Comment Re:It's my birthday today! (Score 1) 286
What kind of job? That's pretty early, for modern lifespans! Ship channel pilot or something similarly stressful?
Feed Google News Sci Tech: Sued by Google, a State Attorney General Retreats - New York Times (google.com)
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Sued by Google, a State Attorney General Retreats
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Attorney General Jim Hood of Mississippi on Friday agreed to call a “time out” in his fight with Google after the Internet giant filed a lawsuit accusing him of conspiring with the movie industry. The move by Mr. Hood, who has been one Google's most outspoken...
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Attorney General Jim Hood of Mississippi on Friday agreed to call a “time out” in his fight with Google after the Internet giant filed a lawsuit accusing him of conspiring with the movie industry. The move by Mr. Hood, who has been one Google's most outspoken...
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Feed Google News Sci Tech: Hyperloop May Become a Crowd-Sourced Reality Within a Decade - NBCNews.com (google.com)
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Billionaire industrialist Elon Musk's fantastical "Hyperloop" mass transit system, revealed last year as a potential alternative to high-speed railways, may actually get itself built. Hyperloop Transportation Technologies, a company dedicated to making the...
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Billionaire industrialist Elon Musk's fantastical "Hyperloop" mass transit system, revealed last year as a potential alternative to high-speed railways, may actually get itself built. Hyperloop Transportation Technologies, a company dedicated to making the...
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Submission + - James Stewart, author of calculus textbooks has died (theglobeandmail.com)
Onnimikki writes: James Stewart, author of the calculus textbooks many of us either loved or loved to hate, has died. In case you ever wondered what the textbook was funding, this story has the answer: a $32 million dollar home over-looking a ravine in Toronto, Canada.
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Google Inc. sued Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood on Friday, seeking to prevent him from enforcing a wide-ranging subpoena that has become entangled in a dispute between Google and Hollywood. Filed in U.S. District Court for Southern Mississippi,...
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Google Inc. sued Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood on Friday, seeking to prevent him from enforcing a wide-ranging subpoena that has become entangled in a dispute between Google and Hollywood. Filed in U.S. District Court for Southern Mississippi,...
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T-Mobile To Pay $90M For Unauthorized Charges On Customers' Bills 51
itwbennett writes T-Mobile US will pay at least $90 million to settle a Federal Communications Commission (FCC) suit that alleged it looked the other way while third parties charged T-Mobile subscribers for services they didn't want. The settlement is the second largest ever for so-called 'cramming,' following one that the FCC reached with AT&T in October. It came just two days after the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau sued Sprint for the same practice.
Submission + - New data says volcanoes, not asteroids, killed dinosaurs
schwit1 writes: The uncertainty of science: A careful updating of the geological timeline has strengthened the link between the dinosaur extinction 66 million years ago and a major volcanic event at that time.
A primeval volcanic range in western India known as the Deccan Traps, which were once three times larger than France, began its main phase of eruptions roughly 250,000 years before the Cretaceous-Paleogene, or K-Pg, extinction event, the researchers report in the journal Science. For the next 750,000 years, the volcanoes unleashed more than 1.1 million cubic kilometers (264,000 cubic miles) of lava. The main phase of eruptions comprised about 80-90 percent of the total volume of the Deccan Traps’ lava flow and followed a substantially weaker first phase that began about 1 million years earlier.
The results support the idea that the Deccan Traps played a role in the K-Pg extinction, and challenge the dominant theory that a meteorite impact near present-day Chicxulub, Mexico, was the sole cause of the extinction. The researchers suggest that the Deccan Traps eruptions and the Chicxulub impact need to be considered together when studying and modeling the K-Pg extinction event.
The general public might not know it, but the only ones in the field of dinosaur research that have said the asteroid was the sole cause of the extinction have been planetary scientists.
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Google Inc. (GOOG:US) sued to block what it called overly broad demands by Mississippi in its investigation of online contraband sales, after accusing the state's attorney general of doing Hollywood's bidding. The lawsuit was filed today in federal court in...
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Google Inc. (GOOG:US) sued to block what it called overly broad demands by Mississippi in its investigation of online contraband sales, after accusing the state's attorney general of doing Hollywood's bidding. The lawsuit was filed today in federal court in...
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Feed Google News Sci Tech: ISS astronaut needs a wrench, NASA successfully 'emails' him one - CNET (google.com)
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An astronaut aboard the International Space Station needed a socket wrench, so NASA engineers emailed him designs for 3D-printing one. What a world we're living in. by Anthony Domanico @ajdomanico; 19 December 2014 9:46 pm GMT. comments. 0.
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An astronaut aboard the International Space Station needed a socket wrench, so NASA engineers emailed him designs for 3D-printing one. What a world we're living in. by Anthony Domanico @ajdomanico; 19 December 2014 9:46 pm GMT. comments. 0.
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Submission + - Staples: Breach may have affected 1.16 million customers' cards (fortune.com)
mpicpp writes: The office-supply retailer gave new details about a breach at more than 100 of its stores.
Staples said Friday afternoon that nearly 1.16 million customer payment cards may have been affected in a data breach under investigation since October.
The office-supply retailer said two months ago that it was working with law enforcement officials to look into a possible hacking of its customers’ credit card data. Staples said in October that it had learned of a potential data theft at several of its U.S. stores after multiple banks noticed a pattern of payment card fraud suggesting the company computer systems had been breached.
Now, Staples believes that point-of-sale systems at 115 Staples locations were infected with malware that thieves may have used to steal customers’ names, payment card numbers, expiration dates and card verification codes, Staples said on Friday. At all but two of those stores, the malware would have had access to customer data for purchases made between August 10 and September 16 of this year. At the remaining two stores, the malware was active from July 20 through September 16, the company said.
Staples said Friday afternoon that nearly 1.16 million customer payment cards may have been affected in a data breach under investigation since October.
The office-supply retailer said two months ago that it was working with law enforcement officials to look into a possible hacking of its customers’ credit card data. Staples said in October that it had learned of a potential data theft at several of its U.S. stores after multiple banks noticed a pattern of payment card fraud suggesting the company computer systems had been breached.
Now, Staples believes that point-of-sale systems at 115 Staples locations were infected with malware that thieves may have used to steal customers’ names, payment card numbers, expiration dates and card verification codes, Staples said on Friday. At all but two of those stores, the malware would have had access to customer data for purchases made between August 10 and September 16 of this year. At the remaining two stores, the malware was active from July 20 through September 16, the company said.
Ask Slashdot: Resources For Kids Who Want To Make Games? 121
Mr. Jones writes: My 11-year-old son is fascinated by games — game mechanics in particular. He has been playing everything from Magic to WarFrame since he was 5 years old. He seems mostly interested in creating the lore and associated mechanics of the games (i.e. how a game works). If it was only programming I could help him, but I am lost when it comes to helping him learn more formal ways of developing and defining gameplay. I really see a talent for this in him and I want to support it any way I can. Can you suggest any conferences, programs, books, websites, etc. that would help him learn?
Comment Re:Definition: Secure systems keep working, no mat (Score 1) 343
SQL injection. My work place had a typical example:
INSERT INTO users SET fname='$fname', lname='$lname';
Apart from the fact that you're mixing UPDATE syntax with INSERT syntax, substitution is perfectly valid so long as each string has been sanitized in the correct manner for a particular database connection (that is, not addslashes()). For the MySQLi client library, it looks like this:
$fname = $db->escape_string($fname);
$lname = $db->escape_string($lname);
Don't get me wrong; it's bad practice to escape manually unless you're using operator IN on a database client library that supports neither array parameters nor named placeholders (such as MySQLi). But code that correctly uses $db->escape_string() (or the equivalent for other languages or database drivers) should be safe from SQL injection, just as code that correctly uses htmlspecialchars() should be safe from script injection.
With Clonebox, if a customer's web server is hacked or otherwise damaged, we can switch it over to a ~read-only mirror. Sure that protects against hackers, and some customers have been hacked and used the protection. More often, customers simply screw up and delete important files or databases.
But how long do you keep these mirrors around, in case there's a screw-up that goes undiscovered for a while?
Tesla About To Start Battery-Swap Pilot Program 133
cartechboy writes: Remember 18 months ago when Tesla promised it was going to launch battery-swap stations? Well, it's finally happening, sort of. It seems Tesla's about to announce a battery-swap pilot program that will launch next week. The swap site will be located across the street from a Tesla Supercharger site in Harris Ranch, California — 184 miles south of San Francisco and about 200 miles north of Los Angeles. The pilot program will involve an unspecified number of Model S electric-car owners, who will be invited to take part in the test. For now, the battery-swap service will be offered by appointment only, at a cost of roughly a tank of gas in a premium sedan. Tesla's using words to describe this pilot program like "exploratory work" and "intended to test technology and assess demand" for a swapping service. While originally pitched that the battery swap would take less time than it would to take to refill the gas tank of a comparable luxury sedan, the company says now that "for this specific iteration" the swap process will take "approximately 3 minutes" — though it adds Tesla has "the ability to improve that time with future iterations." Is this test going to show that battery swapping is or isn't a realistic initiative?
Comment Lawsuit against whom? (Score 2) 81
Because it only takes one blockbuster renamed as a Linux distro to give them grounds for a lawsuit.
Against the uploader of the torrent, not against the site. OCILLA shields compliant providers from liability for uploaders' actions.
Comment Putting the "cult" in "cult classic" (Score 1) 230
Cult classics are usually good movies (Big Lebowski), or really bad movies (Plan 9 From Outer Space).
So which is Battlefield Earth? Or is it a cult classic only to those actually in a cult?
