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Journal Journal: Gargoyles for Halloween 3

Journal by enforcer999
I have a running trail behind my house. We constantly have runners back there with their dogs. I decided that I needed gargoyles for my protection. So I propped up a couple of my legless tailless cats.....

Gargoyles

Just kidding. They have legs and tails. They just like to sit there and torture the dogs that are going by.
Microsoft

Submission + - MS OneCare causing Windows PCs to reboot?

Submitted by
ta bu shi da yu
ta bu shi da yu writes: "Sometime ago, Microsoft was accused of changing Windows Update (WU) to automatically download and install updates, even if users changed the auto-update setting off. This was denied by Microsoft. Well, it appears that they were right. Windows Update doesn't automatically install patches. According to Windows Secrets the culprit is MS OneCare. It appears that it automatically switches the updates to automatic without any warning to the end user. Given the problems with OneCare (deleting mail, flunking anti-virus tests and now this issue), is it really worth the effort?"
It's funny. Laugh.

Submission + - Officials Accidently Crash RC Boat into Wrong Boat

Submitted by coastal984
coastal984 writes: NBC12 in Richmond, Virginia recently reported how officials from the Department of Game & Inland Fisheries, in a first-ever test of crashing two full-sized boats into each other, accidently hit the wrong boat — instead of the two remotely controlled vessels colliding, they missed, and one veered off and hit a manned chase boat. From the article: "At first the two [remote control] boats were heading straight at each other. Then something went wrong." No people were hurt, but a 225 horsepower engine is a new reef for the fishies at the bottom of the James River. The article has video showing the crash from two different angles.
Google

Submission + - Google Homepage Not Working 1

Submitted by
jackli
jackli writes: "So I'm sitting on the couch trying to google a youtube video, but to my distress, the webpage http://www.google.com/ is down! Mail and other auxillary Google outlets work, but the main page is definitely not working. Several browsers and pings later (pings work!), I'm wondering how much money Google is losing by the second. Can anyone else back me up on this?"
Data Storage

Submission + - Magnetic 'snakes' for storage devices?

Submitted by
Roland Piquepaille
Roland Piquepaille writes: "According to a weekly digest from the American Physical Society (APS), physicists at Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) have found that under certain conditions, magnetic particles could form magnetic 'snakes' able to control fluids. According to the researchers, this 'magnetic self-assembly phenomena may be used to make the next generation of magnetic recording media or transparent conductors based on self-assembled conducting networks of magnetic micro-particles.' By digging further inside ANL labs, it seems apparent that storage devices based on these magnetic 'snakes' will not appear on the market before a long time. This overview contains many additional details not present in the APS snippet, including pictures of these magnetic 'snakes.'"
Spam

Submission + - Is SpamHaus Dead? It's domain is an "unknown h (spamhaus.org) 1

Submitted by
Panaqqa
Panaqqa writes: "SpamHaus is not a service I use, but for some reason I decided to check into it yesterday — and it was offline. Again today, the same thing. They have been down for more than 24 hours. If you PING them you get "unknown host" back. This is quite mystifying. Has anyone on SlashDot noticed this also, and if so, is there any news about what has happened to them? All I can think of is that a major DDoS attack has taken them down. Inquiring minds want to know..."
Data Storage

Submission + - Geeks give the ultimate digital care package (tgdaily.com)

Submitted by
not5150
not5150 writes: "Geeks are helping overseas troops by sending the ultimate digital care package. Dubbed 'The Traveling Terabyte', the package is basically a bunch of drives in a USB enclosure, all packed inside of a Pelican case. Containing music, movies and even educational material the Traveling Terabyte gives soldiers and Marines a digital slice of home."
Sony

Submission + - PS3 DVD quality is on par with a $5000 processor (firingsquad.com) 1

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: FiringSquad just posted an article with 1080p .PNG screenshots comparing the PlayStation 3 against a $5000 Silicon Optix Realta HQV based video processor. Surprisingly, the PS3 is almost as good as the dedicated processor in terms of image quality and handily outperforms both ATI and NVIDIA HTPC solutions.
Privacy

Submission + - SHA-1 cracking on a budget (hackaday.com)

Submitted by cloude-pottier
cloude-pottier writes: One thing that is always amazing is what people manage to pull off on absolutely minimal resources. One enterprising individual went on eBay and found boards with more than half a dozen Virtex II Pro FPGAs, nurse them back to life and build a SHA-1 cracker with two of the boards. This is an excellent example of recycling, as these were originally a part of a Thompson Grass Valley HDTV broadcast system. As a part of the project, the creator wrote tools designed to graph the relationships between components using JTAG as to make reverse engineering the organization of the FPGAs on the board more apparent. More details can be seen on the actual project page. If an individual is able to pull this off for under 500 dollars, it almost makes one wonder what resources the government has available to them to do the same thing...
Displays

Submission + - 360 Degree Light Field Display

Submitted by
Gary
Gary writes: "Designed by USC's Institute for Creative Technologies the Interactive 360 Degree Light Field Display won the Best Emerging Technology Award at SIGGRAPH 2007. The system is capable of producing 3D images which can be viewed by multiple users. The display uses a standard programmable graphics card to render over 5,000 images per second of interactive 3D graphics, projecting 360-degree views with 1.25 degree separation up to 20 updates per second. As the video shows it is capable of Star Wars styled Holographic Style Projections."
United States

Submission + - The Great Iraq Swindle

Submitted by Drahgkar
Drahgkar writes: Have you ever wondered where all the money the government has spent on the war in Iraq has gone? Wonder no more as you read The Great Iraq Swindle on Rolling Stone's website. "How is it done? How do you screw the taxpayer for millions, get away with it and then ride off into the sunset with one middle finger extended, the other wrapped around a chilled martini? Ask Earnest O. Robbins — he knows all about being a successful contractor in Iraq."
Hardware Hacking

Submission + - Blueprints for quantum computer RAM (newscientist.com)

Submitted by
willatnewscientist
willatnewscientist writes: "Researchers in Italy have produced a paper about RAM for quantum computers. Vittorio Giovannetti of the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa, Italy, and colleagues point out that the way RAM currently works would be unsuitable for quantum computers, because it would result in too much interference. Their simplified scheme would allow let quantum computer to access its RAM without losing data. The original paper can be found here."
Security

Submission + - Do hackers prevent the release of source code? 3

Submitted by
HotdogsFolks
HotdogsFolks writes: "I've been considering releasing the source code from one of my job websites under the GPL licence for quite some time now. It's a fully functioning, everything-you-could-possibly-want system, so I'm happy to give it away to save people from having to write a similar system from scratch.

The only thing holding me back is the cycle of security patches I'll no doubt find myself in once the bad guys start analysing my code.

I'm not a security expert — I code for fun — so I'm not totally confident I'd be able to spot security issues even if I analysed my code myself.

What would you do if you were in my shoes? How do I get my software out there in the least painful way possible?"

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