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Submission + - Why hackers may be stealing your credit card numbers for years (computerworld.com.au)

Submitted by angry tapir
angry tapir writes: The PCI Security Standards Council, which develops PCI-DSS, has recommended that merchants switch to using point-to-point encryption to prevent the largescale siphoning of credit card details from point of sale terminals (think Target, Neiman Marcus, Michaels, UPS Store and others). However, retailers often have long technology refresh cycles, so it could be five to seven years before most move to it — not to mention that the fact that PCI-DSS version 3.0 doesn't even mandate the use of point-to-point encryption.

Submission + - Remote server support and monitoring solution

Submitted by Crizzam
Crizzam writes: I have about 500 clients which have my servers installed in their data centers as a hosted solution for time & attendance (employee attendance / vacation / etc). I want to actively monitor all the client servers from my desktop, so know when a server failure has occurred. I am thinking I need to trap SNMP data and collect it in a dashboard. I'd also like to have each client connect to my server via HTTP tunnel using something like OpenVPN. In this way I maintain a site-site tunnel open so if I need to access my server remotely, I can. Any suggestions as to the technology stack I should put together to pull off this task? I was looking at Zabbix / Nagios for SNMP monitoring and OpenVPN for the other part. What else should I include? How does one put together a good remote monitoring / access solution that clients can live with and will still allow me to offer great proactive service to my servers located on-site?

Feed Google News Sci Tech: Antarctic Sea-Level Rising Faster Than Global Rate, New Study Shows - Internatio (google.com)

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International Business Times
Antarctic Sea-Level Rising Faster Than Global Rate, New Study Shows
International Business Times
The researchers studied satellite scans of a region in Antarctica, which spans more than 38,600 square miles. Reuters. Scientists have examined satellite data from the last 19 years to reveal that fresh water from Antarctica's melting glaciers and ice sheets...
Freshwater influx accelerates the rise of Antarctic coastal watersDumb-Out
Antarctic Sea Level Rising Faster Than The Global Average, Claims Satellite DataRedOrbit
Antarctic coastal waters 'rising faster'BBC News
The Guardian-News Tonight Africa-Blue & Green Tomorrow
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Feed Google News Sci Tech: At $400, Apple's iWatch Needs Standalone SIM Support - Highlight Press (google.com)

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At $400, Apple's iWatch Needs Standalone SIM Support
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At $400, Apple's iWatch Needs Standalone SIM Support It wasn't long ago that much of the world's mobile tech community uttered a collective shudder when a $1,000+ price tag was mentioned for the iWatch. In the months since however we've been...
Sorry, you won't be able to buy Apple iWatch before 2015Tech Times
Apple considering a $400 price for the iWatchGant Daily
Apple iWatch Will be the Most Expensive Smart-watchThe Utah People's Post
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Feed Google News Sci Tech: Antarctic coastal waters 'rising faster' - BBC News (google.com)

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Antarctic coastal waters 'rising faster'
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Melting ice is fuelling sea-level rise around the coast of Antarctica, a new report in Nature Geoscience finds. Near-shore waters went up by about 2mm per year more than the general trend for the Southern Ocean as a whole in the period between 1992 and...
Antarctic Sea Level Rising Faster Than The Global Average, Claims Satellite DataRedOrbit
Sea-level rising faster than average due to melting Antartic glaciersFirstpost
Melting Antarctic ice sheet raising sea-level fasterBusiness Standard
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Feed Google News Sci Tech: China: Microsoft. You have 20 days to explain Office Windows 'compatibilty' issu (google.com)

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China: Microsoft. You have 20 days to explain Office Windows 'compatibilty' issues
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China's antitrust regulator has given Microsoft 20 days to hand over a written explanation of the compatibility of its Windows OS and Office software suite as part of its probe into the firm's alleged monopoly activities. The State Administration for Industry and...
China gives Microsoft gets 20 days to respond to competition probeZDNet
Microsoft must give China an antitrust response in 20 daysInquirer
China gives Microsoft 20 days to explain bundling strategyFortune
Economic Times-StockWise Daily
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Submission + - Are there any Linux-friendly DESKTOP x86 motherboard manufacturers? (phoronix.com) 1

Submitted by storkus
storkus writes: The release of Haswell-E and a price drop on Devil's Canyon has made me itch for a PC upgrade. However, looking around I discovered a pair of horror stories on Phoronix (2nd story link at the bottom of the first), and plenty more Googling around.

My question: if MSI, Gigabyte, Asus (and by extension Asrock) are out, who's left and are they any good? Note that I want to build a (probably dual-boot, but don't know for sure) gaming and "other" high-end machine with one of the above chips so we're talking Z97 or X99; however, these stories seem to point to the problems being M$-isms in the BIOS/UEFI structures rather than actual hardware incompatibility, combined with a real lousy attitude (despite the Steam distro being real soon now).

Submission + - A Remote Controlled, Fully Functional, Steam Powered Tank (instructables.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Fire, Water, Steam, Motion. A fun build of a r/c true live steam powered tank with turret & gun. Dual engines, working turret, simulated cannon fire. The tank uses 100% live steam power for propulsion. Batteries only power the radio/controllers, lights and effects. It's based on an old Tamiya 1/16th scale King Tiger off eBay. Enjoy a little whimsy!

Feed Google News Sci Tech: NASA and contractors accelerate testing on 3D-printed rocket engine components - (google.com)

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NASA and contractors accelerate testing on 3D-printed rocket engine components
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As NASA prepares the materials and machines to send humans to destinations far beyond the gravitational influence of Earth, the space agency is turning its attention on new game-changing technologies to help them in their efforts. The company's that...
NASA's Space Launch System approved for developmentiTWire
Countdown to NASA's choice to fly crew to space stationUSA TODAY
NASA set to award US$4B contract3News NZ
Examiner.com-Christian Science Monitor-WTSP 10 News
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Submission + - Deputy who fatally struck cyclist while answering email will face no charges

Submitted by Frosty Piss
Frosty Piss writes: The LA County District Attorney’s Office declined to press charges against a sheriff’s deputy who was apparently distracted by his mobile digital computer when he fatally struck cyclist and former Napster COO Milton Olin Jr. in Calabasas last December. The deputy was responding to routine work email when he drifted into the bike lane and struck and killed Mr. Olin. As with a lot of Law Enforcement behavior, let's see a "regular" citizen get away with that.

Submission + - How to Disable DirectWrite in Google Chrome (ngohq.com)

Submitted by NGOHQ
NGOHQ writes: The latest version (37) of Google Chrome uses DirectWrite for font rendering on Windows PCs. DirectWrite is a DirectX API made for the purpose of high-quality, resolution-independent text rendering. On paper it sounds great, but some people might not like the new fonts appearance (blurry text on some websites). This guide will show you how to disable DirectWrite.

Comment A few small but significant ones ... (Score 5, Interesting) 635

by timothy (#47787821) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: What Old Technology Can't You Give Up?

- Model M keyboard (I bought several when they were $5 at the Goodwill, including some with US Government stickers or NASA badges; if I knew then what I know now, I'd have loaded up a storage unit with them ...)

- Nano (sure, it's not as old or as rabidly backed as Certain Other Text Editors, but it's so very nice to use ...)

- Logitech Trackball. Unfortunately, the new ones are junk -- they seem to die in a few months. The old ones lasted me several years apiece.

Submission + - Haiku debates kernel switch to Linux... or not. (osnews.com)

Submitted by taikedz
taikedz writes: A very interesting discussion is taking place in the Haiku mailing list. A developer has created a working prototype implementation of the BeOS API layer on top of the Linux kernel, and he is wondering if the project is worth pursuing.

Both 'sides' make a lot of compelling arguments, and it gives a lot of insight into decisions that went into the Haiku project, both past and present.

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