Comment Re:Dreamhost (Score 2) 353
You forgot to mention their awesome API http://wiki.dreamhost.com/Application_programming_interface
Australian Visitors Must Declare Illegal Porn To Customs Officers 361
Australian Justice Minister Brendan O'Connor has advised visitors to take a better safe than sorry policy when it comes to their porn stashes, and declare all porn that they think might be illegal with customs officers. From the article: "The government said it changed the wording on passenger arrival cards after becoming aware of confusion among travellers about what pornography to declare. 'People have a right to privacy and while some pornography is legal and does not need to be disclosed, all travellers should be aware that certain types of pornography are illegal and must be declared to customs,' Mr O'Connor said."
The Bomb Squad Olympiad Starts Today 43
The bomb suit relay and the robot obstacle course are just two of the events you can enjoy at the Bomb Squad Olympiad. Over the next three days squads from across South Carolina will compete and showcase their bomb defusing capabilities for the public. I hear the deep fried dynamite is especially good.
Woman Trademarks Name and Threatens Sites Using It 273
An anonymous reader writes "Be careful mentioning Dr. Ann De Wees Allen. She's made it clear that she's trademarked her name and using it is 'illegal... without prior written permission.' She even lists out the names of offenders and shows you the cease-and-desist letter she sends them. And, especially don't copy any of the text on her website, because she's using a bit of javascript that will warn you 'Copyright Protect!' if you right click on a link."
Submission + - Ubuntu shows hole in iPhone data encryption (h-online.com)
An anonymous reader writes: A lost iPhone is a bigger problem than previously thought. Despite encryption the finder can gain easy access to data including photos and audio recordings, even if the owner has set up their iPhone to require a pass code. And, of all things, this is made possible with Linux — the very operating system which Apple regularly cold-shoulders. heise Security was able to reproduce this finding by Bernd Marienfeldt.
Submission + - NSF Gives Supercomputer Time For 3D Model of Spill (computerworld.com)
CWmike writes: Scientists have embarked on a crash effort to use one the world's largest supercomputers to create 3D models to simulate how BP's massive Gulf of Mexico oil spill will affect coastal areas. Acting within 24 hours of receiving a request from researchers, the National Science Foundation late last week made an emergency allocation of 1 million compute hours on a supercomputer at the Texas Advanced Computing Cente to study how BP's gusher will affect coastlines. The computer model they are working on 'has the potential to advise and undergird many emergency management decisions that may be made along the way, particularly if a hurricane comes through the area,' said Rick Luettich, a professor of marine sciences and head of the Institute of Marine Sciences at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, who is one of the researchers on this project. Meanwhile, geographic information systems vendor ESRI has added a social spin to GIS mapping of the BP oil spill.
Submission + - Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx Benchmarked And Reviewed (tomshardware.com)
tc6669 writes: Tom's Hardware just posted an interesting review of Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. It includes an expanded set of OS benchmarks which they also performed on the previous LTS release (8.04) to see just how much the mainstream Linux distro has progressed in two years.
Submission + - The top 10 HTML5 sites dissected (pcpro.co.uk)
Barence writes: HTML5 might be a new and emerging technology, but there are plenty of websites out there that are already taking advantage of HTML5 features. PC Pro's Ian Devlin has picked 10 of his favourite HTML5 sites and explained the elements that make them work. He provides illustrated examples of how developers can use the canvas tag to embed moving animations into websites, the new embedded video tags and a terrific site that lets you drag and drop fonts onto a block of text to see what they look like.
Submission + - Ninth suicide at iPhone factory. (bbc.co.uk)
__aapspi39 writes: A ninth employee has jumped to his death at Taiwanese iPhone and iPad manufacturer Foxconn, China's state media reports. The 21 year old worker was the the eighth fatality this year. This raises questions as to whether the shiny finish of the lifestyle statements available from mega corporations are tarnished by such information, and whether the mistreatment of workers deserves to be highlighted when considering such firms.
Submission + - Declustered RAID - the Future of RAID Storage? (enterprisestorageforum.com)
storagedude writes: With disk drive capacity improving at a much faster rate than performance and reliability, RAID rebuild times keep getting longer, increasing the risk that additional failures will lead to data loss. Interestingly, some storage vendors are turning to an 18-year-old concept to keep RAID relevant: Declustered RAID, which was first described in a 1992 paper by RAID pioneer Garth Gibson and Mark Holland.
Not surprisingly, Gibson is at the forefront of the movement:
"Gibson says Panasas' parity declustering turns RAID from a local operation of one controller and a few disks into a parallel algorithm using all the controllers and disks in the storage pool. With pools of tens to hundreds of individual disk arrays, parity declustering enables recovery to be tens to hundreds of times faster. And it spreads the work so thinly per disk that concurrent user work sees far less interference from recovery.
Not surprisingly, Gibson is at the forefront of the movement:
"Gibson says Panasas' parity declustering turns RAID from a local operation of one controller and a few disks into a parallel algorithm using all the controllers and disks in the storage pool. With pools of tens to hundreds of individual disk arrays, parity declustering enables recovery to be tens to hundreds of times faster. And it spreads the work so thinly per disk that concurrent user work sees far less interference from recovery.
MS To Share Early Flaw Data With Governments 100
Trailrunner7 writes "Microsoft today announced plans to share pre-patch details on software vulnerabilities with governments around the world under a new program aimed at securing critical infrastructure and government assets from hacker attacks. The program, codenamed Omega, features a 'Defensive Information Sharing Program' that will offer government entities at the national level technical information on vulnerabilities that are being updated in their products." There's a stream the bad guys would dearly love to tap into.
Justice Not As Blind As Previously Thought 256
NotSoHeavyD3 writes "I doubt this is much of a surprise but apparently Cornell University did a study that seems to show you're more likely to get convicted if you're ugly. From the article: 'According to a Cornell University study, unattractive defendants are 22 percent more likely to be convicted than good-looking ones. And the unattractive also get slapped with harsher sentences — an average of 22 months longer in prison.'"
Comment Re:Whooooppss.... (Score 1) 602
"Should have had that special combustible backup tape."
Or just encrypted the data before sending people's data in the mail. I have always heard to not send cash in the mail for this reason.
Or just encrypted the data before sending people's data in the mail. I have always heard to not send cash in the mail for this reason.
