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Comment Re:Ummm, because it is different information? (Score 1) 464

Here's a great example of just how amazing Americans are! Watch 6:16 onwards.

http://www.boingboing.net/2010/12/09/video-of-kids-reacti.html

This is horrifying. That a child has been brought up and taught that the conversion rate for American lives too an entire country is; a few Americans at risk, (after first attempt fails) KILL THEM ALL, because yeah who cares?

Yes he's only a child and may not have a better understanding of the sanctity of human life, but someone taught him this!

Comment Re:The Earth would be fine (Score 1) 264

By threat to Earth I meant an event which would cause the Earth to lose its identity as a planet. One way woud be falling into a gas giant, sun, black hole or another astronomical object large enough that the Earth would become part of the object. Or a collision which splits the planet near in half, where neither of the resulting objects could be labled the Earth while still being planet sized.

The phrase "threat to the Earth", when used by a human, means "theat to the Earth's suitablity as our home".

I agree that the term threat to the Earth is typicaly used in relation to us. This is why I said it was pedantic to interpret it the way I did, though maybe picky would have been a better term to describe how I chose to read the article.

Comment The Earth would be fine (Score 2, Insightful) 264

...we wouldn't.There is no possible threat to the Earth which humans could ever make even the smallest abount of diffence about. Instead there is a threat to civilisation. Pedantic, I know but the only threat to the earth is crashing into a star or another planet. Humanity compared is much more fragile, threatened by a mere mile wide rock or similar.

Comment Watch the burglary rates soar (Score 1) 4

Now if anyone steals your phone and keys they could be able to log onto your facebook acount (depending on whether the phone is locked or not) and find out where you live. An example how good online security requires good real life security. There may be methods to help prevent this but none that I could find.
Firefox

Submission + - Trojan Forces Firefox to Secretly Store Passwords (h-online.com) 1

suraj.sun writes: A trojan recently analysed by Webroot is said to rely on retrieving web page passwords from a browser's password storage, rather than logging a user's keyboard inputs. To make sure it will find all the interesting passwords in Firefox, the malware, called PWS-Nslog, makes some changes to jog the browser's memory. A few manipulations in a JavaScript file prompt Firefox to store log-in information automatically and without requesting the user's consent.

The malware will, for instance, simply comment out Firefox's confirmation request in the nsLoginManagerPrompter.js file and add a line with automatic storage instructions. The H's associates at heise Security were able to reproduce the effect of the manipulations – manipulations which the malware author probably borrowed from a work around that has been in circulation since 2009.

The manipulation works on all platforms on which the Trojan has the rights to modify the nsLoginManagerPrompter.js file. In tests this worked on Windows XP, Windows 7 and Ubuntu 10.04.

H-online: http://www.h-online.com/security/news/item/Trojan-forces-Firefox-to-secretly-store-passwords-1106100.html

Space

Submission + - Cracks In The Universe Show Cosmic Strings Origins (insidescience.org)

SciNye writes: Physicists are searching for the fingerprints of cosmic strings and are hot on the trail of one of strangest theorized structures in the universe. They think are the first indirect observations of ancient cosmic strings, bizarre objects thought to have contributed to the arrangement of objects throughout the universe.
Censorship

Submission + - Chinese Nobel prize winner's wife detained (cnn.com)

suraj.sun writes: The wife of 2010 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo has been detained in her apartment in Beijing, China, and is not allowed to see people or use her telephone, a human rights group citing her attorney said Sunday. The woman, Liu Xia, has not been charged with a crime, said Freedom Now, a U.S.-based group.

"Liu Xia is under enormous pressure," said Dr. Yang Jianli, a member of Liu Xiaobo's defense team and a human rights specialist with Freedom Now. "We hope that world leaders will immediately condemn this shameful act by the Chinese government and urge Liu Xia's immediate and unconditional release."

Liu Xiaobo won the prize Friday, but news of the win has been blacked out in China, with no mention of it on Chinese media.

CNN: http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/10/10/china.nobel.wife/index.html

Government

Submission + - UK Scientists leave labs to protest expected cuts (google.com)

uid7306m writes: The UK government is planning an austerity budget, in the wake of the financial crisis and banking bailouts. This involves a 25% overall cut in the government budget, and the indications are that it will hit UK science and university budgets strongly. In response to this, a campaign has started that has managed to get scientists out of their labs and into the streets. The BBC has a story here.

It's not just about saving jobs: science builds the economy, is the basis for just about all the technical toys you can imagine, medicine, and perhaps one day will even sort your socks or save the ecosystem. So, there are good reasons to keep science funded.

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