Comment Re:So it's a fnacy nmae (Score 1) 1345
15 years of public school? I can relate. By the time I was in 14th grade, I was pretty bummed out too.
Space Shuttle Endeavour Heads To Space Station 79
RobGoldsmith writes "The STS-127 crew began its journey to the International Space Station at 6:03 p.m. EDT Wednesday when space shuttle Endeavour lifted off from Kennedy Space Center, Fla. The shuttle crew will complete construction of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's Kibo laboratory and deliver a new crew member, astronaut Tim Kopra, to the orbital outpost."
Submission + - Google services failure 1
banetbi writes: "It seems that there is a massive failure at Google. Twitter is abuzz with reports of all Google services failing. It seems the outage is pretty widespread as there are reports from the US, Canada, and South America."
Submission + - Hackers 'destroy' flight sim site (bbc.co.uk)
zebadee writes: "The BBC reports that the flight simulator site Avsim has been "destroyed" by malicious hackers.
The site, which launched in 1996, covered all aspects of flight simulation, although its main focus was on Microsoft's Flight Simulator.
The attack took down the site's two servers and the owners had not established an external backup system.
The site's founder, Tom Allensworth, said that the site would be down for the foreseeable future and was unsure if would ever go back up.
"Some have asked whether or not we had back ups. Yes, we dutifully backed up our servers every day. Unfortunately, we backed up the servers between our two servers.
"The hacker took out both servers, destroying our ability to use one or the other back up to remedy the situation."
I wonder why such a site would be targeted, are we already at the stage where any site is fair game for destruction if the owners aren't security conscious enough? "
I wonder why such a site would be targeted, are we already at the stage where any site is fair game for destruction if the owners aren't security conscious enough? "
Submission + - Security guru: don't surf web with Firefox (pcpro.co.uk)
Barence writes: "F-Secure's chief research officer Mikko Hypponen has warned people worried about being infected by malware not to use Firefox. "You don't want to surf the web with Firefox because most of the attacks now are targeting Firefox and older versions of Internet Explorer, so don't use those." He also warned PDF users not to use Adobe Reader, and suggested the best way to avoid being attacked is simply to stop using Windows altogether, saying "there's plenty of alternatives.""
Submission + - Pirate Bay launches its own VPN for five euros a m (itpro.co.uk)
nk497 writes: Pirate Bay has announced it's going to launch its own VPN system called IPREDator ahead of April Fool's Day, for just five euros a month. It's not a joke, but is looking to render the Intellectual Property Rights Enforcement Directive (IPRED) laws useless. That directive, which is set to come into force this week in Sweden, would give IP and other identity data to media firms so they can take action against file sharers. Using a VPN would make that rather difficult. According to the IPREDator website: "The network is under our control. Not theirs." The VPN is currently in beta stage, but you can sign up for an email alert when it's ready here.
Submission + - What s new in Linux kernel 2.6.29? (itwire.com)
davidmwilliams writes: "Last week a brand new Linux kernel came out, 2.6.29 released from the hands of Linus Torvalds himself. Besides a cutesy new mascot this edition comes with a host of new features that highlight future directions. There are two new file systems, improved graphics and WiFi support, faster boot times and more."
Submission + - ABC/Disney considerin Linux friendly Hulu (yahoo.com)
An anonymous reader writes: LOS ANGELES (Reuters) — The Walt Disney Co and Hulu.com have restarted talks over offering shows from Disney's ABC television network on the online video distributor owned by NBC Universal and News Corp, paidContent.org reported on Friday, citing unnamed sources.
Submission + - Old-School Keyboard Makes Comeback Of Sorts (npr.org)
CharlotteShma writes: "Some old writer once said that in order to keep going, he needed to hear the scratch of the pen on the page. Some self-proclaimed keyboard aficionados would make the same argument for computer keyboards. Is it possible that the old "clicky" keyboards are making a comeback? Now that we've replaced the old buckling springs with rubber domes, our keyboards are only getting quieter and quieter. According to the people at Unicomp Inc., all keyboards made since the early 1990s are, frankly, no good. They still use and produce vintage IBM Model M keyboards in their small factory in Lexington, Kentucky. The IBM Model M keyboards are ugly, built like tanks, and, most importantly, with a spring under each key which clicks when you press it."
Comment Re:At least this is better than the legal system (Score 3, Funny) 383
The bully just so happens to play the flute, and makes a little money by selling recordings of him playing.
The bully is Ian Anderson?
Google To Monitor Surfing Habits For Ad-Serving 219
superglaze (ZDNet UK) writes "Google is gearing up to launch cookie-based 'interest-based' advertising, which involves monitoring the user's passage across various WebSense partner sites. The idea is to have better-targeted advertising, which is not a million miles away from what Phorm is trying to do — the difference, it seems at first glance, is that Google is being relatively up-front about its intentions."
QT 4.5 Released, Plus New IDE and Analysis Tool 62
stoolpigeon writes "QT 4.5 has arrived and is now available for download. This new release is quite significant due to licensing changes that now make it simpler to use QT in a wider range of products without cost as well as a number of new features. The latest version of Webkit is now integrated into the product. Qt 4.5 sees the introduction of QtBenchLib, a new component to make measuring the performance of the toolkit and checking for regressions easier. Mac developers who use Qt will note a major reworking of 4.5 on the Mac, now providing 64-bit support. QT Creator is a new IDE that looks to have combined a number of previously separate tools. And there is much more."
India Sleepwalks Into a Surveillance Society 292
An anonymous reader writes "ZeroPaid has a fascinating roundup of news stories surrounding the latest surveillance laws passed in India, including a first-hand account of someone writing from inside India. The legislation in question is the Information Technology Act's amendment bill 2006, which was recently passed in the Indian parliament. Things you can't do with the new legislation include surfing for news in Bollywood and looking up porn on the internet. The legislation also allows all transmissions over the internet to be monitored for any form of lawbreaking and permits a sub-inspector to break into your house to make sure you aren't browsing porn on your computer."
IPv4 Address Use In 2008 258
An anonymous reader writes "The world used 197 million new IPv4 addresses in 2008, leaving 926 million addresses still available. The US remains the biggest user of new addresses, but China is catching up quickly. Quoting Ars Technica: 'A possible explanation could be that the big player(s) in some countries are executing a "run on the bank" and trying to get IPv4 addresses while the getting is good, while those in other countries are working on more NAT (Network Address Translation) and other address conservation techniques in anticipation of the depletion of the IPv4 address reserves a few years from now. In both cases, adding some IPv6 to the mix would be helpful. Even though last year the number of IPv6 addresses given out increased by almost a factor eight over 2007, the total amount of IPv6 address space in use is just 0.027 percent.'"
