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Submission + - Austrian police raid privacy network over child porn (bbc.co.uk)

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another random user writes: Austrian police have seized servers that were part of a global anonymous browsing system, after images showing child sex abuse were found passing through them.

Police raided the home of William Weber, who ran the servers, and charged him with distributing illegal images.

Mr Weber denied the charges and said he had no knowledge of what people did via the servers, which supported Tor.

Mr Weber operated part of the Tor network known as an "exit node". These act as a link between the wider net and the cloud of computers forming the core of the Tor network.

Submission + - David Braben Kickstarts an Elite reboot (bbc.co.uk) 1

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: The BBC report that David Braben has launched a Kickstarter for a remake of Elite, the classic space trading game that he co-wrote in the 1980s. It has already received £122,000 in less than a day. Can it reach its goal of £1,250,000?

Submission + - Elite to return after all these years? (bbc.co.uk)

Submitted by nickrjsmith
nickrjsmith writes: Finally they are seriously looking at getting this project off the ground. I loved this as a kid and I can't wait... but will the entire thing just seem outdated now?

Submission + - New Elite sequel being kickstarted (kickstarter.com)

Submitted by the_arrow
the_arrow writes: Many who grew up in the 1980's playing with computers remember Elite by David Braben and Ian Bell. Later it came a sequel, but it has been quiet the last almost 20 years. Not anymore, as their company now have started a Kickstarter campaign for Elite: Dangerous, an official sequel to the venerable game.

Comment Probably not... (Score 1) 1

by crabel (#41818843) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Can using ADFS limit your options in the future?
Hi! The idea behind SAML is that two identity providers can trust each other. So if you use ADFS, you shouldn't have any problems in the long run. Of course, the caveat is, that you need to use another software that can do LDAP login and supports SAML2 protocol. ADFS can then consume identity tokens from those other SAML2 providers and issue tokes for users that are authenticated against them. And those other identity provider could in turn act as consumers and accept identity tokens from ADFS. So, going for a solution that supports SAML (or most likely SAML2) should put no insurmountable problems in your way. Btw.: If you need to do SSO with e.g. Sharepoint, you basically need to use ADFS anyway. (Well, that's not a 100% true, but close enough). Of course, if you already know that you will have multiple LDAP servers, AD users and maybe even other identity sources, you could just start using another SSO software instead of ADFS. My company implemented SSO with OpenSSO from ForgeRock as producer and ADFS as a consumer last year. The guy he did it complained a lot, because ADFS developers apparently hate to give meaningful errors. Just unspecific errors and it did not work for quite some time. A Microsoft guy fiddled with the Sharepoint - ADFS integration for several days. He did it several times from scratch till it worked... hth

Comment Re:Can someone explain... (Score 1) 262

by crabel (#41129997) Attached to: Solid State Quantum Computer Finds 15=3x5 — 48% of the Time

That may be so, but computing the prime factorization of 15 is not in that class.

Well, it's O(n^2 log n), which is pretty high. http://numbers.computation.free.fr/Constants/Algorithms/splitting.html If you have a machine, that can do it with large numbers in an instant, but only with 50%, it would be awesome. But I agree on the rest of the argument, still way to go...
Communications

Submission + - Augmented reality glasses perform real-time language translation (gizmag.com) 1

Submitted by cylonlover
cylonlover writes: Inspired by the Google's Project Glass, computer programmer Will Powell has built a prototype real-time translation system that listens to speech, translates it into one of 37 languages, and then displays the resulting text as subtitles directly onto the user's glasses. In a nutshell, here's how it all works. A Bluetooth microphone picks up the audio signal and connects to a smartphone or tablet to provide a clean, noise-cancelled audio feed. The signal is then sent to the Microsoft Translator service, which detects the foreign language and transcribes it into the target language of choice. Finally, the translated text is displayed on the lower half of the glasses – effectively providing real-time subtitles for a conversation in a foreign language.
Hardware

Submission + - Is this the future of Project Glass? (geek.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Project Glass made a big splash not too long ago at Google’s annual developer conference when they showed several users falling on to the Moscone West in San Francisco. Google’s pretty bent on showing us the sharing possibilities with Project Glass, but it feels like in time that technology could become a ubiquitous part of our lives. Fortunately for those of us who lack a hyperactive imagination, a short film popped up recently that can help fill in the blanks.

The world created in the film was made possible by wearable tech. Games, cooking challenges, information in real-time about the person you are talking to, all made possible by the contact lenses being worn. And of course there's a darkside to the equation, the potential to hack and therefore influence the actions of others. Ultimately, it's a realistic idea of the future we all face.
Java

Submission + - Which Java web framework?

Submitted by crankyspice
crankyspice writes: I'm a somewhat-lapsed developer / IT guy, "somewhat" in that, during and after law school, I've done it as a hobby and smaller projects here and there. I'm about to embark on a Java web app tied into my law practice, though, and find myself bewildered by the various framework options out there — Spring, Hibernate, Tapestry, Struts2... The built-in stack in J2EE 6... What to use? Is there a good resource that objectively compares the various options, and/or provides insight as to which frameworks might be appropriate in different circumstances?

I've done a lot of Java coding over the years, but almost all of it was Swing desktop stuff; the last time I touched anything web-related, it was ATG Dynamo circa J2EE 1.3! Most of my web app experience was in C, Perl, or PHP. I roughly know my way around the MVC pattern; my last big project was Perl + Class::DBI + Application::CGI (including HTML::Template. But nothing too heavy.
Google

Submission + - Sergey Brin Demos Google Glasses Prototype (hothardware.com)

Submitted by
MojoKid
MojoKid writes: "Folks have been clamoring for more on Google's Project Glass and Sergey Brin--one of the co-founders of Google is now burying himself in the R&D department associated with its development. Recently Brin appeared on “The Gavin Newsom Show” on The Current with the prototype glasses perched on his face. The visit was actually a bit awkward as you can see in the video, as it’s a lot of Brin and Newsom describing what they’re seeing via the glasses with no visual for the audience. However, Brin dropped a bomb when he stated that he’d like to have the glasses out as early as next year."

Submission + - Vishy Anand of India wins world chess title for fifth time (themoscowtimes.com)

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TeriMaKiChooth
TeriMaKiChooth writes: "Vishwanath 'Vishy' Anand of India won the world chess title for a record fifth time. At the age of 42 it is considered impressive with most challengers in their twenties.

He defeated Isreali, Boris Gelfand for the title. This time around Anand said he was more relieved than happy as he had to play a tie-breaker to clinch the title.

A few other website reporting the news are -
http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2012/may/25/vishy-anand-breaks-record-boris-gelfand?newsfeed=true

http://www.news.com.au/national/epic-battle-for-world-chess-crown/story-fn7mjqus-1226375708220"

Submission + - Pandemic bird flu research published (wisc.edu) 1

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daveschroeder
daveschroeder writes: "After a marathon debate over a pair of studies that show how the avian H5N1 influenza virus could become transmissible in mammals, and an unprecedented recommendation by the National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity (NSABB) to block publication, and its subsequent reversal, a study by Yoshihiro Kawaoka at the University of Wisconsin–Madison was finally and fully published today in the journal Nature. The full journal article: Experimental adaptation of an influenza H5 HA confers respiratory droplet transmission to a reassortant H5 HA/H1N1 virus in ferrets."

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