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Submission + - Water droplets in orbit on the International Space Station (physicscentral.com)

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BuzzSkyline
BuzzSkyline writes: "Astronaut Don Pettit, who is aboard the International Space Station (ISS) right now, put charged water droplets into wild orbits around a knitting needle in the microgravity environment of the ISS. A video he made of the droplets is the first in a serious of freefall physics experiments that he will be posting in coming months."
The Internet

Submission + - NFL Issues False DMCA Take Down of Chrysler Ad? (jalopnik.com)

Submitted by fostytou
fostytou writes: The NFL issued a DMCA takedown of a Chrysler ad from last night's superbowl. This caused an incredible amount of lost viewership as well as losing ranking on most-viewed lists which can often offer millions of future advertising at no cost to the advertiser. The potential cost to Chrysler is significant.

The obvious parallel to SOPA / ACTA is exactly why these types of bills must be considered very carefully.
Microsoft

Submission + - Microsoft to shake-up Windows 8 Start screen (pcpro.co.uk)

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nk497
nk497 writes: "Microsoft is set to tweak the Windows 8 Start screen after receiving "visceral" feedback on a Windows blog about the version shown off in the developer preview. The Windows 8 Start screen currently defaults to the new, tile-based Metro interface. More controversially, when users click on the Start button in the tradtional Windows desktop, they are immediately thrown back to the Metro screen.

Next month's beta will reveal changes to (hopefully) improve that, said general manager of platform strategy, Tim O'Brien. "Some of the changes you'll see on the Start screen are based on feedback from developers on that blog," O'Brien explained."
Crime

Submission + - NYPD Developing Portable Body Scanner for Detectin (gizmag.com)

Submitted by Zothecula
Zothecula writes: You have to feel sorry for the police officers who are required to frisk people for guns or knives — after all, if someone who doesn't want to be arrested is carrying a lethal weapon, the last thing that most of us would want to do is get close enough to that person to touch them. That's why the New York Police Department teamed up with the United States Department of Defense three years ago, and began developing a portable scanner that can remotely detect the presence of a gun on a person's body. The NYPD announced the project this week.
Star Wars Prequels

Submission + - Could a 'Death Star' really destroy a planet? (physorg.com)

Submitted by
aquabats
aquabats writes: "Mirroring many late night caffeine-fueled arguments among Sci-Fi fans, a University of Leicester researcher asks the question:
Could a small moon-sized battle station generate enough energy to destroy an Earth-sized planet?
A paper by David Boulderston (University of Leicester) sets out to answer that very question."
Image

Survey Shows That Fox News Makes You Less Informed 1352

Posted by samzenpus from the fair-balanced-and-simple dept.
A survey of American voters by World Public Opinion shows that Fox News viewers are significantly more misinformed than consumers of news from other sources. One of the most interesting questions was about President Obama's birthplace. 63 percent of Fox viewers believe Obama was not born in the US (or that it is unclear). In 2003 a similar study about the Iraq war showed that Fox viewers were once again less knowledgeable on the subject than average. Let the flame war begin!

Submission + - Google's New Phishing Discovery & Alert Engine (securityweek.com)

Submitted by wiredmikey
wiredmikey writes: In late September, Google announced Google Safe Browsing Alerts for Network Administrators — a tool that enables Autonomous System (AS) owners to receive notifications for malicious content found on their networks. For example, ISPs that host thousands of sites but don’t directly control what’s hosted on those sites, still have an interest in content being hosted on their networks and want to keep their IP’s as clean as possible.

Today, Google announced that they would be adding to phishing URLs to the notification messages. By default, the alert notifications are sent out via email messages. For smaller organizations this may be ideal, but for larger organizations with more URLs and a security infrastructure that is setup to monitor malicious URLs, the system also has an XML notification feature. With the XML feed, organizations can process the phishing and malicious URL notifications by a script, directly into any tools they may use internally.
The Almighty Buck

Submission + - Wikileaks donations account blacklisted (guardian.co.uk) 2

Submitted by Scrameustache
Scrameustache writes: The whistleblowing group WikiLeaks claims that it has had its funding blocked and that it is the victim of financial warfare by the US government.

Moneybookers, a British-registered internet payment company that collects WikiLeaks donations, emailed the organisation to say it had closed down its account because it had been put on an official US watchlist and on an Australian government blacklist.

The apparent blacklisting came a few days after the Pentagon publicly expressed its anger at WikiLeaks and its founder, Australian citizen Julian Assange, for obtaining thousands of classified military documents about the war in Afghanistan.
HP

Submission + - Resistance is NOT Useless (ibtimes.com)

Submitted by RedEaredSlider
RedEaredSlider writes: A technology first conceived of decades ago in a mathematical exercise could be in solid state hard drives in the next three years.

Hewlett-Packard has designed a memory chip that can be made with circuits less than five nanometers across. The circuit is called a memristor, and it allows memory cells to be smaller, by eliminating the need to store electrons the way flash memory does.
Google

Submission + - Google Releases Chrome 6, Pays $4337 in Bounties (threatpost.com)

Submitted by Trailrunner7
Trailrunner7 writes: Google has released a new version of its Chrome browser and has included more than a dozen security fixes in the update. The new version, 6.0.472.53, was released two years to the day after the company pushed out the first version of Chrome.

Google Chrome 6 includes patches for 14 total security vulnerabilities, including six high-priority flaws, and the company paid out a total of $4,337 in bug bounties to researchers who reported the vulnerabilities. A number of the flaws that didn't qualify for bug bounties were discovered by members of Google's internal security team.

Comment Re:The moral of the story... (Score 1) 311

by StuDude (#26291611) Attached to: Microsoft Uses WGA To Obtain Record Jail Sentences

No, you are right.

Some of us have massive social welfare programs, lifestyle subsidies, and wealth re-distributions to pay for.

You are under no obligation to arrange your affairs to MAXIMIZE your tax burden.

I can tell you're one of those Republican types who actually believe you work harder for the life you currently have than those who have less than you. That because you were priveleged enough to have advantages, such as a family with the resources to send you to college, you somehow deserve more than those who couldn't go.

First off, I am not a Republican (can't stand their social policies) or a Dem. However, I have to say that I DO work harder than many people that I see that have less.

My dad worked in a washing machine factory and as a prison guard. So there was no money for college. I paid for it myself with summer jobs. Went out on my own after college and after I got enough experience, I went into business for myself. I work hard to keep up on all technical stuff so that I have business justification for paying me more...

So, do you stereotype much? Or does flamebait just excite you?
Microsoft

Submission + - HP's CEO declares: "Vista never had its moment (cio.com)

Submitted by
mjasay
mjasay writes: "In a troubling sign for Microsoft, HP's CEO reported on yesterday's earnings call that HP never saw a "Vista moment at any time over the past year," finding its 30% boost in personal systems group earnings in developing markets like China and India that don't have a historical bias toward Microsoft's Windows operating system. This is clearly bad news for Microsoft: a PC world that it no longer controls. HP says that revenue from Brazil, Russia, India and China increased 37 percent; it's now nearing 10 percent of HP's $104.3 billion in sales. As this trend continues for HP, Dell, Sony, and other PC vendors, will Microsoft's stranglehold on the industry finally slip?"
Security

Submission + - WellsFargo using js from akamai.net to log on

Submitted by AllBut6
AllBut6 writes: I attempted to log in to my Wells Fargo online account last night and the initial page displayed a field for my username, but no field to enter my password. After calls to Online Services I discovered that
1. They were sourcing javascript from servers at akamai.net
2. I was only allowing javascript from WellsFargo only. (I block others with the noscript plugin).

Does anyone else think that Wells Fargo should be hosting all the components on their own site. Especially code related to collecting user signon information?
Biotech

Submission + - Drink diet soda, develop metabolic syndrome (newsday.com)

Submitted by
Xemu
Xemu writes: "A study published yesterday in the American Heart Association's online journal Circulation found that people who drink one or more cans of diet soda a day were 48 percent more likely to develop "metabolic syndrome," including excessive abdominal fat, high blood-glucose levels, high blood pressure, high blood triglycerides and low levels of high-density lipoprotein. These conditions are believed to lead to heart disease. Soda makers, in a surprising move, rejects the study."
Television

Submission + - TV DRM freezes LG TV sets in Australia

Submitted by
knorthern knight
knorthern knight writes: "According to this story, tens of thousands of LG customers [ in Australia ] will require a software upgrade for their televisions after the company identified the cause of a mystery glitch that is causing them to freeze. LG says it will need to send technicians to every affected home to perform a "simple software upgrade" but will not be in a position to begin the mammoth task for at least a week.

Several readers of the www.smh.com.au website have written in speculating that the malfunction was caused by Channel Nine switching on encryption — to prevent copying — when screening shows in the high definition (HD) or wide screen formats. This could explain why many readers who reported experiencing the glitch said it happened when they were watching prime time programs broadcast in the HD format, such as CSI."

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