Comment Let the law handle it (Score 1) 299
Shouldn't there be some kind of legally defined minimum along with nice availability regulations?
They make them keep records on everything else!
Comment Re:bad omen (Score 1) 162
That isn't necessarily true. It's just as possible people are wasting time fixing unimportant issues and ignoring more important ones.
I'm not trying to disparage the OpenBSD team or anything. It's just that no development team is perfect.
NASA to Test Emergency Ability of New Spacecraft 126
coondoggie writes "NASA this will show off the first mock up of its Orion space capsule ahead of the capsule's first emergency astronaut escape system test. NASA said it will jettison the full-size structural model off a simulated launch pad at the US Army's White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. The launch escape vehicle sits atop the Orion capsule which is slated to be bolted on an Ares rocket. The escape vehicle is made up of three solid rocket motors as well as separation mechanisms and canards, and should offer the crew an escape capability in the event of an emergency during launch, according to NASA."
Comment Re:What's the solution? Depends ... (Score 3, Funny) 608
What threats? That a lady in San Diego with the cheese and ice packs? It was all a load of bullshit.
Your government, working to scare the shit out of you since 9/11.
Your government, working to scare the shit out of you since 9/11.
Feed A 12-Megapixel Camera That Doesn’t Mind Working in Low Light (nytimes.com)
The 12-megapixel Panasonic Lumix DMC-FX100 uses a 28-millimeter Leica lens and built-in image stabilization to prevent blurring while on the move and even in low light.
Journal Journal: Coffee Museum in Jimma 1
The Ethiopian Herald (link via allafrica) reports that a new coffee museum will be opened in Jimma with the goal of commemorating the region's history of being where Coffea arabica was first discovered and turning Jimma into a tourist hub by the millenium (is this a mis-reporting? Looking out to 2999-3000AD seems like an excessively long term project).
Feed News: Google gears up offline access for Web apps (macworld.com)
Submission + - Apple announces iTunes U
An anonymous reader writes: On top of the DRM-free downloads from EMI, Apple also announced iTunes U today. This new section on the iTunes Store allows people to download audio and video recordings of lectures from many famous colleges including Stanford, UC Berkeley, Duke University, and MIT free of charge.
Submission + - Google releases Google Gears
chiraz90210 writes: "Robert Scoble just reported that Google released Gears, a plugin for the browser that allows your browser to maintain a small cache. It gives websites the ability to store a limited amount of data on your computer. The possibilities are very interesting. Take some emails from your web-based email reader offline for later reference, synchronizing the data of your enterprise information system at certain intervals, downloading items from news feeds asynchronously while you do something else... More information at the project site. It's released under the new BSD license."
Submission + - Mass "false positive" LiveJournal account
Green Monkey writes: "More social network "false positives": LiveJournal has been permanently suspending accounts suspected of promoting incest — except that many of them were communities for survivors of abuse and people discussing Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita. Even after being related to the problem, LiveJournal apparently refuses to reinstate the banned accounts. LiveJournal's official news blog has filled up with hundreds of complaints protesting the decision, so we could have another Digg-style user rebellion brewing."
P2P Networks Supplement Botnets 74
stuckinarut writes "Peer to peer file sharing network popularity is at an all time high, with hundreds of thousands of computers connected to a single P2P network at a given time. These networks are increasingly being used to trick PCs into attacking other machines, experts say. In fact, some reports indicate that peer-to-peer may actually exceed web traffic. Computer scientists have previously shown how P2P networks can be subverted so that several connected PCs gang up to attack a single machine, flooding it with enough traffic to make it crash. This can work even if the target is not part of the P2P network itself. Now, security experts are warning that P2P networks are increasingly being used to do just this. "Until January of this year we had never seen a peer-to-peer network subverted and used for an attack," says Darren Rennick of internet security company Prolexic in an advisory released recently. "We now see them constantly being subverted.""
Submission + - LiveJournal deleting "illegal" accounts
tirerim writes: "A group calling itself the Warriors For Innocence complained to LiveJournal that many journals and communities listed certain illegal interests that might encourage pedophilia. As a result, the company has apparently been deleting such accounts, no questions asked. Victims so far reportedly include several fanfiction communities, a discussion group for the book Lolita, journals of RPG characters, and, most disturbingly, some journals of survivors of child abuse."
Submission + - Anonymous Cowards Not Welcome
Anonymous Coward writes: "I guess you're just trying to discourage anonymous cowards, because I finally gave up trying to post when I couldn't correctly type whatever the f-ck this says:
http://images.slashdot.org/hc/43/625ab3b9631a.jpg
But for the record, I am human!"
Submission + - Associated Press puts credibility on the line
An anonymous reader writes: Matt Crenson a political science professor and a AP National writer had a piece published on ethanol. Just at the time when Bush is visiting Brazil. A country that uses ethanol for energy extensively. In case you wondered, the Associated Press, or AP, is an American news agency, the world's largest such organization.
This article says that ethanol use for energy is a bad idea no matter how you cut it. Even when some parts of this long article are correct, they are outwheigthed by the baseless inaccuracies. From " most analysts conclude its environmental benefits are questionable at best. " all the way to " even the most generous analysts estimate that it takes the energy equivalent of three gallons of ethanol to make four gallons of the stuff. " Plus the question-answer format of the middle portion of the article has a nauseating fact feeding style.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070311/ap_on_sc/ethan ol_q_a_9
This article says that ethanol use for energy is a bad idea no matter how you cut it. Even when some parts of this long article are correct, they are outwheigthed by the baseless inaccuracies. From " most analysts conclude its environmental benefits are questionable at best. " all the way to " even the most generous analysts estimate that it takes the energy equivalent of three gallons of ethanol to make four gallons of the stuff. " Plus the question-answer format of the middle portion of the article has a nauseating fact feeding style.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070311/ap_on_sc/etha
Submission + - Thailand block YouTube!
LewCPE writes: Authorities in Thailand were trying to do session hijack on every request those try to reach YouTube on last Friday. Most of requests to http://www.youtube.com/ will get reply as "301 — Permanently Removed" while the request to http://youtube.com/ or directly request to IP like http://208.65.153.251/ still success. Bangkok Post has report on this activity, it referred my post on Blognone.com[Thai].
The interesting part is the hijack server identify itself as "Apache/1.3.31 (Unix) mod_hwforward_1_0", while the mod_hwforward_1_0 seems to be never exist. But many countries found something like this too as you may see it on Google.
