Feed news.com: Junior high students start solar company (com.com)
Blog: Put down the Wii, gentlemen. This is a board meeting.
Submission + - Microsoft logo similar to Ubuntu's?
An anonymous reader writes: Check out these images:
MSA
MSN Spaces
Compare them to this one: Ubuntu
How come they chose to copy Ubuntus logo? Way to go, M$!
MSA
MSN Spaces
Compare them to this one: Ubuntu
How come they chose to copy Ubuntus logo? Way to go, M$!
Submission + - Simple Comm Technique Beats Quantum Crypto
Atario writes: "Spying is big business, and avoiding being spied on an even bigger one. So imagine if someone came up with a simple, cheap way of encrypting messages that is almost impossible to hack into?
American computer engineer Laszlo Kish at Texas A&M University in College Station claims to have done just that. He says the thermal properties of a simple wire can be exploited to create a secure communications channel, one that outperforms quantum cryptography keys."
American computer engineer Laszlo Kish at Texas A&M University in College Station claims to have done just that. He says the thermal properties of a simple wire can be exploited to create a secure communications channel, one that outperforms quantum cryptography keys."
Kaleidescape Triumphant in Court Case, DVD Ripping Ruled Legal 213
Jim Buzbee writes "Ever wanted to rip all your DVDs to a big network server so that you could select and play them back to your TV? Up until now, manufacturers have been wary of building a device to allow this type of usage because they've been afraid a lawsuit. The DVD Copy Control Association had claimed this was contractually forbidden, but now
a judge says otherwise stating, 'nothing in the agreement prevents you from making copies of DVDs. Nothing requires that a DVD be present during playback.' Kaleidescape has finally won their long-standing lawsuit, a case we first talked about early in 2005."
Submission + - Blocking Cyber Squattors
Noishe writes: What do people on slashdot do to block cyber squattors? I've noticed that almost every cybersquatted page I've ever had any interest in is registered with godaddy, and its dns is always hosted at parkN.secureserver.net, where N is some number. Shouldn't it be really easy to block any dns entries hosted by this site? This type of blocking should be built into firefox by default.
Open WAP = Probable Cause? 466
RockoTDF writes "A court in texas has ruled that an open WAP is not a sufficient defense against child pornography charges, a ruling which could carry over to p2p users. In addition, it appears that an open WAP could be seen as probable cause by law enforcement."
Hacked DX10 for Windows Appears 336
Oddscurity writes "According to The Inquirer someone managed to write a wrapper allowing DirectX 10 applications to run on platforms other than Vista. The Alky Project claims to have reverse-engineered Geometry Shader code, allowing Windows games to run on Windows XP, MacOSX and Linux. The Inquirer is understandably cautious about these claims, urging readers to investigate the releases themselves to ascertain whether or not it's a hoax."
Submission + - Slashdot Easter egg in the Opera browser
Submission + - Which Is In Most Need Of An Overhaul?
kaellinn18 writes: "1) The Patent Process
2) Copyright Law
3) The Election Process
4) Military Hierarchy/Branches
5) CowboyNeal's '86 Ford Escort"
Submission + - Database test: 8-way Opteron - Sun X4200 and other
Robbedoeske writes: "Computers with x86-processors come in many shapes and sizes, ranging from ultra-slim notebooks for business folks to neon-pimped desktops for gamers. One of the most excessive members of this family is the Sun Fire X4600, a server that can accommodate up to eight dualcore Opterons in its casing. Compared to this machine, all the gear that we tested earlier looks like a bunch of toys. But is it possible to use sixteen cores effectively? And if so, do things run smoothly enough to justify a price tag of more than 35,000 euros? These are the question we shall be trying to answer in this review."
Submission + - What happaned to the clones?
Noishe writes: We all know about running windows on a Macintosh with bootcamp, but what about running MacOS on an intel machine?
Apple computers are using standard harddrives, video cards, ram, and CPU's.
Does anyone have any experience with getting OSX up and running on an otherwise normal PC? Why haven't motherboard manufacturors introduced clone boards just like they did in the 80's for pc's?
Apple computers are using standard harddrives, video cards, ram, and CPU's.
Does anyone have any experience with getting OSX up and running on an otherwise normal PC? Why haven't motherboard manufacturors introduced clone boards just like they did in the 80's for pc's?
Humans Hardwired to Believe in Supernatural Deity? 1852
dohcrx writes "According to a Sunday New York Times article, 6 in 10 Americans believe in the devil and hell, 7 in 10 believe in angels, heaven and the existence of miracles and life after death, while 92% believe in a personal God. The article explores the possibility that this belief structure may be ingrained into our genetic makeup. 'When a trait is universal, evolutionary biologists look for a genetic explanation and wonder how that gene or genes might enhance survival or reproductive success ... Which is the better biological explanation for a belief in God — evolutionary adaptation or neurological accident? Is there something about the cognitive functioning of humans that makes us receptive to belief in a supernatural deity?'"
Submission + - Does Slashdot traffic pick up when digg's offline?
Daniel Einspanjer writes: "I'm an old Slashdot user, but I have to admit, the only time I've visited in the past year is the few times I was craving tech news and digg.com was down. Does Slashdot see a noticeable spike in traffic when digg is down?"
Xbox Hypervisor Security Protection Hacked 232
ACTRAiSER writes "A recent Post on Bugtraq claims the hack of the Xbox 360 Security Protection Hypervisor. It includes sample code as well."
From Bugtraq
"We have discovered a vulnerability in the Xbox 360 hypervisor that allows
privilege escalation into hypervisor mode. Together with a method to
inject data into non-privileged memory areas, this vulnerability allows
an attacker with physical access to an Xbox 360 to run arbitrary code
such as alternative operating systems with full privileges and full
hardware access."
Teacher Avoids Getting Sent to Siberia For Piracy 252
Piracy Support Line writes "Russian principal Alexander Ponosov will not be visiting Siberia any time soon, at least not for the allegedly illegal Microsoft software that were preloaded on the computers they bought and Microsoft supported the reseller's story. Although Bill Gates rejected Mikhail Gorbachev's personal appeal for mercy on behalf of the teacher, the judge was kinder. Judge Elvira Mosheva decided to dismiss the case because 'Microsoft's financial damage is too insignificant for a criminal investigation.'"
