Comment Hopefully (Score 1) 1
Hopefully they will spread to other countries and continents.
Submission + - Swedish Pirate Party Launches ISP (sydsvenskan.se) 1
WillDraven writes: Torrentfreak is reporting that The Swedish Pirate Party has launched an ISP. Starting with 100 residents in the housing organization LKF (Swedish) in the city of Lund, Pirate ISP hopes to gain 5% of the market in Lund before spreading to other markets. Headed by longtime Pirate Party member Gustav Nipe, seen giving an English interview about the ISP here, the company aims to provide internet service with the sort of guarantees one would expect from the Pirate Party. Most notable of these are the promises to keep no logs of subscriber activity and provide no data to law enforcement or private corporations. The original Swedish report on Sydsvenskan can be found here.
Submission + - .CO Domain Launches Today (bybits.info)
barnabasnagy writes: .CO Internet S.A.S launches its general registry process for the brand new .CO domain today. It’s a very good possibility to get superb domains that were unavailable with the overcrowded .COM domain.
Submission + - Google.com missing closing HTML tags? Standards? (w3.org)
yosofun writes: From a quick viewsource, any casual user can easily see that Google.com is missing the closing HTML and BODY tags (Load up the page. View Source. Use the Find feature in your browser, and search for "</html>" or "</body>"). Why?
W3C Validator shows 35 errors and 2 warnings for google.com. Similar validation crawls for Microsoft.com, Apple.com, Yahoo.com show errors as well. There are web designers who would strive inhuman hours to achieve standards-compliant perfection, and yet the trend with the sites visited most by folks on the Internet is to ignore standards. What does this mean — are standards worth all that prissiness?
W3C Validator shows 35 errors and 2 warnings for google.com. Similar validation crawls for Microsoft.com, Apple.com, Yahoo.com show errors as well. There are web designers who would strive inhuman hours to achieve standards-compliant perfection, and yet the trend with the sites visited most by folks on the Internet is to ignore standards. What does this mean — are standards worth all that prissiness?
Submission + - Solar Sail Tested Successfully in Space (space.com)
Tisha_AH writes: "A common theme in science fiction has passed a practical test aboard the Ikaros spacecraft launched by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency. A solar sail provided a minute but measurable level of thrust once unfurled from the spacecraft. This will set the foundation for future designs of space sails to be launched in the future by the Planetary Society.
We will soon see the day when spacecraft will get a helping hand from the gentle pressure of outflowing gas and particles from the sun. This has the potential to provide a significant amount of velocity for probes intended for the outer solar system.
The main article is at: http://www.space.com/businesstechnology/solar-sail-successfully-flies-on-sunlight-100712.html
A description of the solar sail experiment is at the Planetary Society web site: http://www.planetary.org/programs/projects/solar_sailing/20100625.html
The next solar sail project that will be launched by the Planetary Society can be found at: http://www.planetary.org/programs/projects/innovative_technologies/solar_sailing/"
We will soon see the day when spacecraft will get a helping hand from the gentle pressure of outflowing gas and particles from the sun. This has the potential to provide a significant amount of velocity for probes intended for the outer solar system.
The main article is at: http://www.space.com/businesstechnology/solar-sail-successfully-flies-on-sunlight-100712.html
A description of the solar sail experiment is at the Planetary Society web site: http://www.planetary.org/programs/projects/solar_sailing/20100625.html
The next solar sail project that will be launched by the Planetary Society can be found at: http://www.planetary.org/programs/projects/innovative_technologies/solar_sailing/"
Comment Hope not (Score 1) 1
I hope this isn't true because we all need to adapt to newer Operating Systems. Sure XP still does mostly everything we need, if not everything. But there is alot of benefits for upgrading, Except for the fact the OS requires a Faster CPU and more RAM to operate.
Submission + - Windows XP support extended to 2020 (tgdaily.com) 1
Dega704 writes: "Microsoft originally said that new owners of Windows 7 who wanted to downgrade to XP would only have until 2011 to do so, but now the company has changed its mind and extended support for the old operating system until 2020. That's right. Windows XP, an operating system that is already almost 10 years old, will apparently still be relevant for another 10 years. "We have decided to extend downgrade rights to Windows XP Professional beyond the previously planned end date at Windows 7 SP1," wrote Microsoft in an official blog post. "Going forward, businesses can continue to purchase new PCs and utilize end user downgrade rights to Windows XP or Windows Vista until they are ready to use Windows 7."
I hope this is a hoax because I for one am not looking forward to another full decade of servicing XP machines.
I hope this is a hoax because I for one am not looking forward to another full decade of servicing XP machines.
Fring Calls Skype 'Cowards'; Skype Responds 152
An anonymous reader writes "It seems that Skype and Fring are not getting along so well today. First, Fring made a claim that Skype was blocking Fring and in a subsequent blog post, called Skype 'cowards': 'Now that Fring expanded capacity to support the huge demand for video calling for all users, Skype has blocked us from doing so. They are afraid of open mobile communication. Cowards.' Skype has responded, stating that Fring's misuse of Skype software was damaging their brand and reputation: 'There is no truth to Fring's claims that Skype has blocked it. Fring made the decision to remove Skype functionality on its own.'
Brazil Forbids DRM On the Public Domain 258
nunojsilva writes "Cory Doctorow reports that the Brazilian equivalent of DMCA explicitly forbids using DRM-like techniques on works in the public domain. 'Brazil has just created the best-ever implementation of WCT [WIPO Copyright Treaty]. In Brazil's version of the law, you can break DRM without breaking the law, provided you're not also committing a copyright violation.' This means that, unlike the US, where it is illegal to break DRM, in Brazil it is illegal to break the public domain."
ESA Releases Lutetia Flyby Images 48
The European Space Agency has released images from yesterday's close approach of asteroid 21 Lutetia by the Rosetta probe. At its closest, the probe was a mere 3,162 km from the asteroid, passing at 15 km/s and snapping photos sharp enough to make out features as small as 60 meters.
"Rosetta operated a full suite of sensors at the encounter, including remote sensing and in-situ measurements. Some of the payload of its Philae lander were also switched on. Together they looked for evidence of a highly tenuous atmosphere, magnetic effects, and studied the surface composition as well as the asteroid’s density. ... The flyby marks the attainment of one of Rosetta's main scientific objectives. The spacecraft will now continue to a 2014 rendezvous with its primary target, comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko. It will then accompany the comet for months, from near the orbit of Jupiter down to its closest approach to the Sun. In November 2014, Rosetta will release Philae to land on the comet nucleus."
There is also a replay of the media event webcast on the ESA's website.
What Developers Think About Apple's iAd 263
Nemilar writes "It's been about a week since Apple rolled out its new advertising platform, and developers of iPhone apps are watching the earliest returns to see how much money they can expect to make from these ads. One developer reported Thursday that he earned $1,400 in one day for his flashlight app. The amount iAds pay is 'a high number when you get it, but you don't get it very often,' said Dave Yonamine, the director of marketing at MobilityWare. The article discusses revenue potential in relation to the only other mobile ads platform, AdMob for Android, and claims that iAd paid as much as $148 for the same number of ads as $1 on AdMob; but this extreme ratio is likely to erode as the novelty wears off."
REMnux, the Malware Analysis Linux OS 58
Trailrunner7 writes "A security expert has released a stripped-down Ubuntu distribution designed specifically for reverse-engineering malware. The OS, called REMnux, includes a slew of popular malware-analysis, network monitoring and memory forensics tools that comprise a very powerful environment for taking apart malicious code. REMnux is the creation of Lenny Zeltser, an expert on malware reverse engineering who teaches a popular course on the topic at SANS conferences. He put the operating system together after years of having students ask him which tools to use and what works best. He originally used Red Hat Linux, but recently decided that Ubuntu was a better fit. REMnux has three separate tools for analyzing Flash-specific malware, including SWFtools, Flasm and Flare, as well as several applications for analyzing malicious PDFs, including Didier Stevens' analysis tools. REMnux also has a number of tools for de-obfuscating JavaScript, including Rhino debugger, a version of Firefox with NoScript, JavaScript Deobfuscator and Firebug installed, and Windows Script Decoder."
