Comment: Re:I noticed this already some time ago. (Score 1) 98
You typoed your url.
You have detect_range.html which is actually detect-range.html
Space X's Falcon 9 appears as UFO in Australia-> 1
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RobHart writes "ABC (the Australian Broadcasting Commission) has reported extensively on a bright spiraling light that was seen in Eastern Australia just before dawn. They have just broadcast a report from an Australian astronomer who has suggested that the light was probably the successful Falcon 9 launch, which would have been over Australia at that time on its launch trajectory."
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Comment: Well (Score 1) 1
I would hope that everyone guilty in this scheme sees prison time as just giving the money back and saying sorry isn't going to cut it.
Otherwise they should afford this choice to bank robbers that get caught.
Otherwise they should afford this choice to bank robbers that get caught.
Open Source wins important court battle->
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groov3 writes "According to a Quebec Superior Court judge, a local government agency acted illegally, in 2008, when it bought Microsoft's Vista and Office 2007 without going through a call for tenders. This ruling could force governments worldwide to consider Open Source alternatives before committing to MS products. Judgment here (in French): http://blogs.savoirfairelinux.net/cyrilleberaud/KMBT35020100602152155.pdf
- Jean-Hugues Roy, CBC reporter"
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- Jean-Hugues Roy, CBC reporter"
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'No Safe Harbor' From Record-Tying Patch Tuesday->
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CWmike writes "Microsoft says it will deliver 10 security updates next week to patch a record-tying 34 vulnerabilities in Windows, Internet Explorer, Office and SharePoint. The patches will also quash two bugs that Microsoft acknowledged in February and April. 'I'd actually call this a moderate month,' said Andrew Storms, director of security operations at nCircle Security. 'Looking at the criticality of the bulletins, and the fact that the number [of bulletins] is low, it doesn't look like a huge month to me.' By the numbers, however, next week's updates will be huge. All six updates affecting Windows will impact Microsoft's newest operating system, Windows 7. And with one exception — Windows 2000 and Windows XP will not need Bulletin 9 — all currently-supported versions of Windows will require all the patches. 'There's no safe harbor this month,' said Storms."
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NASA Mars rover spies rare red planet rocks->
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coondoggie writes "NASA’s now hibernating Mars rover Spirit spotted rocks scientists say could offer key clues to whether or not life ever did or still does exist on the red planet. The weird thing for NASA is that the outcrop was examined by Spirit in 2005, but the data pointing to the discovery languished since then because one of the instruments that detected the carbonate minerals was partly blinded by dust, the space agency stated."
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SEC charges Diebold with fraud-> 1
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An anonymous reader writes "Yesterday the SEC charged Diebold, Inc. and three former execs with accounting fraud spanning most of the last decade. The CEO was not formally charged, but agreed to reimburse the company for certain compensation granted during the time frame of the fraud."
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FTC wants to tax electronics support the news->
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dptalia writes "The FTC is concerned about the death of the "news." Specifically newspapers. Rather than look to how old media models can be adapted to the internet, they instead suggest taxing consumer electronics to support a huge newspaper bailout. Additionally, they suggest making facts "proprietary" and allowing news organizations to copyright them."
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Can Ubuntu Save Online Banking? 462
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from the make-that-virus-throw-an-error dept.
from the make-that-virus-throw-an-error dept.
CWmike writes with a pointer to this ComputerWorld mention of an interesting application of Live CDs, courtesy of Florida-based regional bank CNL: "Recognizing that most consumers don't want to buy a separate computer for online banking, CNL is seriously considering making available free Ubuntu bootable 'live CD' discs in its branches and by mail. The discs would boot up Linux, run Firefox and be configured to go directly to CNL's Web site. 'Everything you need to do will be sandboxed within that CD,' [CNL CIO Jay McLaughlin] says. That should protect customers from increasingly common drive-by downloads and other vectors for malicious code that may infect and lurk on PCs, waiting to steal the user account names, passwords and challenge questions normally required to access online banking." (But what if someone slips in a stack of doctored disks?)
Venezuela's Last Opposition TV Owner Arrested 433
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from the or-in-this-case-on-air dept.
from the or-in-this-case-on-air dept.
WrongSizeGlass writes "AP is reporting the owner of Venezuela's only remaining TV channel that takes a critical line against President Hugo Chavez was arrested Thursday. 'Guillermo Zuloaga, owner of Globovision, was arrested on a warrant for remarks that were deemed "offensive" to the president,' Attorney General Luisa Ortega said. This comes on the heels of last week's story titled Venezuela's Chavez To Limit Internet Freedom."