Comment Re:Solution (Score 4, Funny) 357
Just release the loading screen and put the *whole* game in DLC!
Comment Different continent? (Score 0, Offtopic) 134
Why should an asian company care for "an arm of the Center for American Progress" that, according to wikipedia, is "dedicated to improving the lives of Americans through progressive ideas and action."?
Comment Engineering != Selection (Score 1) 840
The title suggests genetic engineering, but the article in fact talks about selection: you don't build a child to be sure he won't become an alcoholist, you discard him if the tests say that he could grow into an alcoholist.
How that would be realized? En masse switching to in vitro fecundation? Widening of the reasons for which you can have a therapeutic abortion?
Comment Re:Romney - VOTE FOR YOUR FUTURE (Score -1, Offtopic) 434
Are you sick of seeing the family down the street sit home all day, eating McDonalds and waiting for the mailman to come with the precious government check containing your money?
Do you believe health care should be earned and payed for and not given away to the dregs of society who abuse their bodies daily and expect us to foot the bill for them
No, I sit home all day eating McDonalds, abusing my body and waiting for the mailman to come with the precious government check containing your money, so I'm fine with that.
Thank you for your money!
Comment Other uses? (Score -1, Troll) 291
Can it predict US soldiers urinating on dead bodies, burning the koran or going on killing spree against harmless villagers?
Comment Re:Arrrgh (Score 2) 208
It's both.
From dictionary.com :
methodology
1. a set or system of methods, principles, and rules for regulating a given discipline, as in the arts or sciences.
2. Philosophy
a. the underlying principles and rules of organization of a philosophical system or inquiry procedure.
b. the study of the principles underlying the organization of the various sciences and the conduct of scientific inquiry.
Comment Just check the two groups. (Score 1, Funny) 493
If they overlap enough, it's a sign that climate change is real.
Comment Obligatory xkcd (Score -1) 189
Comment Re:potential iffyness (Score 5, Informative) 148
The goal is to make Bing the search engine most used by people looking for copyrighted content, since they could not find it on Google anymore.
Google should simply submit the same take down notice to Microsoft if the "illegal" link is found on Bing too.
Comment Re:Facebook (Score 2) 222
"If I have a choice of investing in a blockbuster cancer drug that will pay me nothing for ten years, at best, whereas social media will go big in two years, what do you think I'm going to pick?"
FB is helping the world more than a cancer drug? Really?
"Sorry dude, your illness should have been cured by now, but nobody is developing new drugs anymore. Anyway, you can still play Farmsville while you're waiting to die"
Comment Andy Warhol (Score 1) 235
"In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes, except stone-throwing chimps, that will be for 30."
Comment Re:I can't even (Score 4, Insightful) 118
If you won't be able to find porn on the internet anymore, they assume you'll buy their newspaper to see some boobs.
Submission + - Are Open Source Libraries Any More Vulnerable Than Closed Source? (networkworld.com)
colinneagle writes: My friend and Network World editor, Ellen Messmer posted an article yesterday about the results of an analysis by Aspect Security of the Central Repository maintained by Sonatype. The study was announced by Aspect and Sonatype yesterday. Both the study and Ellen's article have set off a bit of a firestorm in both the open source and security communities about the security or lack thereof of open source libraries and components.
As noted in Ellen's article some of the biggest libraries that are used and have known vulnerabilities are Google Web Toolkit (GWT); Apache Xerces; Spring MVC; and Struts 1.x.
The buzz with the release of the study and Ellen's article is calling into question whether open source is any more or less secure than closed source code. Another issue is whether or not open source companies and authors are vigilant in closing holes and insecurities in their code. I spoke with Wayne Jackson, CEO of Sonatype, the company that maintains the Central Repository which was the subject of this study. I know Jackson from his days as CEO of Sourcefire. Wayne is a long time supporter and believer in open source.
Wayne told me that people looking at this study and using it to say that open source is less secure than closed source are mistaken. There are vulnerabilities in just about all code and libraries. The fact that this study saw so much use of vulnerable libraries is more about the popularity and wide spread usage of open source than whether it is more or less secure. To Jackson, that is the real finding of this study. Look how many applications and enterprises use open source libraries and components. It is pretty ubiquitous.
As noted in Ellen's article some of the biggest libraries that are used and have known vulnerabilities are Google Web Toolkit (GWT); Apache Xerces; Spring MVC; and Struts 1.x.
The buzz with the release of the study and Ellen's article is calling into question whether open source is any more or less secure than closed source code. Another issue is whether or not open source companies and authors are vigilant in closing holes and insecurities in their code. I spoke with Wayne Jackson, CEO of Sonatype, the company that maintains the Central Repository which was the subject of this study. I know Jackson from his days as CEO of Sourcefire. Wayne is a long time supporter and believer in open source.
Wayne told me that people looking at this study and using it to say that open source is less secure than closed source are mistaken. There are vulnerabilities in just about all code and libraries. The fact that this study saw so much use of vulnerable libraries is more about the popularity and wide spread usage of open source than whether it is more or less secure. To Jackson, that is the real finding of this study. Look how many applications and enterprises use open source libraries and components. It is pretty ubiquitous.
Submission + - FBI Taught Agents They Could 'Bend or Suspend the Law' | Danger Room | Wired.com (wired.com)
politkal writes: According to the FBI's internal inquiry on counterterrorism training, the FBI taught agents that the Bureau "has the ability to bend or suspend the law to impinge on the freedoms of others"; that agents should "never attempt to shake hands with an Asian"; that Arabs were "prone to outbursts" of a "Jekyll & Hyde" nature.
Submission + - Google is being pressured by UK govt to make it easier to delete links (bbc.co.uk)
politkal writes: "An influential group of UK lawmakers has called on Google to introduce an algorithm to remove search links found to be in breach of privacy — or face legislation to force it to do so.
It follows complaints from ex-Formula One boss Max Mosley about the difficulty he faced in getting a video removed from the internet.
The search giant argued it was not its job to monitor net content.
The cross-party committee said this argument was "totally unconvincing".
The report by a committee of MPs and peers was commissioned by the government to look into privacy and free speech issues after a series of high profile super-injunctions were made public last year.
Celebrities including Ryan Giggs found that gagging orders against newspapers were routinely flouted online. In Mr Giggs' case, the details of his super-injunction were mentioned at least 75,000 times on Twitter, the committee said.
Its report said that online firms needed to be brought in line with offline media in such cases.
"We recommend that, when granting an injunction, courts should be proactive in directing the claimant to serve notice on internet content platforms such as Twitter and Facebook," it said.
Some of the harshest criticism was reserved for Google.
"Where an individual has obtained a clear court order that certain material infringes their privacy and so should not be published, we do not find it acceptable that he or she should have to return to court repeatedly in order to remove the same material from internet searches," the report said."
more at the source url...
It follows complaints from ex-Formula One boss Max Mosley about the difficulty he faced in getting a video removed from the internet.
The search giant argued it was not its job to monitor net content.
The cross-party committee said this argument was "totally unconvincing".
The report by a committee of MPs and peers was commissioned by the government to look into privacy and free speech issues after a series of high profile super-injunctions were made public last year.
Celebrities including Ryan Giggs found that gagging orders against newspapers were routinely flouted online. In Mr Giggs' case, the details of his super-injunction were mentioned at least 75,000 times on Twitter, the committee said.
Its report said that online firms needed to be brought in line with offline media in such cases.
"We recommend that, when granting an injunction, courts should be proactive in directing the claimant to serve notice on internet content platforms such as Twitter and Facebook," it said.
Some of the harshest criticism was reserved for Google.
"Where an individual has obtained a clear court order that certain material infringes their privacy and so should not be published, we do not find it acceptable that he or she should have to return to court repeatedly in order to remove the same material from internet searches," the report said."
more at the source url...
