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Submitted by CWmike on Friday June 27, @05:06PM
CWmike writes "Turkish hackers have defaced the official sites of the international organizations that oversee the Internet's critical routing infrastructure and regulate domain names, researchers said today. A group calling itself "NetDevilz" claimed responsibility for the hack, which Thursday morning temporarily redirected visitors to the sites for IANA (Internet Assigned Numbers Authority) and ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers)to an illegitimate site, said researchers at zone-h.org, which provides a screen grab of the defacement: "You think that you control the domains but you don't! Everybody knows wrong. We control the domains including ICANN! Don't you believe us?" Perhaps not coincidental to the defacement, ICANN was in the news yesterday for voting to relax the rules in assigning and managing generic top-level domains, a move that would allow unique domain endings such as .ebay or .microsoft."
http://computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9104298
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  Idle: Spread Your Ashes on the Moon 2008-03-28 13:17

Posted by samzenpus on Friday March 28, @01:17PM
Celestis Inc., has pioneered the sending of cremated remains into suborbital space on rockets and now it wants to start a service that would send your ashes to the surface of the moon. The new service starts at $10,000 for a small amount of ashes from one person and could begin as early as next year. The Company currently offers a service that will spread your ashes on the sound stage where the original moon landing was shot for $100.
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  Savage 2 Released For Linux 2008-03-28 00:13

Submitted by on Friday March 28, @12:13AM
An anonymous reader writes "S2 Games has released a native linux client for their latest title, Savage 2 — A Tortured Soul. The client is available in both 32 and 64 bit builds as a free download with unlimited LAN play and a 5 hour trial for online play. You can download it here."
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  Why Linux has trouble with ACPI? Microsoft! 2008-03-27 15:55 bitbangerok

Submitted by bitbangerok on Thursday March 27, @03:55PM
bitbangerok writes "Microsoft Conspiracy or Bug?

Could this be another monopoly violation?

Most of the problems with installing Linux has to do with APCI in the BIOS. Windows always works, why does Linux not? Microsoft is at the heart of the problem. While I was trying to install Linux Mint on my new Compaq Presario F700, I traced some of my problems to the BIOS, nothing new here. But I finally found a concise, technical explanation of why! This web page: HOWTO Fix Common ACPI Problems says:

"The ACPI Specification defines the requirements for the DSDT (and everything else, for that matter) pretty explicitly. Intel's ASL compiler, iasl, used to compile the DSDT to AML from ASL, will throw errors and warnings if the underlying ASL is buggy. Unfortunately, Microsoft's ASL compiler allows many of these errors and warnings to sneak by. As a result, many OEMs write buggy DSDTs, and it turns out that Windows is very forgiving of bugs in the DSDT that get by Microsoft's compiler (not surprisingly).

What this means is that a DSDT that does not conform to the ACPI specification will work under Windows, even though it shouldn't. However, when you try to use it in Linux, where the ACPI developers expect that the DSDT is written to comply with the standard (and the Intel ASL compiler), the buggy sections of the DSDT are unsupported. If you have a buggy DSDT, ACPI may not be aware that certain devices exist. Or, if it is aware, it may not support all of their capabilities. If you have either of these symptoms (missing or incompletely supported functionality in /proc/acpi), then the cause may be a buggy DSDT."
  • ACPI — Advanced Configuration Power Interface
  • DSDT — Differentiated System Description Table
  • ASL — ACPI Source Language
  • AML — ACPI Machine Language
I am wondering if this is not a symptom of a common computer problem that I have seen. With only one implementation in use, two bugs can cancel each other out. OEM's need to stop using M$ complier and start using Intel's, and make M$ fix windows."
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  TorrentSpy shuts down[->] 2008-03-27 14:49 Ian Lamont

Submitted by Ian Lamont on Thursday March 27, @02:49PM
Ian Lamont writes "Legal costs have apparently prompted TorrentSpy's operators to shut it down. The BitTorrent search engine has been fighting the entertainment industry in court for years, and in December lost a copyright infringement case with the MPAA. A note on the TorrentSpy home page said it is shutting down "not due to any court order or agreement," but because of a team decision:

Ultimately the Court demanded actions that in our view were inconsistent with our privacy policy, traditional court rules, and International law; therefore, we now feel compelled to provide the ultimate method of privacy protection for our users — permanent shutdown.

It was a wild ride,

The TorrentSpy Team
"
http://www.thestandard.com/news/2008/03/27/beleaguered-bittorrent-search-engine-shuts-down
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  Technology: Comcast Makes Nice with BitTorrent 2008-03-27 11:24

Posted by Zonk on Thursday March 27, @11:24AM
from the friendly-dogs-and-cats dept.
An anonymous reader writes "In a dramatic turn-around of relations, cable provider Comcast and BitTorrent are now working together. The deal comes as BitTorrent tries to put its reputation for illegal filesharing behind it. The companies are in talks to collaborate on ways to run BitTorrent's technology more smoothly on Comcast's broadband network. Comcast is actually entertaining the idea of using BitTorrent to transport video files more effectively over its own network in the future, said Tony Warner, Comcast's chief technology officer. '"We are thrilled with this," Ashwin Navin, cofounder and president of BitTorrent, said of the agreement. BitTorrent traffic will be treated the same as that from YouTube Inc., Google Inc. or other Internet companies, he said. It was important that Comcast agreed to expand Internet capacity, because broadband in the United States is falling behind other areas of the world, Navin said. Referring to the clashes with Comcast, he said: "We are not happy about the companies' being in the limelight."'"
Submitted by antikaos on Wednesday March 26, @02:50PM
antikaos writes "New York Times reports "In the experiments, six degus stood behind a fence with gaps wide enough to let their forelegs pass through but not their mouths. A rake-like tool was placed within easy reach. The animals had to grasp the rake and pull seeds in close enough to eat." http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/26/science/26rodentw.html?_r=1&ref=science&oref=slogin"
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/26/science/26rodentw.html?_r=1&ref=science&oref=slogin
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  Cell Phones to be Allowed on Planes 2008-03-26 14:28 Matty the Monkey

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 26, @02:28PM
The use of mobiles on planes flying in European airspace has been given approval by UK regulator Ofcom. It has issued plans that will allow airlines to offer mobile services on UK-registered aircraft. The decision means that mobiles could be used once a plane has reached an altitude of 3,000m or more. But airlines keen to offer the services must still satisfy other regulators about how the hardware will be used. From http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7314362.stm
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  Linux v. Windows Security, Part Deux 2008-03-26 14:23 Richard Ford

Submitted by Richard Ford on Wednesday March 26, @02:23PM
Richard Ford writes "A few years ago, Herbert Thompson (see: http://www.peoplesecurity.com/) and I gave a presentation at RSA in San Francisco regarding a study of the relative security of Windows and Linux (see http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/02/17/1616232&from=rss for the last discussion here). I'm giving a similar talk this year with Jeff Jones (Wednesday April 9th, session HT2-202), of Microsoft (see: http://blogs.technet.com/security/). Once again, I'm trying to represent the Linux side of things. As a few Slashdotters wanted to tar and feather me last time, I thought it might be interesting to try and gather the very best comments here *before* the talk and I'll do my best to represent them on a slide or two at RSA. I'll be around all this week and next, and will try to respond to every single point made. Once we're done, I'll put the best arguments I can together on a "Slashdot" slide :) So, here's my question to the community: what are the best arguments regarding the relative security of Windows in comparison to Linux? Is the question even meaningful? If you were going to speak on the difference between Windows and Linux from a security perspective, what would you say?"
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From feed by cnetfeed on Wednesday March 26, @02:12PM

Featured links from the CNET Blog Network

Windows XP vs. Vista vs. Linux--Change is in the air for operating systems

Welcome to the club: FriendFeed launches their API--The social aggregator, FriendFeed, has released their own API for developers to create third party applications for the service.

Add virtual desktops to Windows XP and Vista--The free Virtual Dimension program lets you switch easily between virtual environments in XP, and Vista Virtual Desktop does the same for the new version of Windows.

OSBC Report: Microsoft attempts to cross the chasm to open source--Microsoft has made great strides, but it's nowhere near done.


http://www.cnet.com/8301-13554_1-9903324-33.html?tag=rsspr.6235673&part=rss&subj=news
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From feed by sdfeed on Wednesday March 26, @01:13PM
If you see something, it's because you're looking at it, right? A recent study has established that while people do tend to notice objects within their gaze, it is the assumptions they make about their environment that affects their perceptions. People are biased towards believing that they were looking directly at what they have seen.


http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/~3/258395182/080325135038.htm
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  Rodents use tools 2008-03-26 13:05

Journal by antikaos on Wednesday March 26, @01:05PM
For those of you that thought primates were the only ones with tools in their hands, New York Times reports that http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/26/science/26rodentw.html?_r=1&ref=science&oref=slogin/ rodents can be taught to use tools "In the experiments, six degus stood behind a fence with gaps wide enough to let their forelegs pass through but not their mouths. A rake-like tool was placed within easy reach. The animals had to grasp the rake and pull seeds in close enough to eat."
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  Idle: House Ransacked Thanks to Craigslist Hoax 2008-03-26 12:16

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday March 26, @12:16PM
A Craigslist hoax has left Robert Salisbury with an empty house and a lot of anger. The Craigslist ad said the owner of a Jacksonville home was forced to leave the area suddenly and his belongings, including a horse, were free. After receiving a call from a woman who was about to take his horse, Robert returned home to find close to 30 people armed with printouts of the ad, rummaging through his barn and front porch. "They honestly thought that because it appeared on the Internet it was true, it boggles the mind", Salisbury said. Although many of his things have been returned already, Robert is selling plans for a water engine online to help recoup some of what he is out.
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From feed by engfeed on Wednesday March 26, @11:33AM

Filed under: Laptops

Word on the street is that ASUS has joined the fray and released an SDK for its Eee line. According to the folks over at Eee Site, the Xandros-based software package is available for download as a 1.2GB disk image. Of course, since the mini-laptop's Linux-based OS is... well, Linux, it doesn't really seem like an SDK would be necessary. Could it be that the company is just jumping on the development bandwagon, which has gone from obscure hacker-geek territory to front page Apple news? Perhaps, but it's still nice to see developers getting some attention for once. Hit the read link to get your downloads -- and apps -- started.

[Via Eee Site]

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http://feeds.engadget.com/~r/weblogsinc/engadget/~3/258368764/
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  Computers may thwart 2010 census 2008-03-26 11:32 smooth wombat

Submitted by smooth wombat on Wednesday March 26, @11:32AM
With the Constitutionally mandated census of 2010 just around the corner, it appears the Commerce Department's attempt to use handheld computers to gather census information may not come to fruition. Originally, the contract was awarded at a cost of $596 million to Harris Corporation. However, the GAO has now estimated the revised contract, now costing $647 million, could grow to $2 billion and the equipment may still not work properly. There is consideration that the paper and pencil method might have to be employed to complete the census.

Harris Corp. spokesman Marc Raimondi has acknowledged the difficulties of the system but indicated, "After you spend about 30 minutes to an hour familiarizing yourself with it, it's as easy to use as a modern cell phone."
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