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Comment Google translation... (Score 1) 226

by Annorax (#33723114) Attached to: Soviet Shuttle Buran Found In a Junk Heap

http://translate.google.com/ comes up with this translation:

"And unprecedented case. Seemingly abandoned spaceship on the streets of Moscow - it is something from the realm of fantasy. But alas, this is the true reality. Correspondent "MK" discovered orbiting Soviet "Buran" play like garbage on the outskirts of the capital. Nobody cares what was once a symbol of cosmic power of our country.

Natalia Muschinkina

Views: 101,149"
Input Devices

HDR Video a Reality 287

Posted by timothy from the dreamlike-intensity dept.
akaru writes "Using common DSLR cameras, some creative individuals have created an example of true HDR video. Instead of pseudo-HDR, they actually used multiple cameras and a beam splitter to record simultaneous video streams, and composited them together in post. Looks very intriguing."

Comment Re:So that's why the UW mail system went down (Score 5, Interesting) 473

by Annorax (#33528616) Attached to: New Email Worm Squirming Through Windows Users' Inboxes

No, it's more of the fact that "a sucker is born every minute" or more along the lines of every millisecond.

The college freshmen of today never experienced the "2001 all over again", so they are ripe for the pickings of email bombs that look "old hat" to old farts like us.
Communications

New Email Worm Squirming Through Windows Users' Inboxes 473

Posted by timothy from the vermicide-delicious dept.
Trailrunner7 writes "There appears to be an actual email worm in circulation right now, using the tried-and-true infection method of sending emails containing malicious executables to all of the names in a user's email address book. The worm arrives via emails with the subject line 'Here You Have' or something similar, and the messages contain a link to a site that will download a malicious file to the victim's PC. The malware then drops itself into the Windows directory with a file name of CSRSS.EXE, which is identical to a legitimate Windows file. From there, it's 2001 all over again, as the worm attempts to mail itself to all of the contacts in the victim's Outlook address book."
Firefox

Mozilla Unleashes JaegerMonkey Enabled Firefox 4 279

Posted by timothy from the some-big-hype-to-live-up-to dept.
An anonymous reader writes "Mozilla has published the first Firefox 4 build that integrates a new JavaScript engine that aims to match the performance in IE9 and reduces the gap to Safari, Opera and Chrome. This is really the big news we have been waiting for all along with Firefox 4 and it appears that the JavaScript performance is pretty dramatic and seems to beat IE9 at least as far as ConceivablyTech shows. Good to see Mozilla back in the game." The Mozilla blog gives a good overview of the improvements this brings; Tom's Hardware also covers the release.
Media (Apple)

Open Source VLC Media Player Coming To iPad 232

Posted by timothy from the might-make-'em-temptinger dept.
Stoobalou writes "The people behind VLC, quite probably the most useful media player available right now, have submitted an iPod version to the Apple software police. VLC — which is rightfully famous for having a go at playing just about any kind of audio or video file you care to throw at it — should appear some time next week, if it makes it through the often unfathomable approval process implemented by Apple. The Open Source Video Lan Client has been tweaked to run on the iPod by software developer Applidium."
Space

Supernova Shrapnel Found In Meteorite 105

Posted by CmdrTaco from the just-missed-the-dinosaurs dept.
coondoggie writes "Talk about finding a needle in a cosmic haystack. Scientists this week said they found microscopic shrapnel in a meteorite of a star they say exploded around the birth of our solar system 4.5 billion years ago."
Cellphones

IOS 4.1 Jailbroken Already 315

Posted by samzenpus from the what-took-so-long dept.
mspohr writes "Just hours after Apple released iOS 4.1 to great fanfare, hardware hackers found a way to jailbreak devices that run the new operating system. More surprising still, there doesn't appear to be anything Steve Jobs can do to stop them in the near future. The exploit in the boot ROM of iOS devices was first announced by iPhone Dev-Team member pod2g. It was soon confirmed by other hackers, who said that because the exploit targets such a low-level part of the operating system, Apple won't be able to stop jailbreakers without making significant hardware changes."
Earth

Scientists Cut Greenland Ice Loss Estimate By Half 414

Posted by samzenpus from the not-so-bad-after-all dept.
bonch writes "A new study on Greenland's and West Antarctica's rate of ice loss halves the estimate of ice loss. Published in the journal Nature Geoscience, the study takes into account a rebounding of the Earth's crust called glacial isostatic adjustment, a continuing rise of the crust after being smashed under the weight of the Ice Age. 'We have concluded that the Greenland and West Antarctica ice caps are melting at approximately half the speed originally predicted,' said researcher Bert Vermeeersen."
The Military

DARPA Wants Extreme Wireless Interference Buster 105

Posted by samzenpus from the no-down-time dept.
coondoggie writes "This month the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency will begin looking for technology that will let wireless communications work through the most extreme interference. From the article: 'The CommEx program will assess next generation and beyond jamming threats and then develop advanced interference suppression and avoidance technologies to successfully communicate in the presence of severe, traditional, and novel types of interference that are orders-of-magnitude more severe than what are currently addressed by the most advanced systems, DARPA stated.'"
Piracy

Film Industry Hires Cyber Hitmen To Take Down Pirates 457

Posted by samzenpus from the roll-for-initiative dept.
thelostagency writes "Girish Kumar, managing director of Aiplex Software says his company is being hired by the film industry to attack online pirates. He says if a provider did not do anything to remove the link or content hosted on its site, his company would launch what is known as a denial-of-service (DoS) attack on the offending computer server. From the article: 'Kumar said that at the moment most of the payment for his company's services came from the film industry in India. "We are tied up with more than 30 companies in Bollywood. They are the major production houses." As for Hollywood films, he said they, too, used his services.'"

Comment Re:look another US-American idiot! (Score 1) 267

by Annorax (#33447748) Attached to: <em>Lineage II</em> Addiction Lawsuit Makes It Past the EULA

By far, the ancestors of many, if not most, americans were thrown out of other countries for being weird, overly religious, or generally disliked. As a result, the future population of america was in effect bred to be weird, overly religion and generally dislikable.

This mean that your ancestors are to blame for kicking our ancestors out and creating this mess to begin with.

Please watch your mailbox for the "Weird, overly religious, and generally dislikable americans vs. the rest of the world" class action lawsuit notice.

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