967, remains the most detailed imagery every captured of the Moon's surface. It was recorded on magnetic tapes that collected dust for decades and were nearly discarded. Reprocessing the images involved restoring an old tape drive--which involved finding one of the few people who still knew how to repair the drive's read heads--and developing new custom equipment."

Comment Interesting (Score 2, Interesting) 273

So what about from the viewpoint of someone travelling into the United States from out of the country? Can we expect the right to privacy or would we be beholden to the same ritual? As a Canadian, who often travels into the U.S, can I expect that my laptop could, essentially, be seized because the powers that be just want to take it? Can I demand a warrant for the seizure of my laptop? I wonder if they would lock me up for demanding a warrant then lose the key sort of thing.

The U.S is fast becoming a police state -- kind of scary the lack of freedom within the Constitution and its amendments.
Communications

Submission + - Fake out auditors on a network readiness test

wytcld writes: When Verizon spun off its Northern New England lines to FairPoint, FairPoint leased Verizon's computer network to manage them. This was costly, so FairPoint readied its own network. To prove its own network was ready for the switchover a demonstration was prepared for an outside auditor, Liberty. Now a whistleblower claims:

when Liberty was watching what they thought was 'flow thru' within a system and from one system to another, they were really only seeing a small program that was created to assimilate what they wanted the systems to do. They were not actually in the systems at the time nor were they in the test systems. They were in a newly created small program that used screen shots from the real system to deceive the audience into believing that they were watching a real demonstration.

How easy is it to find auditors who can be fooled by such a simple trick? This could be useful in many business situations. Whether or not the test was faked, the network has proved so unready that FairPoint is close to bankruptcy, and may have its licenses to operate revoked in Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont.

The Courts

Submission + - DVD Piracy temporarily legal in UK now (tgdaily.com)

goombah99 writes: TGD Daily reports that due to a notification glitch dating back to 1984, the UK laws governing DVD piracy are said to be unenforceable until the European Union Commission can meet to accept the UK law. This is said to be unlikely to happen before 2010. The problem arose in 1984 and was repeated in 1990, when the laws governing pornography and DVD piracy in the UK were not, as required under the EU agreement, sent to the the EU commission for approval.

Comment FTFY (Score 1) 287

I've installed a keylogger onto your computer to capture your login credentials for the Yahoo Centmail site -- I have now solicited over half of Nigeria and most of Scotland for monies on behalf of your cousins uncles nephews best friends room mate from college who is lying sick in a hospital bed in Sweden and needs a foreign bank account to deposit large amounts of monies into before he passes away

Signed -- Centmail Approved Message

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