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Learn Linux the Hard Way 185

An anonymous reader writes "Here is a free interactive beta of Learn Linux The Hard Way; a web-based virtual Linux environment which introduces the command line and other essential Linux concepts in 30 exercises. It's written in the style of Zed A. Shaw's Learn Code the Hard Way lessons. The authors says, 'You will encounter many detailed tables containing lists of many fields. You may think you do not need most of this information, but what I am trying to do here is to teach you the right way to approach all this scary data. And this right way is to interpret this data as mathematical formulas, where every single symbol has its meaning.' Of course, my first entry was rm -rf /* which only produced a stream of errors. I wish I had discovered something like a long time ago."
Botnet

Submission + - Sality Botnet Mapped Entire IPv4 Address Space without Raising Alarms (paritynews.com)

hypnosec writes: A little known botnet – Sality, in a search for vulnerable VoIP (Voice over IP) servers has probably managed to map the entire IPv4 address space without raising alarms it has been claimed. Researchers over at University of California and the University of Napoli in Italy have revealed in their research paper [PDF] that the Sality botnet, scans for vulnerable VoIP targets and that too using a technique called “reverse-byte order scanning.” In this particular method of scanning the choice of IP addresses progresses in reverse-byte order increments which not only results in a low number of packets per day, out of all the IP addresses, which the researchers monitored using UCSD Network Telescope, a million IPs actually dropped out of the scanning activity after transmitting only one probe.

Submission + - CEO Threatens to Law Off Employees if Obama Wins (gawker.com)

digitrev writes: From Gawker: "Huge mansion. Huge fortune. Profitable company. What could David Siegal have to complain about? Well, the demonization of the 1% by Barack Obama, for one thing. This truly amazing email went out to all Westgate employees yesterday."

Comment Re:distributed operations- hand count details (Score 1) 500

I think that for my first federal election, I had to wait in line outside, but that's only because it was done in a relatively unused office, and hence there was very little internal space. My other elections have since typically been at school gymnasiums, with much more space for queuing inside.

Comment Re:10x the population (Score 1) 500

To be fair, the person swearing has to prove that they live in the same polling division as you. This person must have ID, and it specifically states that 1. "This person can only vouch for one person", and 2. "the person who is vouched for cannot vouch for another elector". This way you avoid one guy claiming he knows the whole block, and you also avoid a string of people being vouched for, and then vouching for others.

So while it should be easy to find a neighbour who knows you, if you're the kind of person who avoids ID, there's a decent chance that the people who know you also avoid ID.
Piracy

Reject ACTA, European Parliament Trade Committee Recommends 24

Qedward writes "The European Parliament's trade committee, INTA, voted on Thursday not to postpone a crucial parliamentary vote on the controversial Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement. The committee also decided, by 19 votes to 12, to recommend to the Parliament that the trade deal be rejected. INTA is the lead committee examining the international agreement, and its recommendation will carry weight with the rest of the Parliament. The Parliamentary plenary vote on the treaty is now scheduled for July 3."

Comment Re:Investigated under Canadian law? (Score 3, Insightful) 84

What he means to say is that the procedures used to do those things will follow Canadian law. So instead of following the American rules for evidence gathering, Canadian laws will apply. This is presumably to make sure that the investigators aren't constantly second guessing if something is admissible or not because they're using an unfamiliar set of rules.

Comment Re:Study does not support conclusion in summary (Score 1) 405

The melody is the simplest part of the song. Consider your country`s national anthem. Unless you're from Spain, it should have lyrics. Those lyrics are not the melody, but the pitch (high or low) and timing (long or short) that you sing along with is the melody. It is, roughly speaking, the part you hum or sing along with. Consider Twinkle Twinkle Little Star. The bit that you would recognize as that song is the melody. Basically, if one person can do it and still have it be recognized as that song (as opposed to another one), there's a pretty good chance it's the melody. Of course with more complicated music, the distinction between melody, counter-melody and accompaniment can be blurred a touch.

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