Comment Re:So, what is the digit in decimal? (Score 1) 299
Replied to wrong thread! Sorry.
Comment Re:So, what is the digit in decimal? (Score 0, Flamebait) 299
Not quite true. See Bellard's formula and Bailey's formula on which it is based.
Comment Bailey–Borwein–Plouffe formula (Score 2, Interesting) 299
Bailey–Borwein–Plouffe formula lets you calculate the n-th digit of pi without calculating the n-1 digits.
I wonder what formula was used to calculate the digit here.
Submission + - Genital Herpes Pictures (youtube.com)
pharaoh412 writes: Use genital herpes pictures to help determine if you have contracted herpes. Viewing genital herpes pictures of benefit to you at during early stages herpes. The doctor may also use genital herpes pictures to show you some symptoms.
Submission + - New Material Can Store Vast Amounts Of Energy (gizmag.com)
ElectricSteve writes: Using super-high pressures similar to those found deep in the Earth or on a giant planet, researchers from Washington State University (WSU) have created a compact, never-before-seen material capable of storing vast amounts of energy. Described by one of the researchers as “the most condensed form of energy storage outside of nuclear energy,” the material holds potential for creating a new class of energetic materials or fuels, an energy storage device, super-oxidizing materials for destroying chemical and biological agents, and high temperature superconductors.
Submission + - Hydrogen Bomb in Space. (npr.org) 2
An anonymous reader writes: USA government detonates a hydrogen bomb in space during the 1960s.
Comment Google News redesign is a Total Flop (Score 1) 2
I think the redesign is bad.
'Energetic' is putting it lightly. I can only see negative reactions on Google support forums and other sites.
Google destroyed Google Groups and now some idiots at Google have destroyed Google News.
The alternatives like Bing News are no better.
No other news aggregation sites have the two column layout and stretches to the full width of the browser window like the previous version of Google News did.
For the short term, it seems you can switch your default news page to some other country and then add US specific sections to get around the redesign.
Information Week correctly likened it to the 'New Coke'
Submission + - Great way to FireWall cc attack from China (soido.org)
An anonymous reader writes: Westerners living in China are getting used to Connection Rests after bumping into sensitive keywords in Google search results. After that the computer will not be able to open any websites in 1-2 minutes. Many people hate it, but do you know? It also helped people defeat hackers from China
A Chinese blogger blogged about how he helps his friend successfully defended his web space hosted on a HK server with the help of GrFW. The connection limit of their account is 500 and it's constantly suffering from "Service Unavailable". There is nothing unusual in their IP and VP records. But their server log bloated from 22M to 169M in the recent two days.There are 1million requests from 500 unique IP targeting a single asp page. The attacker is flooding the asp page without valid id parameter causing database query errors. He fixed the parameter check flaw. but still the cc attack is overwhelming the server. After their service provider changed their IP, He came up with a brilliant idea. The guy directed all request without valid parameters to to an address ended with a GrFiW approved sensitive keyword. "/?min9hui" (9 should be g).
China GFiW approved keywords are classified and filtered on different levels some are inspected by DPI. Will these key words become migic spell protecting our web from crawler and flooders from China ? God knows. But GrFW indeed helped the Chinese op effectively cooled the flooder down. According to his test, he refreshed the website 20 times both with and without this keyword. With the keyword, only 3 requests appear in server log. while without the keyword 20 request arrived his server, none miss.As a comment in the blog pointed out that this trick only works for cc attack, request flood, but has no effect on DDoS attack with fragmented packets. What about running a t0r relay to win a IP black hole ;)
A Chinese blogger blogged about how he helps his friend successfully defended his web space hosted on a HK server with the help of GrFW. The connection limit of their account is 500 and it's constantly suffering from "Service Unavailable". There is nothing unusual in their IP and VP records. But their server log bloated from 22M to 169M in the recent two days.There are 1million requests from 500 unique IP targeting a single asp page. The attacker is flooding the asp page without valid id parameter causing database query errors. He fixed the parameter check flaw. but still the cc attack is overwhelming the server. After their service provider changed their IP, He came up with a brilliant idea. The guy directed all request without valid parameters to to an address ended with a GrFiW approved sensitive keyword. "/?min9hui" (9 should be g).
China GFiW approved keywords are classified and filtered on different levels some are inspected by DPI. Will these key words become migic spell protecting our web from crawler and flooders from China ? God knows. But GrFW indeed helped the Chinese op effectively cooled the flooder down. According to his test, he refreshed the website 20 times both with and without this keyword. With the keyword, only 3 requests appear in server log. while without the keyword 20 request arrived his server, none miss.As a comment in the blog pointed out that this trick only works for cc attack, request flood, but has no effect on DDoS attack with fragmented packets. What about running a t0r relay to win a IP black hole
Submission + - .xxx Considered Dangerous (ietf.org)
Jurily writes: "With ICANN approving the .xxx domain, it might be time to take another look at RFC 3675: .sex Considered Dangerous."
Submission + - SPAM: Regulators bound to stack up over Google-ITA
marino02 writes: That's really the only question that needs to be debated in the wake of Google's announcement that it plans to acquire ITA Software, the leading provider of flight information from airlines to travel Web sites, for $700 million in cash.
Link to Original Source
Link to Original Source
Submission + - Complex Shadow Object Creating In Photoshop (buildtutorial.com)
An anonymous reader writes: here is the Complex Shadow Creating In Photoshop in this tutorial we will use this as well. please keep on focus to do this you will be able to do it very very perfectly as well.
Submission + - Google News has controversial new look (blogspot.com) 2
dpletche writes: Google News, historically one of the most powerful and versatile news aggregation sources on the internet, has been completely redesigned for customers in the USA. The new site appears to substitute a Facebook-like activity stream for the earlier topic-based sections. It also includes a number of mandatory new sections and comprehensive monitoring of user behavior. Reaction from the user community has been energetic, if not at all positive.
What other alternatives exist for users who aren't satisfied with the new design?
What other alternatives exist for users who aren't satisfied with the new design?
Comment Re:Amazing findings (Score 1) 179
That was my first thought do. Physical access is needed to break the hardware.
The Researchers just say that the security measures used are low tech and easy to break, but show no demonstration about breaking it in a simulation/real polling situation.
I personally think its hard to pull off in a polling booth.
Second, With the size of India's population I would rather that India continues to use EVMs and switch to paper trail methods -- Please think of the trees.
Using paper is not only is bad for the environment also substantially increases the cost (for support staff to count/manage paper votes, security, transporation etc.)
Comment Re:Was the Hoover Dam ever the worlds widest? (Score 1) 286
Yeah, the are several dams wider than Hoover.
The one of the widest that I know of is the Hirakud Dam in India is 26 km wide also build in the 1950s
One Year Later, USPS Looks Into Gamefly Complaint 183
Last April, we discussed news that video game rental service GameFly had complained to the USPS that a large quantity of their game discs were broken in transit, accusing the postal service of giving preferential treatment to more traditional DVD rental companies like Netflix. Now, just over a year later, an anonymous reader sends word that the USPS has responded with a detailed inquiry into GameFly's situation (PDF). The inquiry's 46 questions (many of which are multi-part) cover just about everything you could imagine concerning GameFly's distribution methods. Most of them are simple, yet painstaking, in a way only government agencies can manage. Here are a few of them:
"What threshold does GameFly consider to be an acceptable loss/theft rate? Please provide the research that determined this rate. ... What is the transportation cost incurred by GameFly to transport its mail from each GameFly distribution center to the postal facility used by that distribution center? ... Please describe the total cost that GameFly would incur if it expanded its distribution network to sixty or one hundred twenty locations. In your answer, please itemize costs separately. ... Does the age of a gaming DVD or the number of times played have more effect on the average life cycle of a gaming DVD?"
