Comment Re:US, nobody gives a shit (Score 1) 310
As a RIAA member, you both owe me money.
Now pay my DRMed monkey musician you bloody pansy deaf mofo.
Now pay my DRMed monkey musician you bloody pansy deaf mofo.
Comment what? (Score 1) 311
Excuse me sir, we don't spy on your business, nor on your private life, we are honest spies!!!
This so called "cybersecurity advisor" is either naive or a blatantly liar...
This so called "cybersecurity advisor" is either naive or a blatantly liar...
Submission + - Facebook on collision course with new EU privacy laws (csmonitor.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Facebook and other US internet companies are faced with a new EU data protection regime, reports, the Christian Science Monitor reports. US concepts of free expression and commerce will battle European support for privacy and state legislation.
Submission + - Scathing article on the destruction of Iraq's once-great universities (thebulletin.org)
__aaqpaq9254 writes: Hugh Gusterson has a devastating article about what has happened to Iraq's once great university system, and puts most of the blame for its total collapse on the US. Regardless of whether you end up agreeing, this is an important and really heartbreaking read.
Submission + - Researchers feel pressure to cite superfluous papers (nature.com)
ananyo writes: One in five academics in a variety of social science and business fields say they have been asked to pad their papers with superfluous references in order to get published. The figures, from a survey published in the journal Science (abstract http://www.sciencemag.org/content/335/6068/542), also suggest that journal editors strategically target junior faculty, who in turn were more willing to acquiesce.
The controversial practice is not new: those studying publication ethics have for many years noted that some editors encourage extra references in order to boost a journal's impact factor (a measure of the average number of citations an article in the journal receives over two years). But the survey is the first to try to quantify what it calls 'coercive citation', and shows that this is “uncomfortably common”. Perhaps the most striking finding of the survey was that although 86% of the respondents said that coercion was inappropriate, and 81% thought it damaged a journal's prestige, 57% said they would add superfluous citations to a paper before submitting it to a journal known to coerce.
However, figures from Thomson Reuters suggest that social-science journals tend to have more self-citations than basic-science journals.
The controversial practice is not new: those studying publication ethics have for many years noted that some editors encourage extra references in order to boost a journal's impact factor (a measure of the average number of citations an article in the journal receives over two years). But the survey is the first to try to quantify what it calls 'coercive citation', and shows that this is “uncomfortably common”. Perhaps the most striking finding of the survey was that although 86% of the respondents said that coercion was inappropriate, and 81% thought it damaged a journal's prestige, 57% said they would add superfluous citations to a paper before submitting it to a journal known to coerce.
However, figures from Thomson Reuters suggest that social-science journals tend to have more self-citations than basic-science journals.
Comment Re:Tablets, Phones, and what's wrong with XP or wi (Score 1) 516
And you leave out a lot of professionals... Photographers, designers, musicians... lot of niches still for the "dying" desktop.
Comment Re:Strange (Score 1) 395
bloody slashdot 2.0 and the Ajax-my-ass everywhere... but you are right!!!!!!!!!!
Comment Re:Strange (Score 1) 395
Pitty it can be read by the rest of the world, and they even dare to express their opinions!
Comment Re:Strange (Score 1) 395
pitty the rest of the world can read it... and dare to express their opinions!!!
Submission + - Liberty Pulse - Obama Administration Unveils Inter (libertypulse.com)
An anonymous reader writes: The Commerce Dept. unveiled a plan Friday to create a national cyber-identity system that would give consumers who opt in a single secure password and identity for all their digital transactions.
Submission + - Game of Thrones (blogspot.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Many of my favorite HBO dramas had to grow on me. Shows like Rome, Deadwood and The Wire had rich, complex stories and it took me a while to fully understand and appreciate all of them. That's exactly how I feel about HBO's newest show, Game of Thrones.
Submission + - Iran Demands (Legal) Retaliation For Stuxnet (itworld.com) 1
jfruhlinger writes: "The Stuxnet virus is widely believed to have been cooked by U.S. and Israeli intelligence to disable Iran's nuclear program. Now an Iranian official is demanding retribution. But, bad news for fans of apocalyptic wars: The revenge will take the form of legal action against Siemens, which the Iranians believe helped with the attack."
Submission + - 'Royal Star' of Charles II May Have Been Supernova (ibtimes.com)
RedEaredSlider writes: A supernova remnant may be evidence that a star visible in daylight coincided with the birth of King Charles II of England.
Cassiopeia A is the remains of a star that exploded about 11,000 years ago. It is one of the brightest radio sources in the sky and when the star that produced it blew up, it should have been visible — and quite spectacular.
Martin Lunn, former curator of astronomy at the Yorkshire Museum in England, and Lila Rakoczy, an independent scholar, say that the supernova might have been the 'royal star' that marked the birth of Britain's Charles II in 1630. During Charles II's reign, propagandists for the Stuarts spoke of the new star and the parallel with the Christ story was obvious. But for centuries most historians had assumed it was just that, propaganda.
Other novae and supernovae in the same period are well-documented. A nova in 1572 was recorded by Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe and another appeared in 1604, known as Kepler's Supernova. But there are no similarly concrete charts of the royal star.
Cassiopeia A is the remains of a star that exploded about 11,000 years ago. It is one of the brightest radio sources in the sky and when the star that produced it blew up, it should have been visible — and quite spectacular.
Martin Lunn, former curator of astronomy at the Yorkshire Museum in England, and Lila Rakoczy, an independent scholar, say that the supernova might have been the 'royal star' that marked the birth of Britain's Charles II in 1630. During Charles II's reign, propagandists for the Stuarts spoke of the new star and the parallel with the Christ story was obvious. But for centuries most historians had assumed it was just that, propaganda.
Other novae and supernovae in the same period are well-documented. A nova in 1572 was recorded by Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe and another appeared in 1604, known as Kepler's Supernova. But there are no similarly concrete charts of the royal star.
Submission + - Iran Says Siemens Helped US, Israel Build Stuxnet (computerworld.com) 1
CWmike writes: "Iran's Brigadier General, Gholam Reza Jalali, accused Siemens on Saturday with helping U.S. and Israeli teams craft the Stuxnet worm that attacked his country's nuclear facilities. 'Siemens should explain why and how it provided the enemies with the information about the codes of the SCADA software and prepared the ground for a cyber attack against us,' Jalali told the Islamic Republic News Service. Siemens did not reply to a request for comment on Jalali's accusations. Stuxnet, which first came to light in June 2010 but hit Iranian targets in several waves starting the year before, has been extensively analyzed by security researchers. Symantec and Langner Commuications say Stuxnet was designed to infiltrate Iran's nuclear enrichment program, hide in the Iranian SCADA (supervisory control and data acquisition) control systems that operate its plants, then force gas centrifuge motors to spin at unsafe speeds. Jalali suggested that Iranian officials would pursue Siemens in the courts, and claimed that Iranian researchers traced the attack to Israel and the U.S. He said information from infected systems was sent to computers in Texas."
Submission + - Chrome Shields Websites From DDoS Attacks (conceivablytech.com) 1
An anonymous reader writes: Google has an interesting idea how to take the edge off denial of service attacks. The latest developer builds of Chrome 12 have an option called http throttling which will simply deny a user to access a website once the browser has received error messages from a certain URL. Chrome will react with a "back-off interval" that will increase the time between the requests to a website. If there are enough chrome requests flooding a website under attack, this could give webmasters some room to recover from a nasty DDoS attack.
