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Submission + - SEC Says Public Firms May Need to Disclose Attacks (threatpost.com)

Submitted by Trailrunner7
Trailrunner7 writes: The Securities and Exchange Commission has issued new guidance to help public companies determine when they may need to disclose an attack--or even a potential attack--in order to make potential investors aware of possible risks to the company's business. The guidance, which does not constitute a rule or requirement for companies to disclose, is meant to help "registrants in assessing what, if any, disclosures should be provided about cybersecurity matters."
IBM

OpenOffice Is Dying (And IBM Won't Help) 298

Posted by Soulskill from the is-this-a-cry-for-help dept.
jfruhlinger writes "OpenOffice.org, now separate both from corporate sponsor Oracle and the Document Foundation's LibreOffice, is in trouble, with its team putting out a dramatic press release detailing the organization's trouble. One missing player in all this is IBM, who has backed OpenOffice.org in the past. One possible reason for Big Blue's silence is that it might be a prelude to the killing of Lotus Symphony, its OpenOffice-based suite." The Apache Software Foundation, on the other hand, insists OpenOffice.org is not at risk.

Comment Re:Petition created at Whitehouse.gov (Score 2) 277

by pearl298 (#37536500) Attached to: ACTA To Be Signed This Weekend

The Obama administration has made it possible to create petitions which, if they get sufficient signatures, will be responded to and potentially acted on. I've created one at http://wh.gov/4PW which I encourage all to read and sign if they agree with it. We can defeat this!

I am signer number 2! Only 4998 more needed to get an official response! "SLASHDOTTING" might actually count for something at last!

Comment Re:50km? (Score 1) 68

by pearl298 (#37404414) Attached to: FCC To Test Opening White Spaces Up To Public
All you are doing with 5Ghz is adding a few channels!

2.4Ghz has only 11 overlapping channels in th e US - that is where the problem lies.

Hopefully a WAN implementation will define 10K channels and all will be well for a few months ... :-(

Personally I like the idea of infra red lasers - NO license, VERY directional and HUGE bandwidth!

Oh yes and a 50 mi+ range in Ham competition tests

Comment Windows users ONLY! (Score 0) 68

by pearl298 (#37404218) Attached to: FCC To Test Opening White Spaces Up To Public
"The test facility at http://whitespaces.spectrumbridge.com/Trial.aspx is non-responsive to Linux machines you gotta use Windows. This sort of blind spot on their part (and embrace of proprietary technologies) does not bode well for an effort to ensure inter-device compatibility!"
Not only that, but Mac users are ALSO excluded!
You need MS SIlverlight (!!!!) installed to use the FCC site!
That excludes some 20%+ of all Internet users as I read the numbers. Yes this is a GREAT "test"!
Patents

Submission + - US House approves patent reform bill (computerworld.com.au) 2

Submitted by
angry tapir
angry tapir writes: "The U.S. House of Representatives has voted to approve a bill that would overhaul the U.S. patent system and allow for a new review of patents after they are approved by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. The America Invents Act (PDF) would also allow the USPTO's director to set the fees for patents, with the aim of giving the agency enough money to process a long backlog of patent applications. The bill would also change who is awarded a patent from the first person to create a new invention to the first person to file for a patent. Most other countries award patents to the first person to file."
Space

Submission + - No, We're Not Headed For a New Ice Age (discovermagazine.com)

Submitted by purkinje
purkinje writes: Unusual calm in the solar cycle--called a solar activity minimum--has sparked claims that the Sun will cool the Earth, leading us into a new ice age. While Europe did experience a Little Ice Age during a solar activity minimum three centuries ago, the connection between sunspots and climate is a lot more complicated, and it's unlikely this change in the Sun's activity will cool Earth down--or even affect the climate at all. Plus, any cooling that might come from this would be less than the global warming that's been going on. So don't pull out that parka yet; a new ice age seems more than unlikely.
Android

Submission + - Open Source alternative to Dropbox?

Submitted by garry_g
garry_g writes: While "the cloud" may be one of the major buzzwords of the Internet industry, anybody concerned with security and privacy will most likely not touch it with a 10-foot pole. While I am guilty of using Dropbox for occasional data storage or quick picture snaps with my Android phone, I do watch out not to store anything important on there (or inciminating), no matter what the "privacy policy" may be.
As someone that has been running his personal mail server and MTA for years, stores Firefox profile information not on either Xmarks or FF Sync public server but my own, I was wondering: what useful alternative is there to Dropbox on the FOSS market, which will allow access by both windows/linux boxes, but also mobile devices (specifically Android). I know there are frontend addons for Windows (and linux tools of course) e.g. for SVN, but most likely no implementations for mobile use as far as I can tell...
And, of course, the backend should run on a Linux box ;)
NASA

Submission + - Newt Gingrich Rips NASA (ibtimes.com)

Submitted by
gabbo529
gabbo529 writes: "In a debate of possible Republican candidates for presidency, former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrinch tore into NASA.

The debate was the first for the 2012 Presidential Election and featured seven Republican candidates, some unofficial and some official. Gingrinch, who has formerly made a bid for Presidency, was asked a question about the role government should play in future space exploration. Gingrich made it clear he wasn't a fan of the space agency.

"Well, sadly — and I say this sadly, because I'm a big fan of going into space and I actually worked to get the shuttle program to survive at one point — NASA has become an absolute case study in why bureaucracy can't innovate," Gingrich said."

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