Comment Let's blame clothing manufacturers as well (Score 1) 682
Hoodies and scarves allow these people to do things in plain view without being identified.
Submission + - BSD Certification Group Expands to Testing Centers (bsdcertification.org)
An anonymous reader writes: The BSD Certification Group, a US-based non-profit, structures and conducts two BSD-based Unix certifications. Since launching in 2005, hundreds of certification seekers have taken exams at a variety of BSD and open source conferences around the world.
Recently, the group greatly expanded the accessibility of the exams by partnering with Schroeder Measurement Technologies, which provides testing centers in over 300 cities around the globe.
So now, instead of impatiently waiting for the next local open source conference in your reach, certification seekers now can schedule an exam locally when ready.
The BSD Certification Group continues to provide a strong community-driven effort to create standards for systems administration in the BSD community and beyond. Both the BSD Associate and BSD Professional exams are developed around published subject matter expert guidelines and the oversight of a qualified psychometrician.
Recently, the group greatly expanded the accessibility of the exams by partnering with Schroeder Measurement Technologies, which provides testing centers in over 300 cities around the globe.
So now, instead of impatiently waiting for the next local open source conference in your reach, certification seekers now can schedule an exam locally when ready.
The BSD Certification Group continues to provide a strong community-driven effort to create standards for systems administration in the BSD community and beyond. Both the BSD Associate and BSD Professional exams are developed around published subject matter expert guidelines and the oversight of a qualified psychometrician.
Submission + - Anonymous Leaks 10,000 E-mails from Iranian Govern (theepochtimes.com)
jjp9999 writes: "Anonymous Operations has released a file containing more than 10,000 emails from the Iranian regime. The files consist primarily of visa applications, yet were intended to point out that the "Islamic regime keeps providing money to their cyber army while they can't secure their most important mail server,” according to Anonymous."
Submission + - Aussie company releases first Chromium notebook (techworld.com.au)
angry tapir writes: "Online Australian retailer Kogan has claimed a world-first, launching a notebook running the open source Chromium operating system developed by Google."
Submission + - Windows 8 Walk Through
adeelarshad82 writes: Microsoft gave everyone a long glimpse of Windows 8 at the D9 conference in Southern California and immediately followed that up with Windows 8 for Tablets (and PCs) at Computex 2011 in Taipei. The last two days mark the first time Microsoft is unveiling the Windows 8 interface to the public, and the new look is a radical departure from the Windows operating systems that precede it. Windows 8 will be able to scale from touch-friendly tablets to full-blown desktops. Amongst many new features, the new interface will also support gestures, snap, pin, cloud apps, new concepts like a basket for files you'll want to share between apps and services.
Submission + - Scientists make big computer circuit based on DNA (computerworld.com)
CWmike writes: Caltech researchers say they have built the world's largest computational circuit based on DNA, using a technology that they said could easily scale to even greater complexity. Caltech researchers Erik Winfree and Lulu Qian published an account of their work in the June 3 issue of 'Science'. While simple DNA computational systems have been built before, this demonstration system is larger than other prototypes to date. 'The approach adopted by Qian and Winfree marks an important advance in DNA-based computations,' wrote John Reif, a professor of computer science at Duke University, in a commentary that accompanied the work. The researchers formed 130 different synthetic DNA strands that can be used to compose logic circuits. From this source material, they created one 74-molecule, four-bit circuit that can compute the square root of any number up to 15 and round down the resulting answer to the nearest integer. In their setup, the multi-layered strands of DNA are fashioned (see video) into biochemical logic gates that can perform the basic Boolean AND, OR and NOR operations executed by today's transistor-based computer processors. Like the silicon-based integrated circuits, these molecular logic gates produce binary, or on-or-off, output signals, using binary signals as inputs.
Submission + - BigQuake offshore Sendai. (emsc-csem.org)
RockDoctor writes: Large magnitude quake almost directly offshore from Sendai, Japan. As is normal, initial estimates of magnitude vary slightly, 6.2-6.4 quoted so far.
Parameters (at current estimate) :
Magnitude mb 6.2
Region OFF EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
Date time 2011-06-03 00:05:01.0 UTC
Location 37.37 N ; 143.99 E
Depth 13 km
No word (at time of writing) of tsunami risk. In my (geologist but not seismologist) opinion, fair to high. But they'll be ashore by now already. I don't see anything on the telly at this time.
No word (at time of writing) of tsunami risk. In my (geologist but not seismologist) opinion, fair to high. But they'll be ashore by now already. I don't see anything on the telly at this time.
Submission + - Phase change memory points to future of storage (scienceblog.com)
An anonymous reader writes: A UC San Diego team is about to demonstrate a solid state storage device that it says provides performance thousands of times faster than a conventional hard drive and up to seven times faster than current state-of-the-art solid-state drives (SSDs). The drive uses first-of-its kind, phase-change memory, which stores data in the crystal structure of a metal alloy called a chalcogenide. To store data, the PCM memory chips switch the alloy between a crystalline and amorphous state based on the application of heat through an electrical current. To read the data, the chips use a smaller current to determine which state the chalcogenide is in.
Submission + - OnLive to launch in UK this Autumn (bit-tech.net)
arcticstoat writes: Cloud-based gaming platform OnLive has announced plans to launch in the UK this Autumn, with Onlive.co.uk opening for OnLive player tag registration on 7 June.
OnLive runs games on remote servers and streams them back to subscribers, but until now it's only been available in some areas of the US.
OnLive runs games on remote servers and streams them back to subscribers, but until now it's only been available in some areas of the US.
Submission + - When Cassini Met Nine Inch Nails (discovery.com)
astroengine writes: "Using archival footage from the Cassini Solstice mission, which continues to dazzle us earthlings with incredible imagery from the Saturnian system, and a tune from the band Nine Inch Nails, designer/director Chris Abbas produced a rather surprising — and atmospheric — experience."
Submission + - OCZ Z-Drive R4 Server Breaks 1.5 Million IOPS (hothardware.com)
MojoKid writes: "OCZ Technology continues to roll out impressive new SSD solutions at Computex this year. Apparently, company has achieved a new performance record at the show, delivering one million 4K write IOPS and 1.5 million read IOPS on a Z-Drive-equipped single server. The outfit's new Z-Drive R4 PCIe SSD was showcased doing the damage in a single platform server by Colfax International. The rig is based on a Supermicro platform, which features a mammoth 7.2TB MLC storage array."
Submission + - 26 Trojanized Apps Pulled From Android Market (net-security.org)
Orome1 writes: 26 applications containing a variation of the DroidDream Trojan have been found on the official Android Market and are believed to have been downloaded by at least 30,000 users. Lookout researchers believe that they were created and uploaded by the same developers who were behind the original DroidDream onslaught back in March. It seems that the stripped down Trojan code has been added to legitimate apps and the apps were consequently uploaded and made available via six developer accounts.
Submission + - Honda Sued Over Massive Customer Data Breach (threatpost.com)
Trailrunner7 writes: Honda Canada Inc. has announced it was the victim of an attack in March that exposed the records of over 283,000 car owners, potentially putting them at risk of targeted scams. And now the company is the subject of a class-action lawsuit stemming from the breach.
Data such as the owners’ names, addresses and even their Vehicle Identification Numbers (VINs) were leaked when attackers compromised records on the company’s servers earlier this year, according to a letter distributed to car owners this month. Officials at Honda said they detected the breach after noticing “an unusual volume of usage in the myHonda and myAcura websites."
Data such as the owners’ names, addresses and even their Vehicle Identification Numbers (VINs) were leaked when attackers compromised records on the company’s servers earlier this year, according to a letter distributed to car owners this month. Officials at Honda said they detected the breach after noticing “an unusual volume of usage in the myHonda and myAcura websites."
Submission + - World Internet Traffic to Top 966Exabytes in 2015 (ispreview.co.uk)
Mark.JUK writes: "Networking giant Cisco has released its latest annual Visual Networking Index (VNI) today, which forecasts that world internet traffic will quadruple by 2015 to reach 965.5 ExaBytes per year (up from 242.4 ExaBytes in 2010); when 40% of the world's population will be online (i.e. 3bn Internet users). Internet video will account for 61% of all consumer traffic in the same year, while P2P (File Sharing) will decline significantly to just 16%.
Meanwhile the average fixed line broadband ISP download speed, which stood at 7Mbps (Megabits per second) in 2010, will increase four-fold to 28Mbps in 2015, at which point an estimated 40% of broadband connections will be faster than 10Mbps (up from 24% today). Western Europe will have the fastest speeds, promoting a headline figure of 36Mbps for 2015."
Meanwhile the average fixed line broadband ISP download speed, which stood at 7Mbps (Megabits per second) in 2010, will increase four-fold to 28Mbps in 2015, at which point an estimated 40% of broadband connections will be faster than 10Mbps (up from 24% today). Western Europe will have the fastest speeds, promoting a headline figure of 36Mbps for 2015."
Submission + - Vodafone sues for defamatory facebook messages (thenextweb.com)
tanveer1979 writes: If this comes to pass, complaining about poor service may be a thing of the past. Vodafone India is suing a customer for posting defamatory status messages on his facebook wall.
Dhaval Valia, was disgrunted with vodafone after getting poor 3G service. Apparently, vodafone has only 50% of cell sites supporting 3G connection in Mumbai. After lot many heated arguments with the management and customer care, he vented his ire on his facebook page, as a result of which, vodafone India sent a legal notice to the customer.
Dhaval Valia, was disgrunted with vodafone after getting poor 3G service. Apparently, vodafone has only 50% of cell sites supporting 3G connection in Mumbai. After lot many heated arguments with the management and customer care, he vented his ire on his facebook page, as a result of which, vodafone India sent a legal notice to the customer.
