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Comment Worth saving.. (Score 0, Interesting) 169

by nmrtian (#28297795) Attached to: Saving Unix Heritage, One Kernel At a Time
Not to diminish Unix's importance, it is a link in the chain -- but what a link it is! When MS is bankrupt, Windoze won't fit onto a DVD and no affordable hardware will be able to run it, Unix will be here. I run FreeBSD on my desktop and still enjoy firing up my AT&T 6300+ and playing with SVR2. Amazingly, the two computers, separated by more than 20 years, interact very nicely through a RS232 connection.
Government

Submission + - Pentagon hires hackers

Submitted by
maclizard
maclizard writes: "CNN is reporting that the Pentagon is looking for hackers to help secure National intelligence.

From the Article:
"Some of you are extremely talented, gifted even at what you do," said Arthur Money, Assistant Secretary of Defense and CIO at the Department of Defense (DoD). "If you're thinking about what you want to do with the rest of your life, maybe you should think about this in a different manner. You should think about coming to work for us.""

Comment Re:Theft is still theft (Score 0) 587

by nmrtian (#27575901) Attached to: Obama Taps a 5th Lawyer From the RIAA
Valid point but one that I didn't address. I too hate to see business too strongly involved in government -- their interest is not that of the people. As a Canadian, I was happy to see the end of W but on our political spectrum Obama is still a conservative and his actions just confirm that.

Comment Theft is still theft (Score 0, Troll) 587

by nmrtian (#27574053) Attached to: Obama Taps a 5th Lawyer From the RIAA
The current that runs through almost of the postings and comments on Slashdot is that music, once released, is in the public commons. It isn't. It never has been. Musicians are losing a lot of money because copyright is ignored and most need that money desperately. Grow up people. Pay for your entertainment and stop whining!
United States

Submission + - Cancellation of Future Combat Systems possible (nextgov.com)

Submitted by suitablegirl
suitablegirl writes: As the Pentagon's internal budget negotiations begin to wind down, the future looks bleak for the Army's Future Combat Systems, the service's ambitious $160 billion modernization effort that is widely expected to become a casualty of the FY10 budget. Defense Secretary Gates is weighing everything from dramatically scaling back FCS ground vehicles to canceling the program, according to several sources closely tracking the budget negotiations. He has said he will withhold making any final decisions until the end of the internal budget process. Senior Army officials are fighting to save the program — the most expensive and far-reaching technological endeavor in the service's history — from the kinds of large-scale cuts that would force the service to rewrite its modernization plans. But whatever the outcome of the budget negotiations, FCS appears likely to emerge a drastically different program than the one envisioned by the Army — a system of unmanned aircraft, eight manned ground vehicles, unmanned vehicles and sensors linked by an intricate wireless network.
Security

Submission + - Massive threat to instant messaging unveiled

Submitted by SecurityConcious
SecurityConcious writes: Security researchers reported on the bugtraq security mailing list that they have found a way to exploit instant messaging applications by encoding shellcodes into smileys. "This would make massive attacks against instant messaging applications impossible to catch by anti-virus, IDS or similar signature based technologies. Moreover, it is possible to conduct attacks with plausible deniability." they said. They are urging chat network operators to disable smileys to mitigate the threat. Is this the end of friendly IM ?
Space

Submission + - Unknown Substance on Saturn's Moons Identified (spacefellowship.com)

Submitted by
Matt_dk
Matt_dk writes: "For more than 30 years, scientists have been observing an unknown substance on the dark surfaces of objects far beyond the Earth in the outer solar system. After analyzing images from the Cassini spacecraft, scientists are able to finally verify the unknown substance seen on the deep red surfaces of Saturn's moons Iapetus, Phoebe, and Hyperion. "The surface material of these outer objects was always a mystery," said Dale Cruikshank, a space scientist at NASA Ames Research Center."

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