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Submission + - Vendor aims to 'cloak' WEP...

Submitted by

Ant

on Sunday April 08, 2007 @07:56PM

Ant writes: "This three page NetworkWorld news story says Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) could be safe again. AirDefense is developing a sofware that will insert fake frames into the air that the attacker thinks are real, and this messes up the statistical analysis of the attacker. Seen in a Broadband Reports' wireless security forum thread."

Submission + - How the BBC Micro Educated Britain

Submitted by Gammu on Sunday March 11, 2007 @03:50AM

Gammu writes: Unlike the North American computer market in the late seventies and early eighties, Britain was largely dominated by domestic companies. Beginning with the early eighties, the BBC selected a computer that schools schools would use for more than a decade, not unlike the Apple II, the BBC Micro. The computer was the BBC Micro and was the subject of a massive computer literacy program in Britain and the Commonwealth.

Submission + - Josh Wolf and Shield Laws

Submitted by

PaulLev

on Sunday March 11, 2007 @03:15AM

PaulLev writes: "http://www.paullevinson.net/archives/free_josh_wol f.phtml Josh Wolf sits in a prison in California. His "crime"? — refusal to turn over his videotapes to a Grand Jury. Another victim of the failure of Congress to enact a Federal shield law."

Alternatives To SF.net's CompileFarm? 186

Posted by kdawson on Sunday March 11, 2007 @03:07AM from the in-search-of-iron dept.

cronie writes "Not long ago, SourceForge.net announced the shutdown of the Compile Farm — a collection of computers running a wide variety of OSes, available for compiling and testing open source projects. SF.net stated their resources 'are best used at this time in improving other parts' of the service. I consider this sad news for the OSS community, because portability is one of the strengths of OSS, and not many of us have access to such a variety of platforms to compile and test our software on. As a consequence, I expect many projects dropping support for some of the platforms they can't get access to. Are there any sound alternatives with at least some popular OS/hardware combinations? Any plans to create one? (Perhaps Google or IBM might come up with something?)"

Submission + - New Mexico secedes, might declare Pluto Planet

Submitted by

pease1

on Saturday March 10, 2007 @10:46PM

pease1 writes: "Wired and others are reporting for New Mexico, the fight for Pluto is not over. Seven months after a conclave of scientists downgraded the distant heavenly body to a "dwarf planet," a state representative in New Mexico aims to give the snubbed world back some of its respect. State lawmakers will vote Tuesday on a bill that proposes "as Pluto passes overhead through New Mexico's excellent night skies, it be declared a planet." Actual wording of the resolution.

For many of us old timers and those who had the honor of meeting Clyde, this just causes a belly of laughs and is pure fun. Not to mention a bit of poking sticking in the eye."

Subliminal Messages Might Actually Work 172

Posted by kdawson on Saturday March 10, 2007 @10:17PM from the buy-popcorn-now dept.

GrumpySimon writes "New research indicates that subliminal messages may actually work. In a paper titled Attentional Load Modulates Responses of Human Primary Visual Cortex to Invisible Stimuli, Bahrani et al. demonstrate that even though stimuli may not be available to consciousness, they are processed by the visual cortex. While I'm sure that marketing agencies all over the world are rubbing their hands in glee at this news, the authors report that there's no evidence that this can make people buy things against their will. So with any luck the use of subliminal messages in advertising will remain an urban legend."

Submission + - Hans Reiser up for trial

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 10, 2007 @01:11PM

An anonymous reader writes: According to German IT news site http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/86524 , Hans Reiser will soon be up for trial.

The content of the link, Babelfished and slightly polished, reads as follows:

The namesake and creator of the file systems ReiserFS and Reiser4, Hans Reiser, will probably have to appear in front of a California court shortly, due to the accusation of murder. Reiser has been behind bars since the middle of October 2006, after his wife Nina at the end of of Septembers living in separation disappeared without trace. In house and car of the Linux programmer traces of his wife's blood were found.

Although the police could not find a corpse, the judge found that there are sufficient reasons to believe that Reiser must have been at least involved in the disappearing of his wife. For example is still missing the passenger seat of Reisers car, which was removed short time after Nina Reisers disappearing. Reisers lawyer assumes now within the next 90 days officially accusation is raised against its mandator.

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