Comment Re:200 miles underground is really deep! (Score 1) 106
Now, how big is that in Libraries of Congress?
Comment Re:Thank goodness (Score 4, Interesting) 999
Nobody ever scared anyone with tales of $50 ER visits. Who'd buy insurance to cover cheap healthcare?
Australians; we buy insurance to cover the free healthcare.
Comment Re:Does it matter? (Score 1) 216
$300 to sign a certificate, where the NSA has probably back-doored it already. One certificate for you, a copy of it for them..
Comment Oops (Score 1) 305
I use CCleaner regularly and install it on friends PCs. Now I know about BleachBit which is opensource and works on Windows and Linux. Piriform have lost one customer here.
Comment Re:Patent trolling is the new iWhite... (Score 1) 696
I wonder, do the engineers and techs working at Apple feel ashamed all this trolling?
Probably not, aren't they all indoctrinated when they start working for Apple?
Submission + - Stroller Recalled after Toddlers Get Fingers Chopped Off
Hugh Pickens writes writes: "CBS News reports that three children have accidentally chopped off a fingertip because of a fault with their stroller and two adults have reported smashing or cutting their fingers after they got a finger jammed in a hinge mechanism used to adjust handlebars on Kolcraft Contours Options products. The recall is similar to a recall of 1 million Maclaren strollers that was reissued last year after at least 37 more children have injured since the recall, including five who lose their fingertips, the US. Consumer Product Safety Commission said. The Maclaren recall highlights the continuing problem of consumers using strollers for an extended period of time, including buying them secondhand where it is typically harder to know a product has been recalled since the date of original purchase isn't usually known and the owner is less likely to know model numbers and place of purchase. The CPSC also says it knows of 30 deaths since 1980 of a child to getting trapped between a stroller's tray or grab bar and the seat bottom. The original recall was a nightmare for Maclaren. "Given the higher order of sensitivity, parents are much more diligent, They want to talk to friends, family and even strangers about their decisions. They'll go the extra distance." says Pete Blackshaw, a brand consultant for Nielsen Online adding that new mothers are three times more likely than others to use social media and start blogs. "Anything relative to child safety tends to be off-the-charts viral.""
Submission + - Eric Raymond on why Stallman is a dangerous fanatic (ibiblio.org)
Frosty Piss writes: According to Eric Raymond, 'RMS made an early decision to frame his advocacy as a moral crusade rather than a pragmatic argument about engineering practices and outcomes. While he made consequentialist arguments against closed source (and still does) his rhetoric and his thinking became dominated by terms like “evil”, to the point where he repeatedly alienated potential allies both with his absolutism and his demand that anyone cooperating with him share it.' Raymond goes on to say, 'By the late 1990s, after having observed RMS’s behavior for more than a decade, I had long since concluded that the Free Software Foundation’s moralistic rhetoric was serving us badly. The problem with it is the same problem with messianic religions in general; for people who are not flipped into true-believer mode by any given one, it will come off as at best creepy and insular, at worst nutty and potentially dangerous (and this remains true even for people attached to a different messianic religion).'
Submission + - Japan restarts two of their 50 nuclear reactors (go.com) 1
Darth_brooks writes: "Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda ordered the restart of two idle nuclear reactors Saturday, amid split public response. The Japanese government is trying to fill a summer power shortfall. According to the article, the two reactors supply power to the Kansai region near Osaka, where local officials were predicting a 15% shortfall in power capacity during July and August."
Submission + - Black Death Discovered In Oregon (ibtimes.com)
redletterdave writes: "The Black Death, a strain of bubonic plague that destroyed nearly a third of Europe's entire population between 1347 and 1369, has been found in Oregon. Health officials in Portland have confirmed that a man contracted the plague after getting bitten by a cat. The unidentified man, who is currently in his 50s, had tried to pry a dead mouse from a stray cat's mouth on June 2 when the cat attacked him. Days later, fever and sickness drove the man to check himself into Oregon's St. Charles Medical Center, where he is currently in "critical condition.""
Submission + - Will Sweden hand Julian Assange over to the United States? (digitaljournal.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Digital Journal has the following on the ongoing Assange case: 'Now that Julian Assange's appeal against extradition has failed, fears are that he will then be shipped on from Sweden to the U.S.A. [....] He is due to be extradited to Sweden in two weeks, where he is wanted for questioning over allegations of sexual assault and rape. It is feared that once in Sweden, he is likely to be sent on to the U.S.A. The U.S. Government has apparently issued a secret, closed indictment against Assange. Because of this he will be branded a terrorist and a fair trial seems very unlikely should he be sent to the U.S.A. [... ] STRATFOR's Fred Burton for example was caught writing the following about Assange in an internal email that Wikileaks got its hands on some time ago: "Assange is going to make a nice bride in prison. Screw the terrorist. He’ll be eating cat food forever." [...] The question all this raises is: Is there a planned effort underway to ship Assange to Sweden, and ship him right on to the United States, where he would then face serious charges ranging from "illegal espionage" to "leaking classified documents to the public" to "acts of treason committed against the United States"? To put it a bit more bluntly: is there an organized plan underway to send Assange to the U.S. via Sweden, and possibly put him behind bars for the rest of his life, and are the people who have drafted this plan now merely going through to the motions of moving Julian Assange from Point A (Britain) to Point B (United States), where a cruel fate awaits him?
Submission + - Zero-Day exploit market sells mostly to US government (forbes.com)
mpol writes: "Forbes magazine published a profile of French exploit-selling firm Vupen last April. Now there's a blog article about a broker from South Africa, complete with a price-list of zero-day exploits and their platform. iOS is the highest valued here.
The article also claims most exploits are being sold to agencies of the US government.
It does raise a concern though. What if black-hats got more serious, and the US government would become a victim. When shit hits the fan, how will they react."
The article also claims most exploits are being sold to agencies of the US government.
It does raise a concern though. What if black-hats got more serious, and the US government would become a victim. When shit hits the fan, how will they react."
Submission + - Swedes Discover Spherical Object Embedded in Baltic Sea Floor (www.cbc.ca) 2
An anonymous reader writes: Swedish sea scavengers revealed a curious discovery — a disc-shaped object, roughly 60 metres in diameter, and rising about 4 metres out of the seabed, with a 400-metre trail leading to its position.
A lack of detailed photographs has caused speculation that this may be nothing more than a hoax, or information campaign, but there is a promise of more details, from the crew, as they uncover their find with better equipment.
A lack of detailed photographs has caused speculation that this may be nothing more than a hoax, or information campaign, but there is a promise of more details, from the crew, as they uncover their find with better equipment.
Kaspersky Calls For Cyber Weapons Convention 166
judgecorp writes with a synopsis of talk given by Kaspersky at CeBit "Cyber weapons are so dangerous, they should be limited by a treaty like those restricting chemical and nuclear arms, Russian security expert Eugene Kaspersky has told a conference. He also warned that online voting was essential or democracy will die out in 20 years."
Dolby's TrueHD 96K Upsampling To Improve Sound On Blu-Rays 255
Stowie101 writes in with a story about your Blu-ray audio getting better. "The audio on most Blu-ray discs is sampled at 48kHz. Even the original movie tracks are usually only recorded at 48kHz, so once a movie migrates to disc, there isn't much that can be done. Dolby's new system upsamples that audio signal to 96kHz at the master stage prior to the Dolby TrueHD encoding, so you get lossless audio with fewer digital artifacts. The 'fewer digital artifacts' part comes from a feature of Dolby's upsampling process called de-apodizing, which corrects a prevalent digital artifact known as pre-ringing. Pre-ringing is often introduced in the capture and creation process and adds a digital harshness to the audio. The apodizing filter masks the effect of pre-ringing by placing it behind the source tone — the listener can't hear the pre-ringing because it's behind the more prevalent original signal."
Apple Blocks iOS Apps Using Dropbox SDK 356
Barence writes with an excerpt from PC Pro: "Dropbox's latest SDK has incurred the wrath of Apple, because users who don't have the Dropbox app installed on their iPhone/iPad are instead pushed to Dropbox's website via the Safari browser. Here, they can click a link to the desktop version of the service, which allows them to buy extra Dropbox storage without Apple taking its usual 30% cut."
Reportedly, Dropbox is attempting to strike a deal to resolve the problem.
