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Submission + - Worst plane crash in Indian aviation history (in.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: ibnlive.in.com reports the worst plane crash in Indian avation history. A Mangalore bound Air India Express flight coming in from Dubai with 166 people on board crashed early on Saturday killing 158 people. The Air India Express IX-812, operated by a Boeing 737-800, had 160 passengers and six crew members on board overshot the touchdown point on the Mangalore airport runway by 2000 feet on Saturday at 6:30 AM while attempting to land.

What is equally disturbing, (I think,) is the fact that the family of the dead will be given just 4,264.4 U.S. dollars in lieu of a lost life!
Intel

Submission + - Intel Shows Off Mind-Reading Software (kitv.com)

Submitted by upto0013
upto0013 writes: Intel is showing off new software that can read minds. Designers say that the software could help disabled people speak, in a way.

"The software analyzes functional MRI scans to determine what parts of a person's brain is being activated as he or she thinks. In tests, it guessed with 90 percent accuracy which of two words a person was thinking about, said Intel Labs researcher Dean Pomerleau."

It's currently only working along side the MRI scanners, and has yet to analyze abstract thoughts, but it signals a step leap in controlling technology with our mind.

The unveiling also comes along side a bunch of other interesting Intel secret projects.
Apple

Submission + - Used iPads to Begin Flooding eBay (blogspot.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: As customer dissatisfaction with the first generation iPad grows, and as more users bump into the myriad functional limitations of the iPhone OS, a flood of used iPads is poised to wash over the pre-Christmas online auction landscape — much to the delight of bargain hunters and cultural curiosity collectors everywhere.
Windows

Submission + - Windows 7 service pack leaked to torrent sites (techworld.com) 1

Submitted by superapecommando
superapecommando writes: An early build of Windows 7's first service pack has been leaked, leading to thousands of downloads on a whole host of various torrent websites.
As with every Windows operating system (OS) release, improvements and fixes often arrive in the form of a service pack, and only last month the Windows team discussed the upcoming Windows 7 SP1 release in a blog post. The team detailed that the first service pack would feature a number of minor updates for the popular OS. However, it is worth noting that the Windows team did not mention a final release date for the completed service pack.
Ubuntu

Submission + - Google to be default search engine in Ubuntu-Lucid

Submitted by webanish
webanish writes: A post on ubuntu-devel[1] seems to suggest that Google (and not Yahoo) will be the default search engine in the upcoming Ubuntu — 10.04 LTS [Lucid Lynx]. Now if only we could move some stuff from left to right [2][3].

[1] https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2010-April/030589.html
[2] http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/23899/
[3] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/light-themes/+bug/532633

Comment Once upon a time... (Score 1) 356

by webanish (#31730482) Attached to: Songbird Drops Linux Support
There was amarok 1.x ...which was brilliant. ... Then for some f****** reason, they decided to make 2.x and that signaled the end of that. Then began the great linux-music player search. Everything from mplayer to xmms to rhythmbox to *songbird* to banshee was tried. Since the songbird UI looked cool,it was given a real go till it choked the system to multiple near-death experiences. So, I turned to banshee and been using it ever since. Long story short... no one gives a shit!
Security

Submission + - What to do when you find a security hole?

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Recently I discovered a potential security hole in the internet services provided by my lSP which is one of the largest in India. It potentially compromises the details of internet connections of any user by allowing one to view, modify and even use them. My question to slashdotters is how should I go about addressing this problem. Should I contact my ISP directly or should I approach some security agencies. I suspect that my ISP might dismiss my claim, so should I be prepared with some kind of a demo hack. Further, I also fear that these type of security holes are generic to services provided by other ISP's in India.

As evident, I don't wish to post any details regarding this publicly.
Programming

Journal Journal: MaSheD | What to do next...

Journal by webanish
I recently developed a python script that allows me to execute commands remotely on my machine. Say for example, if I was on Mars and wanted to encode a movie stored on my home computer, I could simply send an email to myself and a script running on my computer will parse the email and do the required stuff. This is particularly useful, if your machine is behind a firewall that has no access to ports that ssh, vnc etc use (basically for use in an office environment).
The reason I'm p

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