Submission + - German "Die Piratenpartei" (Pirate Party) gets 2% 1
the_doctor_23 writes: "The German Piratenpartei managed to win 2% of the votes in yesterdays federal election.
While they will not be represented in parliarment due to a 5% minimum threshold,
this is none the less a remarkable feat for the young party modeled after Sweden's Piratpartiet.
According to polls the pirates attracted as many as 13% of the first time voters."
While they will not be represented in parliarment due to a 5% minimum threshold,
this is none the less a remarkable feat for the young party modeled after Sweden's Piratpartiet.
According to polls the pirates attracted as many as 13% of the first time voters."
Wikileaks Releases Early Atomic Bomb Diagram 429
An anonymous reader writes "Wikileaks has released a diagram of the first atomic weapon, as used in the Trinity test and subsequently exploded over the Japanese city of Nagasaki, together with an extremely interesting scientific analysis. Wikileaks has not been able to fault the document or find reference to it elsewhere. Given the high quality of other Wikileaks submissions, the document may be what it purports to be, or it may be a sophisticated intelligence agency fraud, designed to mislead the atomic weapons development programs of countries like Iran. The neutron initiator is particularly novel. 'When polonium is crushed onto beryllium by explosion, reaction occurs between polonium alpha emissions and beryllium leading to Carbon-12 & 1 neutron. This, in practice, would lead to a predictable neutron flux, sufficient to set off device.'"
Comment Re:Defend patents (Score 1) 391
I do believe this is what they are doing...
Teachers Give ERP Implementations Failing Grades 169
theodp writes "Nine months after the Los Angeles Unified School District launched SAP HR and Payroll as part of a larger $132M ERP rollout, LAUSD employees are still being overpaid, underpaid or going unpaid. In June, about 30,000 paychecks were issued with errors, falling somewhat short of the Mission Statement 'to effectively deliver services to meet the payroll needs of all District employees serving our students.' Meanwhile, a $17M PeopleSoft-based payroll implementation has been making life miserable for Chicago Public Schools teachers and staff since last April, including June retirees who were stiffed for more than $35M. It's been a bad computer year for CPS staff, who also had to contend with a new $60M system that wasn't up to the task of taking attendance."
Terabytes of Mars Pictures Released to Public 137
Riding with Robots writes "The team that runs the high-rez camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has just released more than 1,200 Mars images to the Planetary Data System, NASA's mission data archive. The team has also released 1.7 Terabytes of data to a user-friendly site that allows users to quickly home in on each image, most of which are a gigabyte-sized files measuring 20,000 by 50,000 pixels. Not all the images have been thoroughly studied yet: in the announcement, the camera's lead scientist said, 'These images must contain hundreds of important discoveries about Mars. We just need time to realize what they are.'"
Submission + - Google Deletes Rogue Ads, Dangers Persist
An anonymous reader writes: Google has removed ads that appear alongside Google search results that re-directed users to malicious sites. But, according to security experts, the fix is temporary and search engine users should not assume sponsored links are all trustworthy.
http://blogs.pcworld.com/staffblog/archives/004248 .html
"Search engines are just too easy a target for bad guys," says Roger Thompson of Exploit Security Labs. On April 25, Exploit Prevention Labs reported that malware distributors were using advertisements placed via Google's automated AdWords system to infect unsuspecting end-users with spyware designed to capture bank login user names and passwords.
http://blogs.pcworld.com/staffblog/archives/00424
"Search engines are just too easy a target for bad guys," says Roger Thompson of Exploit Security Labs. On April 25, Exploit Prevention Labs reported that malware distributors were using advertisements placed via Google's automated AdWords system to infect unsuspecting end-users with spyware designed to capture bank login user names and passwords.
Submission + - Writing a novel in a wiki?
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 + - Mouse brain simulated on computer
Submission + - PGP for HTTP: the death of phishing?
An anonymous reader 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. What does the Slashdot community think?
Submission + - Fred Fish Died
just another Amiga user writes: "It seems Fred Fish (Amiga Fish disks, gcc, gdb, binutils) passed away on Friday, 20 April 2007:
http://www.diveadx.com/ documents his cruises on a Nordhavn trawler.
http://www.amiga.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?p ost_id=441811&topic_id=37582&forum=22, look for the comment by his wife Michelle.
http://www.nabble.com/Fred-Fish-will-be-missed-t36 49533.html, by his son.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Fish, Wiki entry."
http://www.diveadx.com/ documents his cruises on a Nordhavn trawler.
http://www.amiga.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?
http://www.nabble.com/Fred-Fish-will-be-missed-t3
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Fish, Wiki entry."
Feed The Brain Processes The Sense Of Smell Better Than Previously Thought (sciencedaily.com)
The sense of smell is a surprisingly important way for rats -- and humans -- to gather information about their environment. The brain is able to adjust automatically to the demands of distinguishing between small differences in smell, new research shows.
Submission + - Activist Groups Drop Suit Against Viacom
Googlistic writes: Activist groups dropped a federal lawsuit against Viacom Inc. on Monday after the parent of Comedy Central acknowledged it made a mistake by asking YouTube to yank a parody of the cable network's "'The Colbert Report."'
Feed EFF drops Viacom suit over Colbert parody on YouTube (com.com)
Blog: The Electronic Frontier Foundation has dropped a lawsuit it filed on behalf of a group that posted a parody video of ...
Feed Viacom Promises To Be More Mindful Of Fair Use On YouTube (techdirt.com)
When Viacom took down 100,000 videos from YouTube claiming they were infringing, one problem was that there were a number of false positives where they forced videos offline that weren't infringing at all. In one case, the EFF and others sued over the removal of a parody of the Colbert report, and Viacom bizarrely claimed that it hadn't sent a takedown about it despite a ton of evidence that it had. Eventually Viacom admitted that it had, in fact, accidentally sent the takedown. In response, the company has convinced the EFF to drop the lawsuit after promising to manually review all videos before sending takedown notices, training those who review the videos to understand fair use and publicly stating that it has no problem with videos that are "creative, newsworthy or transformative" and are "a limited excerpt for non commercial purposes." In other words, it's basically everything the EFF wanted, and now we'll see if Viacom lives up to the promise.
