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Submission + - itsoknoproblembro (prolexic.com)

Submitted by smilnrt
smilnrt writes: Many of the financial instutions that experienced slow websites recently were hit with a DDOS toolkit termed 'itsoknoproblembor' according Prolexic. Prolexic also warns of escalating and highly advanced DDOS toolkits coming in the wild.
Security

Submission + - The World's First Computer Password? It Was Useles (wired.com) 1

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MikeatWired
MikeatWired writes: "If you’re like most people, you’re annoyed by passwords. So who's to blame? Who invented the computer password? They probably arrived at MIT in the mid-1960s, when researchers built a massive time-sharing computer called CTSS. Technology changes. But, then again, it doesn't, writes Bob McMillan. Twenty-five years after the fact, Allan Scherr, a Ph.D. researcher at MIT in the early ’60s, came clean about the earliest documented case of password theft. In the spring of 1962, Scherr was looking for a way to bump up his usage time on CTSS. He had been allotted four hours per week, but it wasn’t nearly enough time to run the detailed performance simulations he’d designed for the new computer system. So he simply printed out all of the passwords stored on the system. 'There was a way to request files to be printed offline by submitting a punched card,' he remembered in a pamphlet (PDF) written last year to commemorate the invention of the CTSS. 'Late one Friday night, I submitted a request to print the password files and very early Saturday morning went to the file cabinet where printouts were placed and took the listing.' To spread the guilt around, Scherr then handed the passwords over to other users. One of them — J.C.R. Licklieder — promptly started logging into the account of the computer lab’s director Robert Fano, and leaving “taunting messages” behind."

Submission + - Toyota and Microsoft (autonews.com)

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smilnrt
smilnrt writes: "Toyota and Microsoft entered into a joint venture recently. Utilizing Microsoft's Azure cloud computing to go far beyond basic GPS and wireless device technology to operating an entire home from your vehicle."
Data Storage

Submission + - Apple Orders 12 Petabytes Of Storage For iTunes (techspot.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Apple has ordered as much as 12 petabytes worth of data storage from EMC unit Isilon Systems. Such a large order for data storage may be being made for the construction of Apple's huge data center in Maiden, North Carolina. This new building is expected to be the hub for a new version of iTunes that relies on storing media in the cloud, rather than having customers use their own HDDs. The main focus will be for storing video content, rather than music, which is why so much storage is required.

Submission + - Classic Commodore 64 lives again (bbc.co.uk)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: "Commodore is making a Windows PC that fits inside a boxy beige shell that looks exactly like its original C64.

The 8-bit machine was released in 1982, had 64 kilobytes of memory and became one of the best-selling computers ever.

Commodore's updated version will run Windows 7 but also has an emulator capable of playing games written for its ancestor."

Submission + - The Best Time to Write a Resume (jobhits.net)

Submitted by Antharas
Antharas writes: Imagine for a moment that you’ve just heard the dreaded words, “We’re going to have to let you go.” A lot of people have heard this phrase over the last several years, and most have probably reacted with some degree of panic: How am I going to pay my bills? Where am I going to go? What am I going to do?
User Journal

Journal Journal: People who talk in text acronyms...

Journal by smilnrt

I did not think people did this. I mean how stupid!!! I Went out with some friends, and one of them brought along some chic who spoke in acronyms...Describe a story/situation that she found hard to believe she would say, "O.M.G." Tell a funny story she would not laugh, she would smile and say "L.O.L. or L.M.A.O." Finally, I got tired of it and said "W.T.F. is wrong with you???!!!"

Comment People are scary... (Score 1) 230

by smilnrt (#32304516) Attached to: iPad Steering Wheel Mount
A friend of mine posted this on his FB page, and sooooooooooooooooo many people went nuts over it. Where do I order it, when will it get to me, and on and on and on...I am thinking they are crazier for wanting this thing, than this guy is for posting this vid!!!

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