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Comment eBay (Score 1) 414

by Nagilum23 (#39468559) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: How Do You Manage Your Personal Data?
Repeat:
Buy a new 2TB drive, copy your data from your smallest drives to that one, then sell them at eBay.
until you have all your data on new 2TB drives
At the end you should have money for an extra drive.
If you like (and use Linux) you can start a RAID5 with one drive (+1 missing), copy your data onto it, then add another drive, do a reshape, migrate your data...
And at the end add the last drive to regain redundancy..
EU

European Parliament Blocks Copyright Reform With 113% Voter Turnout 297

Posted by samzenpus from the vote-often dept.
New submitter mcmadman writes "In a bizarre turn of events, the legal affairs committee of the European Parliament, voted to weaken a reform of the copyright monopoly for allowing re-publication and access to orphan works. What is surprising is that the voter turnout happened to be 113%. That there were three votes too many, and that these three votes determined the outcome, was pointed out to the committee. Unfortunately, when this was done, along with formally requesting a re-vote, the re-vote was denied."
Botnet

Anonymous Supporters Tricked Into Installing Trojan 184

Posted by Soulskill from the if-you-can't-beat-'em-subsume-'em dept.
dsinc sends this quote from a Symantec report: "In 2011, dozens of Anonymous members who participated in distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks in support of Anonymous hacktivism causes were arrested. In these DDoS attacks, supporters using the Low Orbit Ion Cannon denial-of-service (DoS) tool would voluntarily include their computer in a botnet for attacks in support of Anonymous. In the wake Anonymous member arrests this week, it is worth highlighting how Anonymous supporters have been deceived into installing Zeus botnet clients purportedly for the purpose of DoS attacks. The Zeus client does perform DoS attacks, but it doesn’t stop there. It also steals the users' online banking credentials, webmail credentials, and cookies. The deception of Anonymous supporters began on January 20, 2012, the day of the FBI Megaupload raid."
United States

US Defunds UNESCO After Palestine Vote 735

Posted by Soulskill from the in-the-case-of-politics-v-science dept.
gzipped_tar writes "The U.S. withdrew funding after the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization's Palestine membership vote yesterday. The decision was triggered by a 1994 US law that requires financial ties to be cut with any UN agency that accords the Palestinians full membership. As Palestine actively pursues entrance to other UN agencies, the defunding list could grow. Interestingly, World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) could also be among Palestine's next target, and U.S. is the big supporter of WIPO. A much more disturbing scenario is Palestine joining the International Atomic Energy Agency, cutting American funding to the organization that monitors nuclear proliferation in states like Iran."
The Almighty Buck

White House Proposes "Wealthy Tax" 2115

Posted by samzenpus from the ante-up dept.
President Obama is proposing a new tax rate for people making over $1m a year. The new rate is part of a larger plan which seeks to bring in $1.5 trillion in new tax revenue and is sure to meet opposition in congress. From the article: "The core of the president's plan totals just more than $2 trillion in deficit reduction over 10 years. It combines the new taxes with $580 billion in cuts to mandatory benefit programs, including $248 billion from Medicare." GOP Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin said, "Class warfare may make for really good politics but it makes for rotten economics."
NASA

New NASA Data Casts Doubt On Global Warming Models 954

Posted by timothy from the but-scientists-love-models dept.
bonch writes "Satellite data from NASA covering 2000 through 2011 cast doubt on current computer models predicting global warming, according to a new study. The data shows that much less heat is retained by carbon dioxide in the earth's atmosphere than is assumed in current models. 'There is a huge discrepancy between the data and the forecasts that is especially big over the oceans,' said Dr. Roy Spencer, a co-author of the study and research scientist at the University of Alabama." Note: the press release about the study is somewhat less over the top.
Debian

Lennart Poettering: BSD Isn't Relevant Anymore 460

Posted by timothy from the fightin'-words dept.
halfaperson writes "In an interview with LinuxFr.org, Lennart Poettering speaks freely about his creations, PulseAudio, Avahi and systemd among other things. Naturally, what has stirred up most of the discussions online is Lennart's opinions on BSD. Following the recent proposal to make Gnome a Linux-exclusive desktop, Lennart explains that he thinks BSD support is holding back a lot of Free Software development. He says this while also taking a stab at Debian kFreeBSD: 'Debian kFreeBSD is a toy OS, people really shouldn't misunderstand that.'"
Supercomputing

Could Wikipedia Become a Supercomputer? 165

Posted by timothy from the aggregating-overhead dept.
An anonymous reader writes "Large websites represent an enormous resource of untapped computational power. This short post explains how a large website like Wikipedia could give a tremendous contribution to science, by harnessing the computational power of its readers' CPUs and help solve difficult computational problems." It's an interesting thought experiment, at least — if such a system were practical to implement, what kind of problems would you want it chugging away at?
Open Source

E-Voting Reform In an Out Year? 218

Posted by timothy from the your-session-has-expired-please-log-in dept.
An anonymous reader writes "Most of us know the many problems with electronic voting systems. They are closed source and hackable, some have a default candidate checked, and many are unauditable (doing a recount is equivalent to hitting a browser's refresh button). But these issues only come to our attention around election time. Now is the time to think about open source voting, end-to-end auditable voting systems and open source governance. Not in November of 2012, when it will, once again, be far, far too late to do anything about it." It'll be interesting to see what e-voting oddities start cropping up in the current election cycle; Republican straw polls have already started, and the primaries kick off this winter.

Comment Re:Maybe they just don't need the fix! (Score 1) 103

by Nagilum23 (#36511426) Attached to: SSL/TLS Vulnerability Widely Unpatched
It's not maybe, it either you need it or you dont! And for the vast majority it's the latter.

it's disabled by default, so it's not a matter of re-enabling it. Besides there is no patch for stupidity.

I could turn that around and say those who blindly always install the latest stuff probably don't know what they really need or do.
New code often means new bugs.

But in this case it only makes sense to warn if the server asks for renegotiation and only accepts an unsecure renegotiation. Browsers can/should warn about that right now.(and maybe they already do)
Of course most SSL connections/servers don't require a renegotiation so for most unpatched servers this will be no problem (as it is security wise).

Comment Maybe they just don't need the fix! (Score 1) 103

by Nagilum23 (#36509986) Attached to: SSL/TLS Vulnerability Widely Unpatched
You are only vulnerable if you combine (for example) client certificate authentication and unprotected but SSL secured stuff on the same webserver process. Only then the server needs to do a renegotiation otherwise you don't need to enable renegotiations (it's disabled by default in Apache). So I'm pretty sure very few sites actually need that and are perfectly fine/secure with what they have.
Australia

Aussie Climate Scientists Receiving Death Threats 638

Posted by samzenpus from the warming-up-to-you dept.
An anonymous reader writes "With the Australian parliament beginning the debate on setting a carbon price, climate scientists are reporting an increase in threatening phone calls and even death threats. The threats are serious enough that several universities have increased security for their ecology and meteorology researchers. The Australian government is seeking to introduce a carbon tax by July 2012."

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