Comment Re:Needs a mirror? (Score 1) 221
shut up, fag. Your joke is fucking stupid.
Bill....Is that you?
Submission + - Low Tech Solution for Oil Spill Clean Up (wimp.com)
1mck writes: This is probably one of the most low tech solutions to handle the Gulf oil spill, and it is suggested and proven by two American Farmers no less!
This is doable right now, and actually makes sense. The video speaks for itself!
This is doable right now, and actually makes sense. The video speaks for itself!
Submission + - Server Farm Doubles As A Goat Farm (datacenterknowledge.com)
miller60 writes: Yahoo has extended its data center sustainability strategy to weed control. The company is using a herd of 250 goats to control invasive weeds on land surrounding its data center in Quincy, Washington. The grazing goats are seen a better solution than spraying the weeds with pesticides or using noisy mowers that run on gasoline and pollute the air, factors that have prompted both Google and Yahoo to deploy goats at their Silicon Valley headquarters campuses.
Submission + - Aircraft flight can make it rain and snow?! (networkworld.com)
coondoggie writes: If the temperature and atmospheric conditions are right, aircraft climbing or descending can indeed make it snow or rain. That's the conclusion of a paper out today that states: "Ice particle production by commercial turboprop aircraft climbing through clouds much warmer than the regions where contrails are produced has the potential to modify significantly the cloud properties and effectively seed them under some conditions." Through this seeding process, the aircraft leave behind odd-shaped holes or channels in the clouds, according to the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR).
Submission + - Kepler spacecraft finds 750 extrasolar planets
An anonymous reader writes: In the first 43 days of the Kepler mission, NASA found 750 candidates for extrasolar planets, of which data on 350 has been released today.
Submission + - 8 of the Best Free Linux Usenet Tools (linuxlinks.com) 1
An anonymous reader writes: Usenet is a worldwide distributed Internet discussion system. It was founded in 1980 to enable users to read and post public messages to various newsgroups. As such, it predates forums, blogs, instant messaging and P2P networks.
The importance of Usenet as an environment for discussion has diminished over recent years given the increasing popularity of internet forums and blogs. However, the newsgroup community remains very active and vocal. It continues to be a great resource of information, and to obtain support from like-minded individuals. Moreover, Usenet is a popular means of downloading files including Linux distributions.
To provide an insight into the quality of software that is available, we have compiled a list of 8 high quality Usenet tools. Hopefully, there will be something of interest here for anyone who wants to join in with Usenet.
The importance of Usenet as an environment for discussion has diminished over recent years given the increasing popularity of internet forums and blogs. However, the newsgroup community remains very active and vocal. It continues to be a great resource of information, and to obtain support from like-minded individuals. Moreover, Usenet is a popular means of downloading files including Linux distributions.
To provide an insight into the quality of software that is available, we have compiled a list of 8 high quality Usenet tools. Hopefully, there will be something of interest here for anyone who wants to join in with Usenet.
Submission + - Israeli Start-up Claims MLC SSD Breakthrough (computerworld.com) 1
Lucas123 writes: Anobit Technologies today announced it has come to market with its first solid state drive that uses a proprietary processor that boosts consumer-class multi-level cell NAND reliability to that of expensive, data center-class single-level cell NAND by adding an additional layer of error correction to hardware-based ECC already on most non-volatile memory products. The company claims its processor, which is already being used by other SSD manufacturers, can sustain up to 4TB worth of writes per day for five years or more than 50,000 program/erase cycles.
Submission + - 178 Arrested in US/EU Credit Card Cloning Ops (krebsonsecurity.com)
eldavojohn writes: Authorities have moved in on 178 people accused of working in credit card cloning labs across the USA and Europe but with the bulk of the work apparently operating out of Spain. Original source states that "Police in fourteen countries participated a two-year investigation, initiated in Spain where police have discovered 120,000 stolen credit card numbers and 5,000 cloned cards, arrested 76 people and dismantled six cloning labs. The raids were made primarily in Romania, France, Italy, Germany, Ireland and the United States, with arrests also made in Australia, Sweden, Greece, Finland and Hungary. The detainees are also suspected of armed robbery, blackmail, sexual exploitation and money-laundering, the police said." Krebs notes a new credit card debuting at Turkish banks that appears to have a built in LCD that has a random six digit number associated with each transaction much like RSA SecurID keys used for computer logins.
Submission + - Hackers infect site with MS zero-day vulnerability (sophos.com) 2
An anonymous reader writes: Hackers are infecting websites using a Microsoft zero-day vulnerability that was controversially made public by a Google engineer only five days after he had informed Microsoft about the problem.
Tavis Ormandy, a Google security researcher, was criticised last week for not giving Microsoft enough time to fix the vulnerability which he discovered in Windows XP's Help and Support Center, after he published exploit code to the Full Disclosure mailing list. And now malicious hackers have infected a legitimate website with malware that exploits the vulnerability, according to Sophos.
Security blogger Graham Cluley asks Ormandy: "Do you feel proud of your behaviour? Do you think that you have helped raise security on the internet? Or did you put your vanity ahead of others' safety?"
Tavis Ormandy, a Google security researcher, was criticised last week for not giving Microsoft enough time to fix the vulnerability which he discovered in Windows XP's Help and Support Center, after he published exploit code to the Full Disclosure mailing list. And now malicious hackers have infected a legitimate website with malware that exploits the vulnerability, according to Sophos.
Security blogger Graham Cluley asks Ormandy: "Do you feel proud of your behaviour? Do you think that you have helped raise security on the internet? Or did you put your vanity ahead of others' safety?"
Submission + - Modern Day Equivalent of Byte/Compute! Magazine?
MochaMan writes: I grew up in the 80s on a steady diet of Byte and Compute! magazines, banging in page after page of code line-by-line, and figuring out how sound, graphics and input devices worked along the way. Since then, the personal computer market has obviously moved away from hobbyists intent on coding and understanding their machines down to the hardware, but I imagine there must still be a market for similar do-it-yourself articles. Perhaps the collective minds of Slashdot can divine some online sources of fun & educational mini-projects like "write your own assembler" or "roll your own bootloader".
Submission + - FBI Monitoring Facebook (bbc.co.uk) 2
An anonymous reader writes: The BBC reports that armed police were called to a UK school earlier today after being advised of a potential threat by the FBI. The school stated that the FBI "raised the alarm after internet scanning software picked up a suspicious combination of words", strongly implying that they are carrying out routine, automated surveillance of social networking sites. While in this case it does appear that there may have been a genuine threat, the story nonetheless raises significant privacy concerns.
Comment Re:Goose, gander, etc (Score 1) 277
They're all businesses...end of story! I laugh at the book store at my campus when they put up little advertisements at the breakdown of all the costs of the books to justify why they're raising the prices; they add in the other cost of other businesses, which has nothing to do with them. They buy from the supplier, and then jack us for more profit...sigh!
Submission + - Vook = A Web Page With Video? (yahoo.com)
1mck writes: Anne Rice agreed to terms with the video book company Vook on a multimedia edition of "The Master of Rampling Gate," a vampire story published in Redbook magazine in 1984 and set in an England mansion in the 19th century. "Vook represents a very exciting combination of new technological elements, that I think is long overdo in publishing," Rice said in a statement released Wednesday by Vook.
So, it's text with video...isn't that a web page with video...what's so innovative about this /.? http://vook.com/vook.php
So, it's text with video...isn't that a web page with video...what's so innovative about this
Comment Fix That for you (Score 1) 427
Fix that for you - Craig Mundie: Microsoft's Chief Thief and Rip-Officer
Comment The law is to protect the Church (Score 2, Interesting) 845
With all the people coming forward about the abuses and rapes that the Church has perpetrated, to me this law is to protect the Church. The people coming forward were getting too close to the higher ups, and people in high positions were being implicated in this. Now, they can come into your home in Ireland for anything they want under the pretense of this law. I think their tourism is going to take a hit on this one, eh?
