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Feds Tighten DNS Security On .Gov 140

Posted by CmdrTaco from the totally-safe-we-promise dept.
alphadogg writes "When you file your taxes online, you want to be sure that the Web site you visit — www.irs.gov — is operated by the Internal Revenue Service and not a scam artist. By the end of next year, you can be confident that every U.S. government Web page is being served up by the appropriate agency. That's because the feds have launched the largest-ever rollout of a new authentication mechanism for the Internet's DNS. All federal agencies are deploying DNS Security Extensions (DNSSEC) on the .gov top-level domain, and some expect that once that rollout is complete, banks and other businesses might be encouraged to follow suit for their sites. DNSSEC prevents hackers from hijacking Web traffic and redirecting it to bogus sites. The Internet standard prevents spoofing attacks by allowing Web sites to verify their domain names and corresponding IP addresses using digital signatures and public-key encryption."
The Internet

Comcast Discontinues Customers' USENET Service 327

Posted by CmdrTaco from the only-a-matter-of-time dept.
An anonymous reader writes "Comcast has discontinued its provided usenet service, once provided to all its high speed customers. First with the cap put on its customers several years ago on amount of traffic provided as part of the customer high-speed package, as of September 16, the service is no longer provided. Without fanfare, this bastion of the internet is being removed from the mainstream."
Space

Submission + - Scientists may have broken speed of light (telegraph.co.uk)

Submitted by silver09
silver09 writes: A pair of German physicists claim to have broken the speed of light — an achievement that would undermine our entire understanding of space and time. The scientists were investigating a phenomenon called quantum tunnelling, which allows sub-atomic particles to break apparently unbreakable laws.
The Internet

Submission + - How much are ad servers slowing down the internet? 2

Submitted by vipermac
vipermac writes: Most the times I have a problem with a web page loading slow (or freezing temporarily), I look down at the status bar and see that it is waiting on an ad server, google analytics, or the like. It seems to me on popular web sites the bottle neck is overwhelmingly on the ad servers now and not on the servers of the main web site itself. In my opinion it seems we need a better model for serving ads or else these services need to add more servers/bandwidth. Are there any studies on the delay that 3rd party ad servers are creating, or any new models that are being introduced to serve ads?
Biotech

Submission + - Scientists discover how to erase memories (pressesc.com) 1

Submitted by
amigoro
amigoro writes: "Neuroscientists have discovered that long-term memories are not etched in a "clay tablet"-like stable form as once thought, but the process is much more dynamic, involving a miniature molecular machine that must run constantly to keep memories going, jamming the machine briefly can erase long-term memories."
Quickies

Submission + - Scientists Discover New Link in Ocean Currents (cnn.com)

Submitted by an.echte.trilingue
an.echte.trilingue writes: CNN is running a story about the discovery of one of the last ocean currents near Tasmania. From the article:

New research shows that a current sweeping past Australia's southern island of Tasmania toward the South Atlantic is a previously undetected part of the world climate system's engine-room, said scientist Ken Ridgway.

The Southern Ocean, which swirls around Antarctica, has been identified in recent years as the main lung of global climate, absorbing a third of all carbon dioxide taken in by the world's oceans.
Republicans

Submission + - Gorge W. Bush is a liar! (treatment-centers.net) 1

Submitted by
kgrohsman
kgrohsman writes: "G.W. Bush supports Attorney General Gonzales as he lies to the Congress; Bush continues to lie to the public about the war in Iraq, as he lied to get support for the war in the first place; Bush and his administration are full of lies. When there was so much debate about Clinton when he overstepped the boundaries of his marriage, which put no one in harm's way, people were calling for his impeachment. Now Bush has lied to send our troops to Iraq, where thousands have died over the years, and now he seems to stand untouchable. He continues to lie about it and justify this needless loss of life, and no one is calling for his impeachment. America's "leadership" is a farce. The concept of the lies and betrayal the Americans have endured from G.W. Bush during his terms in office are outlined in the article, "In Bush We Distrust" at http://treatment-centers.net/blog/bush_lies/."
Microsoft

Submission + - Converting from XP to Ubuntu (ittoolbox.com) 1

Submitted by
madgreek
madgreek writes: "Here is a short story about my switch to Ubuntu from XP at work. I have been Microsoft free for 3 months now at a Microsoft heavy shop. Few people know I am using Open Office and Linux. I create countless documents that people open using Word, Excel, PPT and nobody can tell that they were created using Open Office. http://blogs.ittoolbox.com/eai/madgreek/archives/o pen-source-and-microsoft-free-17339"
Biotech

Submission + - Chernobyl Mushrooms Feeding on Radiation

Submitted by cowtamer
cowtamer writes: According to a National Geographic Article certain fungi can use ionizing radiation to perform "radiosynthesis" using the pigment melanin (the same one in our skin that protects us from UV radiation). It is speculated that this might be useful on long space voyages where energy from the Sun is not readily available.

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