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Comment Re:Use DomainKeys.. (Score 2, Interesting) 263

by Kakao on Friday December 18, 2009 @07:27AM (#30485360) Attached to: Are You Using SPF Records?

How lucky you are. I have both SPF and DomainKeys implemented and one of my domains has plenty of problems with Hotmail and Yahoo. I send no lists. Never sent anything with a resemblance of spam. Only email confirmation emails. My IP is clean everywhere.

Feed Wired: Air Force Joins CIA as Drone War Over Pakistan Grows (wired.com)

From feed by wiredfeed on Thursday December 10, 2009 @10:32AM

Over the past year and a half, the U.S. has stepped up drone strikes against militants in Pakistan -- killing as many as a thousand people. Press accounts have largely credited the Central Intelligence Agency with running these missions. But the U.S. Air Force also plays an important role in the drone missions over Pakistan. The military supplies the aircraft. It monitors the flights in and out of Pakistan. And, on occasion, Air Force pilots remotely fly their own drone missions over Pakistan.

Feed New Scientist: Ancient Amazon civilisation laid bare by felled forest (newscientist.com)

From feed by nsfeed on Thursday December 10, 2009 @08:52AM

Some 260 giant avenues, ditches and enclosures have been spotted from the air in a region straddling Brazil's border with Bolivia

Submission + - Will Nagios drops it's C for Python?

Submitted by

Gabès Jean

on Thursday December 10, 2009 @08:36AM

Gabès Jean writes: "Hi,

I propose some times ago a new implementation for Nagios. The old one is in C and nobody want to make huge enhancement into it. That why I work into a new implementation in Python that nearly do all that Nagios do, and even more (distributed and high availability architecture) in few code lines than the current C implementation. the Python implementation is even faster! (30K checks in 5 minutes for Nagios/C, 150K for Nagios.Python). The code name of the new implementation is Shinken (it's like a Katana). The new interface allow faster development.

I propose this new implementation be included in Nagios as the Nagios 4 dev branch. You can follow this story and the reactions in the mailing list of Nagios (devel):
https://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_name=6f8615170912010909me433f0do3eb284c11def9dc4%40mail.gmail.com

I think this story can interest slashdot because as in many open source projects, the biggest problem here is not a technical one but a political one and problem with projects that do not evolve enough by having fear about changing. Nagios already get a Fork last year (Icinga) but this one is a new type one : it's more like an internal Fork.

I hope this story will interest you.

Gabès Jean, writer of a french book on Nagios that thinks Nagios need to go on and wake up before lost it's Open source monitoring first place."

Submission + - SQL Injection Attack Claims 132,000+

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 10, 2009 @08:20AM

An anonymous reader writes: A large scale SQL injection attack has injected a malicious iframe on tens of thousands of susceptible websites. ScanSafe reports that the injected iframe loads malicious content from 318x.com, which eventually leads to the installation of a rootkit-enabled variant of the Buzus backdoor trojan. A Google search on the iframe resulted in over 132,000 hits as of December 10, 2009.

Submission + - Self-Destructing Bacteria Create Better Biofuels (inhabitat.com)

Submitted by MikeChino on Wednesday December 09, 2009 @01:42PM

MikeChino writes: Researchers at Arizona State University have genetically engineered cyanobacteria to dissolve from the inside out, making it easy to access the high-energy fats and biofuel byproducts located within. To do this they combined the bacteria's genes with genes from the bacteriaphage — a so-called “mortal enemy” of bacteria that cause it to explode. Cyanobacteria have a higher yield potential than most biofuels currently being used, and this new strain eliminates the need for costly and energy intensive processing steps.

Submission + - Top 10 Botnets And Their Impact (net-security.org)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 09, 2009 @12:52PM

An anonymous reader writes: Every day, approximately 89.5 billion unsolicited messages (i.e. spam) are sent by computers that have been compromised and are part of a botnet. Botnets — apart from inundating out inboxes with spam — can also be used for ulterior purposes such as executing DDoS attacks or hosting websites, so understanding the "modus operandi" and size behind the well-known names is a good idea. This article outlines the top 10 botnets and lists the impact each has on the security landscape.

Submission + - Artifex misstates the effects of the GPL 1

Submitted by JanMark on Wednesday December 09, 2009 @10:24AM

JanMark writes: Ghostscript was originally written by L Peter Deutsch and released under the GPL. Later, Aladdin Enterprises distributed a Ghostscript fork under a proprietary license. Currently Artifex Software exercises a commercial and a Copyleft license on Ghostscript. A friend of mine asked me if he could distribute Ghostscript as post processor for the output of a proprietary program. I told him, "Under GPL? No problem!" But he pointed me to the Artifex Licensing Information page. They seemed to have a very narrow view on what the GPL allows. So I wrote rms and he agrees with me. Artifex's description of the effects of the GPL is incorrect. IMHO, it even borders on fraud. It also has a very damaging side effect. Lots of people already think that any usage of GPLed software means they have to give away their own software for free (beer and speech). Actually it is the most common misconception I encounter. It makes me wonder maybe the misconception comes from within?

Submission + - Scientists Capture Reactions in Carbon Nanotubes (rsc.org)

Submitted by dfunk on Wednesday December 09, 2009 @09:34AM

dfunk writes: Using aberration-corrected Transmission Electron Microscopy, German scientists capture carbon nanotubes on video. In the movie, you can clearly see the dysprosium atoms bunching together to tear wall of the nanotube, splitting it into two parts.

Submission + - How to build a quantum propulsion machine (technologyreview.com)

Submitted by KentuckyFC on Wednesday December 09, 2009 @09:06AM

KentuckyFC writes: According to quantum mechanics, a vacuum will be filled with electromagnetic waves leaping in and out of existence. It turns out that these waves can have various measurable effects, such as the Casimir-Polder force which was first measured accurately in 1997. Just how to exploit this force is still not clear. Today, however, a researcher at an Israeli government lab suggests how it could be possible to generate propulsion using the quantum vacuum. The basic idea is that pushing on the electromagnetic fields in the vacuum should generate an equal and opposite force. The suggestion is that this can be done using nanoparticles that interact with the vacuum's electric and magnetic fields, generating the well known Lorentz force. In most cases, the sum of Lorentz forces adds up to zero. But today's breakthrough is the discovery of various ways to break this symmetry and so use the quantum vacuum to generate a force. The simplest of which is simply to rotate the particles. So the blueprint for a quantum propulsion machine described in the paper is an array of addressable nanoparticles that can be rotated in the required way. Although such a machine will need a source of energy, it generates propulsion without any change in mass. As the research puts it with masterful understatement, this might have practical implications.

Submission + - SPAM: NASA helicopter crash tests flying airbag

Submitted by coondoggie on Wednesday December 09, 2009 @08:14AM

coondoggie writes: NASA is looking to reduce the deadly impact of helicopter crashes on their pilots and passengers with what the agency calls a high-tech honeycomb airbag known as a deployable energy absorber. So in order to test out its technology NASA dropped a small helicopter from a height of 35 feet to see whether its deployable energy absorber made up of an expandable honeycomb cushion called a could handle the stress. The test crash hit the ground at about 54MPH at a 33 degree angle, what NASA called a relatively severe helicopter crash.
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Submission + - Keeping fit keeps you smarter (futurity.org)

Submitted by futurity.org on Tuesday December 08, 2009 @02:31PM

futurity.org writes: A University of Southern California led study showed adolescent males who improved their cardiovascular health between ages 15 to 18 exhibited significantly greater intelligence scores than those who became less healthy over the same time period. “Positive associations with intelligence scores were restricted to cardiovascular fitness, not muscular strength,” USC psychologist Nancy Pedersen stresses, “supporting the notion that aerobic exercise improved cognition through the circulatory system influencing brain plasticity.”

The study looked at 260,000 full-sibling pairs, 3,000 sets of twins, and more than 1,400 sets of identical twins to evaluate whether the results might reflect shared family environments or genetic influences. But, even among identical twin pairs, the link between cardiovascular health and intelligence remained strong, proving the results are not a reflection of genetic influences on cardiovascular health and intelligence.

Submission + - ECMA script version 5 approved (h-online.com)

Submitted by systembug on Tuesday December 08, 2009 @07:43AM

systembug writes: After 10 years of waiting and some infighting, ECMA Script version 5 is finally out, approved by 19 of the 21 members of the ECMA Technical Committee 39. JSON is in, Intel and IBM dissented. IBM is obviously in disagreement with the decision against IEEE 754r, a floating point format for correct, but slow representation of decimal numbers, despite pleas by Yahoo's Douglas Crockford.

Submission + - Fighting fraud online: taking "Google Money" scamm (blogspot.com)

Submitted by karthikmns on Tuesday December 08, 2009 @07:37AM

karthikmns writes: "Use Google to Make 1000s of Dollars!" or "Easy Cash with Google: You Could be Making up to $978 a Day Working from Home!" You may have seen offers like these using Google's name or logo that sounded too good to be true. Unfortunately, nearly all of them are, and, despite hundreds of consumer complaints and our own efforts to keep these sites from tricking people, some scams continue. To fight back, we're working to stop various fraudulent "Google Money" schemes, and this week filed suit against Pacific WebWorks and several other unnamed defendants

Submission + - SPAM: Can We End Aging by 2029? 3

Submitted by destinyland on Tuesday December 08, 2009 @03:51AM

destinyland writes: "For the past 9 years, many of the world's leading researchers have been quietly collaborating on a scientific roadmap to reverse — yes, completely reverse — the human aging process," explains David A. Kekich. He's the founder of new biotech project that hopes to end the 100,000 lives lost to aging every day, and within 20 years. Many of the project's researchers believe we're approaching "longevity escape velocity" — where medical advances outpace aging itself, "potentially making death-by-aging a choice rather than a date with destiny." Two University of California researchers shared their findings at a kick-off event in November, where the group's colloboration was disclosed to the public.
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