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Comment: Re:Why? (Score 2) 381

by Ardipithecus (#38089342) Attached to: Boeing Delivers Massive Ordnance Penetrator

a little nit-picking,

1. If we look back to WWII the then reasonable (but incorrect) threat that the Nazis were working on a nuke led to the Manhattan project and our own bombs, not to being scared into submission. The "implied threat of being nuked by Israel" and considering the Iraq/Libya vs NKorea scenarios, should lead to working on a bomb, not 24/7 but 32/7. And it doesn't have to be a really good one, dirty bombs that contaminate Israeli or oil assets should be good enough for MAD.

2. Concrete = cement + aggregate + rebar + water, all of which can be produced in any semi-industrialized country, including Iran. "Concrete is cheap", construction saying.

Comment: Good for the Goose Good for the Gander Dept (Score 1) 395

by Ardipithecus (#36862844) Attached to: Online Call To Shoot President Ruled Free Speech

Obligatory joke: "What do you call a lawyer with an IQ of 50?" "Your Honor."

With minor paraphrasing:

Judge Stephen Reinhardt 'will have a 50 cal in the head soon' and a call to 'shoot the [shyster slur]' aren't violations of the law... because the statute doesn't criminalize 'predictions or exhortations to others to injure or kill [a judge]'

Would the learned judge find some way to make some crime stick?

Power

Scientists Discover Solar Powered Hornets-> 2

Submitted by adeelarshad82
adeelarshad82 writes "The oriental hornet is more active during the day, and tends to become even more active as the temperature rises. And now scientists have discovered the reason: the hornets are solar powered. It turns out that the distinctive yellow stripe on the hornet's abdomen is actually full of tiny protrusions that gather sunlight and harness it for energy. The insect also features a special pigment, called xanthopterin, that helps with the process."
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Mozilla

Mozilla Disables WebSockets Support Over Security->

Submitted by Trailrunner7
Trailrunner7 writes "Officials at Mozilla have decided to disable support for Web Sockets in future versions of Firefox because of concerns over the security of the the current version of the protocol.The group said that demonstrations of serious attacks against WebSockets have spurred the move. Mozilla said that they plan to keep the WebSockets code in the Firefox 4 development tree, which is in beta right now, so that they have the ability to enable it again if the security concerns are cleared up in the future.

"We’ve decided to disable support for WebSockets in Firefox 4, starting with beta 8 due to a protocol-level security issue. Beta 7 included support for the -76 version of the protocol, the same version that’s included with Chrome and Safari," Mozilla's Christopher Blizzard wrote in a blog post explaining the decision. "Adam Barth recently demonstrated some serious attacks against the protocol that could be used by an attacker to poison caches that sit in between the browser and the Internet. Once we have a version of the protocol that we feel is secure and stable, we will include it in a release of Firefox, even a minor update release. The code will remain in the tree to facilitate development, but will only be activated when a developer sets a hidden preference in Firefox.""
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Movies

Netflix signs deal with Disney, more TV and Movies->

Submitted by tekgoblin
tekgoblin writes "Netflix announced today that they have brokered a deal with Disney-ABC to add their content to the Netflix library. The deal should add a substantial number of new TV shows and Movies to instant watch. The episodes will be added rather quickly to instant watch only 15 days after initial telecast. Here is a list of the new additions to Netflix:

                * Prior season episodes of current ABC hit series "Grey's Anatomy," "Desperate Housewives" and, for the first time on Netflix, "Brothers & Sisters," all of which are among the network's most successful and popular TV franchises in recent years.
                * Every episode of recent ABC favorites "Lost" and "Ugly Betty," the latter making its streaming debut at Netflix.
                * Each season of several hit series from ABC Studios, including "Scrubs" and "Reaper," which are both new additions to Netflix.
                * A host of content from the Disney Channel, including the hits "Phineas and Ferb" and "Good Luck Charlie," which are also new to Netflix; updated and expanded offerings of "The Suite Life on Deck" and "Wizards of Waverly Place;" and library offerings from the smash hits "Hannah Montana" and "The Suite Life of Zack & Cody."
                * A wide range of content from ABC Family, marking the introduction of ABC Family content streaming from Netflix. Included are the hit series "Greek," "Make It or Break It," "The Secret Life of the American Teenager" and "Melissa & Joey.""
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Security

WikiLeaks's Founder Praised By Pentagon Papers Guy->

Submitted by CWmike
CWmike writes "Daniel Ellsberg, the man responsible for outing the now famous Pentagon Papers in 1971, and a group of ex-intelligence officers have thrown their weight behind WikiLeaks and its founder, Julian Assange, saying the current attempt to label WikiLeaks' leaks as trivial compared to the Pentagon Papers is wrong. In a statement, Ellsberg and associates said comparisons saying the Pentagon Papers were good while WikiLeaks' material is bad is, 'just a cover for people who don't want to admit that they oppose any and all exposure of even the most misguided, secretive foreign policy. The truth is that EVERY attack now made on WikiLeaks and Assange was made against me and the release of the Pentagon Papers at the time.' On his own blog, Ellsberg said he would no longer use Amazon.com due to its 'cowardice and servility in abruptly terminating its hosting of the WikiLeaks website, in the face of threats from Senator Joe Lieberman and other Congressional right-wingers.'"
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HP

Palm Boss Talks WebOS Tablet And Smartphones->

Submitted by jhernik
jhernik writes "The HP executive in charge of the Palm division is hoping to impress next year with the new WebOS tablet and new smartphones

The head of Hewlett-Packard’s Palm division, Jon Rubinstein, offered the audience at the San Francisco D:Dive Into Mobile a glimpse into the inner workings behind the HP and Palm brands and its future roadmaps.

Rubinstein – the CEO of Palm before it was purchased by HP this summer, and the man who spearheaded the company’s Palm Pre and WebOS efforts – did confirm that the Palm tablet running a version WebOS will come to market in 2011, but the industry has been expecting such a device for some time now.

Since being acquired by HP, the only new product to emerge has been the Palm Pre 2 – a smartphone that, while running an updated version of the well-liked WebOS platform, aroused little excitement from consumers, as it didn’t seem to depart very much (in appearance, anyway) from the original Pre or Pre Plus."
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The Internet

Fix To Chinese Internet Traffic Hijack Due In Jan. 92

Posted by CmdrTaco
from the route-around-it dept.
alphadogg writes "Policymakers disagree about whether the recent Chinese hijacking of Internet traffic was malicious or accidental, but there's no question about the underlying cause of this incident: the lack of built-in security in the Internet's main routing protocol. Network engineers have been talking about this weakness in the Internet infrastructure for a decade. Now a fix is finally on the way."
Security

MasterCard Hit By WikiLeaks Payback Attacks 715

Posted by CmdrTaco
from the this-is-getting-messy dept.
An anonymous reader writes "MasterCard's website has been hit by a distributed denial of service attack. Netcraft describes how the attack uses a voluntary botnet of LOIC (low orbit ion cannon) users to swamp sites with traffic. PostFinance, the PayPal blog and Swedish prosecutors have been targeted previously."
Government

China's Influence Widens Nobel Peace Prize Boycott 360

Posted by timothy
from the friends-of-un-friends dept.
c0lo writes "Not only did China decline to attend the upcoming Nobel peace prize ceremony, but urged diplomats in Oslo to stay away from the event warning of 'consequences' if they go. Possibly as a result of this (or on their own decisions), 18 other countries turned down the invitation: Pakistan, Iran, Sudan, Russia, Kazakhstan, Colombia, Tunisia, Saudi Arabia, Serbia, Iraq, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Venezuela, the Philippines, Egypt, Ukraine, Cuba and Morocco. Reuters seems to think the 'consequences' are of an economic nature, pointing out that half of the countries with economies that gained global influence during recent times are boycotting the ceremony (with Brazil and India still attending)."

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