Comment Divide by two (Score 1) 356
Well, assuming half is male, you can "only" bang 5k women.
Comment A US-based, free e-mail service (Score 3, Insightful) 141
[...] the Trojan sends a notification e-mail to the attackers, using a US-based, free e-mail service that Symantec declined to name.
Hotmail, perhaps? No?
Comment Re:Who says science is underfunded? (Score 1) 87
The ISS is not only about zero-gravity research.
It is also about spaceflight. And politics.
Comment Re:Ogg was supposed to do this (Score 3, Insightful) 335
That just doesn't sounds as cool as Smooth Streaming, now does it...
Comment Re:Slashdot is, as usual, behind the times (Score 1) 187
You forgot the hs in "angstschreeuw" and "slechtstschrijvend". Also, "slechtstschrijvend" translates to worst writing (not written). Lastly, the correct word is "Jazzzanger" (with an a instead of an i).
Comment Re:Problem Solved Many Years Ago (Score 2, Informative) 333
Comment Re:Free Tibet! (Score 2, Insightful) 470
I think you mean a Tibet of equal or greater value.
Comment Re:Message to Virginia Fusion Center, from Anonymo (Score 5, Informative) 779
For those too lazy to make the conversion, here's Lumpy's message:
"Only really stupid paranoids think that there is a secret society trying to get them. People in general are too lazy to act en-masse' to disrupt things if they are comfortable. If you are creating misery and death for a group, then by all means worry.\n\nBut these people are simply clutching at straws..\n"
(Python: ''.join(map(chr, map(lambda x: int(x, 16), s.split()))))
Social Networking Spurs Activism Against Repression 303
The New York Times Magazine is running a story about the rise in political activism in Egypt through sites like Facebook, which allow citizens to gather and share ideas in ways they otherwise aren't allowed. A state-of-emergency law has been active in Egypt since 1981, which, among other things, "allows the government to ban political organizations and makes it illegal for more than five people to gather without a license from the government." As affordable internet access has spread throughout the country, the government is having a much harder time keeping wraps on the ideas of dissidents. Blocking access to the sites isn't a good solution for the government, because many non-dissidents use it for mundane communications. As Harvard's Ethan Zuckerman puts it, "...doing so would alert a large group of people who they can't afford to radicalize."
Comment Re:Dumb newbie question (Score 1) 271
You will have to update your machine right away after installation. As you can see from the file dates at the bottom of the download page, the images are not updated after the initial release: http://releases.ubuntu.com/releases/8.10/.
Hence, *always* perform security updates immediately after installation.
Comment Re:The wheel 2.0... (Score 2, Funny) 216
Well, Theo Jansen did a TED presentation on his improvement on te wheel.
Submission + - Facebook Censorship Won't Let Me Sign Up 3
dustinhigh writes: "Just thought this was funny... My name is Dustin High and I was told to sign up for a facebook account. After I hit sign-up it came back with an error saying my name is unacceptable. Well their name is unacceptable. What kind of a name is facebook anyway."
Submission + - Microsoft Warns of Excel Zero-Day Attack
greyMatter writes: "eWEEK has a story about a new, undocumented vulnerability in Microsoft's Excel spreadsheet program that is being used to launch computer attacks against specific targets, according to a warning from the software maker. The vulnerability, rated "extremely critical" by Secunia, is being exploited to load a keylogger Trojan on select targets, according to an anti-virus analyst tracking the latest attack. From the article: The attackers are using booby-trapped Excel documents, sent by e-mail to the target's mailbox. If a rigged .xls document is launched, the exploit happens silently in the background, infecting the machine with a Trojan downloader that opens a backdoor and waits for instructions from a server controlled by the attacker."
Submission + - First official release of GNU IceCat
Germany Says Copying of DVDs, CDs Is Verboten 230
Billosaur writes "In what can only be seen as the opening salvo in an attempt to control what users can do with content, the German parliament has approved a controversial copyright law which will make it illegal to make copies of CDs and DVDs, even for personal use. The Bundesrat, the upper part of the German parliament, approved the legislation over the objections of consumer protection groups. The law is set to take effect in 2008, and covers CDs, DVDs, recordings from IPTV, and TV recordings." A few folks have noted that this story is incorrect. The original link seems to be down now anyway. Sorry.
