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Man Put On "No-Fly List" While In Air To NYC 300

Posted by samzenpus on Friday April 23 2010, @03:24PM
from the beware-the-list-refresh dept.

An unnamed man flying from Nigeria to New York City found out he was added to a no-fly list somewhere above the Atlantic Ocean, when the plane stopped to refuel in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Officials won't say what he did or why he was added to the list after he had already boarded a flight. He was not immediately charged with a crime and Customs and Border Protection will only say that he is a "potential person of interest." From the article: "The man, a citizen of Gambia, was not on the no-fly list when he boarded the aircraft in Dakar, Senegal, said a US official who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss the issue publicly."

Comment: Re:The Vista drivers work fine (Score 4, Informative) 279

by PatJensen on Friday January 01 2010, @11:00PM (#30618974) Attached to: Apple Fails To Deliver On Windows 7 Boot Camp Promise

This is not true. I also installed Windows 7 off of TechNet at launch, but a lot of stuff is broken. You will not get external audio jack support with Windows 7 OEM drivers on iMac 2009 machines. You will also not get internal microphone or mixer support with Windows 7 OEM drivers on iMac 2009 machines. If you intend on using any Voice over IP applications, Cisco IP Communicator, Ventrilo, Microsoft OCS - install Vista. And, updated sound drivers will not fix your problem. The Intel chipset drivers that ship native to boot camp are what are needed to map the mixer. Windows 7 driver support on iMac's are a sorry state of affairs.

Comment: Start with the WAN (Score 1) 438

by PatJensen on Wednesday June 10 2009, @06:42PM (#28286581) Attached to: How To Manage Hundreds of Thousands of Documents?

Take a look at network-based WAN acceleration products that will significantly reduce the overhead of SMB/CIFS traffic. This will make it easier to index, cache frequently used documents locally and improve your WAN utilization company wide. It will even cache directory lookups and they will "feel" instant to the end user.

A good example is Cisco WAAS, a cool video showing how it works is here: http://www.cisco.com/cdc_content_elements/flash/ans/index.html

See here for data sheets and specs: http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps5680/Products_Sub_Category_Home.html

Cisco's solution is inexpensive and you can use your existing router investment to do all the heavy lifting.

Pat

Comment: Re:Firefox isn't helping (Score 4, Interesting) 392

by LnxAddct on Wednesday October 08 2008, @01:04AM (#25296071) Attached to: Google's Obfuscated TCP

What's wrong with the SSH approach? First time you see a cert, inform the user. If it changes in the future, freak the hell out. It works great for ssh and solved the whole key distribution problem. It's magnitudes better than the current situation in browsers.

Comment: Re:what about when speakeasy lies to you? (Score 1) 206

by PatJensen on Sunday September 21 2008, @11:50AM (#25093415) Attached to: Comcast Discloses Throttling Practices

That's too bad, I always wanted Speakeasy. They seemed like one of the few ISPs that had it together.

Google Earth Gets Star-Gazing Add On 142

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Wednesday August 22 2007, @08:34AM
from the lots-of-dots dept.

Tom F writes to mention BBC News is reporting that Google has released a new add on for Google Earth that will allow users to search a 3D rendition of over 1 million stars and 200 million galaxies called Google Sky. "Optional layers allow users to explore images from the Hubble Space Telescope as well as animations of lunar cycles. [...] Users can overlay the night sky with other information such as galaxies, constellations and detailed images from the Hubble Space Telescope. Imagery for the system came from six research institutions including the Digital Sky Survey Consortium, the Palomar Observatory in California and the United Kingdom Astronomy Technology Centre. "

48% of Americans Reject Evolution 1856

Posted by Zonk on Saturday March 31 2007, @04:32PM
from the we-need-just-a-touch-stronger-educational-standards- dept.

MSNBC has up an article discussing the results of a Newsweek poll on faith and religion among members of the US populace. Given the straightforward question, 'Is evolution well-supported by evidence and widely accepted within the scientific community?', some 48% of Americans said 'No'. Furthermore, 34% of college graduates said they accept the Biblical story of creation as fact. An alarmingly high number of individuals responded that they believe the earth is only 10,000 years old, and that a deity created our species in its present form at the start of that period.

Jeff Hawkins' Cortex Sim Platform Available 126

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday March 06 2007, @10:26PM
from the build-a-brain-at-home dept.

UnreasonableMan writes "Jeff Hawkins is best known for founding Palm Computing and Handspring, but for the last eighteen months he's been working on his third company, Numenta. In his 2005 book, On Intelligence, Hawkins laid out a theoretical framework describing how the neocortex processes sensory inputs and provides outputs back to the body. Numenta's goal is to build a software model of the human brain capable of face recognition, object identification, driving, and other tasks currently best undertaken by humans. For an overview see Hawkins' 2005 presentation at UC Berkeley. It includes a demonstration of an early version of the software that can recognize handwritten letters and distinguish between stick figure dogs and cats. White papers are available at Numenta's website. Numenta wisely decided to build a community of developers rather than trying to make everything proprietary. Yesterday they released the first version of their free development platform and the source code for their algorithms to anyone who wants to download it."

Stallman to step down as Emacs maintainer

Submitted by

davids-world.com

on Sunday March 04 2007, @05:00PM

davids-world.com writes "Richard Stallman is planning to step down as head maintainer of the GNU Emacs project. In an e-mail to fellow Emacs developers, he today asked for candidates to succeed him. RMS wrote the first extensible Emacs text editor in 1975 at MIT's AI Lab. Seen by many as the founder and chief advocate of the free software movement, Stallman has also been actively involved in Emacs' development. GNU Emacs 22, due soon, will be the first major release of the editor since 2001."

Vista cracked thanks to Microsoft

Submitted by

Torrentex

on Sunday March 04 2007, @12:49AM

Torrentex writes "Following hot on the heels of the "Brute Force Keygen" for Vista which ultimately proved to be a hoax, a piracy group called Pantheon has released a full Vista crack. This one has been tested by the community and works 100% of the time. It exploits activation functionality Microsoft intentionally built in for OEM system makers churning out thousands of PCs at a time who don't have time to activate each machine individually."