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Submission + - Learning To Be A Computer Security Specialist

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: I would dearly like to educate myself further in the mysterious ways of the computer, particularly in regards to computer/network security. The problem is, I am about as computer literate as a stoned chipmunk. So, I call on the wise elders of the Internet. Any suggestions on how to better educate myself while I earn the money needed for a class on the topic?
Iphone

Submission + - Apple Eases Restrictions On iPhone Developers (macrumors.com)

Submitted by WrongSizeGlass
WrongSizeGlass writes: MacRumors has a story on a report by Apple Outsider's Matt Drance that Apple is easing their restrictions on interpreted code used in iPhone development, a change which allows game developers in particular to continue to use interpreted languages such as Lua in their App Store applications. The change comes alongside Apple's further modifications of its iOS developer terms that again allow for limited analytics data collection to aid advertisers and developers, but appear to shut out non-independent companies such as Google's AdMob from receiving the data.

It's not enough of an 'about face' to let Adobe or Google back in the picture but they've backpedaled enough to let the little guys squeeze through.
Cellphones

Submission + - AT&T to Get HTC Android Phone (tekgoblin.com) 1

Submitted by artimaticus8
artimaticus8 writes: A video made by AT&T has been released, showing how they go about testing their phones, and to show us, they use an HTC Android Phone. AT&T currently does not offer one, so it appears that they soon will be. What can be seen in the video is that it is made by HTC, is using HTC's Sense UI, and it is running Android.

Submission + - UAE Banker creates unbreakable code (gulfnews.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Gentleman Banker says he has created an unbreakable cipher that no one can break. Dubai has grand buildings but he has built the next big thing that will be a tall mountain to climb for the NSA

Qoute from Gulf News
Mohammad Gaith Bin Mahah Al Mazroui is challenging skilled coders, hackers and cryptographers to break the encryption of his cipher.

Hoping /. will tear him a new code
http://gulfnews.com/news/gulf/uae/general/emirati-ex-banker-builds-unbreakable-code-1.639940
Cellphones

Submission + - Sprint to begin throttling data this summer? (engadget.com)

Submitted by suraj.sun
suraj.sun writes: You know the fine print of your EVO 4G contract that gives Sprint the right to limit throughput speeds without notice? Skipped past that part? Well, consider this your unofficial notice.

If what we're reading above is accurate, then Sprint appears ready to introduce data throttling this summer. Where and how are the big questions.

The image above received from a tipster appears to have been grabbed from Sprint's own "The Playbook," though we have no way of confirming that at this time. It certainly make sense though given T-Mobile USA's recent move away from overage charges in favor of throttling.

Engadget: http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/sprint-to-begin-throttling-data-this-summer

Submission + - Electric motorcycle wins race on Isle of Man (sustainablebusinessoregon.com) 1

Submitted by SustainableBzOR
SustainableBzOR writes: MotoCzysz, maker of electric racing motorcycles, made an international splash this week after winning a prestigious race for clean-emission vehicles on the Isle of Man: The TT Zero. The motorcycles, designed and manufactured in Portland, Oregon, contain ten times the battery power of a Prius.

Submission + - Out of control Job Responsibilities 5

Submitted by greymond
greymond writes: I was originally hired as an Online Content Producer to write articles for a company website as well as start up the company’s social media outlets on Facebook and Twitter. With budget cuts and layoffs I ended up also taking over the website facilitation for three of the company’s websites (they let go of the current webmaster). During this time the company has been developing a new website and I was handed the role of pseudo project manager to make sure the developer stayed on course with the projects due date. Now that we’re closer to launch the company has informed me that they don’t have the budget or staff in place to set up the web server and have tasked me with setting up the LAMP and Zend App on an Amazon EC2 setup, which while it’s been years since I worked this much with Linux I’m picking it up and moving things along. Needless to say I want to ask for more money, as well as more resources, as well as a better title that fits my roles, but what is the best way to go about this? Of course my other thought is that I'd much rather go back to writing and working with marketing than getting back into IT.
Power

Submission + - ITER Fusion Reactor Enters Existential Crisis

Submitted by deglr6328
deglr6328 writes: The long beleaguered experimental magnetic confinement fusion reactor ITER, is currently in what some are calling the worst crisis of its 25 year history. Still existing only on the paper of thousands of proposed design documents, latest cost estimates for the superconducting behemoth are soaring to nearly 20 billion USD; roughly twice the estimates of as recent as a few years ago. Anti-nuclear environmentalist organizations have seized upon the moment as an opportunity to use the current global economic crisis as a means to push for permanently killing the project. If ITER is not built, the prospect of magnetic confinement fusion as a technique to reach thermonuclear breakeven and ignition in the laboratory would be in serious question. Meanwhile, the largest laser-driven inertial confinement fusion project, the National Ignition Facility, has demonstrated the ability to use self generated plasma optical gratings to control capsule implosion symmetry with high finesse, and is on schedule to achieve ignition and potentially high gain before the end of the year.

Submission + - looking for recommendation for cheap NAS solution

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: I am being asked to come up with a solution for the following requirements

1. the business needs a storage area that can serve both as a file server as well as an area where corp files can be backed up to.
2. has to be cheap — the budget is around 6K, required capacity is about 4-6TB, "may (not short term)" grow to 10TB in the future
3. Support hot swap so that drives can be pulled off and go offsite if needed.
4. Rack mountable, prefer 2U but will take 4U
5. SATA II is preferred and acceptable.
6. Supports RAID 5 and 10.
7. OS support — Windows and Linux

IdealStor (Isilon Corp) looks like a viable option. Already floated the idea of homegrown JBOD but that was shot down due to IT supportability . I am wondering what the /. community is using and recommending besides IdealStor. This is for a medium sized business .

Already looked at NetGear/Buffalo/Lacie/Iomega (division of EMC) and am not sure if they are built for SOHO or mid-size business.

FalconStor looks to be expensive and are more into Virtual Tape Library rather than just basic JBOD/Sata with hot-swap-ability.

Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

Submission + - China Drops in Domain Registrations from #2 to #4 (enterprisenetworkingplanet.com)

Submitted by darthcamaro
darthcamaro writes: A year ago, it looked like the .cn country code Top Level Domain (ccTLD) for China was growing so fast that it would displace .com. In 2010 that's no longer the case, as .cn has dropped from being the number two global domain by registrations to number four. And yes, .com is still number one. According to VeriSign, the top 10 list of TLDs in the first quarter was: .com, .de, .net, .cn, uk, .org, .info, .nl, .eu and .ru.
So why did .cn decline? Spammers.

"Many of these are low-priced promotional names that have now come up for renewal at a higher price," Pat Kane, vice president of naming services at VeriSign, told InternetNews.com. "The .cn registration decline was also based on the CNNIC (China Internet Network Information Center) registry's implementation of the real names directive from the Chinese government primarily around verifiable 'whois' data."

Submission + - Is Cisco Microsoft's friend or foe? | NetworkWorld (networkworld.com)

Submitted by Roberto123
Roberto123 writes: Cisco Systems today announced the coming new Cisco Quad enterprise collaboration platform and after viewing a demo of it a few days ago, I found the similarities between it and Microsoft's Unified Communications platform to be readily apparent, begging the question of whether Quad is intended to integrate with UC or compete with it.
Robotics

Submission + - Bionic-Eyed Man Wants To Stream Eye Video Online (ieee.org)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: According to this IEEE article (http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/biomedical/bionics/061110-eyeborg-bionic-eye), Canadian filmmaker Rob Spence, who calls himself Eyeborg because he replaced his false right eye with a bionic one (http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/03/06/2344220), is showing off his latest prototype. The new bionic eye contains a battery-powered, wireless video camera that can transmit low-res feed to a nearby receiver. Now Spence plans to share his 'vision' online, literally. According to the IEEE article, "soon people will be able to log on to his video feed and view the world through his right eye."
Microsoft

Submission + - SPAM: Microsoft's sleep proxy lowers PC energy use

Submitted by alphadogg
alphadogg writes: Microsoft researchers have slashed desktop energy use with a sleep proxy system that maintains a PC's network presence even when it is turned off or put into standby mode.

Microsoft has deployed the sleep proxy system to more than 50 active users in the Building 99 research facility in Redmond, Wash., according to the Microsoft Research Web site and a paper [spam URL stripped] that will be presented at the Usenix technical conference in Boston later this month.

"A number of studies have noted that most office machines are left on irrespective of user activity," Microsoft researchers write in a paper titled "Sleepless in Seattle no longer." "At Microsoft Research, we find hundreds of desktop machines awake, day or night – a significant waste of both energy and money. Indeed, potential savings can amount to millions of dollars per year for larger enterprises."

Sleep proxies allow machines to be turned off while keeping them connected to the network, waking the machines when a user or IT administrator attempts to access it remotely.
Link to Original Source

Submission + - Microsoft explains mystery Firefox extension 1

Submitted by Ricky
Ricky writes: Microsoft has fixed the distribution scope of a toolbar update that, without the user's knowledge, installed an add-on in Internet Explorer and an extension in Firefox called Search Helper Extension. Microsoft told us that the new update is actually the same as the old one; the only difference is the distribution settings. In other words, the update will no longer be distributed to toolbars that it shouldn't be added to. End users won't see the tweak, Microsoft told Ars, and also offered an explanation on what the mystery add-on actually does.

Ars Technica
Nintendo

Submission + - Video game makers showing new ways to play (skunkpost.com)

Submitted by crimeandpunishment
crimeandpunishment writes: Video game makers hope to have a very good week next week. They'll be making a big push for big sales at the Electronic Entertainment Expo, which begins Sunday in Los Angeles. Game companies are trying to bounce back from a sales slump that hit many of them by surprise. They're hoping 3-D screens, and new cameras and controllers designed to create a new game-playing experience will lead to a resurgence in sales.

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