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Submission + - If you think you can ignore IPv6, think again. (securityweek.com)

Submitted by wiredmikey
wiredmikey writes: It’s official. The IANA(Internet Assigned Numbers Authority) this week allocated the last IP address blocks from the global IPv4 central address pool.

While the last IPv4 addresses have been allocated, it’s expected to take several months for regional registries to consume all their remaining regional IPv4 address pool.

The IPv6 Forum, a group with the mission to educate and promote the new protocol, says that enabling IPv6 in all ICT environment is not the end game, but is now a critical requirement for continuity in all Internet business and services going forward.

Experts believe that the move to IPv6 should be a board-level risk management concern, equivalent to the Y2K problem or Sarbanes-Oxley compliance. During the late 1990s, technology companies worldwide scoured their source code for places where critical algorithms assumed a two-digit date. This seemingly trivial software development issue was of global concern, so many companies made Y2K compliance a strategic initiative. The transition to IPv6 is of similar importance.

If you think you can ignore IPv6, think again.
Science

Submission + - Is Japan launching a giant fishing net into space? (sciencemag.org) 2

Submitted by sciencehabit
sciencehabit writes: --"'Fishing net' to collect space debris," blared a headline in Wednesday's edition of London's The Telegraph newspaper. The article described how the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and a Japanese fishing net maker had teamed up to make "a giant net several kilometers in size" that would sweep up abandoned satellites and drag them into the atmosphere to burn up. The Telegraph quoted Maggie Aderin-Pocock, a space scientist, as praising the plan but soberly urging care, "because we wouldn't want a real satellite getting caught up in the net." This satellite fishing system could be completed "within 2 years," the paper claimed.
Apple

Submission + - Mac App Store - Good or Bad? Developers React (theregister.co.uk)

Submitted by KindMind
KindMind writes: The Register writes about developer reactions to the Mac App Store. One says: "The hardest thing ... is not creating software. It's selling it," he said. "In order to sell things, you need exposure.", and that "the Mac App Store provides that exposure". But another says, "There are other costs to doing business in the App Store ...you lose control over the relationship with the customer. We don't know who our App Store customers are."
Science

Submission + - Have We Reached a 'Climate Tipping Point' (guardian.co.uk)

Submitted by Unka Willbur
Unka Willbur writes: Billions of tree-deaths in the Amazon last year injected as much carbon into the atmosphere as a full year's output from China, promoting fears that we will now see atmospheric carbon grow out of control.
Android

Submission + - Security warning over web-based Android market (sophos.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Security researcher Vanja Svajcer is warning that cybercriminals may be particularly interested in stealing your Google credentials, after discovering a way of installing applications onto Android smartphones with no interaction required by the phone's owner.

The new web-based Android Market retrieves the details of Android devices registered to the Google address, and automatically installs software onto the associated smartphones with no user interaction required on the phone itself.

Svajcer summarises: "Google should make changes to the remote installation mechanism as soon as possible. As a minimum, a dialog should be displayed on the receiving device so that the user must personally accept the application that is being installed."

"Let us hope that the update will come in time to prevent cybercriminals abusing the Android Market for the automatic installation of malicious software. "
Google

Submission + - A Personal Note To Google s New CEO From Byte.com (blogspot.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Breaking news back again one of the most laziest blogger of the universe (of course, That is me) would like to strike with something sensational that you will surly enjoy reading article which i am going to share.
Security

Threat of Cyberwar Is Over-Hyped 123

Posted by Soulskill from the let's-stick-to-normal-levels-of-hype dept.
nk497 writes "A new OECD report suggests the cyberwar threat is over-hyped. A pair of British researchers have said states are only likely to use cyberattacks against other states when already involved in military action against them, and that sub-state actors such as terrorists and individual hackers can't really do much damage. Dr. Ian Brown said, 'We think that describing things like online fraud and hacktivism as cyberwar is very misleading.'"

Comment MUST.JOIN.GEEKERY (Score 1) 762

by Unka Willbur (#34592758) Attached to: Stargate Universe Cancelled
OK, here's the *real* breakdown of the 3 shows. Everyone else has been pretty much wrong! ;P
    • SG1: Groundbreaking for TV Sci-Fi. Season 1-4 great, 5-7, meh. 8-10, decent.
    • SGA: Fun Sci-Fi in an ST-TOS vein. Conscious of the fact and used it. Last season suffered from "We know we're cancelled" syndrome.
    • SGU: I don't watch soap operas.

Now that we all know the only correct opinions, we can close the thread. :))
It's funny. Laugh.

Plagiarizing a Takedown Notice 113

Posted by Soulskill from the cheaper-than-paying-lawyers dept.
ChipMonk writes "Over at hobbyist site OS News, editor-in-chief Thom Holwerda published a highly skeptical opinion of the announcement of Commodore USA's own Amiga line. Within hours, Commodore USA sent a takedown notice to OS News, demanding a retraction of the piece and accusing the site of libel and defamation. What's funny is that the takedown notice was mostly copied, with minor edits, from Chilling Effects, a site dedicated to publicizing attempts at squelching free speech. The formatting, line breaks, obtuse references to 'OCGA,' and even the highlighted search terms were left largely intact."

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