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Submission + - Google Releases Street View Images From Fukushima Ghost Town (businessweek.com)

mdsolar writes: "Google Inc. (GOOG) today released images taken by its Street View service from the town of Namie, Japan, inside the zone that was evacuated after the Fukushima nuclear disaster in March 2011.

Google, operator of the world’s biggest Web search engine, entered Namie this month at the invitation of the town’s mayor, Tamotsu Baba, and produced the 360-degree imagery for the Google Maps and Google Earth services, it said in an e-mailed statement.

All of Namie’s 21,000 residents were forced to flee after the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami crippled the Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear plant, about 8 kilometers (5 miles) from the town, causing the world’s worst nuclear accident after Chernobyl. Baba asked Mountain View, California-based Google to map the town to create a permanent record of its state two years after the evacuation, he said in a Google blog post."

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Submission + - U.S. and Russia--Not China--Lead List of Malicious Hosting Providers (threatpost.com)

Trailrunner7 writes: China has become the go-to bogeyman behind every cyber attack or malware campaign, but if you're looking for the most malicious hosting providers on the Web, you won't find any of the top 10 in China. In fact, the United States and Russia have many more bad hosting providers in the top 20 than China does.

Those statistics, compiled in Host Exploit's quarterly World Hosts Report, are somewhat surprising, although they don't paint the full picture of the attack landscape. The malicious activity that Host Exploit tracks generally comprises malware hosting, botnet C&C hosting and the like, and does not necessarily include command-and-control servers for targeted attacks or the like. Still, the data the organizations compiled shows that the hosting of malicious servers is not a localized problem, it's a global one.

One other interesting data point is the appearance of Amazon in the top 10 list of providers hosting the highest concentration of infected Web sites. These are the kind of sites used in drive-by download attacks and to deliver exploits from exploit packs. Amazon, with more than two million IPs, ranks fourth in the list of providers hosting infected sites. Also on that list is Google, which comes in at number seven. The top spot belongs to Mail.ru, a Russian hosting provider.

Comment Things that don't need to be connected to the inte (Score 4, Interesting) 96

Seriously, this is one of them. I love the idea of sharing and all, but we can wait to see your vacation or ...other... pics more than 15 minutes after you take it. A camera does not need to be directly connected to the internet, and all it does is open up potential security flaws. Find a good way to remotely exploit this and next thing you know, you can just take a vacation vicariously, through someone's (unsuspecting) lens. With the way tablets, smartphones etc are going, they can be great and (more) secure gateways to posting things, plus it gives you the chance to *filter* your photos...

Comment Re: Fixed (Score 1) 1106

"Don't bother. The anti-minimum-wage crowd left their intelligence at the door. It's an emotional issue, they don't want poor people to make any more money." Don't bother. The pro-minimum-wage crowd left their intelligence at the door. It's an emotional issue, they believe that corporations are evil and the ultimiate solution is the redistribution of wealth. Think that sounds ridiculous? Me too, just as ridiculous as your quoted assumption about the anti-minimum-wage group. Let's try it this way: "Since the economists can't give us a clear yes or no on the impacts of raising the minimum wage, people are divided on the issue, sometimes preferring to read pundit's comments instead of researching and thinking for themselves. It's annoying as hell and it comes from both sides of the aisle." Or you could stick to your assertation and continue the vitriolic rhetoric of your particular political tribe.

Comment Re:Could the summary possibly be more slanted? (Score 1) 530

It's this exact attitude that has caused the USoA to become the political cesspool we are right now. Political debates are nothing but ad hominem attacks disguised as political talking points.

Take the Fordham case for example. If they host Ann Coulter it opens them up to ad hominem attacks from people who would rather dismiss them by saying "they're the same as that racist, sexist *-ist" than actually take the time to come up with a rational response to debate her points. The result: the institution capitulates to the threat and she is, in effect, censored from campus.

Murdoch may be a shady character whose only ambition in life is to see how big of a bank account he can rack up, but that doesn't discount the issue his company (WSJ) is presenting. We need to learn to separate the person (Murdoch, Coulter, etc.) from the issue.

No wonder we have bullying issues in school....

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