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NASA Decides No Fix Needed for Endeavor's Tiles 209

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Friday August 17 2007, @10:11AM
from the damn-the-tiles-full-speed-ahead dept.

bhmit1 writes "It looks like NASA is reporting that no repairs are needed for Endeavor. 'After meeting for five hours, mission managers opted Thursday night against any risky spacewalk repairs, after receiving the results of one final thermal test. The massive amount of data indicated Endeavor would suffer no serious structural damage during next week's re-entry. Their worry was not that Endeavor might be destroyed and its seven astronauts killed in a replay of the Columbia disaster — the gouge is too small to be catastrophic. They were concerned that the heat of re-entry could weaken the shuttle's aluminum frame at the damaged spot and result in lengthy post-flight repairs.'"

Ubuntu Servers Hacked 330

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday August 15 2007, @10:35AM
from the zomg-alert-the-media dept.

An anonymous reader noted that "Ubuntu had to shutdown 5 of 8 production servers that are sponsored by Canonical, when they started attacking other systems. Canonical blames the community, saying they were community hosted, and were poorly maintained. However, kernel upgrades couldn't be done because of poor backwards compatibility with the very hardware that Canonical had sponsored! While people point fingers at each other it is pretty clear that both sides are equally to blame, the community administrators for practicing bad security practices, such as using unencrypted FTP transfers with accounts, not properly maintaining the system. However Canonical should have been well aware of what they are hosting. The question remains, if any of the files distributed to users have been compromised. A major blow for Canonical though who are attempting to enter the business market with Ubuntu Server."

Comment: Re:Holy crap! People can see me? (Score 1) 109

by Mizled on Saturday July 21 2007, @05:52AM (#19936655) Attached to: Your Own Mini-Stalker

Way to contribute to the very same problem you are complaining of being treated with (prejudice and irrelevant facts being taken into account).

Someone mod this guy up. If I had mod points to give you...I would give you all of them because you just served the parent thread his ass on a silver platter.

I can't agree with you more. They also will give an 18 year old female cheaper insurance than an 18 year old male because studies show males are more likely to have wrecks and speed. Did they ever think that maybe guys drive more often than females? Think about this, when you go out with your girlfriend or wife...Who drives more often? That's what I thought.

iPhone Not Compatible With any Windows 64 bit-> 0

Submitted by

Mizled

on Saturday June 30 2007, @07:33PM

Mizled writes "After buying a new iPhone yesterday and bringing it home to sync and activate it, I found out that Windows 64 bit is NOT supported. I get the message "The software required for iPhone is not installed. Run the iTunes installer to remove iTunes, then install iTunes again." I do a bit of research on the Apple forums and I found out I'm not the only one. Neither XP 64bit nor Vista 64bit works with the iPhone. Luckily, I do have a Windows XP SP2 32bit version installed on a computer so I can activate and sync my new phone. Some iPhone users are left with no way to activate their phone and use it due to only having 64bit Windows. I called the Apple support line and one of the support representatives said I needed to DOWNGRADE my computer from a 64bit Operating System because Apple will NOT be supporting 64bit Windows on the iPhone. Why should I have to downgrade from 64bit? Why can't they get with the times and upgrade their software to work and function properly? This article on Engadget talks about it briefly. I even spoke with several AT&T employees yesterday who stated the iPhone would be supported on any XP SP2 or Vista editions. I also made a post about my concerns on the Apple iPhone discussion forums which was then removed."
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iTunes tracks embed all your personal account info

Submitted by Jaknet on Friday June 01 2007, @06:55AM

Jaknet writes "The BBC http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6711215.stm today reported that the new DRM free music available from iTunes contains embedded within them the full name and account information, including e-mail address, of who bought them.

The BBC goes on to speculate... It suggested that this information could be an anti-piracy measure as it could help work out who was putting downloads on file-sharing sites. But it also added that the user information was found on all the tracks that people buy on iTunes whether free of DRM or not.

The BBC has contacted Apple seeking comment but so far the company has not responded.

Other websites said it was only a matter of time before a utility program was produced that which stripped out the identifying information. At this point it is not yet clear how deeply the user data is buried in the track or how easy it is to remove. Lets hope it's soon"

Mozilla patched six bugs

Submitted by

Kurtz'sKompund

on Friday June 01 2007, @06:43AM

Kurtz'sKompund writes "Mozilla has patched its flagship Firefox browser with fixes for six vulnerabilities, one of which was stamped"

Can forensics software detect Linux LiveCD usage?

Submitted by Scruffynerf on Friday June 01 2007, @06:42AM

Scruffynerf writes "Regarding the recent thread today on /. regarding forensics software, and with the advent of online document storage systems, such as private Yahoo or MSN groups etc (or even GMail's systems), I'm wondering if forensics software can detect the use of LiveCD's to access illegal content that exists online. I guess that i'm wondering if forensics tools could detect evidence of illegal actions from the following situation: Laptop with a native XP (or Vista (with bitlocker on)) installation. User uses a sufficiently developed LiveDVD or LiveCD (say, Knoppix/Whoppix/Helix or even Ubuntu Ultimate) to access content online piggybacking across unsecured, or minimally secured wireless networks. How would/could investigators firstly locate the malicious user, and secondly that he may have been doing illegal activities? cheers Scruffy"

Ubuntu Goes Ultraportable->

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 01 2007, @01:40AM

An anonymous reader writes "The growing number of ultraportable notebook computers has caused many people to reevaluate their choice of an operating system. These systems are small, lightweight, and generally have long battery lives, but their limited processing power presents a problem for newer operating systems and graphic-intensive applications. This article goes over the use of Ubuntu 7.04 in order to optimize the performance of Fujitsu's P7230 notebook. This notebook has a 10.6" LED-backlit LCD and is under 3 pounds, but uses a 1.2GHz Intel Core Solo U1400 processor that has some problems dealing with its stock operating system, Vista Business, especially during multitasking."
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MySpace Age Verification - for Parents 391

Posted by Zonk on Tuesday May 29 2007, @09:21AM
from the getting-the-collars-around-them-early dept.

unlametheweak writes "North Carolina is thinking of the children by passing a law requiring parents to verify they are parents before letting their children onto social networking sites. Notwithstanding the whole concept of an Internet ID for people in general; children are now being tracked by cellular phones with GPS, spied upon with Parent Controls (MS Vista has built-in parental spyware), and also strategically placed Nanny Cams, keyboard loggers, etc. 'Few of the proposals we've seen so far seem like good ways to [protect children], but North Carolina's approach at least has the virtue of novelty--unlike most video game legislation, which relies on similar rhetoric but has been almost universally struck down by the courts, sometimes at great cost to the states.' Is the zoo-like Minority Report world in which children are growing up in today doing more harm than good? How will this affect a 14 year old, much less a 17 year old "child"?"

Facebook Opens Pages to Outside Developers 76

Posted by CowboyNeal on Friday May 25 2007, @04:55AM
from the rolling-your-own dept.

prostoalex writes "Facebook is now allowing third-party developers to create pages within the site. Developers can use a combination of the Facebook API and a subset of HTML to create interactive pages accessible from within Facebook. Users retain complete control over which applications they want to have installed, and which applications they want to see on other people's profile. Developers can build on top of Facebook's social grid, and in case of a popular application gain distribution through Facebook newsfeed."