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Comment Re:Shouted at the heavens, (Score 1) 221

by user24 on Monday August 04, 2008 @10:37AM (#24466585) Attached to: Scotty's Final Mission

I believe "Welshy" would be the correct spelling.

get it? Scotty, being a Scot, from Scotland. Welshy, being Welsh, from Wales. I'm amazed you still found that part of WNFHGB funny, given that it evidently swooped over your head.

Submission + - Tim Berners-Lee receives Order of Merit from Queen

Submitted by nfras on Thursday June 14, 2007 @02:54AM

nfras writes: Tim Berners-Lee has been awarded the Order of Merit by HM Queen. There are only 24 members of the Order at any time and is a personal award from the Queen. He joins the company of Florence Nightingale, Winston Churchill and Edward Elgar as members of the OM.

Submission + - BlueSecurity - Round Two!

Submitted by

user24

on Wednesday June 13, 2007 @08:27PM

user24 writes: "We all remember the Blue Security DDOS attack, and now it looks like the same group of spammers who took them down are attacking several high-profile anti spam forums in a similar co-ordinated botnet DDOS.

zdnet has the scoop:

"The spammers behind last year's destruction of Blue Security are back with a vengeance, using a variant of the 'Storm Worm' malware to launch a sustained distributed denial-of-service attack against three anti-spam services.

SpamhausThe ongoing attacks, which use botnets of hijacked Windows computers, successfully shut down the Web servers that power the Spamhaus Project, URIBL (Realtime URI Blacklists) and SURBL (Spam URI Realtime Blocklists (SURBL)."

Check out the castlecops forum, where members of these antispam groups are picking over the details of the attack."

Submission + - EBay pulls from Google AdWords (infoworld.com)

Submitted by

InfoWorldMike

on Wednesday June 13, 2007 @03:25PM

InfoWorldMike writes: "EBay has pulled all of its paid search ads from Google AdWords network in the U.S in an eyebrow-raising move likely to be interpreted in the industry as a sign of deteriorating relations between the two Internet giants. An eBay spokesman characterized the decision to pull the U.S. Google ads as an instance in a continued experiment eBay does to determine the best allocation of its advertising and marketing budget. But a source familiar with the situation said the move is an angry reaction by eBay's management to Google's decision to hold a protest party concurrent with the start of eBay Live, the company's annual conference for merchants."

Submission + - Lip Reading Surveillance Cameras "To Stop Terr

Submitted by mrogers on Tuesday May 01, 2007 @10:30AM

mrogers writes: Infowars brings us the following news from the UK, which is fast becoming the front line of the war on privacy:

"Read my lips...." used to be a figurative saying. Now the British government is considering taking it literally by adding lip reading technology to some of the four million or so surveillance cameras in order identify terrorists and criminals by watching what everyone says.

Perhaps the lip-reading cameras and the shouting cameras will find something to talk about.

Submission + - Help Save Net Radio

Submitted by shdowhawk on Tuesday May 01, 2007 @09:59AM

shdowhawk writes: On March 2, 2007 the Copyright Royalty Board (CRB) set in action a bill which increased Internet radio's royalty burden between 300 and 1200 percent and thereby jeopardized the industry's future. There is an online movement currently set up to help protest this bill. http://www.savenetradio.org/ was established to shed light on the situation, to help the protest to save internet radio, and to promote all the bills that have been set up to try and overturn the March 2 action bill.

Submission + - Partial Hack for Short Key Quantum Cryptography

Submitted by sarkeizen on Tuesday May 01, 2007 @09:53AM

sarkeizen writes: According to nature.com a team of researchers has, for the first time, hacked into a network protected by quantum encryption. . The MIT group was able to entangle a photons polarization with its momentum. Which allowed them to get up to 40% of the information by measuring the particles momentum without significantly disturbing it's polarization. The researchers agreed that this kind of attack, although interested could be rendered useless by increasing the key length.

Feed Schneier Talk at the British Computer Society (schneier.com)

From feed by bsfeed on Saturday April 28, 2007 @03:32PM

The MP3 of my March 21 talk at the British Computer Society -- on information security trends and economic considerations -- is on the Internet....

Journal Journal: Slashdot: The Flowchart 2

Journal by Wellington Grey on Saturday April 28, 2007 @02:44PM

This week's miscellanea comic details my experiences on slashdot in flowchart form.

Submission + - PGP for HTTP: The death of phishing and mitm?

Submitted by Mike Haningth on Saturday April 28, 2007 @12:55PM

Mike Haningth writes: I was reading an interview published in the Free Software Magazine about Enigform. Author claims that signed http requests can stop man in the middle and phishing. So far, it looks to be a firefox extension using gnupg, and an apache module for the server-side. I think it is quite cool! (resubmitted to Index instead of Askslashdot)

Submission + - Writing a novel in a wiki?

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 28, 2007 @11:03AM

An anonymous reader writes: Wikis are a great tool for online collaboration. But this guy took it one step further and wrote an entire novel in a wiki, and then got it published. It's possible that this is the first published work of fiction that was written entirely in a wiki.

Submission + - Novablade.com stolen, sold to highest bidder

Submitted by hidingintheclosetwithaplatypus on Saturday April 28, 2007 @10:21AM

hidingintheclosetwithaplatypus writes: Damien & Trisha Buchwald (previously) from Novablade.com have loosed the dogs of war after their registrar, Network Solutions, refused to allow them to renew or transfer their domain name and who have now sold it to another company to be auctioned off. Apparently the name's worth around US$16,000, and the Buchwalds are looking for help from anywhere they can get it.

We are infuriated, upset, and feel like we have had our very souls stolen from us and sold. This is a very disgusting, underhanded act that deserves justification.

Submission + - Hawking Enjoys Zero-G Ride

Submitted by

user24

on Saturday April 28, 2007 @09:45AM

user24 writes: "TimesOnline reports: "For more than 40 years, Stephen Hawking has studied the mysteries of the universe from his wheelchair. Last night, he broke free of his disability and indulged his passion for gravitational phenomena in a finely stage-managed operation 32,000 feet above the Atlantic.

"It was amazing," he said after he returned from his experience of weightlessness. "The zero-g bit was wonderful . . . I could have gone on and on. Space, here I come."""

Submission + - Escort agency launches virgin service for geeks

Submitted by 6Yankee on Saturday April 21, 2007 @12:35PM

6Yankee writes: A Dutch escort agency is offering a "virgin service" — and most of the customers work in IT. Says boss Zoe Vialet: "They are very sweet but are afraid of seeking contact with other people. They mean it very well but are very scared." In what might be considered a very cunning move, the three-hour-minimum appointment includes — a bath.

Submission + - New approach to building intelligent machines

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 21, 2007 @12:34PM

An anonymous reader writes: The site is very crude, but there are lots of interesting articles. Evidently this fellow wants to work on developing a model for how the brain works — with the intent of building truly intelligent machines. He's requesting support for his research by selling a share in any profits that result from his theory.

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