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Comment Re:Uhm, so we're at war now with Iran? (Score 1) 415

by Pogie (#40182595) Attached to: Obama Order Sped Up Wave of Cyberattacks Against Iran

Just to correct one thing:

CTA (chicago transit authority) platforms do have displays which show when the next train will arrive. On newly renovated platforms, it's on an LCD display, on older platforms it's displayed on a simple digital text bar. However, in both cases, the displays rotate through the next arrival and other information (including ads on the LCD's), so it's easy to miss the info you're looking for.

Comment Re:Why is everyone so arrogant about linux? (Score 1) 627

by Pogie (#40118153) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Why Not Linux For Security?

Your arguments reflect a lack of understanding of current technology. In order, the simple rebuttals are:

1) OpenOffice -- supports most (if not all) Excel formulas, and imports all Excel 2K document formats.
2) LDAP
3) Cobbler/Puppet -- You don't know what they are, but that's ok, because you think that the retail install of windows provided by your vendor is acceptable on the corporate desktop, so your opinion on this issue really doesn't count.
4) RedHat offers paid support for Linux. Also, no business succeeds by having "the same issues that your competitors have". If that's your attitude, then your company has already lost.

For the record: I don't use Linux as my primary desktop OS. Securing Windows desktops is an annoying task, but it is doable. Ignorance like yours annoys me more, but correcting that ignorance is also doable.
Input Devices

Brain-Control Gaming Headset Launching Dec. 21 112

Posted by Soulskill from the oh-hey-it's-real dept.
An anonymous reader writes "Controlling computers with our minds may sound like science fiction, but one Australian company claims to be able to let you do just that. The Emotiv device has been garnering attention at trade shows and conferences for several years, and now the company says it is set to launch the Emotiv EPOC headset on December 21. PC Authority spoke to co-founder Nam Do about the Emotiv technology and its potential as a mainstream gaming interface." One wonders what kind of adoption they expect with a $299 price tag.
Security

Skype Messages Monitored In China 223

Posted by CmdrTaco from the privacy-in-stereo dept.
Pickens writes "Human-rights activists have discovered a huge surveillance system in China that monitors and archives Internet text conversations sent by customers of Tom-Skype, a joint venture between a Chinese wireless operator and eBay. Researchers say the system monitors a list of politically charged words that includes words related to the religious group Falun Gong, Taiwan independence, the Chinese Communist Party and also words like democracy, earthquake and milk powder. The encrypted list of words inside the Tom-Skype software blocks the transmission of these words and records personal information about the customers who send the messages. Researchers say their discovery contradicts a public statement made by Skype executives in 2006 that 'full end-to-end security is preserved and there is no compromise of people's privacy.' The Chinese government is not alone in its Internet surveillance efforts. In 2005, The New York Times reported that the National Security Agency was monitoring large volumes of telephone and Internet communications flowing into and out of the United States as part of an eavesdropping program that President Bush approved after the Sept. 11 attacks. 'This is the worst nightmares of the conspiracy theorists around surveillance coming true,' says Ronald J. Deibert, an associate professor of political science at the University of Toronto. 'It's "X-Files" without the aliens.'"

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