Comment Pollinators (Score 1) 248
Wouldn't the smell also repel pollinators as well?
This sounds cool. But I wonder if it would backfire.
Comment I grew up with the space program, but... (Score 1) 206
Frankly, it's gotten dumb and narrow. There's nothing on the moon that *matters.*
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How about making long-term livable space environments (i.e. containing viable organic ecologies) and not some dimwitted ground-dependent space station? How about making economically viable solar power in near earth orbit and selling it at a profit? How about setting up a few thousand square miles of adjustable mirrors to reversibly control global temperature?
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Uses for space like these *matter*. F*** the moon. F*** all that grandstanding political BS.
Comment Re:Wrong title. Or dramatization again? (Score 1) 444
No...
It should read:
The days, of implementing RAID with hardware and software that have none of the design elements necessary for implementing RAID properly, are numbered.
Comment Re:hmm (Score 1) 206
left out the most important one: ability to carry more ordinance per sortie.
Comment Re:Genious Marketing (Score 4, Insightful) 131
Point is that the consumer has their choice. Not just what the guys at Microsoft dream up.
Yes, with an iPod model you have the choice of whatever Apple choose to approve....
Comment Re:Talk is cheap (Score 1) 206
"Voicing support" doesn't mean jack squat. Put your money where your mouth is or sit down.
Yep, and the backlash has already started.
Comment Re:Ya know... (Score 3, Informative) 383
Most publishers will replace damaged discs for a fee. I think the going rate these days is about $20.
Comment or (Score 5, Insightful) 436
perhaps it's spiraling to its demise after billions of years in a decaying orbit.
Comment Re:Flushed down the toilet? (Score 1) 97
A study in LA in 2005 (sorry don't have the source) showed small amounts progesterone in the drinking water. Whether from people flushing or simply urinating the hormone away, I don't know. But such studies explain why my wife is only drinking filtered water during her pregnancy.
Comment Re:Give convicts pot (Score 1) 97
I think I know a few people who would like to be incarcerated under such a system.
Comment Re:Missing option: (Score 1) 452
That sounds painful
Hackers Get Free Parking In San Francisco 221
Hugh Pickens writes "PC World reports that at the Black Hat security conference this week, security researchers say that it is pretty easy for a technically savvy hacker to make a fake payment card that gives them unlimited free parking on San Francisco's smart parking meter system. 'It wasn't technically complicated and the fact that I can do it in three days means that other people are probably already doing it and probably taking advantage of it,' says Joe Grand. 'It seems like the system wasn't analyzed at all.' To figure out how the payment system worked, Grand hooked up an oscilloscope to a parking meter and monitored what happened when he used a genuine payment card. Grand discovered the cards aren't digitally signed, and the only authentication between the meter and card is a password sent from the former to the latter. Examining the meters themselves could yield additional vulnerabilities that might allow someone to conduct other kinds of attacks, such as propagating a virus from meter to meter via the smart cards or a meter minder's PDA."
Submission + - Google Warns About Search-Spammer Site Hacking (technologyreview.com)
Al writes: "The head of Google's Web-spam-fighting team, Matt Cutts, warned last week that spammers are hacking more and more poorly secured websites in order to "game" search-engine results. At a conference on information retrieval, held in Boston, Cutts also discussed how Google deals with the growing problem of search spam. "I've talked to some spammers who have large databases of websites with security holes," Cutts said. "You definitely see more Web pages getting linked from hacked sites these days. The trend has been going on for at least a year or so, and I do believe we'll see more of this [...] As operating systems become more secure and users become savvier in protecting their home machines, I would expect the hacking to shift to poorly secured Web servers." Garth Bruen, creator of the Knujon software that keeps track of reported search spam, added that some campaigns involve creating up to 10,000 unique domain names."
Submission + - Microsoft: Intel, HP 'Actively' Working with Linux
Anonymous writes: Microsoft filed its annual report with the U.S. SEC this morning and, according to Channelweb, went out of its way to single out HP and Intel for working with Open Source Software: " 'Partners such as Hewlett-Packard and Intel have been actively working with alternative Linux-based operating systems,' Microsoft wrote, providing no additional detail.
"While it's been known for some time that HP — - which sells some notebooks and netbooks and servers with Linux — - and Intel have dedicated some resources to Linux development, this is the first time that Microsoft has singled out its two biggest and arguably most important technology partners for this work," Channelweb writes.
It's not a secret that HP, Intel and most big tech companies are working with Linux — - but it appears as if Microsoft views HP's and Intel's work as being a notable threat to its own business. Microsoft also reported that it's now spending $9 billion annually on R&D. Will that help offset the Linux/Apple threats?
Submission + - RIAA: Don't Expect DRMed Music To Work Forever (arstechnica.com)
Oracle Goddess writes: "Buying DRMed content, then having that content stop working later is fair writes Steven Metalitz, the lawyer who represents the MPAA, RIAA in a letter to the top legal advisor at the Copyright Office. "We reject the view that copyright owners and their licensees are required to provide consumers with perpetual access to creative works." In other words, if it stops working, too bad. Not surprisingly, Metalitz also strongly opposes any exemption that would allow users to legally strip DRM from content if a store goes dark and takes down its authentication servers."
