Comment Re:Greengrocers apostrophe? (Score 1) 214
Surely you meant to say you idiot's.
Comment Re:Right (Score 1) 314
Bradley Manning is a hero, he did the right thing.
Submission + - 84 Million Stars in this 9 Gigapixel Image (vice.com)
Daniel_Stuckey writes: "Looking up into the dark autumn sky in New York City, I’m still dumbfounded on the nights that I’m able to spot more than a dozen stars. The city’s light pollution is actually so great here that when I visit rural places I’m kept up at night by a sort of analog version of the internet: stargazing. But now it seems a single photograph could contain more stars than a night in the countryside ever could.
At the European Southern Observatory’s Paranal Observatory in Chile, site of the VLT (Very Large Telescope) array, the VISTA telescope (Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy) has captured a picture of unprecedented properties. The beast of an image, weighing in at nine-gigapixels (9,000 megapixels, which would print to about 23 × 30 feet) is now available in an interactive, zoomable format via ESO’s website."
At the European Southern Observatory’s Paranal Observatory in Chile, site of the VLT (Very Large Telescope) array, the VISTA telescope (Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy) has captured a picture of unprecedented properties. The beast of an image, weighing in at nine-gigapixels (9,000 megapixels, which would print to about 23 × 30 feet) is now available in an interactive, zoomable format via ESO’s website."
Submission + - Ask Slashdot: Alternatives for startups when domains are already registered 2
An anonymous reader writes: Recently we've been trying to start a small company in Argentina. When trying to acquire the domains we need (.com and .com.ar) we found that they were already registered but not in use. We contacted the owners, which are companies or individuals that buy and sell domains for a living.
They said that .com would be a six figure domain (!), which is pretty impressive given that it's not a recognized brand or anything, it's a simple english noun.
On the other hand, for the .com.ar (which is actually free!!) we were asked around 2000.
We think this is outrageous. There has to be some legal way for small enterpreneurs to be able to start their own business without having to pay to these people.
Maybe if we register the name then we can request to be given priority over the domain?
Has any of you ever had to deal with a situation like this?
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On the other hand, for the
We think this is outrageous. There has to be some legal way for small enterpreneurs to be able to start their own business without having to pay to these people.
Maybe if we register the name then we can request to be given priority over the domain?
Has any of you ever had to deal with a situation like this?
Submission + - SSL Vulns Found in Critical Non-Browser Software (threatpost.com)
Gunkerty Jeb writes: The death knell for SSL is getting louder.
Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin and Stanford University have discovered that poorly designed APIs used in SSL implementations are to blame for vulnerabilities in many critical non-browser software packages.
Serious security vulnerabilities were found in programs such as Amazon’s EC2 Java library, Amazon’s and PayPal’s merchant SDKs, Trillian and AIM instant messaging software, popular integrated shopping cart software packages, Chase mobile banking software, and several Android applications and libraries. SSL connections from these programs and many others are vulnerable to a man in the middle attack.
Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin and Stanford University have discovered that poorly designed APIs used in SSL implementations are to blame for vulnerabilities in many critical non-browser software packages.
Serious security vulnerabilities were found in programs such as Amazon’s EC2 Java library, Amazon’s and PayPal’s merchant SDKs, Trillian and AIM instant messaging software, popular integrated shopping cart software packages, Chase mobile banking software, and several Android applications and libraries. SSL connections from these programs and many others are vulnerable to a man in the middle attack.
Comment Re:Kickstarter (Score 1) 103
I did and... sold!
Comment Re:COM, CORBA, Objective-C (Score 1) 933
Wasn't that figured out in Plan 9 using file system namespaces and 9P? I'd love to see what the Linux community could do with that.
Comment Re:Chat has its place, but shouldnt be primary (Score 1) 228
Comment Re:Big surprise? (Score 3, Interesting) 576
Submission + - New NRC chair: It's 2050: Do you know where your nuclear waste is? (thebulletin.org)
__aaqpaq9254 writes: New NRC chair, Allison Macfarlane, is a PhD in geology and an expert on nuclear waste. In this article, she points out that the lack of planning in terms of what to do with the back end of the fuel cycle has to change now, or the public will ultimately reject nuclear power.
Submission + - Software-Defined Radio: The Apple I of Broadcast? (arstechnica.com)
benfrog writes: "A company called Per Vices has introduced software-defined radio gear that Ars Technica is comparing to the Apple I. Why? Because software radio can broadcast and receive nearly any radio signal on nearly any frequency at the same time, and thus could "revolutionize wireless." The Per Vices Phi is one of the first devices aimed at the mass hobbyist market to take advantage of this technology."
Submission + - Small Molecule May Play Big Role in Alzheimer's Disease (utexas.edu)
aarondubrow writes: "Researchers from UC Santa Barbara used the Ranger supercomputer to simulate small forms of amyloid peptides that are believed to be a primary cause of toxicity in Alzheimer's disease. They found that hairpin-shaped forms of the peptide initiated the aggregation of oligomers that ultimately led to the formation of a fibril. The simulations are leading to new diagnostic and treatment options they may stop the disease."
Submission + - US Election Year, Still No Voting Reform
An anonymous reader writes: A year ago, we discussed this on Slashdot: E-Voting Reform In an Out Year?. The point was that due to the hoard of problems with electronic (and mechanical) voting, it is best to approach reform in an out year, when it is not on everyone's mind yet too late to do anything about it. Well, we failed, didn't we? Another election year is upon us, and our vote is less secure, less reliable, less meaningful than ever. To reference the last article, we still have no open source voting, no end-to-end auditable voting systems and no open source governance. So don't complain when this election is stolen. You forgot to fix the system.
Submission + - Real-life Avatar: The first mind-controlled robot surrogate (extremetech.com)
MrSeb writes: "An Israeli student has become the first person to meld his mind and movements with a robot surrogate, or avatar. Situated inside an fMRI scanner in Israel, Tirosh Shapira has controlled a humanoid robot some 2000 kilometers (1250 miles) away, at the Béziers Technology Institute in France, using just his mind. The system must be trained so that a particular “thought” (fMRI blood flow pattern) equates to a certain command. In this case, when Shapira thinks about moving forward or backward, the robot moves forward or backward; when Shapira thinks about moving one of his hands, the robot surrogate turns in that direction. To complete the loop, the robot has a camera on its head, with the image being displayed in front of Shapira. Speaking to New Scientist, it sounds like Shapira really became one with the robot: “It was mind-blowing. I really felt like I was there, moving around,” he says. “At one point the connection failed. One of the researchers picked the robot up to see what the problem was and I was like, ‘Oi, put me down!’”"
Submission + - Ubuntu Can't Trust FSF: Thus Dropped Grub 2 For Secure Boot (muktware.com)
sfcrazy writes: Free Software Foundation, FSF, recently published a white paper criticizing Ubuntu's move to drop Grub 2 in order to support Microsoft's UEFI Secure Boot. FSF also recommend that Ubuntu should reconsider their decision. Ubuntu's charismatic chief, Mark Shuttleworth, has finally responded stating the reason why they won't change their stand on dropping Grub 2 from Ubuntu. Mark Shuttleworth said "The SFLC advice to us was that the FSF could require key disclosure if some OEM screwed up. As nice as it is that someone at the FSF says they would not, we have to plan for a world where leaders change and institutional priorities change. The FSF wrote a licence that would give them the rights to take specific actions, and it's hard for them to argue they never would!
So, does that FSF can't be trusted?"
So, does that FSF can't be trusted?"
