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Submission + - Internet for Condo association

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: I am on a committee to evaluate internet options for a medium sized condo association (80 units — 20 stories) in a major metropolitan area (chicago). What options are out there? What questions should one ask of the various sales representatives? How should access be distributed within the building (wireless AP's, ethernet cable). Does it make sense to provide any additional condo wide infrastructure (servers, services)? How much should it cost? How much dedicated bandwidth is required to support a community of this size?

Submission + - Flame used MS certificates intended for TS licensing (technet.com)

Submitted by
yuhong
yuhong writes: "From the article:
"What we found is that certificates issued by our Terminal Services licensing certification authority, which are intended to only be used for license server verification, could also be used to sign code as Microsoft. Specifically, when an enterprise customer requests a Terminal Services activation license, the certificate issued by Microsoft in response to the request allows code signing without accessing Microsoft’s internal PKI infrastructure."
Microsoft released an update adding the affected CAs to the Untrusted Certificate Store."
Science

Submission + - Hide-and-Seek Goes Virtual (sciencemag.org)

Submitted by sciencehabit
sciencehabit writes: Hide-and-seek isn't just for kids anymore. For the first time, scientists have used virtual reality to analyze how adults conceal and find objects. The researchers were surprised to discover that people tend not to search in places where they might normally hide something, findings that could lead to better ways to suss out where terrorists and criminals have hidden bombs or contraband.
Space

Submission + - What Struck Earth in 775? (sciencemag.org)

Submitted by sciencehabit
sciencehabit writes: In 775 C.E., while Charlemagne was ruling his Frankish kingdom, something mysterious struck Earth. An analysis of the rings of two Japanese cedar trees reveals that from 774 to 775 C.E., the atmospheric level of radioactive carbon-14 jumped by 1.2%. This indicates that cosmic rays—high-speed, charged particles from space—bombarded our planet and converted some atmospheric nitrogen-14 into carbon-14. The scientists argue against two logical suspects: solar flares are too weak to do the job, and no supernova explosion was seen at the time, nor do any nearby supernova remnants date back to Charlemagne's time. So the cause remains a mystery, but whatever it was, something similar could presumably strike again.

Feed Google News Sci Tech: Nintendo unveils online strategy for Wii successor - Reuters (google.com)

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Nintendo unveils online strategy for Wii successor
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TOKYO, June 4 (Reuters) - Nintendo, the world's leading game console maker, unveiled a new online strategy on Monday, saying it will launch a social and content network dubbed Miiverse for its latest version of the Wii - the Wii U. The strategy is ...
Nintendo Unveils Wii U GamePad, Demos 'MiiVerse' Online FeaturesPC Magazine
Nintendo Talks Up Wii U Game Pad, Miiverse Online NetworkPCWorld
Nintendo shows off new Wii U GamePad, social features and video chatmsnbc.com
BBC News-AFP-CNET
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Submission + - College Freshman at Age 9, M.D. at 21 - A Real-World Doogie Howser (chicagotribune.com) 2

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Sho Yano this week will become the yougnest student to get an M.D. from University of Chicargo. He was reading at age 2, writing by 3, and composing music by his 5th birthday. He graduated from Loyola University in three years — summa cum laude, no less. When he entered U. of C.'s prestigious Pritzker School of Medicine at 12, it was into one of the school's most rigorous programs, where students get both their doctorate and medical degrees.

Intelligence is not Yano's only gift — though according to a test he took at age 4, his IQ is too high to accurately measure and is easily above genius level. He is an accomplished pianist who has performed at Ravinia, and he has a black belt in tae kwon do. Classmates and faculty described him as "sweet" and "humble," a hardworking, Bach-adoring, Greek literature-quoting student. And in his own words, "I may not be the most outgoing person, but I do like to be around people." — unlike many self-proclaimed genius-level slashdoters.
Linux

Submission + - First Steps with the Raspberry Pi (linuxlinks.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: The Raspberry Pi received an extraordinary amount of pre-launch coverage. It truly went viral with major news corporations such as the BBC giving extensive coverage. Not without reason, it is groundbreaking to have a small capable computer retailing at less than the price of a new console game. There have been a number of ventures that have tried to produce a cheap computer such as a laptop and a tablet but which never materialised at these price points. Nothing comes close to the Raspberry Pi in terms of affordability, which is even more important in the current economic climate. Producing a PC capable of running Linux, Quake III-quality games, and 1080p video is worthy of praise.
Security

Submission + - AntiVirus Firms Out of their League with Stuxnet, Flame 2

Submitted by
Hugh Pickens writes
Hugh Pickens writes writes: "Mikko Hypponen, Chief Research Officer of software security company F-Secure, writes that when his company heard about Flame, they went digging through their archive for related samples of malware and were surprised to find that they already had samples of Flame, dating back to 2010 and 2011, that they were unaware they possessed. "What this means is that all of us had missed detecting this malware for two years, or more. That’s a spectacular failure for our company, and for the antivirus industry in general." Why weren't Flame, Stuxnet, and Duqu detected earlier? The answer isn't encouraging for the future of cyberwar. All three were most likely developed by a Western intelligence agency as part of covert operations that weren’t meant to be discovered and the fact that the malware evaded detection proves how well the attackers did their job. In the case of Stuxnet and DuQu, they used digitally signed components to make their malware appear to be trustworthy applications and instead of trying to protect their code with custom packers and obfuscation engines — which might have drawn suspicion to them — they hid in plain sight. In the case of Flame, the attackers used SQLite, SSH, SSL and LUA libraries that made the code look more like a business database system than a piece of malware. "The truth is, consumer-grade antivirus products can’t protect against targeted malware created by well-resourced nation-states with bulging budgets," writes Hypponen adding that it’s highly likely there are other similar attacks already underway that we haven’t detected yet because simply put, attacks like these work. "Flame was a failure for the antivirus industry. We really should have been able to do better. But we didn’t. We were out of our league, in our own game.""
Unix

Submission + - Asteroids Named for UNIX creators Dennis Ritchie, Ken Thompson

Submitted by MP7124
MP7124 writes: Tom Glinos (7l.com), Geoff Collyer (Bell Labs — Lucent Tech), and David Levy (Jarnac Observatory) are pleased to announce the naming of asteroids for Dennis Ritchie, and Ken Thompson.

The original Minor Planet Center citations and an orbital animations can be found at: http://news2.7l.com/

We find it a fitting tribute to elevate the honorees to the celestial
heavens. UNIX, or a derivative, has provided the underlying technology that has driven a lot of technological advancement over the past few decades.

The lives of everyone on the planet have been touched and made better because of this good work and will continue to do so for decades to come.
Space

Submission + - Ask Slashdot: Re-kickstarting our Kickstarter? (kickstarter.com) 9

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: We are supporters of an old-school adventure game Kickstarter that is dealing with "Kickstarter fatigue". The project itself is a sarcastic/comedic, science-fiction adventure, with reknowned and proven talent behind it — now that Kickstarter's adventure game honeymoon period is seemingly over, the big gaming and news sites are not interested in the project, community sites are not interested in front paging articles about the project, and famous twitterers with sci-fi leanings have all but ignored our request for twitter help. Due to the reluctance of the big gaming sites in talking about Kickstarter projects, it is up to the fans to try and get this across the line in the next 8 days — what other avenues or sites can we use to get word about our project to a wider audience, without coming across as spammers?
Facebook

Submission + - Facebook is down, again (huffingtonpost.com)

Submitted by
Animats
Animats writes: "Not just the stock. The Facebook site itself is having problems this weekend.
Facebook has had intermittent outages since Friday, the Huffington Post reports. Right now, DownRightNow reports a "likely service disruption." The symptom is very slow, but valid responses from the site. So far, Facebook hasn't made any public statements."
Security

Submission + - UEFI Secure Boot, Linux, and Virtualization (dreamwidth.org)

Submitted by thisNameNotTaken
thisNameNotTaken writes: Microsoft is implementing UEFI Secure Boot in the Windows 8 OS, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_Extensible_Firmware_Interface]. This will impact users who want to dual boot other distributions — Linux included. Garrett, a Red Hat employee who works on the Fedora distro, has a solution for the Fedora Linux distro. [http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/12368.html].

My question is how the the UEFI issue might effect a users ability to use QEMU [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QEMU] and/or Oracle VirtualBox. Garrett says UEFI will "be moving to requiring signed kernel modules and locking down certain aspects of kernel functionality. The most obvious example is that it won't be possible to access PCI regions directly from userspace, which means all graphics cards will need kernel drivers.".

Does this "signing" mean Windws 8 will not allow any type of vitalization? Are we now heading into an era where software , again, is so limited that an abacus now looks hi-tech.

Submission + - Ask Slashdot: Best way to copy/sync files with remote server while on the road?

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Here's a scenario: you are on a vacation trip for a couple of weeks — on the road. Lots of pictures — 2-300 per day- maybe some text files with short notes etc. You have a camera with Eye-Fi, a PC, and a phone with WiFi and 3G. Files ends up on the PC (mobile storage), phone providesInternet connectivity. Now, if you wanted to upload all files pretty much as you go — given spotty access to Internet over G3 and WiFi — what would be the best way to do that automatically; set-it-and-forget-it style? I would like them to end up on my own server

rsync script?
ownCloud?
Some BitTorrent setup?
Other?

Which one would be the most robust solution? I'm thinking of interrupted file transfers due to no network, re-starts etc. And I would not want to loose any files; including scenarios where files gets deleted locally but that should not result in files getting automatically deleted on the server as well. Sure; I could perhaps use something like Dropbox but that would take the fun out of it :-).

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