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Comment Share your logs with the community (Score 2) 241

by adriccom (#41181595) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Where To Report Script Kiddies and Other System Attacks?

Join and contribute ssh/firewall logs to DShield or another collaboration system so that others can benefit from the information you are collecting.

http://dshield.org/howto.html

If you want to report unwanted activity against your network your ISP may be able to help. Try opening a ticket with their Abuse team.

Submission + - CDC Reports a Surge in Autism Rates, 1 in 88 children affected in the US

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: A new government health report indicated that about one in 88 children in the United State has autism or a related disorder, the highest estimate to date, which represented an overall increase of 25 percent since the last analysis in 2006.

The Centers for Disease Control reported on Thursday that the rate increased by 78 percent compared to the reported rate in 2002.
NASA

Submission + - A Star Explodes and Turns Inside Out (scienceworldreport.com)

Submitted by
fishmike
fishmike writes: "A new X-ray study of the remains of an exploded star indicates that the supernova that disrupted the massive star may have turned it inside out in the process. Using very long observations of Cassiopeia A (or Cas A), a team of scientists has mapped the distribution elements in the supernova remnant in unprecedented detail. This information shows where the different layers of the pre-supernova star are located three hundred years after the explosion, and provides insight into the nature of the supernova."
Security

Submission + - Ask Slashdot: A cheap, DIY home security and surveillance system? 1

Submitted by
scubamage
scubamage writes: "Approximately 6 weeks ago, my home was broken into while my fiance and I were at work. Our neighborhood is essentially empty during the day because it's an upper middle class neighborhood. Two laptops were stolen, an iPad, a power brick, a safe (complete with several years worth of taxes, my birth certificate, and old copies of my driver's license), a digital SLR, several pieces of heirloom jewelry, a guitar, and a custom built saxophone. In total, we lost around $20-30,000 dollars that day. We are now dealing with an attorney because the homeowner's insurance is fighting us on a number of items and we're not backing down. It has been a nightmare. Now as we were hoping things were starting to calm down, we've noticed that someone has been visiting our house during the day. There has been garbage left sitting on our back porch table, so its unlikely to have blown there. We've also seen footprints in our garden that are not there in the morning. We want to know who is on our property while we're not, and maybe if we're really lucky reporting it to the police could recover some of our property. My fiance has asked me to assemble a home security system that is motion activated, and both notifies us of an entry, as well as records video or rapid HD stillframes when sensing motion. The goal is to do this cheaply and more effectively than going with a private security company like ADT (who, consequently, our police department told us to ignore due to the incredibly high rate of false alarms). Also, we already have gotten the dog and the gun, so we have those bases covered now. What suggestions do you have on setting up home security systems, and what have you done to build one in the past? Help me slashdot posters, I need your brain juices!"
Microsoft

Submission + - Paper for iPad shows us what the Microsoft Courier could have been [video] (bgr.com)

Submitted by zacharye
zacharye writes: In late 2009, a tablet concept in development at Microsoft set tech blogs aflutter. The device was code-named “Courier,” and it consisted of two connected touchscreens that folded open like a book. The slate was seen as a fantastic product that could serve as a digital notebook on top of a standard media tablet, but Microsoft would later confirm that work on the Courier was being discontinued. A new iPad app was made available this week that resurrects the spirit of the Courier however, and it’s easy to see why: the team behind Paper by FiftyThree includes several people who once worked on the Courier project at Microsoft...

Comment Mac OS X *did* have Spaces before Lion (Score 5, Funny) 359

by adriccom (#39444845) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Which Multiple Desktop Tool For Windows 7?

But it got nerfed into Mission Control in Lion 10.7 and is half-functional. You can't rename, reorder, arrange, or configure your "spaces" anymore. Shortcut keys still work for now...

They'll probably finish it off in Mountain Goat (10.8) since iOS is perfect and has no desktops so surely Mac OS X doesn't need them either.

*snarl*

Comment I want one but I think I'll have to do without (Score 1) 288

by adriccom (#39366677) Attached to: Wikipedia Didn't Kill Brittanica — Encarta Did

The new one, the last one is a bit pricey for individuals, though certainly worth it for institutions:

Encyclopaedia Britannica - The Final Print Edition $1,395.00

and now that I think of it I never finished reading the one my parents got for me when I was in elementary school.

Cheers,
adric
Businesses

Submission + - Dell to Acquire SecureWorks (dell.com)

Submitted by adriccom
adriccom writes: From the Dell PR:

Dell today announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire SecureWorks® Inc., a globally recognized provider of information-security services. SecureWorks’ industry leading Security-as-a-Service solutions include Managed-Security Services, Security and Risk Consulting Services and Threat Intelligence. The acquisition expands Dell’s global IT-as-a-Service offerings and information security expertise.

Comment AC asks how to learn testing? (Score 1) 312

by adriccom (#34747214) Attached to: How Do You Prove Software Testing Saves Money?

Software testing is an entire profession including having its own graduate programs, but there are lots of resources to help you get started from books and online, just poke around.

There are books just about testing (TCS), books about integrating testing into a development methodology(Agile and Scrum include testing), and plenty of books on specific testing technologies (JUnit, Cucumber, ...). Most modern languages/toolkits include at least some support for basic software testing (unit or functional) such as Perl, Python, Ruby or have it readily available such as JUnit for Java, NUnit for C#. For testing web applications go look at Selenium, a great package of tools for web testing that includes browser plugins.

And *plug* I've had great experiences with the online resources including low-cost online classes available from the AST, at http://www.associationforsoftwaretesting.org/ The BBST courses are very informative and quite challenging. */plug*

hth,
adric
Medicine

Browsing the Body 107

Posted by Soulskill from the not-porn dept.
ColdWetDog writes "Google Labs has an interesting new line of business — human anatomy. The Google Body Browser is a 3D representation of the major parts of the human body. Based on the well known and very expensive Zygote 3D artwork, you can zoom in, rotate, view the various organ systems (bone, internal organs, nerves) in various states of transparency. Very much like Google Earth in both execution and concept. Written with HTML5, it requires WebGL to work. The Firefox 4 beta seems to work fine. Google, of course, recommends Chrome."

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