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Comment: What Will We Do? (Score 1) 802

by Zamphatta (#43746303) Attached to: Rice Professor Predicts Humans Out of Work In 30 Years
We'll make robots, of course. What other productive thing to do is there, in a society where robots do everything else. Of course, that's only until we make robots to make the robots, then we're in Matrix and Terminator territory. So at that point, then we're going to start defending ourselves and using Go (the game, not the programming lang) strategy against the Chess strategies of the robots.

Comment: Don't Be Too Quick To Pass It Off (Score 1) 621

by Zamphatta (#43638109) Attached to: Former FBI Agent: All Digital Communications Stored By US Gov't
Historically, whatever tech is in the public view, there's usually much more advanced stuff that's classified. Considering the U.S. government has been pounding the anti-terrorism drums for a dozen years now, it's not beyond reason to think they've developed some incredible stuff we have no clue about. Years ago, they already had a lot of this capability. There's also Duqu/Stuxnet, which the public only found out about after it was active for a few years. So I'm sure they've found enough storage space, perhaps even using companies like Facebook & Google to help them keep it. The real question is, what's their reaction time? How quickly is the gov't capable of responding to what's being said digitally. There's a ton of data every day, but it doesn't matter if you can cache it all if it'd still take you a couple days to detect what you need/want to find in it and react to it.

Comment: Re:Seems like..... (Score 3, Informative) 110

by Zamphatta (#43437135) Attached to: Wordpress Sites Under Wide-Scale Brute Force Attack
And it's another reason to temporarily lock out an account from logging in, if there's too many wrong guesses at the password in a very short period of time. There might be a Wordpress plug-in for something like that, but I don't think it's in Wordpress's core, and it really should be in the core of any web system. It adds tons of security all by itself.
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Google Pledges Not To Sue Any Open Source Projects Using Their Patents 153

Posted by Unknown Lamer
from the now-and-forever dept.
sfcrazy writes "Google has announced the Open Patent Non-Assertion (OPN) Pledge. In the pledge Google says that they will not sue any user, distributor, or developer of Open Source software on specified patents, unless first attacked. Under this pledge, Google is starting off with 10 patents relating to MapReduce, a computing model for processing large data sets first developed at Google. Google says that over time they intend to expand the set of Google's patents covered by the pledge to other technologies." This is in addition to the Open Invention Network, and their general work toward reforming the patent system. The patents covered in the OPN will be free to use in Free/Open Source software for the life of the patent, even if Google should transfer ownership to another party. Read the text of the pledge. It appears that interaction with non-copyleft licenses (MIT/BSD/Apache) is a bit weird: if you create a non-free fork it appears you are no longer covered under the pledge.
Science

+ - Bees Communicate with Electric Fields->

Submitted by sciencehabit
sciencehabit writes "The electric fields that build up on honey bees as they fly, flutter their wings, or rub body parts together may allow the insects to talk to each other, a new study suggests. Tests show that the electric fields, which can be quite strong, deflect the bees' antennae, which, in turn, provide signals to the brain through specialized organs at their bases. Antenna deflections induced by an electrically charged honey bee wing are about 10 times the size of those that would be caused by airflow from the wing fluttering at the same distance—a sign that electrical fields could be an important signal."
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Cellphones

+ - North Korea Halts Internet Access After One Month->

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redletterdave
redletterdave writes "After just one month online, North Korea has pulled the plug on its only 3G data network, which was previously made available for tourists to access the Internet starting on Feb. 22. The North Korean government did not explain why its 3G network has been shut off, but given the raised level of international interest in the country’s activities (the country is facing UN sanctions after its third nuclear test last month) and how it severed its final communication line with South Korea on Wednesday, the government likely had a change of heart about its loosening communication restrictions. That said, as with most things in North Korea, we may never know the real answer."
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+ - Cold Spring Linked to Dramatic Sea Ice Loss-> 1

Submitted by hrvatska
hrvatska writes "An article at wunderground.com reports that researchers have linked large snowstorms and cold spring weather across Britain and large parts of Europe and North America to the dramatic loss of Arctic sea ice. It is thought that the Arctic ice loss adds heat to the ocean and atmosphere, which shifts the position of the jet stream allowing cold air from the Arctic to plunge much further south. Researchers expect that a warming Arctic ocean will drive more extreme weather in North America and Europe."
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Canada

+ - Warrants required for text messages->

Submitted by Beardo the Bearded
Beardo the Bearded writes "The Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) has ruled that your text messages cannot be seized without a wiretap order.

FTA: "The decision overturns a lower court ruling against Telus that required the company to hand over copies of two of its customers' text messages after it was served with a general warrant by police in Owen Sound, Ontario.

Telus had appealed the ruling. The phone provider argued that seizing the messages would constitute "interception" of the communication and would therefore require a wiretap warrant. That is more difficult to get than a general warrant, because of special privacy provisions in the Criminal Code protecting private communications.""
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+ - GCHQ attempts to downplay amazing plaintext password blunder->

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iComp
iComp writes "Red-faced crypto and intercept intelligence agency GCHQ has admitted emailing plain text password reminders to people who register on its careers micro-site.

The issue came to light after prospective job applicant Dan Farrall blogged about his experience of receiving a plain text reminder of his GCHQ recruitment site password by email after filling out its forgotten password form. Farrall only got round to blogging about the issue this week, two months after the offending email.

Incredibly the signals intelligence agency had done nothing in the weeks in-between to address such well understood security bad practice on its careers site.

Website passwords should be stored by organisations only as encrypted and salted hashes. And password reminders shouldn't be sent in unencrypted emails. Instead it's far better to apply a password reset procedure. Password retrieval isn't even possible where login credentials are stored only as encrypted and salted hashes, so it's evident that in this case they weren't."
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