Comment $1.8 dollars? (Score 1) 3
I'll take 10.
Comment Interplanetary remote photography (Score 1) 1
I can't say how awesome this is. Good work NASA!
Comment 2 (main) types of people in this world... (Score 1) 1165
One thing I find rather striking as I browse through these comments: There are those who side with the despotic dictators of the world, and those who don't.
Comment How does one visualize a torrent? (Score 1) 2
silhouette of a pirate ship. ... in a bay. Of course.
Amateur UAV Pilot Exposes Texas River of Blood 388
Presto Vivace writes "Carlton Purvis of Security Management News reports that a tip from an amateur UAV enthusiast 'is what led Texas authorities to open a major criminal investigation into the waste practices of a Dallas meat packing plant.' The photo shows a river of blood."
Submission + - Decrypting Hard Drives not Self Incriminating, Say (fellowgeek.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Until now, there has never been a ruling on whether it violated the Fifth Amendment to require a defendant to decrypt a hard drive. The ruling essentially allows encrypted files to be treated much like private property, which can be searched with the proper warrants.
Decrypting a seized hard drive for police doesn’t count as incriminating yourself, says Colorado U.S. District Judge Robert Blackburn. The defendant in the case, accused of bank fraud, claimed that decrypting her hard drive for the police constituted a violation of the Fifth Ammendment....
Decrypting a seized hard drive for police doesn’t count as incriminating yourself, says Colorado U.S. District Judge Robert Blackburn. The defendant in the case, accused of bank fraud, claimed that decrypting her hard drive for the police constituted a violation of the Fifth Ammendment....
Submission + - Amateur UAV pilot exposes river contamination (securitymanagement.com)
Presto Vivace writes: "Carlton Purvis of Security Management News reports:
A tip from an anonymous amateur unmanned-aerial-vehicle pilot is what led Texas authorities to open a major criminal investigation into the waste practices of a Dallas meat packing plant.
The photo shows a river of blood."
Submission + - Piratbyran Co-Founder Says Stop DDosing Polish Sit (activepolitic.com) 1
bs0d3 writes: Since the news released that Poland will sign ACTA later this month, activists have taken to the streets in protest. Also anonymous has aimed their ddos cannons at Polish websites. A government minister admitted the government had failed to fully consult the public on the issue. Piratbyran Co-Founder Marcin de Kaminski has been following the issue on ACTA in Poland, and agrees with activists that anonymous' ddos is hurting the situation. Now the Polish government is trying to speed up the signatory process, making a statement of not giving in to "cyber terrorists".
Submission + - The Hayden Planetarium Is Being Turned Into A Gian (vice.com) 1
pigrabbitbear writes: "Remember your first visit to the planetarium? Neil DeGrasse Tyson does — it was what inspired him to become an astrophysicist in the first place. That same planetarium, now under Tyson’s direction, is currently undergoing a transformation the likes of which Neil’s young self couldn’t have possibly imagined: It’s becoming a giant videogame."
Submission + - MSI tells 97,000 customers to 'Read The F***ing Ma (theregister.co.uk)
kallisti777 writes: "http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/03/28/msi_support_forum_email/
Disgruntled employee cover-up or poorly timed April Fool's joke? You be the judge."
Disgruntled employee cover-up or poorly timed April Fool's joke? You be the judge."
Submission + - Extinction of an ancient language (discovery.com) 6
freakxx writes: As Boa Sr., 85, the last speaker of a 65000 years old language died in Andaman Islands of India, the ancient language "Bo" also goes extinct. She was the last speaker of the language since last 30-40 years since her parents died.
Her ancestry trees can be traced back to Africa as her tribe was one of the 10 Great Andamanese Tribes, who very first paved their ways to this region directly from Africa.
Stephen Corry, the director of Survival International, summaries it as a great loss to the human history and it should not be allowed to repeat: "Boa's loss is a bleak reminder that we must not allow this to happen to the other tribes of the Andaman Islands". However, the fact is that the surviving number of people belonging to these tribes are now only 52 and it may not be that far when we see these other tribes also go extinct.
The biggest question that comes along is whether we should let the evolution follow its course of "only the fittest can survive" or should we intervene and protect these ancient treasures! What is even more important is "how ?", because according to the article, when the British came, they tried to civilize these tribal people by putting few of them in modern houses but non of the 150 children born could survive more than 2 years.
Her ancestry trees can be traced back to Africa as her tribe was one of the 10 Great Andamanese Tribes, who very first paved their ways to this region directly from Africa.
Stephen Corry, the director of Survival International, summaries it as a great loss to the human history and it should not be allowed to repeat: "Boa's loss is a bleak reminder that we must not allow this to happen to the other tribes of the Andaman Islands". However, the fact is that the surviving number of people belonging to these tribes are now only 52 and it may not be that far when we see these other tribes also go extinct.
The biggest question that comes along is whether we should let the evolution follow its course of "only the fittest can survive" or should we intervene and protect these ancient treasures! What is even more important is "how ?", because according to the article, when the British came, they tried to civilize these tribal people by putting few of them in modern houses but non of the 150 children born could survive more than 2 years.
$199 Freescale Tablet Design Runs Chromium OS 93
Charbax writes "This is an extensive video interview with Freescale's manager of software development about their integration of the Chromium OS onto their ARM Cortex A8 i.MX51-based $199 Tablet reference design. It seems to run smoothly and fast with multiple tabs. There's no touch screen support yet, so input is done through a USB keyboard and mouse for now, but the WiFi drivers are fine. Freescale is also demonstrating Android and Ubuntu versions. Those have a 3G SIM card reader built-in, an HDMI output and 720p video playback. The question is: will they be able to support Chrome browsing at full speed on the most JavaScript- and Flash-intensive websites and support a large amount of opened tabs?"
The demonstration of the Chromium tablet begins at about 11:20 into the video. The Android and Ubuntu versions are displayed earlier.
Submission + - Legality & need of encrypted cell phones 5
LlamaZorz writes: Dear Slashdot community, I have been wondering for quite some time as to why American citizens do not have access to cell phones with encrypted data and voice communication. We all know that the government has such technology and makes very good use of it, so why cant the populace? Is their a set regulation by the FCC or something which prohibits companies from marketing encrypted cell phones to the everyday person? I have searched and cannot find one.
I am aware that both GSM and CDMA all have their own encryption standard which is mainly used to stop everyday people from listening in. But such minor encryption in no way stops our government and its agencies or a criminal organisation. The US government has numerous known programs like ECHELON, where they are capable of listening to your calls, screening for keywords. What is even more scary a majority of our intelligence is outsourced to private enterprise. I find all of these things completely ridiculous. We as citizens should have our privacy and it shouldn't compromised no matter how bad the threat.
So I mainly wanted to ask Slashdot if it were legal & ethical to create such a phone which would use known secure public key encryption trying to completely secure all voice communication. I think such is both possible and practical. What do you guys think?
I am aware that both GSM and CDMA all have their own encryption standard which is mainly used to stop everyday people from listening in. But such minor encryption in no way stops our government and its agencies or a criminal organisation. The US government has numerous known programs like ECHELON, where they are capable of listening to your calls, screening for keywords. What is even more scary a majority of our intelligence is outsourced to private enterprise. I find all of these things completely ridiculous. We as citizens should have our privacy and it shouldn't compromised no matter how bad the threat.
So I mainly wanted to ask Slashdot if it were legal & ethical to create such a phone which would use known secure public key encryption trying to completely secure all voice communication. I think such is both possible and practical. What do you guys think?
Submission + - What Does DHS Know About You? (philosecurity.org)
Sherri Davidoff writes: "Here's a real copy of an American citizen's DHS Travel Record retrieved from the U.S. Customs and Border Patrol's Automated Targeting System (ATS). This was obtained through a FOIA/Privacy Act request... The document reveals that the DHS is storing the reader's:
- Credit card number and expiration
- IP address used to make web travel reservations
- Hotel information and itinerary
- Full airline itinerary, including flight numbers and seat numbers
- Phone numbers, incl. business, home & cell
- Every frequent flyer and hotel number associated with the subject, even ones not used for the specific reservation
Privacy, Mobile Phones, and Ubiquitous Data Collection 61
ChelleChelle writes "Participatory sensing technologies are greatly expanding the possible uses of mobile phones in ways that could improve our lives and our communities (for example, by helping us to understand our exposure to air pollution or our daily carbon footprint). However, with these potential gains comes great risk, particularly to our privacy. With their built-in microphones, cameras and location awareness, mobile phones could, at the extreme, become the most widespread embedded surveillance tools in history. Whether phones engaged in sensing data are tools for self and community research, coercion or surveillance depends on who collects the data, how it is handled, and what privacy protections users are given. This article gives a number of opinions about what programmers might do to make this sort of data collection work without slipping into surveillance and control."
