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Submission + - Team Restores 5 Shredded DARPA Docs in 33 Days

adeelarshad82 writes: A team of eight members were able piece together more than 10,000 shredded pieces of paper, split across five puzzles, as part of the U.S. Defense Department's "Shredder Challenge." The shredded pieces were made up of normal plaintext messages, encoded messages, and one picture puzzle. The team used a visual identification program that could analyze the context of an individual fragment and offer matching recommendations based on its knowledge of every other piece. As winners, they were awarded a $50,000 prize.
Privacy

Submission + - IT Pros Can't Resist Peeking at Info (net-security.org)

Orome1 writes: IT security staff will be some of the most informed people at the office Christmas party this year. A full 26 per cent of them admit to using their privileged log in rights to look at confidential information they should not have had access to in the first place. It has proved just too tempting, and maybe just human nature, for them to rifle through redundancy lists, payroll information and other sensitive data including, for example, other people’s Christmas bonus details.
Classic Games (Games)

The Best Video Games On Awful Systems 272

Buffalo55 writes "For the most part, classic games manage to reappear on different systems. Just look at Nintendo. The publisher has done an excellent job bringing NES, SNES, Genesis and even old school Neo Geo titles to the Wii's Virtual Console, while Microsoft's Game Room brings the best of Atari's 2600 into the living room. Of course, not every console was a success. The '90s, in particular, saw quite a few flops from companies like Panasonic, Sega and Atari. Just because a system is a failure, though, doesn't mean all of its games suck. On the contrary, most of these machines have a few gems that fell between the cracks once the console croaked." What overlooked game on a failed platform would you like to see revived?

Comment Re:The U.S. government is EXTREMELY corrupt. (Score 1) 222

4 Score and about 30 years ago, our wretched national fathers dreampt up a new nation, vivid with color and nocturnal. The primordial soup of the internet and now because it has become so intrenched in society that it needs further extrusion of the excrament created in cyberspace by having cyber-thugs doing the cleaning with clear cut violations of the 4th Amendment (at least as far as the UsA is concerned). I for one do not agree that the DHS needs to hire 1000 new people for IT related work. Actually, the USAF is doing a very fine job with the assistance of Lockheed-Martin in cyber-defense. Why not utilize them and create more positions in the military to fill this void that DHS claims to have and need?

Comment Re:Equivalent of the TSA... (Score 1) 222

Isn't the definition of an "Expert" something like fecal matter? We have enough fecal matter flowing from with the government and from the private sector that we really don't need anymore. There aren't enough toilets to flush them all in. Besides, could be giving IT a bad name and connotations like that of lawyers needing to take a trip on the big red boat and it suddenly comes into port without any of them on it.
Desktops (Apple)

Submission + - Gene Roddenberry's Mac Plus is up for auction (technologizer.com)

Harry writes: "In 1986, Apple unveiled one of the most popular Macintoshes ever, the Mac Plus. It gave the first one (serial number #F4200NUM0001) to Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry. And now it'll be up for auction at a Hollywood collectibles event on October 8th and 9th. Its estimated value? $800-$1200, which seems reasonable enough given its double historical significance."

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