Comment Japan just did this last week (Score 1) 376
Do we really need to do it again?
http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20090610/sc_space/japaneseprobetoslamintomoontoday
Hackers Broke Into FAA Air Traffic Control Systems 124
PL/SQL Guy writes "Hackers have repeatedly broken into the air traffic control mission-support systems of the US Federal Aviation Administration, according to an Inspector General report sent to the FAA this week, and the FAA's increasing use of commercial software and Internet Protocol-based technologies as part of an effort to modernize the air traffic control systems poses a higher security risk to the systems than when they relied primarily on proprietary software, the report said. Intrusion detection systems (IDS) are deployed at only 11 of hundreds of air traffic control facilities. In 2008, more than 870 cyber incident alerts were issued to the organization responsible for air traffic control operations and by the end of the year 17 percent (more than 150 incidents) had not been remediated, 'including critical incidents in which hackers may have taken over control' of operations computers, the report said."
Comment Re:I like the one from IBM (Score 1) 459
Now THAT is friggin creepy. Nice horror-movie choir for the soundtrack, nice all-white surroundings with no windows or doors. Nightmare material.
Comment Re:Penguins can fly (Score 1) 459
My consumer reaction to this ad:
"Ummmm...what?"
Definitely needs follow-up ads with more pertinent info.
Comment Our yearly cost is zero (Score 1) 409
My twins' cord blood is banked at CBR (www.cordblood.com). As long as we refer someone each year, we can get our storage fees waived for the year. We find it pretty easy each year to find a pregnant friend that wants to do this.
Comment Stop right there! (Score -1, Troll) 1002
I see the knee-jerk "RACISM" response has been invoked in most of you. None of you were there, and no one knows exactly what happened except the people directly involved. How can you immediately condemn the airline for their actions without having first-hand knowledge of what was seen, said or done?
There are many many other things airline staff would find "suspicious" other than the color of their skin - maybe they were whispering to each other, maybe they had no baggage, maybe they were sweating a lot, etc. We just don't know.
Don't immediately assume it was their race or religion that got them kicked off the plane.
Comment Re:Try this on someone else's box first (Score 1) 2362
Well, "just a fork bomb" still seems pretty effective on Solaris 10. When running this I cannot perform any other tasks, as the server is completely out of memory and cannot spawn any processes. Drives the load average up to >2000 for several minutes at least. Repeat fork bomb as needed.
Comment Try this on someone else's box first (Score 1) 2362
Compared to other OS's, it's amazing how little typing is required to render a UNIX machine completely unusable. In bash, try this:
A bug? Absolutely not - UNIX has always been great at giving smart people the ability to shoot themselves in the foot.
World's First Massively Multiplayer Forecast Game? 39
krou writes "The Institute of the Future will soon be launching what it calls the first massively multiplayer forecast game, billed as The Superstruct Game. According to the game's FAQ, the idea is to 'imagine how we might solve the problems we'll face.' Interestingly, the game itself is meant to be played 'on forums, blogs, videos, wikis, and other familiar online spaces.' From the IFTF website's sneak peak, the game is set in the year 2019, where the Global Extinction Awareness System (GEAS) has forecast the possibility of human extinction by the year 2042 as the result of five simultaneous 'super-threats': Quarantine, which is a result from 'declining health and pandemic disease'; Ravenous, which relates to the global collapse of the world food system; Power Struggle, related to the flux of power 'as nations fight for energy supremacy and the world searches for alternative energy solutions'; Outlaw Planet, covering increased surveillance and loss of liberties; and, lastly, Generation Exile, which covers the massive increase in refugees."
DIY Hybrid Car Kit 309
Hybride And The Groom writes "Building hybrids uses machinery that pollutes the environment. The solution? Ship the parts of a hybrid individually and get your customers to put the car together themselves. That's exactly what Robert Q Riley Enterprises is doing, according to a story on CNet today, with its XR-3 hybrid. It'll cost you $25,000 for the bits, plus zero dollars in manufacture, I hope. Better yet, cough up $200 for the blueprints and schematics and even build the parts yourself. It's no secret that many hybrid drivers are smug enough as it is. Allow them to brag about having built the damn cars themselves and we might be entering obscenely smug territory."
4,000 Anti-Scientology Videos Yanked From YouTube 658
An anonymous reader writes "From the EFF webpage: 'Over a period of twelve hours, between this Thursday night and Friday morning, American Rights Counsel LLC sent out over 4000 DMCA takedown notices to YouTube, all making copyright infringement claims against videos with content critical of the Church of Scientology.'"
Elevator Phone Sex *NSFW*
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It doesn't get much more awkward than this. This clip has motivated me to work on my meerkat sound.
Extreme Toothbrushing
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It doesn't stop at brushing teeth. This guy needs a harness and knee pads to floss.
Diebold Admits Ohio Machines May Lose Votes 502
I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "Premier Election Solutions (a subsidiary of Diebold) has acknowledged a flaw that causes the systems to lose votes. It cannot be patched before the election and the machines are used in half of Ohio's counties, but they are issuing guidelines for avoiding the problem that presumably contain a work-around. While Diebold initially blamed anti-virus software for the glitch, they have now discovered that the bug was their own fault for not recording votes to memory when the cards are uploaded in 'certain circumstances' — something their initial analysis missed. It would be nice to hope that Ohio poll workers would be tech-savvy enough to make this a non-issue, but they had poll worker shortages last year and might need tech-savvy people to volunteer."
Microsoft Releases Photosynth 247
Spy Hunter writes "Photosynth has graduated from a 'tech preview' to a complete service. Now you can upload your own photos and have them automatically transformed into a 'synth': a 3D fly-through reconstruction of your home, your vacation, or anything else you can take pictures of. Learn more about Photosynth at the official blog, see what Walt Mossberg has to say about it, or just go try it out right now." According to Mossberg, Photosynth works on PCs using IE or Firefox, but not yet on Macs. We've been discussing Photosynth since its introduction.
