33017941
submission
quantumghost writes:
An as yet undiscovered planet might be orbiting at the dark fringes of the solar system, according to new research.
Too far out to be easily spotted by telescopes, the potential unseen planet appears to be making its presence felt by disturbing the orbits of so-called Kuiper belt objects, said Rodney Gomes, an astronomer at the National Observatory of Brazil in Rio de Janeiro.
Kuiper belt objects are small icy bodies—including some dwarf planets—that lie beyond the orbit of Neptune.
637432
submission
quantumghost writes:
There is a shared laptop that a group of 60 use for weekly Powerpoint presentations. Access to the laptop is rare outside of the presentation day so people develop their presentations at home and bring them on CD or flash drive the day of the presentation. Often the pictures or video are caputured from in house devices, cell phones, or lifted off the web, etc. The problem is that too often the laptop does not have the required codec/media software (Tiff, QuickTime, RealTimeAccess, etc). What would be the best collection of programs that could be loaded onto a Windows XP laptop to give the broadest support without killing the harddrive/processor?
545390
submission
quantumghost writes:
Scientists are priming two spacecraft to slam into the moon's South Pole to see if the lunar double whammy reveals hidden water ice.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23371839/
545384
submission
quantumghost writes:
When T-Mobile began selling Apple's iPhone in Germany last fall, a legal skirmish ensued, forcing the wireless carrier to sell it untethered to a contract — at $1,460, no less. T-Mobile eventually persuaded a court that the two-year contract was legal.
Now that same kind of European rule would be imported into the United States — meaning AT&T would be legally required to sell a contract-free iPhone — if a new Democratic proposal in the U.S. House of Representatives becomes law.
http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9879554-7.html
477794
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quantumghost writes:
Apparently someone was using SQL injections to slow the RIAA site, when someone upped the ante and did a SQL "DROP"....
Someone apparently used SQL injection to wipe, and we do mean wipe, the website of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) clean of content. (In case they've fixed the site, click the empty "Who We Are" statement above to see what their homepage looked like at the time of this writing.)
Since the RIAA is usually chasing after pirates of copyrighted and copy-protected material, call it ... well, call it what you will.
It started on Reddit, where a link to a really slow SQL query was posted. The post said "This link runs a slooow SQL query on the RIAA's server. Don't click it; that would be wrong."
Full link: http://technologyexpert.blogspot.com/2008/01/riaa-website-wiped-clean-by-hackers.html
