I must say...it is a perversion of justice, puns not intended.

I may need to write to one of my local reps, Zoe Lofgren who's working to change the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act to make it "less vague" and have her add some other reforms.
Sure, "hacking" for vigilantism is wrong and two wrongs don't make it right, but neither does three: throwing the book at Deric Lostutter.

heck, that guy in texas who killed that escort got less

So...from the article:

Before Interxion started the project, its energy bills were about $2.6 million a year to cool 1 megawatt of IT load. Today, its energy bill is $5.4 million to cool 5.5 megawatts of IT load, meaning the system has saved it about $1 million a year.

So "today" per 1MW of IT load, it would cost $5.4million / 5.5MW or $981818.18 ( 54/55 million $ per MW or 0.981818182 x million $ per MW)
$2.6 million - $0.98 million > $1 million

Now, if he wanted to cool 5.5MW of IT load, it would cost him $14.3 million with the old method vs $5.4 million with the seawater method.
Even if you account for the cost of the third-party...$14.3 million vs $5.4 million is a big difference.

interesting, the backdoor uses chattr

chattr +i anyone?

just unchattr when you need to update httpd/apache

more interesting is where the hole/holes are in cpanel

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NAT64

Interestingly, it was discussed in a forum topic on Tunnelbroker:
http://www.tunnelbroker.net/forums/index.php?topic=2419.0

He had me at bacon.

At least he doesn't have a middle name that sounds similar to "want" or "like"

It will be interesting to see another platform in the mobile market but we'll see if it will fly or not.

does no one ever read the article anymore?
It was on a test server.....using credentials given by the vendor, Skytech Communications.

...the software vulnerability scan that got him expelled from school was conducted on a test server only, and using credentials provided to him by the company that makes Omnivox: Skytech Communications.

The mere fact that Skytech supposedly gave him a job offer is enough to think that the department has their collective heads up....well..you get the point.

There's a reason why the legendary Weld Pond would be so vocal and would even say "These kind of people right out of college are the kinds of people we want to hire."

According to another article, they upped the signature requirement from 25K to 100K....so let's get the ball-rolling and /. it.

I think directional EMP.

but that's just me

Dunno...DRM failure was predicted many years before that (remember back when the DMCA was just a proposed bill?).

When it was predicted isn't the important part...it is WHO did the predicting; the Palladium team.

then use a different approach...flag it for spam / mass advertising....with all those hyperlinks there...it can be viewed as attempting to do some form of SEO manipulation

Not to mention, WoW and CoD were released long before that patent "Worlds" was filed.

CoD (1st one) was 2003
CoD4:MW was 2007
MW2 was 2009
etc

WoW was 2004
And yes, there have been expansion-packs and such since then.

not a fan of activision/blizzard but I hope they win (and set some form of precedent) or something that leads to a decrease in patent-troll-ism

You sure it was CSIRO's innovation and not recycling of ideas that are otherwise trivial and done by someone else?

I second that also...now if it was emulating the inner workings as well (either via arduino or some other microcontroller or if it was truly 1337 and did working circuits with legos)...then it would be another story.

dunno about this.
I ran into an issue lately that only happens with OpenJDK (specifically OpenJDK's implementation of Java Webstart) which was only remedied by installing .....gawd...loathe to say it..."Oracle" Java and by removing OpenJDK.