DisownedSky - Slashdot User

Submission + - Darkleaks: An Online Black Market For Selling Secrets

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 19, 2015 @10:38AM

An anonymous reader writes: Whistleblowers and those individuals that are simply out to make a buck out of any confidential and valuable information, can now offer it for sale on Darkleaks, a decentralized, anonymous black market on the Internet. The Darkleaks project is built on top of the Bitcoin blockchain, and can be used by downloading this software package (source code is open).

Submission + - Resistant Bacterial Infection outbreak at California Hospital (go.com)

Submitted by puddingebola on Thursday February 19, 2015 @10:13AM

puddingebola writes: From the article, " A potentially deadly "superbug" resistant to antibiotics has infected seven patients, including two who died, and more than 160 others were exposed at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center through contaminated medical instruments, the hospital revealed. The drug-resistant superbug known as CRE was likely transmitted to the Los Angeles patients by contaminated medical scopes during endoscopic procedures that took place between October 2014 and January 2015, a university statement said. " UCLA says the infections occurred via contaminated endoscopes that were sterilized according to the manufacturer's specifications.

Submission + - Tens of thousands of home routers at risk with duplicate SSH keys

Submitted by alphadogg on Thursday February 19, 2015 @10:07AM

alphadogg writes: A setup mistake has apparently left hundreds of thousands of home routers running the SSH (Secure Shell) remote access tool with identical private and public keys. John Matherly, founder of a specialized search engine company whose technology is used for querying Internet-connected devices, found more than 250,000 devices that appear to be deployed by Telefónica de España sharing the same public SSH key. A different search found another 150,000 devices, mostly in China and Taiwan, that have the same problem. Matherly said in a phone interview on Wednesday it is possible the manufacturers copied the same operating system image to all of the routers.

Submission + - Samsung buying LoopPay; competes head-on with Apple Pay and Google Wallet. (cnet.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 19, 2015 @10:01AM

An anonymous reader writes: Samsung is buying our major Apple Pay and Google Wallet competitor LoopPay. The major advantage this has over the two alternatives is that this works with existing POS card readers, so it's already accepted everywhere Apple Pay and Google Wallet are trying to get to. Not being an Apple fan and not trusting Google to store all my financial data on their servers, this alone would make me switch to a Samsung phone.

Journal Journal: Let's Go explore Venus!

Journal by DisownedSky on Thursday January 22, 2015 @11:25AM

I spoke to scientists David Grinspoon and Geoff Landis about Venus exploration: why, when and how.

Journal Journal: Fossil Microbial Mats on Mars?

Journal by DisownedSky on Monday December 22, 2014 @01:15PM

Maybe.

Journal Journal: What I did for last Towel Day

Journal by DisownedSky on Tuesday November 25, 2014 @02:31PM

A Douglas Adams Roundtable. Sorry about Nicholas Joll's terrible audio, but I believe you can make out what he's saying.
I have to say, Skype conferences are not great for podcasting.

Journal Journal: The Wow! Signal on the Wow! Signal

Journal by DisownedSky on Tuesday November 25, 2014 @11:38AM

The Wow! Signal podcast finally covers the August 1977 event it is named after, with guest Bob Dixon, who was instrumental in bringing the Ohio State Big Ear radio telescope to bear on SETI. We also learn about Argus, which if built full scale could potentially detect many such signals.

Journal Journal: A new scientifically minded UFO Podcast 1

Journal by DisownedSky on Thursday July 24, 2014 @02:18PM

I am helping to produce a new podcast: API Case Files. This is not your usual entertainment oriented woo woo show, but a show by UFO Investigators about UFO Investigation.
BTW, I know the website's not pretty, but the guy who volunteered to be the webmaster has not been on it.

Comment Re:Budget Cuts and the JWT (Score 3, Interesting) 185

by DisownedSky on Wednesday February 16, 2011 @05:27PM (#35225110) Attached to: How To Build a Telescope That Trumps Hubble

A 64 million dollar cut isn't much at JWST's burn rate. It's not being thrown under the bus at all. In fact, it's eaten all the money intended for other, equally worthy space science mission. Realistically, it isn't going to launch until 2015 at the earliest (my money's on 2016) and will cost much more than it's current massive overrun.

Famous British Autism Study an 'Elaborate Fraud' 813

Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday January 06, 2011 @11:10AM from the someone-alert-jenny-mccarthy dept.

Charliemopps writes "An investigation published by the British medical journal BMJ concludes the study's author, Dr. Andrew Wakefield, misrepresented or altered the medical histories of all 12 of the patients whose cases formed the basis of the 1998 study — and that there was 'no doubt' Wakefield was responsible."

Journal Article On Precognition Sparks Outrage 319

Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday January 06, 2011 @09:50AM from the but-magic-is-fun dept.

thomst writes "The New York Times has an article (cookies and free subscription required) about the protests generated by The Journal of Personality and Social Psychology's decision to accept for publication later this year an article (PDF format) on precognition (the Times erroneously calls it ESP). Complaints center around the peer reviewers, none of whom is an expert in statistical analysis."

Apple Support Company Sues Customer For Complaint 292

Posted by samzenpus on Monday January 03, 2011 @12:59AM from the if-you-don't-have-anything-nice-to-say dept.

tekgoblin writes "An Apple authorized Service Provider called System Graph is suing a customer who complained online about poor service from them. The customer Dimitrios Papadimitriadis took his iMac to them because he was seeing gray spots on his LED panel. The Greek company System Graph recommended a full interior cleaning of the iMac and performed the service for Dimitrios. He then got his iMac back and noticed moisture behind the screen and that it still did not work properly and took it back to the repair center. System Graph then told him that they needed to keep his iMac to replace the LED screen and he would be without it for another week.

Scientists Decipher 3-Billion-Year-Old Genomic Fossils 217

Posted by Soulskill on Monday December 20, 2010 @11:10PM from the long-time-gone dept.

hnkstrprnkstr writes "MIT scientists have created a sort of genomic fossil (abstract) that shows the collective genome of all life underwent an enormous expansion about 3 billion years ago, which they're calling the Archean Expansion. Many of the new genes appearing in the Archean Expansion are oxygen related, and could be the first biological evidence of the Great Oxidation Event, the period in Earth's history when oxygen became so plentiful that many anaerobic life forms may have become extinct."

Military Pressuring Vendors On IPv6 406

Posted by Soulskill on Monday December 20, 2010 @08:19PM from the small-arms-fire-can-be-a-powerful-motivator dept.

netbuzz writes "US military officials are threatening IT suppliers with the loss of military business if they don't use their own wares to start deploying IPv6 on their corporate networks and public-facing Web services immediately. 'We are pressing our vendors in any way we can,' says Ron Broersma, DREN Chief Engineer and a Network Security Manager for the Navy's Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command. 'We are competing one off against another. If they want to sell to us, we're asking them: Are you using IPv6 features in your own products on your corporate networks? Is your public Web site IPv6 enabled? We've been doing this to all of the vendors.'"

Slashdot Top Deals