Comment And so it begins (Score 1) 275
What crazy antics are AT&T going to throw out to try and stop this one?
Comment Wikileaks (Score 5, Informative) 245
It's a good thing it's already been archived on WikiLeaks http://wikileaks.org/wiki/Yahoo_compliance_guide_for_law_enforcement%2C_23_Dec_2008
Comment Re:Could be a half-decent toy, if priced well (Score 1) 112
Compared to the costs of getting all the components for the OpenEEG and piecing everything together, it's probably a better choice for most people to go with the Emotiv set. Besides, if you're not happy with an OpenEEG you only have yourself to be unhappy with, if you're bored with the Emotiv you can always send it back and demand a refund.
Comment RIP (Score 1) 1
You will be remembered for your contributions to the security community :)
Submission + - Founder of Milw0rm exploits website is dead (blogspot.com) 1
msuiche writes: Matt Suiche writes
Milw0rm was well-know as an exploits database. We can read on Blacksecurity blog: I've just received information that str0ke @ milw0rm has passed away due to cardiac arrest early this morning at 9:23 AM.[..]RIP str0ke 1974-04-29 — 2009-11-03 09:23
Milw0rm was well-know as an exploits database. We can read on Blacksecurity blog: I've just received information that str0ke @ milw0rm has passed away due to cardiac arrest early this morning at 9:23 AM.[..]RIP str0ke 1974-04-29 — 2009-11-03 09:23
Submission + - Linux torrents get a mention in landmark court cas (computerworld.com.au) 1
swandives writes: The Federal Court of Australia has heard how peer-to-peer software, BitTorrent, is used to distribute Linux-based operating systems. Downloading GNU Linux software was cited as one of the legal uses of BitTorrent during the landmark court case between internet service provider, iiNet, and the Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft (AFACT). iiNet CEO, Michael Malone, took the stand for his third successive day of cross examination in the civil case. AFACT barrister, Tony Bannon SC, questioned Malone about the amount of BitTorrent traffic Linux downloads were likely to account for.
Submission + - Twitter movement stops Mexican government (bbc.co.uk)
KamuZ writes: The Mexican government wanted to tax 3% to the Internet for the fiscal year 2010 but a movement in twitter called "#Internet Necesario" (Internet needed) started discussing about it in a polite way to inform the politicians and people why is wrong to tax it. They got media coverage and finally the Mexican Senate asked them to go to discuss the tax. Here is an automated English translation
Comment Hilarious (Score 2, Interesting) 133
I bought the app and said "Marijuana" in English, which promptly spit back out at me in Spanish, "illegales" . I'm pretty sure that translates back into English as , "Illegal".
Submission + - Telco sues city for plan to roll out own broadband (maximumpc.com)
Syngularity writes: MaximumPC is featuring an article about one broadband provider's decision to sue the city of Monticello, Minnesota after residents passed a referendum to roll out their own fiber optic system. TDS Telecommunications had earlier denied the city's request for the company to provide fiber optic service. During the ensuring legal battle, which prevented the citizens from following through with their plans, TDS Telecommunications took the opportunity to roll out a fiber system.
Submission + - Intergalactic Race Shows that Einstein Still Rules
Ponca City, We love you writes: "The NY Times reports that after a journey of 7.3 billion light-years, a race between gamma rays ranging from 31 billion electron volts to 10,000 electron volts, a factor of more than a million, in a burst from an exploding star have arrived within nine-tenths of a second of each other in a detector on NASA’s Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope confirming Einstein’s proclamation in his 1905 theory of relativity that the speed of light is constant and independent of its color, energy, direction or how you yourself are moving. Some theorists had suggested that space on very small scales has a granular structure that would speed some light waves faster than others — in short, that relativity could break down on the smallest scales. Until now such quantum gravity theories have been untestable because ordinarily you would have to see details as small as the so-called Planck length, which is vastly smaller than an atom — to test these theories in order to discern the bumpiness of space. The spread in travel time of 0.9 second, if attributed to quantum effects rather than the dynamics of the explosion itself, suggested that any quantum effects in which the slowing of light is proportional to its energy do not show up until you get down to sizes about eight-tenths of the Planck length. "This measurement eliminates any approach to a new theory of gravity that predicts a strong energy dependent change in the speed of light," says Peter Michelson of Stanford. “"To one part in 100 million billion, these two photons traveled at the same speed. Einstein still rules.""
Submission + - Speech-to-Speech Translator Developed for iPhone
Ponca City, We love you writes: "Dr. Dobbs reports that Alex Waibel, professor of computer science and language technologies at Carnegie Mellon University, has developed an iPhone application that turns the iPhone into a translator that converts English speech into Spanish, or vice versa. Users simply speak a sentence or two at a time into the iPhone and the iPhone will respond with an audible translation. "Jibbigo's software runs on the iPhone itself, so it doesn't need to be connected to the Web to access a distant server," says Waibel. Waibel is an leader in speech-to-speech translation and multimodal speech interfaces, creating the first real-time, speech-to-speech translator for English, German and Japanese. "Automated speech translation is an expensive proposition that has been supported primarily by large government grants," says Waibel. "But our sponsors are impatient to see this technology become more widely available and we, as researchers, are eager to find new revenues that will help us extend this technology to more of the 6,000 languages now spoken worldwide.""
Comment Re:slow data (Score 4, Interesting) 551
I was in San Francisco this past weekend, and my network services were severed sharply compared to the connection I get here in Austin TX. I was unable to get emails or use the internet and every other time I tried to make a phone call, I kept getting "Call Failed".
The problem was so bad that when I was in SFO, I tweeted something to the tune of "My POS iPhone never works when I need it to", to which an ATT Rep (apparently ATT has people scouring Twitter for angry ATT customers) responded with http://twitter.com/ATTJason/status/3676354487 .
When ATT loses its contract with Apple, I'm dropping their POS network for a more reliable carrier with a better network and more helpful customer support. (Ever had an ATT rep call you a horses ass on the phone? They did to me back in June, to which they ended up giving me 2 months of free service to apologize)
Comment Looks like the block was lifted (Score 4, Informative) 342
As of 1am CST, it looks like the block is beginning to be lifted :
http://encyclopediadramatica.com/AT%26T_Blocks_4chan#THIS_JUST_IN
I can confirm access to img.4chan.org open from the Austin/South Texas area now, whereas it wasn't about an hour ago.
Submission + - Chuck Norris sues, says his tears no cancer cure (reuters.com) 2
Google85 writes: Chuck Norris sued publisher Penguin on Friday over a book he claims unfairly exploits his famous name, based on a satirical Internet list of "mythical facts" about him.
The book capitalizes on "mythical facts" that have been circulating on the Internet since 2005 that poke fun at Norris' tough-guy image and super-human abilities, the suit said.
The book capitalizes on "mythical facts" that have been circulating on the Internet since 2005 that poke fun at Norris' tough-guy image and super-human abilities, the suit said.
Submission + - Ron Paul sets new online fundraising records
yamamushi writes: "Remember Remember the 5th of November indeed! In observance of Guy Fawkes Night, Thousands of Presidential Candidate/Congressman Ron Paul supporters donated just over $4.3 Million dollars to his campaign within 24 hours, topping the record for the most raised online in one day for any presidential candidate, ever. His staggering amount also shadowed the most raised in a single day by any of the other Republican candidates, to which Mitt Romney owned the title at $3.1 Million. With the media burying Ron Paul, and refusing to consider him a top-tier candidate, will Paul be able to leverage the internet community into proving otherwise at the polls?"
