Comment LHC (Score 4, Funny) 217
damn it, after all those years and all that viagra I thought I finally had my Hadron!
Kremlin-Backed Nashi Admits Cyberattacking Estonia 181
An anonymous reader writes "Russia's Kremlin-based youth movement Nashi admits being responsible for 2007 cyberattacks against Estonia. An interesting point is that when you DDoS the systems, it's not the fault of some people who want to crash it but instead the systems' for blocking their users due to technical limitations. So if I shot someone to death it's not my fault for shooting them, but theirs instead because of technical limitations of their body."
Submission + - SPAM: International Space Station to get crabs
coondoggie writes: "The International Space Station has garnered a lot of "firsts" in its history and soon it will get its first crab meat delivery courtesy of NASA. The Miller's Select crab meat will fly up onboard NASA's shuttle mission STS119 which is expected to launch this week (though a liquid hydrogen tank problem delayed the launch today). NASA says each astronaut is allowed a "bonus food allotment" to bring some of the comforts of home to outer space. The Miller's Select Jumbo Lump Crab Meat is aimed at current ISS engineer Sandy Magnus who has become something of a space chef, whipping up all manner of delights in plastic bags and other accoutrements of space kitchen life. Food can represent a peculiar threat to space life. You may recall that in 2007, an astronaut was trying to make a pretend sushi meal with bag-packaged salmon and accidentally squirted a blob of spicy wasabi into the air. After a lengthy cleanup, the wasabi was exiled to a cargo bay.
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Submission + - AT&T Predictions From 16 Years Ago Become Real (singularityhub.com)
Singularity Hub writes: "AT&T advertisements from 1993 (16 years ago!) make predictions about the future that turned out to be amazingly accurate. Technology is changing our lives at an ever faster rate, and it is easy for us to forget that many things that we take for granted today were not around just a few short years ago."
Comment Re:Three strikes and you're out, huh? (Score 1) 290
Please respect the political opinion of the majority of my nation.
Comment Re:There is NO "competitive market" in Quebec. (Score 1) 290
This may be perceived troll because of denigration of the people of Quebec.
This WONT get picked up by the media in quebec not because people dont care or are too dumb, but because Videotron own the media that reach the most and they certainly won't publicize it...
Alternatives are simple... http://www.radioactif.net/ or http://www.b2b2c.ca/
Comment Re:Voulez-vous coucher avec moi? (Score 1) 290
Some companies rent the Videotron Cable.
Radioactif.net and b2b2c.ca amongst others. But they are dependant of Videotron usage restrictions and bandwidth throttling. But they offer a lower price and a different facturation.
Comment Re:Voulez-vous coucher avec moi? (Score 1) 290
It's the nearly only coax provider, 3G is extremely costly and undevelopped, ADSL is slower. Microwave is not really an option.
Sure, some companies lease the videotron cable, and they are pretty good but they are not known by the population.
Did you know that they have a 50Mb coax residential network in Laval, Qc?
Comment Can it be done (Score 1) 524
Did someone try to take out the free wireless device in the kindle and insert it in a eee pc? wouldn't THAT be nice?
Comment Easy Reviews (Score 1) 202
1-Create Restaurant rating site
2-Make it collaborative and make people review it so you don't have to hire staff
3-Extort restaurateurs
4-....
5-Profit!!!! (for a while)
6-Getting your site discredited.
7-FAIL
First Doom 4 Production Shots Revealed 136
An anonymous reader writes "Actor Brad Hawkins has been tapped to do motion-capture work for Doom 4, and revealed that the game features the military and civilians fighting side by side. Does this mean the game is set on Earth for sure? GGL Wire has an interview with Hawkins and a selection of production shots. '[Filmmaker Mark Bristol] was very specific on the civilians having a certain personality and the military characters having a separate one as well. The body language of the civilians is less, well, "trained." They carry their guns in a looser fashion and are a little sloppier when they run, a little more freestyle. The military characters are sharp as razors, with very swift moves, exact hand positioning and can turn on a dime.'"
This follows news from last month that British novelist Graham Joyce was brought in to develop the story for the game.
Fly Me To Which Moon? 183
Hugh Pickens writes "NASA and the European Space Agency are expected later this week to settle an ongoing debate on whether to send a robotic mission to Jupiter's moon Europa or Saturn's moon Titan. Both are difficult places to get to — a mission to either would cost several billion dollars/euros to build and execute — and both have become alluring targets in the quest to learn whether Earth alone supports life. On the one hand, Europa is believed to have liquid oceans beneath its frozen crust which (on Earth at least) are a source of life-supporting chemistry. Scientists would like to scan Europa's surface for bits of material that may have seeped up from beneath the ice. 'Imagine if there were microbes entrained in material that has exuded onto the surface of Europa and they've been sitting there for maybe three million years,' says planetary scientist Dr. Brad Dalton. On the other hand, Titan has two enticing features in the search for life: liquids on the surface, and a thick atmosphere that can be used to slow down a spacecraft and help put it into orbit. Titan's surface water is locked into the crust as ice, but scientists suspect there may be a subsurface ocean where water mingles with ammonia. The mission will not get to the launch pad before 2020. 'It's unfortunate that there has to be a decision,' says NASA/JPL astrobiologist Dr. Kevin Hand. 'It's important to go to both. They are both such amazing and tantalizing worlds in terms of finding life.'"
Submission + - Google launches Sync for,Contacts in mobile device (cyberspirits.net)
Manpreet singh writes: "Just like Apple's mobile me Google syn (launched today) for iPhone and Windows Mobile devices, Google Sync allows you to get your Gmail contacts and Google Calendar events onto your phone"
Submission + - Open Government a new reality?
An anonymous reader writes: According to Scott A. Hodes, [http://www.llrx.com/columns/foia54.htm] our new President has decreed Freedom of Information to be assumed by default, and not limited unless proscribed by law [http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2009/pdf/E9-1773.pdf]. This Presidential memo also calls for specific requests to be met in a timely manner. That would have helped in the case of someone who has waited eight years or more for request approval [http://www.sanluisobispo.com/news/politics/story/607498.html].
Does this mean more lawyers will be available for RIAA to screw with the little guys [http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/02/06/024246]? I would like NewYorkCountrylawyer to advise, would this memo affect current requests such as this?
Submission + - HP Printers Susceptible to Online Attack
nandemoari writes: Hewlett-Packard recently issued a warning to select laser printer owners urging them to update the firmware of their devices or risk the prospect of leaving themselves open to a malicious attack.
In a public advisory, HP warned that certain laser printers are confirmed to have been affected, including 10 different LaserJet models (ranging from the 2410 to the 9050 models), two Color LaserJet models and the 9200C Digital Sender model (a sheet-fed document scanner).
All owners of these devices are asked to download and install firmware upgrades right away.
