Comment Re:Where's the article? (Score 1) 304
Why? Nobody reads them anyway.
Ninety-Nine Percent of the Ocean's Plastic Is Missing 304
sciencehabit writes Millions of tons. That's how much plastic should be floating in the world's oceans, given our ubiquitous use of the stuff. But a new study (abstract) finds that 99% of this plastic is missing. One disturbing possibility: Fish are eating it. If that's the case, "there is potential for this plastic to enter the global ocean food web," says Carlos Duarte, an oceanographer at the University of Western Australia, Crawley. "And we are part of this food web."
Comment Re:I recommend (Score 1) 176
I tried setting up the above VM with VirtualBox a couple years back and it kept having problems with the mass-storage emulation; it would get so far in the boot sequence and then freeze. IIRC it happened with both IDE and SCSI.
Exploiting Wildcards On Linux/Unix 215
An anonymous reader writes: DefenseCode researcher Leon Juranic found security issues related to using wildcards in Unix commands. The topic has been talked about in the past on the Full Disclosure mailing list, where some people saw this more as a feature than as a bug. There are clearly a number of potential security issues surrounding this, so Mr. Juranic provided five actual exploitation examples that stress the risks accompanying the practice of using the * wildcard with Linux/Unix commands. The issue can be manifested by using specific options in chown, tar, rsync etc. By using specially crafted filenames, an attacker can inject arbitrary arguments to shell commands run by other users — root as well.
Comment Re:I really wish they named the ship something els (Score 1) 75
Pfft! We can still be disappointed.
Comment Re:I really wish they named the ship something els (Score 1) 75
You and me both. Let's spread the tag !nuclearpulsepropulsion to show our dismay!
NASA's Orion Spaceship Passes Parachute Test 75
An anonymous reader writes The spacecraft it is hoped will take man to Mars has passed its first parachute tests. Nasa's Orion spacecraft landed gently using its parachutes after being shoved out of a military jet at 35,000 feet. "We've put the parachutes through their paces in ground and airdrop testing in just about every conceivable way before we begin sending them into space on Exploration Flight Test (EFT)-1 before the year's done," Orion program manager Mark Geyer said in a NASA statement. "The series of tests has proven the system and will help ensure crew and mission safety for our astronauts in the future."
Comment Re:I recommend VirtualBox (Score 1) 176
Win98SE works a lot better in VMware Player because VirtualBox doesn't have guest utilities for such an old OS.
Comment Re:I recommend (Score 5, Informative) 176
I've gotten Debian 2.2 to run reasonably well in VMware Player. Network and SCSI worked pretty well, don't think the sound did due to a missing driver, and I had to do some work to make X use the VESA framebuffer:
0) In lilo.conf, add "vga=791" (or another value) to the kernel invocation. May have had to compile a kernel with fbdev first.
1) install the xserver-fbdev package
2) copy
3) edit XF86Config to reflect the color depth chosen in the vga= stanza in lilo.conf; with vga=791 it's 16 bits.
4) Same file, edit mouse information to reflect what VMware provides (device is
5) Edit
Now you should have a functioning X desktop, assuming you installed the packages. It won't be fast, since it's just the VESA framebuffer, but it's probably the best you can get with VMware and the ancient XFree86 stack in Debian 2.2.
Note that the VMware guest utilities will
Comment Re:Driverless cars prevent more deaths and cheaper (Score 1) 501
To quote Sam Kinnison:
Move where the tornadoes ARENT.
Comment Which proves judges are stupid (Score 5, Insightful) 59
Q: "How do you know so much about key exchange?"
A: "I invented it in the 70s."
Q: "Fail, you lose."
-vs-
Q: "How can you prove this is prior art?"
A: "Blah-biddy blah blah legal legal blah."
Q: "Seems legit. Intuit wins."
Comment Re:Look to Japan as a model for what not to do (Score 1) 710
How many of those guys under you would be married if they had a normal 40-hour job? Pretty hard to meet a MOTAS if all your time is spent working.
Programming On a Piano Keyboard 57
An anonymous reader writes: Here's a fun project: engineer Yuriy Guts built a Visual Studio extension that lets people program using MIDI instruments. You can write code letter by letter on a piano keyboard. Granted, it's not terribly efficient, but it's at least artistic — you can compose music that is also a valid computer program. Somewhat more usefully, it also allows you to turn a simple MIDI input device, like a trigger pad into a set of buttons that will run tests, push/pull code, or other tasks suitable for automation. The extension is open source and open to contributions.
NOAA: Earth Smashed A Record For Heat In May 2014, Effects To Worsen 547
Freshly Exhumed (105597) writes with news that NOAA's latest global climate analysis is showing things are getting hotter. From the article: Driven by exceptionally warm ocean waters, Earth smashed a record for heat in May and is likely to keep on breaking high temperature marks, experts say. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Monday said May's average temperature on Earth of 15.54 C beat the old record set four years ago. In April, the globe tied the 2010 record for that month. Records go back to 1880. Experts say there's a good chance global heat records will keep falling, especially next year because an El Nino weather event is brewing on top of man-made global warming. An El Nino is a warming of the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean that alters climate worldwide and usually spikes global temperatures.
Comment Re:Great deal! (Score 2, Interesting) 365
It's more brilliant than you think—now the Microsoft employees who came up with this idea can get MacBooks without getting their boss's signature! In theory, anyway.
