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by KDEnut (#39966611) Attached to: What do you usually do with old hardware?
Depends on the hardware.

Anything still decent I tend to turn over and donate to Goodwill or a school, usually with a linux distro running.
Obsolete mainboards, gpu's, cpus, psu's, etc I tend to put in the recycling center's electronics part.
All hard drives get fuzzed, and horded.
All Cables get horded. Period.
Science

Anti Wi-Fi Wallpaper To Go On Sale In 2013, Costs A Tad More Than Normal Ones->

Submitted by hypnosec
hypnosec writes "A new type of wallpaper, which has been developed by scientists from the "institut polytechnique Grenoble INP" and the "Centre Technique du Papier", will go on sale in 2013 after a Finnish firm, Ahlstrom acquired the license. What looks like a bog standard wallpaper roll actually contains silver particles that allows it to filter out up to three different frequencies simultaneously. It is not the first time that such a technology has surfaced. Back in 2004, BAE Systems was tasked by Ofcom to come up with a similar solution based on what was then called a stealth wallpaper. It used copper instead of silver and blocked Wi-Fi signals while letting GSM, 4G and emergency calls through. Back then though, a square meter cost £500 whereas the Wi-Fi wallpaper devised by the French researchers should be priced reasonably, with costs matching those of a "classic", mid-range wallpaper according to M. Lemaître-Auger, from Grenoble INP."
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Indian BMD shield ready-> 1

Submitted by darkstar019
darkstar019 writes "The ballistic missile defense shield system (at par with Patriot 3 system) has reached its operational readiness and is ready to be deployed in two cities. One wonders how much time it would take to respond to an actual chinese/pakistani threat given the IRBMs are only minutes away from destroying major cities.
The two level BMD still appears a few years away."
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Technology

Samsung unwraps latest Galaxy rival to iPhone->

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fishmike
fishmike writes "Samsung Electronics unveiled a new top-of-the-range Galaxy smartphone in London on Thursday, updating the most direct rival to Apple's iPhone with a larger touch screen and more powerful processor.

The South Korean technology group, which overtook Finnish company Nokia (NOK1V.HE) as the world's biggest cellphone maker earlier this year, said the new Galaxy SIII model would go on sale in some markets in late May and around the world from June."
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Linux

Server side "open" solutions can block Linux on the desktop->

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes "The blog entry shows how Linux based alternatives can serve to block Linux on the desktop, and in particular slow down LibreOffice and OpenOffice.org adoption through the mechanics of Microsoft's licensing strategy and argues Open Source Groupware should a) not focus on Outlook and b) work hand in hand with the Open Source Offices."
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Censorship

Anonymous attacks serious crime site in response to UK Pirate Bay ban->

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes "Looks like Operation Payback is alive and well in the UK as the website of the Serious and Organized Crime Agency remains offline more than 36 hours after being hit by a DDoS attack. Anonymous has yet to lay cliam to it, but with the courts ordering ISPs to block The Pirate Bay just days earlier, seems highly likely."
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Australia

Optus loses second battle in Aussie TV-timeshifting battle->

Submitted by beaverdownunder
beaverdownunder writes "After winning an initial legal battle to continue its mobile TV Now terrestrial-television re-broadcasting service, Optus has lost a second battle in Australian Federal court. The Optus system 'time-shifted' broadcast signals by two minutes, and then streamed them to customers' mobile phones.

In the previous ruling, the judge sided with Optus' argument that since the customer requested the service, they were the ones recording the signal, and thus was fair-use under Australian copyright law. However, the new ruling had declared Optus to be the true entity recording and re-distributing the broadcasts, and thus is in violation of the law.

There has been no word yet on whether Optus will appeal the decision, but as they could be retroactively liable for a great deal of damages, it is almost certain that they will."
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Any Hotmail account could be hacked by just sending a specific string-> 2

Submitted by fxbar
fxbar writes "Any hotmail account could be taken over by sending "+++)-" to the server. The problem is fixed now. Hackers sold accounts for 20$. Here more techinical detail: http://www.vulnerability-lab.com/get_content.php?id=529

The article speculates about rumors that "... there exists another critical vulnerability but it’s knowledge is limited to only the hackers who frequent the dark web."

Maybe this explains: http://idle.slashdot.org/story/12/04/25/2055225/microsofts-hotmail-challenge-backfires"
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Displays

MIT Researchers Invent 'Super Glass'-> 1

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redletterdave
redletterdave writes "On Thursday, researchers at MIT announced a breakthrough in glass-making technology, which basically involves a new way to create surface textures on glass to eliminate all of the drawbacks of glass, including unwanted reflections and glare. The research team wanted to build glass that could be adaptable to any environment: Their "multifunctional" glass is not only crystal clear, but it also causes water droplets to bounce right off its surface, "like tiny rubber balls." The glass is self-cleaning, anti-reflective, and superhydrophobic. The invention has countless applications, including TV screens, as well as smartphone and tablet displays that benefit from the self-cleaning ability of the glass by resisting moisture and contamination by sweat."
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