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Submission + - SOPA Blackout Simulator (vilimpoc.org)

An anonymous reader writes: I've written up a quick and simple client-side Javascript function that obscures DIVs, or any other CSS selector you like, to show what the Web would look like if SOPA passes.

You can build this into your websites and give people a real sense of what an arbitrary and capricious SOPA web censorship regime might look like.

Programming

Submission + - Alan Turing Year Starts Today (i-programmer.info)

mikejuk writes: 2012 is the centenary of the birth of Alan Turing and many events are planned during the course of the year to celebrate this fact. To mark the start of the year we have a song, yes a song!, that tells the story and a long list of happenings.

Submission + - Testing the MongoDB Global Write Lock (pythonisito.com)

rick446 writes: "I took some time to benchmark the global write lock improvements in MongoDB 2.0. From TFA: "MongoDB, as some of you may know, has a process-wide write lock. This has caused some degree of ridicule from database purists when they discover such a primitive locking model. Now per-database and per-collection locking is on the roadmap for MongoDB, but it's not here yet. What was announced in MongoDB version 2.0 was locking-with-yield. I was curious about the performance impact of the write lock and the improvement of lock-with-yield, so I decided to do a little benchmark, MongoDB 1.8 versus MongoDB 2.0.""
Japan

Submission + - Japan Earthquake: 7.0 Magnitude Struck (usposting.com)

An anonymous reader writes: A 7.0-magnitude convulsion addled beneath the sea south of Japan on Sunday, afraid barrio in the basic but causing no credible accident or tsunami.

The convulse addled abreast the arid island of Torishima in the Pacific Ocean, about 600 kilometers (370 miles) south of Tokyo, and its epicenter was about 370 kilometers (230 miles) beneath the sea, the Meterological Agency said. It did not accomplish a tsunami.

Network

Submission + - IP over Lego model train (extremetech.com)

MrSeb writes: "In one of the finest examples of what overly-entitled, First World westerners get up to during cold, winter months, a Frenchman called Maximilien has raised the useless-applications-of-technology stakes and turned a model railway into one of the world’s slowest computer networks. A Lego train carries a USB key around a model railway, stopping at three Arduino-powered "stations." The USB key is mounted and checked to see if the drive contains a packet for the Linux computer attached to the Arduino. The latency is pretty high (about 5-10 seconds), but just like bulk data transfer by loading a truck full of tapes or hard drives, throughput is probably quite good."

Comment Re:So all 5 of you running Safari on Windows (Score 5, Informative) 284

Quote from Secunia advisory:

A vulnerability has been discovered in Microsoft Windows, which can be exploited by malicious people to potentially compromise a user's system. The vulnerability is caused due to an error in win32k.sys and can be exploited to corrupt memory via e.g. a specially crafted web page containing an IFRAME with an overly large "height" attribute viewed using the Apple Safari browser. Successful exploitation may allow execution of arbitrary code with kernel-mode privileges

Safari is apparently the only currently known browser where this attack could be vectored from.

Comment Re:Money? (Score 1) 76

Yea, but you forget the huge loans that many of us accumulate after getting our degrees in engineering. It's just not easy t forget about it all and go hitchhiking across Europe. That said, once I do finish my loans I am going to do exactly that with a couple of friends.

Comment Re:Thanks for posting this.. (Score 1) 29

Warning heeded, but I saw this on a blog post at commoncrawl.org.

This bucket is marked with Amazon Requester-Pays flag, which means all access to the bucket contents requires an an http request that is signed with your Amazon Customer Id. The bucket contents are accessible to everyone, but the Requester-Pays restriction ensures that if you access the contents of the bucket from outside the EC2 network, you are responsible for the resulting access charges. You don’t pay any access charges if you access the bucket from EC2, for example via a map-reduce job, but you still have to sign your access request. Details of the Requeser-Pays API can be found here: http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/index.html?RequesterPaysBuckets.html

If I understood that right, at least getting started with the tutorial will not result in me coughing up $200. Correct me if I am mistaken.

Comment Re:This is news? (Score 5, Informative) 228

I like FileHippo more. It has a bigger collection than ninite, and it tracks both stable and beta versions of most free software and freeware on Windows. They also have a useful (and a completely optional download) update utility that checks if there are any updates available for software on your computer. If yes, you can let it update from their website. It's pretty awesome, all in all.

Comment Re:An unfortunate load of crap (Score 1) 473

So basically, you and your grandparent poster worked with a few idiots, and you now think everyone who is in mid 20s and early 30s is irresponsible? As someone in mid 20s, I not only take offense at that, but I cannot concur with your experience. My friends and I can easily distinguish between someone who is truly experienced and smart versus someone who is talking out of his ass. Age doesn't matter here, be he 18 years old or 50 (or even 60) something.

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