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Submission + - French Threat to ID Secret US Satellites (beskerming.com)

Submitted by

SkiifGeek

on Sunday September 09, 2007 @07:24PM

SkiifGeek writes: "Space.com has reported that the French have identified numerous objects in orbit that do not appear in the ephemeris data reported by the US Space Surveillance Network. Since the US has claimed that if it doesn't appear in the ephemeris data, then it doesn't exist, and the French claim that at least some of the objects have solar arrays, it seems that the French have found secret US satellites.

While the French don't plan to release the information publicly, they are planning to use it as leverage to get the US to suppress reporting of sensitive French satellites in their published ephemeris.

The Graves surveillance radar (the French system) and a comparable German system may form the basis of a pan-European Space Surveillance network — another system that the Europeans don't want to rely on the US for."

Submission + - Northwest Passage Now Open

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 09, 2007 @05:36PM

An anonymous reader writes: The Guardian is reporting that the Northwest Passage is now navigable due to arctic sea ice melting much faster than previously. This will only continue to get worse next year as the additional open water absorbs more heat and delays the refreezing of the water this winter.

Submission + - Sony caught editing Halo 3 Wikipedia entry (vnunet.com)

Submitted by on Sunday September 09, 2007 @01:16PM

An anonymous reader writes: Sony has been caught out editing the Wikipedia entry for Microsoft's highly anticipated shooter Halo 3.

The original entry stated: 'Halo 3, the third game in the best-selling Xbox game franchise Halo, is a highly anticipated first-person shooter video game under development by Bungie Studios for the Xbox 360 and is expected to "set a new high water mark" for next-generation games.'

However, a sentence had been added which reads: 'Although it won't look any better than Halo 2.

Many Antivirus Tools Fail in LinuxWorld Test 234

Posted by CowboyNeal on Thursday August 09, 2007 @08:41PM from the survival-of-the-fittest dept.

talkinsecurity writes "In a public, side-by-side test conducted last night at LinuxWorld, ten antivirus products were confronted with 25 known viruses. The results were surprisingly disparate. Only three of the products caught all of the viruses; three only caught 61 percent, and one caught an abysmal 6 percent. The test, which wasn't particularly complicated, proves that there still are wide differences in the effectiveness of AV tools. A lot of people think all AV tools are the same — they're not!"

Submission + - 30 things I've learned from using Linux ... (zdnet.com)

Submitted by BBQ-buster on Thursday August 09, 2007 @07:01PM

BBQ-buster writes: ZDNet's Adrian Kingsley-Hughes has an interesting article called "30 things I've learned from using Linux ..." where a long-time Windows user discusses some of the things that he's learned from dabbling with Linux for a few months.

1. That I don't have to pay money to get my hands on a credible operating system.
2. There are far more Linux distros available that I have time to try them out.
3. Switching to Linux does not mean trouble-free computing.
4. Whenever you ask a Linux user which is the best distro, invariably the answer you'll get is the name of the distro that they're using.
5. In my opinion, the best Linux distro is Ubuntu.
6. No matter how much I like a GUI, and no matter how lazy years of using Windows made me, there's a lot to be said for using a command line.

Overall it's a very positive Linux article that should inspire others to give Linux a go.

Submission + - Geology, volcanos (icelandreview.com)

Submitted by hrld1,kon on Thursday August 09, 2007 @06:28PM

hrld1,kon writes: Scientists studying volcanic rid

Scientists studying volcanic ridges in the ocean off Iceland have discovered a new type of volcano. Scientist from the Universities of Iceland and Hawaii searching southwest of Iceland made the discovery. Iceland Review has the initial story.

Submission + - Google on Privacy Concerns With Personalization (readwriteweb.com)

Submitted by

ReadWriteWeb

on Thursday August 09, 2007 @06:09PM

ReadWriteWeb writes: "In this interview with Google's Sep Kamvar, Lead Software Engineer for Personalization at Google, Kamvar responds to concerns about privacy in personalization technologies. He was asked whether privacy is less important now than it used to be — due to the popularity of social networks and social software? To achieve true personalization, do sacrifices need to be made in terms of privacy? Kamvar replied that Google aims to respect user data in the following ways:

1. Choice. Our Web History product is an optional product. Those who don't want it, can opt to not use the product.

2. Transparency. For those users who opt in to the Web History product, we show them their previous queries, so that our users can see all the data that is used to personalize their search results.

3. Control. Our Web History users have the ability to pause Web History at any time, or go back and delete individual items.

4. Data Portability. Our Web History users can export their web history data to another service through an RSS feed.

"

Submission + - IBM and Novell strengthen Linux ties

Submitted by Robert on Thursday August 09, 2007 @05:20PM

Robert writes: IBM and Novell have rekindle their long-term Linux relationships with deals to push IBM software on Novell's desktop and server operating systems among a number of announcements from both companies at Linux World. Novell may have flirted with Microsoft in recent months but its long-term commitment is to IBM, which invested $50m in Novell's as part of its $210m acquisition of SUSE Linux back in 2003.

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