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Comment "Green Computing" (Score 5, Insightful) 190

by cccc828 on Tuesday February 26, 2008 @07:08AM (#22556706) Attached to: Building a Green PC

As long as rain forests are stubbed for easier access to copper mines
As long as local people are poisoned by the toxic byproducts of metal refinement
As long as people in Africa or Eastern Europe dissable old computers without any protective clothing
As long as children assemble computers for $1/hour in Asia

I refuse to equal "green computing" and enviromental friendly.

In truth it is just another catchy phrase to sell you yet a new computer. Buying a new computer does nature more harm than just keeping your old computer.

Submission + - Science versus Religion (faithdebate.net)

Submitted by

mariobronx

on Tuesday November 13, 2007 @05:53AM

mariobronx writes: "Dear all, I've found a website that made me laugh to tears, even if in some parts of it it seems a bit harsh to me. This website is run by a bunch of atheists that are chasing people over internet to proove the existence of God, or of a deity. The one that will make it will win a one million euro prize, paid with a check during a congress that will be summoned at the United Nations general headquarters in New York. Regards and have a nice day. Andrea."

Submission + - Predator-Style Helmets Allow Pillots to See Throug (fliiby.com)

Submitted by nitroy2k on Sunday November 11, 2007 @09:24AM

nitroy2k writes: When I look at this, I have to say that the fellows from Daily Mail.com were right. It is only the neck and shoulders that prove there is a human being in there somewhere. And this isn't any Star Trek or Final Fantasy kind of trick, but the next generation of RAF fighter pilots' look, which kinda makes you wish you were in the army. Since I went hiding under my bed when seeing this, mostly because of the piercing green eyes staring out from behind the visor, I guess there is nothing more I can say about the design of these way-to-cool accessories. http://blog.fliiby.com/archives/2007/11/11/predator-style-helmets-allow-pillots-to-see-through-planes/

Submission + - Zero-day bug hangs over Oracle database

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 11, 2007 @05:45AM

An anonymous reader writes: Security researchers warn that Oracle 10g databases may be open to attack as a result of an unpatched vulnerability.
A buffer-overflow flaw in the XDB.XDB_PITRIG_PKG.PITRIG_DROPMETADATA procedure allows hackers to load malware onto targeted systems. The vulnerability is reported to affect Oracle database version 10g Release 2, with patches updated as far as February 2007. Other versions of the database may also be affected.

Submission + - Trojan found in brand new HD sold in Taiwan (taipeitimes.com)

Submitted by

GSGKT

on Saturday November 10, 2007 @11:40PM

GSGKT writes: "About 1800 of these brand new 300GB or 500GB external HD made for Maxtor in Thailand have Trojan Horse malwares (autorun.inf and ghost.pif) pre-installed. When the HD is in use, these will forward information on HD to two websites in Beijing, China): www.nice8.org or www.we168.org. Potential users of these large HD would be mid/small business, the military, and the government in Taiwan, although no one can prove this to be the continuing war/spying efforts on Taiwan by the People's Liberation Army. /. has a story on Russian Business Network moving to China recently (http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/09/1957239). Together, these two stories make an interesting new cyber-crime model: Infecting the HD at the manufacturing sites is far more efficient than to phish the end-users!"

Submission + - Where are the Flying Cars?

Submitted by

Ponca City, We Love You

on Saturday November 10, 2007 @06:58AM

Ponca City, We Love You writes: "Complaints of the non-existence of flying cars as expressions of disappointment in the failure of the present to measure up to the glory of past predictions have long been a staple of popular culture but all that is about to change when Terrafugia introduces their $148,000 "Transition," a 19-foot, two-seater that the company describes as a roadable light-sport aircraft. The problem is that the U.S. doesn't have the infrastructure in place to make landing in front of your house a viable alternative yet and a sky filled with people who don't have pilot's licenses could also be a problem. The idea is to take advantage of the 6,000 public airports in the U.S. so a pilot can fly into a small airport (video) and instead of getting a rental car, just fold up the wings on the aircraft and drive away. Terrafugia expects the first production model to be ready in 2009 and says they've already received advanced orders for 30 to 50 Transitions."

Submission + - demoinod.com offline, co-loc threatened by CRIA

Submitted by

anstei

on Saturday November 10, 2007 @06:17AM

anstei writes: "Apparentely the bittorrent tracker demoinoid.com is offline, because the company where they rent their servers was threatened by the CRIA, the canadion version of the RIAA. See http://www.demonoid.com/"

Submission + - Tracking people using bluetooth. (bluetoothtracking.org)

Submitted by

damdam

on Saturday November 10, 2007 @06:06AM

damdam writes: "A Dutch guy seems to have set up a small network of bluetooth scanners in his town of Apeldoorn scanning for bluetooth devices. He has all the information logged to a central database and you can search it over the web. On his website it says "Some of these matches were only minutes apart. Therefore I could even calculate the approximate speed of someone moving from one location to another.". There are also some interesting statistics on his site showing traffic volume in his hometown (based on bluetooth signals) and he even lists popularity of certain Nokia phones. It's interesting to see how much information an individual can gather using old equipment. I just noticed this guy is the same guy as the one running the wired house on Icepick.com. Seems like tracking people is his thing."

Submission + - Open-source Java could result in port to iPhone

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 10, 2007 @01:51AM

An anonymous reader writes: With the first anniversary of open-source Java coming up November 13, a Sun official believes the project could bear a sought-after fruit in the Java community: The porting of Java to the Apple iPhone. Apple has not made Java capable of running on the popular device. But Sun's Terrence Barr, technical evangelist for the Java mobile and embedded community, believes Apple's plans to release an SDK for iPhone in early-2008 may result in the open-source phoneME version of Java ME winding up on iPhone.

Submission + - What bugs us on Earth gets worse in space... (go.com)

Submitted by

Ant

on Saturday October 13, 2007 @02:09PM

Ant writes: "ABC News (one print page) says space invaders have colonized the International Space Station (ISS). When astronaut Peggy Whitson moves into the orbiting laboratory today for a six-month stay, she'll have two human roommates — as well as countless ones invisible to the naked eye, from microbes that can corrode metal to germs that can cause serious infections in people. Outer space is a cold and sterile place, but spaceships are not. As the 9-year-old space station ages, it's likely to grow more micro-organisms that could pose a risk to its human residents and the station itself. Adding an extra worry, scientists have seen signs that the human immune system weakens during space trips. "Wherever man goes, microbes go," says Cheryl Nickerson of Arizona State University, who studies disease-causing micro-organisms. Most of the bugs in orbit aren't dangerous, she says, but "there's absolutely a risk ... to the crew." In a study published Tuesday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nickerson found that salmonella bacteria turned deadlier after a few weeks in space. The bacteria rode into orbit as an experiment aboard National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)'s space shuttle Discovery in 2006... Seen on Blue's News."

Submission + - NASA spaceship scouts out prime Mars landing spots (networkworld.com)

Submitted by

coondoggie

on Friday October 12, 2007 @10:04AM

coondoggie writes: "NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter this week sent back high-resolution images of about 30 proposed landing sites for the Mars Science Laboratory, a mission launching in 2009 to deploy a long-distance rover carrying sophisticated science instruments on Mars. The orbiter's high-resolution camera has taken more than 3,500 huge, sharp images released in black-and-white since it began science operations in November 2006. The images show features as small as a desk. The orbiter has sent back some 26 terabytes of data, equivalent to about 5,000 CD-ROMs. http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/20531"

Submission + - spamhouse.org block Austrian Registry nic.at

Submitted by cccc828 on Tuesday June 19, 2007 @02:50PM

cccc828 writes: The german news site heise.de reports, that spam block list spamhouse blocks the mailservers of the Austrian Registry nic.at. In January Spamhouse asked nic.at to delete 15 .at-phishing domians. Nic.at refused to delete the domain, because it was against the law and the registry contract. To raise the preassure on nic.at spamhouse put their e-mail servers on their list as "spam supporters".

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