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Network Solutions Under Large Scale DDoS Attack->

Submitted by netizen
netizen writes "CircleID is reporting a large scale DDoS attack affecting all of Network Solutions name servers for the past 48 hours potentially affecting millions of websites and emails around the world hosting their domain names on the company's servers. NANOG mailing list indicates that it is due to a very large-scale UDP/53 DDoS which Network Solutions has also confirmed: "[t]here is a spike in DNS query volumes that is causing latency for the delay in web sites resolving. This is a result of a DDOS attack. We are taking measures to mitigate the attack and speed up queries.""
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Announcements

ASSP Wiki Host Takes Ball, Goes Home

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kimvette
kimvette writes "The site administrator for the ASSP SMTP gateway has taken the ball and gone home. On top of that he has removed the site from the Internet Wayback Machine and has forbidden anyone from reposting the content, citing that he authored it all and no one else contributed.

However, he clearly benefited from the ASSP developers' efforts at some point, and I presume like you and I he did not pay the developers for the code. How can he justify removing the official documentation for an open source project and forbid anyone else from using it? Granted, the documentation was not open source, but his actions strikes me as hypocritical (In the thread I used a more choice term)."
Transportation

Scientists Teleport Matter More Than Three Feet->

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erickhill
erickhill writes "While it feels odd to be promoting a scientific report coming from Fox News, the fact is Gene Roddenberry even sat up (in his grave) and took notice of this:

"Scientists have come a bit closer to achieving the "Star Trek" feat of teleportation. No one is galaxy-hopping, or even beaming people around, but for the first time, information has been teleported between two separate atoms across a distance of a meter — about a yard."

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Security

SPAM: Hacker wins court review

Submitted by JobsEnding
JobsEnding writes "A British court ruled on Friday that a man who hacked into US military computers will be giving permission for a judicial review against his extradition to the United States. Hacker Gary McKinnon, 42, who had been diagnosed recently with Asperger's syndrome, a form of autism, has admitted hacking into the military computers. His lawyers had said McKinnon was at risk of suicide if he were extradited."

Comment: Re:cynicism (Score 1) 431

by Klootzak (#26570641) Attached to: Trojan Hides In Pirated Copies of Apple iWork '09

Is that cynical?

Actually, it's called Critical or Analytical thinking...

Cynicism is a negative perception of something that doesn't neccessairily involve evaluation of the topic in the larger context, something like:
"There is no good left in the world, people will never change, and I might as well become evil too!".
^^^^That's some pretty bad cynicism (or pessimism) though, hopefully most people don't ever get that cynical ;).

Operating Systems

Linux's role in Microsoft's decline-> 1

Submitted by nerdyH
nerdyH writes "As early as last quarter, Microsoft admitted that Linux and netbooks were eating into its fat profits. Today, it came home, with the software giant announcing its first-ever layoffs. LinuxDevices interviewed Linux Foundation Director Jim Zemlin on Linux's role in Microsoft's misfortunes. Zemlin sums it up pretty well: "Companies can offer their own branded software platform based on Linux. If Microsoft is getting 75 percent margins, you would like some of that high-margin business, too.""
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The Almighty Buck

Russia develops National Operating System

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Elektroschock
Elektroschock writes "According to Russian media the Government is going to develop a National Operating System to lower its dependencies on foreign software technology licensing. The Russian plan will base its efforts on Linux and expects a worldwide impact. Microsoft is also involved in the round table process that led to the recommendation. The Chinese government successfully lowered its Microsoft licensing costs through an early investment in a national Linux distribution. I wonder if other large markets as the European Union will also develop their own Linux distributions or join the Russian initiative."
The Courts

RIAA Threatens Harvard Law Prof with Sanctions->

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NewYorkCountryLawyer
NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "Unhappy with Harvard Law Professor Charles Nesson's motion to compel the deposition of the RIAA's head 'Enforcer', Matthew J. Oppenheim, in SONY BMG Music v. Tenenbaum, the RIAA threatened the good professor with sanctions (PDF) if he declined to withdraw his motion. Then the next day they filed papers opposing the motion, and indeed asked the Court to award monetary sanctions under Rule 37 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure."
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Government

Obama Staff Struggles Against Old White House Tech

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TarrVetus
TarrVetus writes "The Washington Post reports that the Obama administration is having difficulties adjusting to the old technology of the White House. From jumbled cables, to outdated software, to security regulations, the first days have been difficult for the new, tech-savvy administration. "'It is kind of like going from an Xbox to an Atari,' Obama spokesman Bill Burton said of his new digs." Officials in the press office were prepared, though, with their own cellphones and permission to set up Gmail accounts for office use."
United States

SPAM: The government's top 10 trials and tribulations

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coondoggie
coondoggie writes "The US government certainly has its hands full, especially now with the new administration transitioning in. And the list of problems and hot spots continues to grow. Watchdogs at the Government Accounting Office periodically assess the Fed's most high-risk areas or areas that are prone to fraud, waste, abuse, and mismanagement that can directly impact all of us. On the GAO hit list which was sent to the 111th Congress this week are all manner of issues from repairing the nation's cyber infrastructure and keeping taxpayer information private to how to effectively move the IRS and financial regulatory systems into the future. Interestingly one of the GAO's oft-targeted ventures, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Air Traffic Control modernization has been dropped from the high risk list. While the list currently includes some 31 areas that the GAO says are riskiest, for our purposes we'll focus on 10. [spam URL stripped]"
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