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Here's the chart that you can derive your Daily Radiation Dosage (and put it into Banana form) http://xkcd.com/radiation/
Submission + - SABAM wants truckers to pay for listening to radio (standaard.be) 3
guruevi writes: "SABAM, the Belgian RIAA wants truckers to start paying for the copyrights to listen to the radio in their cabin. SABAM already has a system in place to extract fees from businesses for having radio's in the work area for businesses with more than 9 employees and they find that truckers' cabins are areas of work and thus infringe on their copyrights. The local politicians think this is going too far, they believe truckers need a radio for safety reasons and view a truck cabin as 'an intimate place'.
Can you come up with other places to extract music copyright remittances? Maybe you may want to pay taxes every time you take a dump as your gas may form a tune."
Can you come up with other places to extract music copyright remittances? Maybe you may want to pay taxes every time you take a dump as your gas may form a tune."
Submission + - WP7 'NoDo' Copy & Paste Update Ready (informationweek.com)
WrongSizeGlass writes: InformationWeek is reporting that NoDo, the Windows Phone 7 update that includes copy & paste is ready for some Dell and HTC phones. Testing is ongoing for other models and manufacturers. The HTC Arrive arrived with NoDo preinstalled even though the Sprint fact sheet doesn't mention it.
Submission + - Did Patriot Hackers Attack Canadian Government? (securityweek.com)
wiredmikey writes: It appears that Canada’s Finance, Defense Research and Development departments, as well as the Treasury Board, were hacked in February by what the Canadian government is calling an “unprecedented” and “significant” cyber attack. Although confirmation is pending, the attack seems to be the work of patriot hackers, using computer servers based in China.
Interestingly, the Canadian government admitted that if the hackers went all the way they would have accessed the financial information of private citizens.
This attack is hard to pull off, on one hand, and dangerously simple, on the other. Although seven months prior, CSIS, Canada’s Spy agency, warned in a CBC report that this attack was coming, the Canadian government still fell victim to it.
On a larger scale, with a specialized form of executive spear-phishing, big businesses, trading companies and as we saw in February, the federal departments of big governments are at risk, along with major corporations.
Interestingly, the Canadian government admitted that if the hackers went all the way they would have accessed the financial information of private citizens.
This attack is hard to pull off, on one hand, and dangerously simple, on the other. Although seven months prior, CSIS, Canada’s Spy agency, warned in a CBC report that this attack was coming, the Canadian government still fell victim to it.
On a larger scale, with a specialized form of executive spear-phishing, big businesses, trading companies and as we saw in February, the federal departments of big governments are at risk, along with major corporations.
Submission + - Apple Stores Prepare For iPad 2 Frenzy (eweekeurope.co.uk)
geek4 writes: Apple’s second-generation iPad tablet will be available in UK shops from 5pm on Friday
Apple retail stores across the UK are gearing up for the launch of the iPad 2 this Friday, despite rumoured delays. The long-awaited device will go on sale at 5pm local time, and will also be available to order online from 1am.
Prices start at £399 for the 16GB Wi-Fi model – £30 less than the launch price for the same model of the original iPad last year. Meanwhile, at the high end, the 64GB Wi-Fi and 3G model costs £659 – £40 less than the same model of the original iPad.
This is the first time that Apple has reduced the price of a product for a successive version, and may be an attempt to undercut some of its Android competitors, such as the Motorola Xoom and Samsung Galaxy Tab. The company also slashed the price of its original iPad, ahead of the second generation tablet launch.
Apple retail stores across the UK are gearing up for the launch of the iPad 2 this Friday, despite rumoured delays. The long-awaited device will go on sale at 5pm local time, and will also be available to order online from 1am.
Prices start at £399 for the 16GB Wi-Fi model – £30 less than the launch price for the same model of the original iPad last year. Meanwhile, at the high end, the 64GB Wi-Fi and 3G model costs £659 – £40 less than the same model of the original iPad.
This is the first time that Apple has reduced the price of a product for a successive version, and may be an attempt to undercut some of its Android competitors, such as the Motorola Xoom and Samsung Galaxy Tab. The company also slashed the price of its original iPad, ahead of the second generation tablet launch.
Submission + - Hacker takes off with TripAdvisor's customer email (securecomputing.net.au)
An anonymous reader writes: Up to 20 million travellers worldwide may have had their personal details fall into evil hands following a hacker breach at travel community website TripAdvisor at the weekend. In an email to members today, TripAdvisor's CEO assured recipients no credit card details were stolen but didn't explain the source of the vulnerability or what it was doing to ensure it didn't get pwned again
Submission + - P2P Music Downloads At All-Time Low (ibtimes.com) 1
RedEaredSlider writes: Peer-to-peer music sharing, the type of service which helped create the digital music industry, is at an all time low.
According to research group NPD Group, the shuttering of Limewire's music file sharing service has led to a similar decline in the usage of such services throughout the U.S. The number has gone from a high of 16 percent in the fourth quarter of 2007 to just nine percent in the fourth quarter of 2010, right after Limewire shut down its file-sharing services due to a court order, when a federal judge sided with the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).
According to research group NPD Group, the shuttering of Limewire's music file sharing service has led to a similar decline in the usage of such services throughout the U.S. The number has gone from a high of 16 percent in the fourth quarter of 2007 to just nine percent in the fourth quarter of 2010, right after Limewire shut down its file-sharing services due to a court order, when a federal judge sided with the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).
Submission + - Doomsday Bunkers sales skyrocket up to 1000% in th (heaven4geeks.com)
kingkaos69 writes: Apparently after the devastating earthquake that hit Japan a few weeks ago and the subsequent Fukushima nuclear accident, the fears of a nuclear meltdown run rampant. Why you ask? Well, according to CNNMoney, most U.S. companies selling doomsday bunkers are seeing sales skyrocket anywhere from 20% to 1,000%...
Submission + - NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590 Dual-GPU Flagship Launched (hothardware.com)
MojoKid writes: "Not long ago, AMD launched their high-end dual-GPU powered Radeon HD 6990. Sporting a pair of their flagship GPUs, 4GB of RAM, and foot long PCB, the Radeon HD 6990 proved to be blistering fast. Today, it’s rival NVIDIA’s turn to unveil their latest dual-GPU powered flagship, the new GeForce GTX 590. The card is built with a pair of GF110 GPUs, the same used on the GeForce GTX 580, each with 512 CUDA cores and 384-bit memory interface linked to 1.5GB of GDDR5 memory per GPU, for 3GB total. To say it's fast would be an understatement of course but the benchmarks show it's right on top of the Radeon HD 6990 from AMD and in many cases behind it."
Submission + - Japan Is Building Artificially Intelligent Rockets (ispyce.com)
autospa writes: Artificially intelligent rockets could perform self-diagnostics and self-repairs, lowering the cost of future space launches. The Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency is working on an intelligent rocket to supplement its current lift vehicle, and it would be cheaper and simpler to use, engineers say.
Submission + - Red Hat break $1 billion mark (theregister.co.uk)
doperative writes: The money just keeps rolling in at Red Hat, and it looks like this year will be even better as the company is poised to become the first open source software company to break through the $1bn mark.
Submission + - GeForce GTX 590 and Radeon HD 5990 Face Off (pcper.com)
Vigile writes: "Both NVIDIA and AMD have recently released new extreme-high-end graphics cards with dual-GPU configurations and PC Perspective has compared them to each other with some standard SLI/CrossFire comparisons for good measure. The GTX 590 is a pair of 512 shader processor GF110 GPUs which had the potential to be the fastest combination available, but the clock speeds were lowered to such a level that is has trouble keeping up with AMD's Radeon HD 6990. Sound levels were noticeably better on NVIDIA's option though the Radeon card provided better frame rates at the highest resolutions. So, while the $700 video card market just got a pair of new competitors, the best investment for that money might still be two less expensive Radeon or GeForce single-GPU cards."
Submission + - HBGary CEO Speaks Out on Anonymous Hack (threatpost.com) 1
Gunkerty Jeb writes: HBGary CEO, Greg Hoglund speaks out about the Anonymous hack, or lack there of. In a two part interview, he blames a Google call center and his own corporate futility, while deriding Anonymous for what he calls "cyber-thuggery," and claiming Anonymous is not what they say, but rather a small collection of criminal hackers and and propaganda peddling pseudo-journalists.
Submission + - Apple locking up Macs like iPhones in the future?
kangsterizer writes: Apple is replacing Samba with their own made up software because of the GPLv3 which now governs Samba.
This looks like closed, iPhone-like Macs are coming in the future.
Indeed, GPLv3 forbids "Tivoization", that is when the hardware is locked up and the user cannot change the software himself.
Please note that AppleInsider linked above is incorrect about the fact that the GPLv3 cannot be used commercially. It can. But devices cannot prevent the user from tinkering with the software (like the iPhone does).
This looks like closed, iPhone-like Macs are coming in the future.
Indeed, GPLv3 forbids "Tivoization", that is when the hardware is locked up and the user cannot change the software himself.
Please note that AppleInsider linked above is incorrect about the fact that the GPLv3 cannot be used commercially. It can. But devices cannot prevent the user from tinkering with the software (like the iPhone does).
Submission + - Java Updates Come With Extra Helping of Security (itworld.com)
itwbennett writes: "Starting last month, Oracle began bundling the McAfee Security Scan Plus with its Java updates for the Windows operating system. The software is installed by default with the Java update, so unless users notice and uncheck the McAfee installation box as they're updating Java, they'll end up downloading McAfee's software too."
