Comment Re:Shiny things? (Score 1) 627
Isn't everyone?
Comment R-Studio (Score 5, Informative) 399
Back when most data recovery and disk utility applications didnt work on vista (and many still dont) I found one called r-studio. It managed to recover a whole lot of data of a damaged flaky 5TB Raid 5 array, which is pretty impressive considering it was the only application at the time that could even recognize it as a drive, all the others just call it a damaged volume.
As far as I know its still the only one that can do Raids, at least as far as I can find. It also allows many customization options of searches and donest over simplify things too much. It takes forever but it finds any potential damaged file systems and then lets you use whichever one you like to recover whichever files you like. It can also be used to recover deleted files.
As far as I recall its pretty cheap, at least compared to a few out there and worth a try. But with all recovery and security software, I find the information and their website extremely generalized and vague about what exactly you can do, so I always download the software first to make sure it can do what I want, which 90% of the time it cant, and then if it works I buy it. Its not the most legal practice but if they dont offer demos and wont be specific about what their software does its the only practical solution.
Churches Use Twitter To Reach a Wider Audience 169
In an attempt to reverse declining attendance figures, many American churches are starting to ask WWJD in 140 or fewer characters. Pastors at Westwinds Community Church in Michigan spent two weeks teaching their 900-member congregation how to use Twitter. 150 of them are now tweeting. Seattle's Mars Hill Church encourages its members to Twitter messages during services. The tweets appear on the church's official Twitter page. Kyle Firstenberg, the church's administrator, said,"It's a good way for them to tell their friends what church is about without their friends even coming in the building."
Submission + - Organisms Trapped for 2M Years without O2 or Light
Hugh Pickens writes: "An ancient ecosystem that has thrived in isolation without oxygen or light for two million years after being covered by the Taylor glacier on the East Antarctic ice sheet has been discovered in a pool of dark, salty water beneath half a kilometer of ice in Antarctica providing further evidence of the extreme conditions that life might be able to endure on other planets. "This briny pond is a unique time capsule from a period in Earth's history," said Jill Mikucki, who led the research at Dartmouth College. "I don't know of any other environment quite like this on Earth." Scientists made the discovery while analyzing water samples from Blood Falls, a curious blood-red stain on the face of the Taylor glacier that is exceptionally salty and rich in iron and sulphur, but containing no oxygen. Scientists believe the pool's microbes eke out a living by "breathing" iron leached from the bedrock beneath the glacier, using sulphur as a catalyst. Studying the microbes might help to explain how life survived a period known as "Snowball Earth" when ice sheets from both poles met at the equator encasing the world in ice. "It's a bit like finding a forest that nobody has seen for 1.5 million years," says Ann Pearson of Harvard University. "Intriguingly, the species living there are similar to contemporary organisms, and yet quite different — a result, no doubt, of having lived in such an inhospitable environment for so long.""
Comment Re:I don't get it (Score 1) 1475
derka derka durrrr
Comment Re:I don't get it (Score 1) 1475
Translation: Derka derka durrrrr
Yeah, i guess i should stop complaining about being discriminated against because others are too. Wtf? from what you said your a homophobic tool with an insecurity problem for which you have to conpensate by acting tough on the internet. Wow im so impressed that you made those punks back down like sissy bitches cause your so big. You must be so huge and manly. lol ok i've had enough.
Comment Re:I don't get it (Score 1) 1475
lol nevermind I assumed you were someone worth responding to, sorry.
Comment Re:I don't get it (Score 1) 1475
Clearly you have no idea what a lot of gay people have to suffer through. I didn't finish my high school education because I was forced out of my school due to death threats. That made it difficult as fuck to get in to university but I finally managed to. You really have no clue of what you are talking about.
Comment Re:I don't get it (Score 1) 1475
I think anyone with one quater of a working brain can infer that when they refer to "gays getting married" it implies two of the same sex. Do you know any gay men that want to marry women?
Your bringing up some kind of irrelivant symantics issue, trying to say that all have equal rights. The issue is being able to marry who you want, and gays do not have that right, whereas straight men and women happen to. I have no idea what the point of what your trying to do is.
Comment Re:Whoopee (Score 1) 115
I just got 20,676 in 3Dmark Vantage. I can run crysis max settings 1920x1200 with 4x AA and i get 40fps. before I couldnt even have everything max at 1920 with no AA, same GPUs but a e6700 dual core. so it made a huge difference for me and was worth it.
Why does everyone on slashdot act like high end gaming doesnt exist or is unimportant? I thought this site was for nerds...
Comment Try to make it educational... (Score 1) 634
Muslim Massacre.
Submission + - UK teachers want to ban Youtube
WombatDeath writes: The UK's Professional Association of Teachers is demanding that Youtube be shut down in order to remove threatening and bullying video footage from the internet. Following cases in which teachers have struggled to have individual clips removed, a spokeswoman for the PAT said that "Being exposed to ridicule, whether as an adult or young person, is a humiliating and frightening experience," adding "In the short term confronting this problem must be the closure of sites encouraging the cyber-bullying." Are new measures necessary to counter online bullying or, as Youtube asserts, are its existing processes able to deal with such situations?
Submission + - Misleading Studies Obscure Public Health Problems
IceTwinkie writes: Countless research papers and news reports about high-risk sexual behavior and methamphetamine use in gay communities have neglected to make any comparison to their straight counterparts. For this reason, there is a false impression that meth use followed by unprotected sex is only a problem among gay men. Researchers from the San Francisco Department of Public Health report that meth use among men who have sex with men has decreased over the past three years due to aggressive public health campaigns. Meanwhile, unprotected sex among heterosexual methamphetamine users is a continuing problem. Perhaps for political reasons, researchers and the media have been so focused on meth use in the gay community, that they have completely neglected the same behavior among straight addicts. As a result, public health campaigns have been aimed exclusively at gay men when they should have been available to the general public.
Submission + - Man burns opponent's house for calling him "ne (theglobeandmail.com)
prostoalex writes: "The Globe and Mail is reporting on a feud between two members of a picture-sharing site that motivated one of the opponents to drive down to Texas from Virginia, meanwhile taking photos of his trip and sharing them on aforementioned picture-sharing site, to burn the victim's house down: "Investigators say Tavares boiled over when Anderson called him a nerd and posted a digitally altered photo making Tavares look like a skinny boy in high-water pants, holding a gun and a laptop under a "Revenge of the Nerds" sign. Tavares obtained Anderson's real name and hometown from Anderson's Web page about his Museum of Horrors Haunted House. Tavares took leave from his post as a weapons systems operator at the AEGIS Training and Readiness Center in Dahlgren, Va., and started driving. Investigators say he told them he planned to point a shotgun at Anderson and shoot his computer.""
Submission + - Hacking kiosks and ATMs with Windows sticky keys
pestilence669 writes: "An alarming number of kiosks and ATMs (like the V-Com units in 7-11) run Windows XP. I've recently made it a hobby to play minesweeper and surf the web on these units. Most, if not all, are connected to the Internet. BitTorrent from an ATM? It's easier than you think! Gaining control is as simple as five keystrokes.
The companies that build ATMs and kiosks seem to know nothing about keyboard shortcuts. If there's a keyboard attached, you can bet that they removed the TAB key to prevent ALT+TAB abuses. Little do they know, ALT+TAB is not the only way to lose focus for an application.
If you're a fast typer like me, you've probably been greeted with the Microsoft sticky keys dialog. It asks you if you want to enable "sticky keys." It's a usability feature that helps disabled individuals type with one hand. Sadly, it's pseudo-enabled by default since this dialog box appears. Most people don't know it, so it's ready to be abused on just about every production XP-based kiosk or ATM (with keyboard).
All that needs to be done: hit the SHIFT key five times. SHIFT is guaranteed to be included in even the most restrictive keyboard layouts. In almost every instance, the sticky keys dialogs appears. As the kiosk or ATM application looses focus, you'll be presented with the XP start menu in the background. Many of these machines use a complete install with Minesweeper, Hearts, Internet Explorer and Outlook Express. Fun!!!
I've made it a regular habit to browse Slashdot, send email, and surf blogs from just about any kiosk that I find. Whenever my wife uses the bathroom at Dave & Busters, I'm reading blogs in the lobby. Whenever I'm at 7-11, I'm surfing with the ATM.
What's really scary about all of this is how easy it is to install executable code onto these devices. They're on the Internet and they have local storage. As far as I can tell, in my own experience, there are no restrictions in place. What's to stop someone from installing their own COM/ActiveX "helper" object and intercepting all HTTP/bank traffic?"
The companies that build ATMs and kiosks seem to know nothing about keyboard shortcuts. If there's a keyboard attached, you can bet that they removed the TAB key to prevent ALT+TAB abuses. Little do they know, ALT+TAB is not the only way to lose focus for an application.
If you're a fast typer like me, you've probably been greeted with the Microsoft sticky keys dialog. It asks you if you want to enable "sticky keys." It's a usability feature that helps disabled individuals type with one hand. Sadly, it's pseudo-enabled by default since this dialog box appears. Most people don't know it, so it's ready to be abused on just about every production XP-based kiosk or ATM (with keyboard).
All that needs to be done: hit the SHIFT key five times. SHIFT is guaranteed to be included in even the most restrictive keyboard layouts. In almost every instance, the sticky keys dialogs appears. As the kiosk or ATM application looses focus, you'll be presented with the XP start menu in the background. Many of these machines use a complete install with Minesweeper, Hearts, Internet Explorer and Outlook Express. Fun!!!
I've made it a regular habit to browse Slashdot, send email, and surf blogs from just about any kiosk that I find. Whenever my wife uses the bathroom at Dave & Busters, I'm reading blogs in the lobby. Whenever I'm at 7-11, I'm surfing with the ATM.
What's really scary about all of this is how easy it is to install executable code onto these devices. They're on the Internet and they have local storage. As far as I can tell, in my own experience, there are no restrictions in place. What's to stop someone from installing their own COM/ActiveX "helper" object and intercepting all HTTP/bank traffic?"
