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Comment Re:Again? (Score 2) 6

by ron-l-j on Monday April 15, 2013 @03:41PM (#43454831) Attached to: Linode hacked, CCs and passwords leaked

System security personnel are up against specialists, and possibly hundreds of them. When one hits a dead end they hand off to someone else with a specialized approached to that particular dead end. Crack, now its handed along to the next person who has the key to the next locked door. It can be like running a relay race when you can't hand off to someone when you tire. The root of the white hat problem is trust between security organizations. Even the pentagon is trying to bolster its cyber Command force from 900 to 4900. In addition to the numbers problem is the hearts, and minds issue. No one stands behind the person that makes their life more complex. Telling your average person to use at least 16 characters, upper and lower case, along with numbers is not going to make you allies. I could go on.......

Submission + - Kobo Aura HD Ereader Announced (ibtimes.co.uk)

Submitted by DavidGilbert99 on Monday April 15, 2013 @02:32PM

DavidGilbert99 writes: Kobo has announced the Aura HD, which claims to offer the highest screen resolution of any ebook reader currently on the market.

Going up against the Amazon Kindle Paperwhite, the Aura HD has a 6.8in Pearl E-Ink touchscreen with a resolution of 1440 x 1080 and an adjustable front light, is powered by a 1GHz processor and has 4GB of internal storage.

The Kobo Aura's screen is almost an inch larger than that of the Kindle Paperwhite, making the whole device almost the same size as an iPad mini, although the Kobo remains light at 240g thanks to its plastic construction.

Submission + - Find My Mac Helps - And Frustrates - Law Enforcement (itworld.com)

Submitted by jfruh on Monday April 15, 2013 @02:26PM

jfruh writes: When Corine van den Houten's iMac was stolen, she quickly used Find My Mac to track it to its new location. The problem: That location was a huge apartment building, and the police were uninterested in searching 300 apartments to look for it. While the iCloud feature has certainly been helpful in many cases in tracking down stolen or missing goods, it's often just shy of being precise enough to help.

Submission + - Hackers Using Brute-Force Attacks to Harvest WordPress Sites

Submitted by Trailrunner7 on Monday April 15, 2013 @02:22PM

Trailrunner7 writes: Months of distributed denial of service attacks against major U.S. banks have evolved in magnitude and ferocity causing service disruptions for online banking customers. They’ve also shown the way for other attackers to adapt and evolve techniques used in those attacks.

Apparently, someone is building a formidable botnet of compromised WordPress accounts that is likely to be used in a much larger attack, some experts are speculating. Similar to some of the late-stage bank DDoS attacks that used Web servers to generate unprecedented levels of traffic targeting online banking services, this WordPress botnet could be as disruptive.

Attacks against WordPress sites began last week, when some Web hosts and security experts reported brute-force attacks against administrative credentials using a combination of “admin” as a user name, and a list of common passwords. Compromised sites built on WordPress would notice slower back-end operations, log-in difficulties, or downtime.

Submission + - Ignore your dull family, says new Facebook Home ad (cnet.com)

Submitted by plastick on Monday April 15, 2013 @01:52PM

plastick writes: Admit it, your family is just awful. Your Facebook friends are more important and interesting, says a new Facebook ad.

You know those self-centered, self-regarding people who just have to look at their cell phones during dinner? Facebook loves them. Facebook admires them. Facebook wants to promote them.

This thrust toward spiritual progress is the company's latest ad for Facebook Home...

Oh, all families are awful, aren't they? They insist on imposing emotional control upon you. They tell you what to do, what to think, what to believe, and which lover to toss down the chute of despair. And what do you get in return? Food, that's what. Yet Facebook wants you to believe that your Facebook friends are your real family. Yes, those people whom you hardly talk to, hardly remember, or hardly even know.

Submission + - Red Hat Launching its own Community Distro of OpenStack (serverwatch.com)

Submitted by darthcamaro on Monday April 15, 2013 @12:01PM

darthcamaro writes: Red Hat still doesn't have a fully supported commercial version of OpenStack in the market yet (coming this summer) as it lags behind Ubuntu and SUSE. But Red Hat is doing something no other distro vendor has done, they are launching a brand new bleeding edge build of OpenStack that will update weekly (or faster). The best part? this isn't a fork it's all upstream work, meaning everyone in the OpenStack Community benefits:
"Our developers will continue to work in the upstream OpenStack, and "whenever we find we need to make changes to make RDO work, we get that work done upstream first," Red Hat CTO Brian Stevens said. "RDO won't change in any way our active involvement in the upstream OpenStack development."

Submission + - Lab-grown kidneys transplanted into rats (nature.com)

Submitted by ananyo on Monday April 15, 2013 @08:29AM

ananyo writes: Scientists at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston have fitted rats with kidneys that were grown in a lab from stripped-down kidney scaffolds. When transplanted, these 'bioengineered' organs starting filtering the rodents’ blood and making urine.
The team, led by organ-regeneration specialist Harald Ott, started with the kidneys of recently deceased rats and used detergent to strip away the cells, leaving behind the underlying scaffold of connective tissues such as the structural components of blood vessels. They then regenerated the organ by seeding this scaffold with two cell types: human umbilical-vein cells to line the blood vessels, and kidney cells from newborn rats to produce the other tissues that make up the organ (paper).

Comment Is there an age when software is considered... (Score 1) 94

by ron-l-j on Monday April 15, 2013 @05:54AM (#43450521) Attached to: The Internet Archive Is Now the Largest Collection of Historical Software Online

Public domain? I understand that software that is released under license contains residual rights. But in the speed of application development, and version changes, should there be a public domain age placed on software or web pages?

Submission + - Small Businesses need Protection (tumblr.com)

Submitted by Seth Mossberg on Monday April 15, 2013 @05:24AM

Seth Mossberg writes: Cyber crime is rampant. When one group or individuals have been identified and arrested, it appears that new criminals learn from their mistakes and begin to take over the territory. These hackers can be some of the best in the world. They do not discriminate. They will target small businesses as well as large corporations. Businesses loans are more vulnerable because they depend on the traditional software for data security.

Comment Re:A smart watch? (Score 1) 260

by ron-l-j on Monday April 15, 2013 @05:13AM (#43450389) Attached to: Microsoft Working With Suppliers on Designs for Watch-Like Device

I decided to come back after a long break. Maybe a year or more. I run all of the major operating systems, desktop, and servers. I work in IT at a medium size company. And I agree that I have seen more micro$oft stories. I will make it my leisure/lunch time goal to comment, and write about tech on /. I do agree that /. has changed some, but I still find my self laughing when I read the comments. There are still insightful, and funny people around.

Submission + - composite combat baseball bats

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 15, 2013 @05:05AM

An anonymous reader writes: Resist (the company) started off in 1998 when they began producing softball bats regarding other manufacturer companies. ComBat bats ended up born inside the last decade when they chose to put out the identical bats some people make regarding other companies inside their own appoint, including karate bats.

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Combat is focused exclusively at composite along with hybrid karate bats. They’re priced not as much as the recognized manufacturers; when they should often be since some people don’t have name realization.

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Submission + - You Use Open Source Tools? The Robot Recruiters Know It -- and Like It (ostatic.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 15, 2013 @02:59AM

An anonymous reader writes: There are some signs emerging that Big Data analysis tools could even match skilled workers up with their ideal jobs in ways that human recruiters can't. And, these tools may put special emphasis on how savvy job seekers are with open source technology and general computing knowledge.

Submission + - Passthoughts, not Passwords: Authentication via Brainwaves (darkreading.com)

Submitted by CowboyRobot on Monday April 15, 2013 @02:34AM

CowboyRobot writes: A new study by researchers from the U.C. Berkeley School of Information examined the brainwave signals of individuals performing specific actions to see if they can be consistently matched to the right individual. To measure the subjects' brainwaves, the team utilized the NeuroSky Mindset, a Bluetooth headset that records Electroencephalographic (EEG) activity. In the end, the team was able to match the brainwave signals with 99% accuracy. "We are not trying to trace back from a brainwave signal to a specific person," explains Prof. John Chuang, who led the team. "That would be a much more difficult problem. Rather, our task is to determine if a presented brainwave signal matches the brainwave signals previously submitted by the user when they were setting up their pass-thought."

Comment I am for more content. Quality content. (Score 5, Insightful) 143

by ron-l-j on Sunday April 14, 2013 @06:38AM (#43445243) Attached to: Apple Near Deal For Radio Service

I do not care who makes the product. As long as the artists make a fair wage, and the content is quality. Good audio quality content is hard to find anywhere on the web. Finding quality MP3 bitrate is hard as well. That is why people turn to apple, because there is quality control. I would love to see a free software foundation built store full of high quality content that artists are proud to be a part of. Developers are artists, and like artists its had to get along, and agree on some thing so large. maybe I should go over to kick starter...... But then Stallman would get mad when the Hollywood types would want to DRM the whole business.

Submission + - The Anorexic Startup - A Tale of Sex, Drugs, and C++ (theanorexicstartup.com)

Submitted by ron-l-j on Sunday April 14, 2013 @06:08AM

ron-l-j writes: Give author Mike Frankle ten minutes of your time, and he will give you a strange answer to the what if question you have about writing your own phone app. The journey may be different than you expect. If you were to get laid off from your job and just spent your time writing that app you have been thing of. It’s a great short read between 10 and 15 minutes.

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