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Submission + - Buyer's Guide to Full Disk Encryption (esecurityplanet.com)

Submitted by
kongshem
kongshem writes: "Hardly a week goes by without news of a security breach stemming from the loss or theft of a storage medium containing confidential yet unencrypted data. Here's one recent example: http://www.esecurityplanet.com/network-security/california-dccs-suffers-security-breach.html

It begs the question: Why don't more organizations encrypt their hard drives and other storage media? It's compatively painless to do so, as this article explains:

http://www.esecurityplanet.com/mobile-security/buyers-guide-to-full-disk-encryption.html"
Cloud

Submission + - Features in Cloud Storage for Developers

Submitted by fikicc
fikicc writes: I'm tossing around the idea of entering the already crowded marketplace of cloud storage and file sharing. The difference is that I've noticed a lack of tools that are really useful to developers in this space. So, tell me, what do you think is missing from current file hosting providers and what would make you switch from the solution you're currently using?

Submission + - Geiger Counter in an Airplane (youtube.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Borrowed a Soeks geiger counter from a friend to measure the radiation in the airplane ride from Flint Michigan (layover in Atlanta) and off from Atlanta to San Diego this past Feb. 22, shortly after the Chicago area and San Onfre (near San Diego) nuclear plants both released radioactive steam. I turned it on at 10,000 feet when the pilot announces you can turn electronic devices on. We cruised up to 32.000 feet. Radiation reached approx. 2.85 mcSv/h Microsiverts per hour. Considered Dangerous radiation.
Chrome

Submission + - How To Make Google Chrome Faster (techod.com)

Submitted by TECHOD
TECHOD writes: After I wrote a guide on making Firefox faster, I had few requests to write a tutorial on how to make Google Chrome faster, so here it is!
Chrome is already set up quite well, but there are a few things you can do to make it even faster

The first thing I’m going to cover is the advanced/hidden settings of Chrome. To access these, open a new tab and type “about:flags” into the address bar (without quotation marks).
You will see a list of settings with the word “enable” under each one. Enable the following:

Original article: How To Make Google Chrome Faster
Science

Submission + - Archaeologists Discover Lost Language (scienceworldreport.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Researchers working at Ziyaret Tepe, the probable site of the ancient Assyrian city of Tuhan, believe that the language may have been spoken by deportees originally from the Zagros Mountains, on the border of modern-day Iran and Iraq.

In keeping with a policy widely practised across the Assyrian Empire, these people may have been forcibly moved from their homeland and resettled in what is now south-east Turkey, where they would have been set to work building the new frontier city and farming its hinterland.
Privacy

Submission + - Newt Gingrich loves spam (computerworld.com) 1

Submitted by
richi
richi writes: "Newt Gingrich's Newt 2012 organization is aiding and abetting spammers. Hard to believe, I know, but it turns out his organization is offering targeted email addresses to spammers.

Now that Newt Gingrich has conceded defeat... ahem, sorry, suspended his campaign, Newt 2012 is thought to be at least $4,300,000 in the hole. So, in a bizarre twist of moral logic, it's selling its email lists to spammers."

Submission + - Univ. of Minnesota compiles database of peer-reviewed, open-acces textbooks (insidehighered.com) 1

Submitted by
BigVig209
BigVig209 writes: "Univ. of MN is cataloging open-access textbooks and enticing faculty to review the texts by offering $500 per review. Despite the author calling the open-source rather than open-access, this may be the first time a land-grant, public university makes this kind of resource available to faculty and students."

Submission + - Does Pirahã conform to Chomsky's universal grammar or not? (nature.com)

Submitted by scibri
scibri writes: Pirahã, an obscure language spoken by just 400 people in Brazil, is offering the sternest test yet of Noam Chomsky's theory that humans are hard-wired with a 'universal grammar'. Daniel Everett, a former missionary and linguistic anthropologist who has spent 30 years studying the language, says Pirahã grammar is much more rooted in culture. But another linguist, Uli Sauerland, disagrees, saying he has found evidence of the universal grammar in Pirahã. The dispute highlights the extent to which those working to preserve threatened languages are dependent on the tiny number of researchers who have actually studied them.

Submission + - North Korea Jamming GPS Signals In South Korea (arstechnica.com)

Submitted by
Fluffeh
Fluffeh writes: "North Korea has been looking for new and inventive ways to mess with South Korea. It seems that their missile launch fizzled a bit though, so those wacky folks from the North have bought a few GPS jamming trucks from Russia and are now blocking GPS signals around their city of Kaeson. While Kaeson is around 60 Km inside their borders, the jamming circle is around 100 Km, so it actually covers good parts of South Korea including the airports at Inchon and Gimpo. While no accidents have been caused as yet, it has caused quite some disruption and has made ocean going craft suffer as well due to their heavy reliance on GPS signals."

Submission + - Smartphones making us tired work slaves (itworld.com)

Submitted by bdking
bdking writes: A new enterprise survey shows that "mobile workers" work longer hours than their counterparts. But the extra productivity comes at a cost: Mobile employees report getting less sleep and exercise due to work. That can't be a good thing.
Social Networks

Submission + - PhoneDog hits back over @NoahKravitz Twitter owner (computerworld.com)

Submitted by
richi
richi writes: "Remember the recent hoo-hah about an employer that asked its departing employee to give it back "his" Twitter account? Here's the ex-employee's side of the story and the employer's response, which raises more questions than it answers.

As you may recall, the employer," PhoneDog Media (PDM)," wants its ex-employee, Noah Kravitz," to hand over the password to his Twitter account, and pay damages of $2.50 per month for each of its 17,000 followers. The eight months between the end of the employment and the lawsuit make a total of $340,000. Yes, three hundred and forty thousand dollars."
Censorship

Submission + - EU Speaks Back About US Censorship

Submitted by bs0d3
bs0d3 writes: EU Speaks Back About US Censorship

The EU Parliament has adopted, "by a large majority," a statement warning the US to refrain "from unilateral measures to revoke IP addresses or domain names" due to the "need to protect the integrity of the global internet and freedom of communications." This resolution highlights both the practices prescribed in SOPA/PIPA... but also the actions of Homeland Security and ICE in seizing domain names. By adopting a resolution against domains seizures the European Parliament recognizes the dangerous precedent the pending SOPA legislation would set, and it wouldn’t be a surprise if more foreign criticism follows. No country should have the ability to simply take over international domain names, and surely the US would feel the same if this plan was put in motion by a foreign country. Or as some 60 press freedom and human rights advocate groups put it in their letter to the US representatives: "This is as unacceptable to the international community as it would be if a foreign country were to impose similar measures on the United States."

Submission + - How to Ditch the Grid With a Woodstove and a $100 (motherboard.tv) 3

Submitted by HansonMB
HansonMB writes: Given one of my more immediate life goals is to be living in a somewhat self-contained cabin somewhere far away from all of this — yet still have a way to keep my deer meat frozen and my laptop charged — the Volo Stirling engine is very relevant to my interests. Basically, it’s a lot like an internal combustion engine, except instead of the heat coming from inside the engine via exploding gasoline, the heat comes from outside the engine, like from a woodstove. It’s an old concept, dating back to 1812, that got shoved to the side with the advent of the grid and the internal combustion engine. Detroiter Tim Sefton and his Volo Designs are aiming to bring it back, with plans to have a consumer-ready Stirling engine capable of generating a household’s worth of electricity ready by spring 2012, for less than $100.
China

Submission + - China Blocking The Tor Tunnels In Its Firewall? (forbes.com)

Submitted by nonprofiteer
nonprofiteer writes: In recent months, administrators of services with encrypted connections designed to allow users secure remote access say they’ve seen strange activity coming from China: When a user from within the country attempts to reach a server abroad, a string of seemingly random data hits the destination computer before he or she can connect, sometimes followed by that user’s communication being mysteriously dropped.

The anti-censorship and anonymity service Tor, for instance, has found that many of its “bridge nodes”–privately-placed servers around the world designed to connect users to the rest of Tor’s public network of traffic re-routing computers–have become inaccessible to Chinese users within hours or even minutes of being set up

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