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Submission + - NSA trial evidence 'riddled with boxes and arrows' (fas.org)

Submitted by

decora

on Sunday June 05, 2011 @12:03AM

decora writes: "In the Espionage Act trial of NSA IT Whistleblower Thomas Drake, the main evidence against him are 5 documents he allegedly 'willfully retained' in his basement. The government, for the first time, is using the Silent Witness Rule to 'substitute' words in this evidence so that the public will not be able to see the allegedly sensitive information. The result of this 'substitution' process has been described by the defense as a tangled mess of boxes, arrows, and code words that will impossibly confuse the facts of the case. "Two weeks before trial, Mr. Drake and his counsel still do not know what evidence the jury will see""

Submission + - SlashDot Slashdotted (slashdot.org) 1

Submitted by wulfmans on Saturday June 04, 2011 @01:27PM

wulfmans writes: Since yesterday on and off SlashDot stories have been unavailable to users and their website VERY slow and unresponsive.
http://news.slashdot.org/story/11/06/04/158209/Skype-Is-Working-To-Defeat-the-Reverse-Engineering
Error 503 Service Unavailable
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Guru Meditation:
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I doubt this will be published but i had to submit it as a story

Comment Re:Hilarious (Score 1) 114

by aywang31 on Saturday June 04, 2011 @12:13AM (#36335586) Attached to: China Calls US Culprit In Global 'Internet War'

The Chinese government is also very adept at showmanship. Wait till the next time that the US and Taiwan agree to another arms sale. The PRC only does stuff dead quiet (like the J-20 stealth fighter) or really loudly.

Submission + - Undelete Files on an ext3 or ext4 File System (everydaylht.com)

Submitted by

dmbkiwi

on Saturday June 04, 2011 @12:00AM

dmbkiwi writes: "So you've been futzing round in the file system, and been over vigorous with the rm command and deleted a crucial file that you or (more scarily) a significant other, can't live without. What to do? After that initial hot flush has died down, you must be calm, and work fast. You have three options:"

Submission + - Dr. Death Dead 1

Submitted by theodp on Friday June 03, 2011 @11:52PM

theodp writes: Jack Kevorkian, the pathologist said to have had a role in more than 130 assisted suicides, has died from kidney-related complications on the eve of the 21st anniversary of his first assisted suicide. Kevorkian, who served more than eight years in prison for second-degree murder, had his story told in the HBO movie You Don't Know Jack. His antics and personality brought a certain approachability to a grim subject — the fundamental right of terminally ill patients to choose to die. 'I will debate so-called ethicists,' he once said. 'They are not even ethicists. They are propagandists. I will argue with them if they will allow themselves to be strapped to a wheelchair for 72 hours so they can't move, and they are catheterized and they are placed on the toilet and fed and bathed. Then they can sit in a chair and debate with me.' At the time of Kevorkian's death, only Oregon and Washington State had legalized physician-assisted suicide; Montana's Supreme Court ruled it lawful in 2009. RIP, Dr. Jack.

Submission + - LulzSec Hacks FBI Affiliate Infragard (anonnewsnet.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 03, 2011 @10:54PM

An anonymous reader writes: LulzSec is at it again, bringing a whole new batch of stick-it-to-the-man. In its most recent activity, LulzSec has defaced the website of Infragard Atlanta, the Atlanta branch of a cooperative between the FBI and public assets.

Submission + - Hacker Group LulzSec Challenges FBI (pastebin.com)

Submitted by

Tiek00n

on Friday June 03, 2011 @08:59PM

Tiek00n writes: "Hacker Group "LulzSec" has gained some attention recently for their hacks of PBS and Sony. Their most recent target: FBI affiliate Infragard.

The group claims "It has come to our unfortunate attention that NATO and our good friend Barrack Osama-Llama 24th-century Obama have recently upped the stakes with regard to hacking. They now treat hacking as an act of war. So, we just hacked an FBI affiliated website (Infragard, specifically the Atlanta chapter) and leaked its user base. We also took complete control over the site and defaced it""

Submission + - Quantum Omelette Without Breaking the Egg (bbc.co.uk)

Submitted by summerbreeze on Friday June 03, 2011 @08:55PM

summerbreeze writes: Researchers at the University of Toronto have conducted a two-slit experiment, published in Science, that uses "weak measurement" on photons to over-come the Heisenberg uncertainty principle. Jason Palmer does a great job reporting this experiment to us mere mortals in the BBC article.

Submission + - Rare Midnight Solar Caught in the Arctic (wired.com)

Submitted by Tyketto on Friday June 03, 2011 @07:51PM

Tyketto writes: Wired Magazine has an article posted regarding a solar eclipse occurring overnight in the Arctic and Scandinavian regions over the night of June 1st and 2nd. They explain: "During the Arctic summer, the sun dips low on the horizon but never sets. That means a solar eclipse is theoretically possible at any time. But this week’s eclipse was the first visible from Scandinavia since 2000, and the deepest since 1985. The next one won’t be for another 73 years."

NASA has the details, while NPR also has a small blurb on it, with Tromsø, Norway resident Rhys Jones adding some pictures to Flikr, and SpaceWeather putting together a gallery.

Submission + - Over 4000 free science books (bytesizebio.net)

Submitted by Shipud on Friday June 03, 2011 @05:26PM

Shipud writes: The National Academies Press (USA) are offering all their books for free in PDF format. These are all the publications of the National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, Institute of Medicine, and National Research Council. Lots of great stuff there, and now for free.

Submission + - "White Ninja" attempts Apple Store burglary (edibleapple.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 03, 2011 @05:24PM

An anonymous reader writes: Apple’s chain of retail stores have been popular targets for thieves lately, but now Ninjas are also looking to get MacBooks, iPods, and iPhones on the cheap.

Earlier this morning, a man dressed in white, and described as wearing a “white ninja suit”, drove a stolen car into the outer glass windows of an Apple Store in Greensboro, North Carolina. The glass naturally gave way to the car as it entered the retail store with resounding force. Hey, aren’t Ninjas supposed to be stealthy?

Submission + - Student sells kidney to buy iPad (tekgoblin.com)

Submitted by

tekgoblin

on Thursday June 02, 2011 @03:18PM

tekgoblin writes: "Now I have heard some strange stories before but this has got to be the funniest. A 17 year old student in Huaishan City, China sold his kidney to purchase an iPad 2. He could’nt afford the iPad 2 and was contacted by someone who offered him $3,000 USD or 20,000 yuan if he sold his kidney. He quickly accepted the deal and in no time he had an iPad 2."

Submission + - Computer addiction an illness, says psychiatrist (abc.net.au)

Submitted by beaverdownunder on Thursday June 02, 2011 @02:20AM

beaverdownunder writes: ABC (Australia) News reports: 'Internet and computer addiction should be recognised as a legitimate side effect of mental illness among adolescents, a psychiatrist has told a national psychiatry congress in Darwin.

For three years, Victorian psychiatrist Dr Soumya Basu has been studying a group of six teenage boys who refused to go to school and played computer games excessively.'

Gee, who woulda thought it?

Submission + - Mageia 1.0 Released (mageia.org)

Submitted by ko7 on Thursday June 02, 2011 @02:17AM

ko7 writes: Mageia began in September 2010 as a fork of Mandriva Linux. It is supported by a not-for-profit organization, governed by a body of recognized and elected contributors, and made by 100+ people around the world.

Our work adds to the excellent work of the wider Linux and Free Software community. We aim to bring one of the best, most stable, reliable and enjoyable experience and platform we can make; for a regular user, a developer, or a business.

The OS can be downloaded (or bit-torrent'd) from Here

Submission + - Toshiba Coupon Code (wellnessstarts.com)

Submitted by Stonyiel on Thursday June 02, 2011 @02:13AM

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