Comment Inexpensive 3rd Party Solution (Score 4, Informative) 286
https://www.startssl.com/
An Israeli company with inexpensive SSL (and other certs). I would also point out the prices they have for Extended Validation SSL certs.
Dogs Can Be Pessimistic 99
Not that it will change anything, but researchers at Bristol University say that your dog might be a gloom-monger. In addition to the downer dogs, the study also found a few that seemed happy no matter how uncaring the world around them was. "We know that people's emotional states affect their judgments and that happy people are more likely to judge an ambiguous situation positively. What our study has shown is that this applies similarly to dogs," said professor Mike Mendl, an author of the study and head of animal welfare and behavior at Bristol University.
Submission + - Biologists & Computer Scientists Create Flu Vi (stonybrook.edu) 1
schi0244 writes: A team of molecular biologists and computer scientists at Stony Brook University have created a synthetic flu virus. The virus is composed of scrambled genetic code generated by computer algorithms.
Submission + - Sophos sells majority stake to equity firm (techtarget.com)
L3sPau1 writes: Another security vendor bites the dust as Sophos sells a majority stake to Apax Partners.
Submission + - Hardware drivers, the only Linux problem? 1
Comment HOBOS RIDE IN BOXCARS (Score 0, Offtopic) 31
My God (or goodness),
After reading the post in its entirety, i began to: 1) Piss my pants and then 2) SHIT my pants and then 3) SHIT blood and then 4) not give a shit any more.
Woman Discovers Her Wireless Internet Is Not Free
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But she'd been using it for a year and a half.
Submission + - HP restores creased photos with flatbed scanners (cnet.co.uk)
An anonymous reader writes: A crease can ruin an often-irreplaceable printed photograph. But new research from HP Labs points towards a future where this is much less of a problem. Scientists at HP have developed a technique to detect creases in photographs using standard, unmodified flatbed scanners. Once correctly scanned into a computer, software can determine where the photograph's defect is, and artificially correct it to remove any trace of a crease or fold. The result is a spotless JPEG scan from a creased photo, with absolutely no modified hardware and no technical know-how required on the part of the user.
Submission + - Top Cracking Software Methods and Piracy Groups
An anonymous reader writes: A report by V.i. Labs revealed the top methods used for cracking software and the top piracy groups responsible. The findings revealed that the piracy groups and the reverse engineering talent they recruit can tamper with a variety of hardware and software based licensing systems to enable overt piracy. The top five piracy groups (out of 212) contributed 59 percent of the cracked releases in the research sample. The top five most active groups in this sample were Lz0 (Linear Zero), NULL, Shooters, LND (Legends Never Die) and Magnitude.
Submission + - Researchers Debut Barcode Replacement (bbc.co.uk)
eldavojohn writes: MIT Researchers have unveiled a new potential replacement for barcodes. Using an LED covered with a tiny mask and a lens, these new bokodes can be processed by a standard mobile phone camera and can encode thousands of times more information than your average barcode. New applications are being dreamed up by the team. Dr. Mohan of MIT said, 'Let's say you're standing in a library with 20 shelves in front of you and thousands of books. You could take a picture and you'd immediately know where the book you're looking for is.'
Submission + - Palm Releases webOS 1.1.0, Fixes Media Sync
Tokerat writes: C|Net is reporting that Palm has released webOS 1.1.0, which contains a fix for Media Sync to work with version 8.2.1 of iTunes. Palm made a slightly underhanded comment about the situation on it's blog:
Oh, and one more thing: Palm webOS 1.1 re-enables Palm media sync. That's right — you once again can have seamless access to your music, photos and videos from the current version of iTunes (8.2.1).
You can find webOS 1.1.0 Release Notes on Palm's site.
Submission + - SPAM: New tool helps reconstruct sneakiest of attacks
alphadogg writes: Certain attacks that leave no trace on computer hard drives may be discoverable using a new tool that will be demonstrated at the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas next week, which will feature many security advances [spam URL stripped]. Researchers who work for Mandiant will present a means for piecing together what malicious activity might have been carried out by an attacker's payload that runs only in memory and so evades traditional disk forensics, the researchers say. In particular, the memory forensics tool being presented finds traces in memory of what activity might have been performed via Meterpreter, a software module for the open-source Metasploit penetration testing framework. Meterpreter can be injected into a legitimate running process on a victim computer and thereby avoid detection by host IDS/IPS software. Meterpreter can then be used as a platform for further attack, the researchers say.
Link to Original Source
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IE 8.1 Supports Firefox Plugins, Rendering Engine 283
KermodeBear writes in to note that according to Smashing Magazine, the newest version of Internet Explorer, codenamed "Eagle Eyes," supports Firefox plugins, the Gecko and Webkit rendering engines, and has scored a 71 / 100 on the Acid3 test. The article is pretty gee-whiz, and I don't entirely believe the claims that IE's JavaScript performance will trounce the others. (And note that the current Firefox, 3.0.8, scores 71 on Acid3, and Safari 3.1.2 hits 75.) No definitive date from Microsoft, but "sources" say that an IE 8.1 beta will be released in the summer.
UK Court Rejects Encryption Key Disclosure Defense 708
truthsearch writes "Defendants can't deny police an encryption key because of fears the data it unlocks will incriminate them, a British appeals court has ruled. The case marked an interesting challenge to the UK's Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA), which in part compels someone served under the act to divulge an encryption key used to scramble data on a PC's hard drive. The appeals court heard a case in which two suspects refused to give up encryption keys, arguing that disclosure was incompatible with the privilege against self incrimination. In its ruling, the appeals court said an encryption key is no different than a physical key and exists separately from a person's will."
Researchers Claim To Be Able To Determine Political Leaning By How Messy You Are
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According to a study to be published in The Journal of Political Psychology, you can tell someone's political affiliation by looking at the condition of their offices and bedrooms. Conservatives tend to be neat and liberals love a mess. Researchers found that the bedrooms and offices of liberals tend to be colorful and full of books about travel, ethnicity, feminism and music, along with music CDs covering folk, classic and modern rock, as well as art supplies, movie tickets and travel memorabilia. Their conservative contemporaries, on the other hand, tend to surround themselves with calendars, postage stamps, laundry baskets, irons and sewing materials. Their bedrooms and offices are well lit and decorated with sports paraphernalia and flags — especially American ones. Sam Gosling, an associate professor of psychology at the University of Texas at Austin, says these room cues are "behavioral residue." The findings are just the latest in a series of recent attempts to unearth politics in personality, the brain and DNA. I, for one, support a woman's right to clean.
