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Submission + - Microsoft to Broaden its Base of Bug Bounty Submitters (threatpost.com)

Submitted by Gunkerty Jeb
Gunkerty Jeb writes: Having found some initial success with its first foray into the bug bounty world, Microsoft is expanding the program to open up payments of up to $100,000 to incident response teams and forensics experts who come across active attacks in the wild that include new techniques that bypass exploit mitigations in place on the newest version of Windows.

Submission + - Withhold Passwords From Your Employer, Go to Jail? (forbes.com)

Submitted by ericgoldman
ericgoldman writes: Terry Childs was a network engineer in San Francisco, and he was the only employee with passwords to the network. After he was fired, he withheld the passwords from his former employer, preventing his employer from controlling its own network. Recently, a California appeals court upheld his conviction for violating California's computer crime law, including a 4 year jail sentence and $1.5 million of restitution. The ruling provides a good cautionary tale for anyone who thinks they can gain leverage over their employer or increase job security by controlling key passwords.

Submission + - How a Market-driven Society is Unable to Fix the Climate (thebulletin.org) 3

Submitted by Lasrick
Lasrick writes: This is an excellent, thoughtful piece by Ted Trainer on how the very core to a market-oriented, consumer society is unable to tackle the problem of climate change. The numbers here are pretty staggering. Here's an excerpt: 'These kinds of figures show that major global problems cannot be solved unless the wealthiest countries face up to enormous reductions in per-capita resource use. However, these countries are obsessed with raising levels of production and consumption as fast as possible, and without any upper limit. The supreme, never-questioned goal is continuous economic growth. But for the world’s population to achieve Australian living standards by 2050, given an annual economic growth rate of 3 percent, total world production and consumption would have to be more than 30 times as great in 2050 as they are now.'

Submission + - Airlines Taunted by Amazon and Alec Baldwin

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Amazon once loaded an airplane with Kindles — all of them turned on — to prove the devices posed no threat to an airplane's communication system during take-offs and landings, according to the Washington Post, which also notes an Amazon employee ultimately chaired the FAA technical committee investigating the issue. "We've been fighting for our customers on this issue for years," one Amazon executive announced in a press release, " adding that to celebrate the FAA's new change in policy, they're offering a 15% discount today on most Kindles. The Post notes that "it's still eyebrow-raising that a company with the most commercial interest in the outcome of a panel's report would directly oversee the scientific content of that report." But the biggest winner is probably Alec Baldwin, who two years ago appeared on Saturday Night Live as a pilot who argued that the policy was "just a cruel joke perpetrated by the airline industry... and we would’ve gotten away with it, but Alec Baldwin was just too smart for us.!

Submission + - Silicon Valley could be heading for a new stock collapse. (businessinsider.com)

Submitted by billcarson
billcarson writes: Even though for most of us the recession is far from over, analysts are worried the technology sector might be heading for its next bubble. Technology stocks are at records highs at the moment. Companies that have no sound business plan have no difficulty in raising capital to fund their crazy dreams. Even Yahoo is again buying companies without real profit (Tumblr). Andreessen Horowitz, a major venture capitalist in Silicon Valley is already pulling up the ladder. Might this be an indicator for more woe to come?
Intel

Submission + - An intro to hardware-assisted virtualisation features on modern CPUs (anchor.com.au)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Ever wondered how VT-x, VT-d, SR-IOV and other hardware virtualisation features work on modern CPUs? Anchor's sysadmins did, so they went and found out, then wrote it up.

It assumes a reasonable level of understanding at the OS-to-hardware level, but it otherwise understandable and clear enough to follow and get the benefits.
Bug

Submission + - New Program to Squash Key Bugs in LibreOffice (ostatic.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: A program called EasyHacks has helped iron out bugs in LibreOffice through organized QA efforts. Another such attempt is the HardHacks program.

Submission + - Why We Stopped Raising Until We No Longer Need The Money (techfounder.net)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Popular belief for startups states that launching a product before raising money is always a good idea. This article introduces the funding paradox — how you need money to raise money with a launched product.

Comment Re:Problem with literal interpretation (Score 1) 1014

by RicRoc (#37177576) Attached to: Evangelical Scientists Debate Creation Story

This is the (beginning of the) age of maturity of mankind: interpret scripture yourself.

Before the return of Christ, there were rabbis, priests, mullahs, gurus, etc to guide the faithful. But now, God expects us to grow up and deal with multiple interpretations, seek out truth independently, consult with others as equals, and come to our own understanding.

Comment Problem with literal interpretation (Score 0) 1014

by RicRoc (#37176802) Attached to: Evangelical Scientists Debate Creation Story

A literal interpretation of holy writings soon leads to confusion, obscures the truth, and makes it unnecessarily hard for rational individuals to realize the spiritual truths enshrined therein.

The stories of Adam and Eve, Noah, Moses provide spiritual teachings, such as: “God the Creator”, “God the Protector”, “God the Provider” - they are not historical accounts.

In this day, now that Christ has returned, such stories, and the teachings they provide can be viewed as the necessary steps and fundamental building blocks of our current task: to build the Kingdom of God on Earth.

PS. The return of Christ: http://www.uhj.net/bahaullah.html

Submission + - Leap, Laugh, Levitate (teega.com)

Submitted by rajuda
rajuda writes: Recently, I happened to see on TV a strange spectacle. Scores of people at a congregation were trying to levitate. And the saffron clad guru was egging them on. It was hilarious.
Google

Submission + - Google Says Smartphone Sites ArenÃÂÂ (practicalecommerce.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Perhaps you’ve noticed the lack of mobile sites in your mobile search results. Most likely you’re using a smartphone. The two are closely related, and bode poorly for ecommerce companies focusing search-engine-optimization resources on their smartphone sites. In a recent question-and-answer session, Google’s John Mueller, webmaster trends analyst, highlighted the core challenge: Smartphone content is not “mobile” content by Google’s definition.
Robotics

Submission + - New Nao robot and $15 million investment (i-programmer.info)

Submitted by mikejuk
mikejuk writes: Everyone's favourite robot, Aldebaran's Nao, has received two important boosts to its success. There's a new and improved model and an investment of $15 million towards further development.
With plans for a human sized robot in the near future Nao could be the development platform that produces the software for real robots.

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