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Comment Ouch. (Score 1) 3

by InfiniteBlaze (#42883387) Attached to: Computer Repair Company Takes Revenge on Devious Customer
You don't seem to have much of a defense. There are no "telltale signs" of setting up a RAID. It's either set in the BIOS or set in the RAID controller's BIOS. Also, it's pretty easy to determine the integrity of the data - a simple hard drive test can tell if the drive is failing, and any live CD is acceptable for determining if the files still exist or not. Seems like a case of technical incompetence, IMO. Nice style on the website though.
Education

Does US Owe the World an Education At Its Expense? 689

Posted by Soulskill from the only-the-parts-that-have-oil dept.
An anonymous reader writes "'Right now, there are brilliant students from all over the world sitting in classrooms at our top universities,' President Obama explained to the nation Tuesday in his pitch for immigration reform. 'They are earning degrees in the fields of the future, like engineering and computer science...We are giving them the skills to figure that out, but then we are going to turn around and tell them to start the business and create those jobs in China, or India, or Mexico, or someplace else. That is not how you grow new industries in America. That is how you give new industries to our competitors. That is why we need comprehensive immigration reform." If the President truly fears that international students will use skills learned at U.S. colleges and universities to the detriment of the United States if they return home (isn't a rising tide supposed to lift all boats?) — an argument NYC Mayor Bloomberg advanced in 2011 ('we are investing millions of dollars [actually billions] to educate these students at our leading universities, and then giving the economic dividends back to our competitors – for free') — then wouldn't another option be not providing them with the skills in the first place?"
Open Source

Submission + - Why a Linux user is using Windows 3.1 (networkworld.com) 1

Submitted by colinneagle
colinneagle writes: About two weeks back, I was using my Android tablet and looking for a good graphics editor. I wanted something with layers and good text drawing tools. That’s when it hit me. We already have that.

Photoshop used to run on Windows 3.1. And Windows 3.1 runs great under both DOSBox and QEMU, both of which are Open Source emulators available for Android and every other platform under the sun.

So I promptly set to work digging up an old copy of Photoshop. The last version released for Windows 3.1 was back in 1996. And finding a working copy proved to be...challenging. Luckily, the good folks at Adobe dug around in their vaults and managed to get me up and running.

And, after a bit of tweaking, I ended up with an astoundingly functional copy of Photoshop that I can now run on absolutely every device I own. And the entire environment (fonts, working files and all) are automatically backed up to the cloud and synced between systems.

But what other applications (and, potentially, games) does this give me access to? How far can I take this?

Submission + - A Supersonic Ping Pong Gun (arxiv.org)

Submitted by
Frans Faase
Frans Faase writes: "The Ping Pong gun or Ping Pong bazooka has been a popular and compelling tool for physics education. However, the design necessarily means the ball emerges at subsonic speed. The design has been modified to include a pressure chamber and a convergent-divergent nozzle, similar to the design of some supersonic wind tunnels. This modification results in supersonic speeds. The current design has achieved a launch speed of 406 m/sec, about Mach 1.23."

Comment How is this... (Score 1) 58

by InfiniteBlaze (#41619029) Attached to: Google Wades Further Into Hardware With "Nexus Call Center"
wading further into hardware? You mean by planning and preparing for the release by ensuring there is adequate support for the anticipated customers? The title gives the impression that we should expect a piece of equipment that allows us to establish a centralized call center for our own businesses...not that Google has outsourced their phone support. -1 for Misleading
Android

Submission + - Android Security Flaw Erases All Data (tomshardware.com)

Submitted by InfiniteBlaze
InfiniteBlaze writes: From the article:

"A major security flaw that causes all of the data stored on an Android smartphone to be erased has been discovered and samsung devices seem to be the target.

Technical University Berlin's Ravi Borgaonkar said websites have tricked Android owners into activating malicious code by selecting on-screen phone numbers.

He added that no Android device could tell the difference between real phone numbers to USSD codes recognized by smartphones as a set of instructions to erase the data from its memory card.

A proportion of the malware seems to only target Samsung devices. Once the malware triggers a factory reset, there was no method of restoring the data, he added."
Biotech

Submission + - Marijuana Compound May Halt Cancer Spread (medicaldaily.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Researchers found that the compound cannabidiol was capable of switching off the gene responsible for metastasis in many kinds of aggressive cancers without producing the psychoactive properties of the cannabis plant.
Hardware

Submission + - Raspberry Pi For The Rest Of Us (i-programmer.info) 2

Submitted by mikejuk
mikejuk writes: The Raspberry Pi might be a cheap and reasonably powerful but it has a tough learning curve due to the Linux OS it uses. Adafruit, better known for their hardware, are working on a WebIDE which you can use to program the Pi without having to set things up. You write the code in a browser and run it on the Pi using a web server hosted by the Pi. It sounds crazy but if it can make the Pi more approachable then perhaps it could turn out to be an educational powerhouse.
Google

Submission + - Microsoft being anticompetitive? (iegallery.com)

Submitted by InfiniteBlaze
InfiniteBlaze writes: I know most Slashdotters prefer alternative browsers, but for a number of reasons, I use a combination of Chrome and IE. I've noticed that over the past few months, Microsoft has made it harder and harder to add Google as the primary search engine for IE. Each new iteration of the gallery has buried the legitimate Google option deeper and deeper. Now, searching explicitly for the word "google" on the Gallery doesn't even return the valid entry in the first five results. What gives? Has anyone else noticed this?

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