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Comment: Language (Score 3, Interesting) 99

by bezking on Monday April 18 2011, @08:02AM (#35854558) Attached to: Wind Power Firm Sees No Evidence of Hack

If you look at the screenshots he posted (example) you'll see that some of the screens were in the German language or a derivative thereof. Why would a New Mexican power plant have its systems in German!?

4chan has been DDOSed 0

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 28 2010, @06:38AM

An anonymous reader writes "According to the 4chan status page all of the 4chan boards have been DDOSed and are down. How ironic."

Why Most Published Research Findings Are False-> 1

Submitted by sridharo on Tuesday December 28 2010, @05:20AM

sridharo writes "A critical essay on the accuracy and the dependencies of researches and their methodologies. The author delves into the reasons for most of the researches focus on false findings.
"It can be proven that most claimed research findings are false""
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Context hacking? Subverting subversion-> 0

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 27 2010, @04:30PM

An anonymous reader writes "An amazing lecture performance by Johannes Grenzfurthner (member of nerd art group monochrom) that was presented at TEDxVienna in November 2010. Johannes talks about "context hacking", a specific form of guerrilla communication, and tells stories about political resistance, blood sausages and non-existing artists. Amazing stuff, and (especially in times of WikiLeaks) a very important topic. Is it still possible to subvert? Or are we all stuck in an endless cycle of revolt and assimilation?"
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WikiLeaks moves to Swiss domain after DNS takedown 0

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 03 2010, @06:43AM

An anonymous reader writes "Netcraft posted two reports on the movement of the WikiLeaks website today. First the site was taken down by EveryDNS, who terminated the DNS provision for wikileaks.org. A few hours later, WikiLeaks moved to a Swiss domain (wikileaks.ch). Netcraft suggests this move could be because the wikileaks.org domain was registered with a US company, which could be influenced by the US government. The new wikileaks.ch site is hosted in Sweden, but redirects all of its traffic to France. Strangely, WikiLeaks has chosen to use EveryDNS again for their new domain — the same company that shut down DNS for wikileaks.org just a few hours earlier."

Mr. Pike, Tear Down This ASCII Wall! 2

Submitted by theodp on Sunday October 31 2010, @01:13AM

theodp writes "To move forward with programming languages, argues Poul-Henning Kamp, we need to break free from the tyranny of ASCII. While Kamp admires programming language designers like the Father-of-Go Rob Pike, he simply can't forgive Pike for 'trying to cram an expressive syntax into the straitjacket of the 95 glyphs of ASCII when Unicode has been the new black for most of the past decade.' Kamp adds: 'For some reason computer people are so conservative that we still find it more uncompromisingly important for our source code to be compatible with a Teletype ASR-33 terminal and its 1963-vintage ASCII table than it is for us to be able to express our intentions clearly.' So, should the new Hello World look more like this?"

Facebook buys a private file sharing service-> 0

Submitted by Entrpy on Sunday October 31 2010, @01:10AM

Entrpy writes "Drop.io, a private file sharing service that focused on ease of use, announces that Facebook has purchased most of their technology and assets. What is Facebook planning to do with it? Only time will tell."
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'Apocalypse Zombies' a possibility says scientist-> 0

Submitted by Terrence Aym on Sunday October 31 2010, @12:19AM

Terrence Aym writes "A virulent rabies-influenza viral hybrid could lead to masses of infected victims turning into veritable zombies. The hapless former humans would exhibit all the classic features of the horror movies: the would become lumbering, mindless monsters with murderous tendencies and the ability to transform others into shuffling zombies with merely a bite. This gruesome possibility is discussed (quite calmly) by Samita Andreansky, a virologist at Florida's University of Miami's Miller School of Medicine. Andreansky is one of the guests interviewed on the National Geographic special documentary "The Truth About Zombies" that aired during October 2010."
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Snoop Dogg Joins the War On Cybercrime 164

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday September 01 2010, @05:22PM
from the scanning-fo-shizzle dept.

wiredmikey writes "Think you can bust out some silly fresh rhymes on the subjects of hacking, identity theft and computer viruses? In a somewhat untraditional partnership, Snoop Dogg and Symantec's Norton want you to show off your their lyrical skills on the subject of cybercrime and enter the 'Hack is Wack' cybercrime rap contest. If you have the skills and bust out the phattest rap, you'll receive round trip airfare for two to Los Angeles along with two days and two nights' hotel stay to meet with Snoop's management, learn more about his business. You'll also get two tickets to a Snoop Dogg concert and a new laptop pimped out with Norton Internet Security 2011."

Comment: Coolness factor (Score 2, Interesting) 368

by bezking on Tuesday April 06 2010, @03:48PM (#31753774) Attached to: Ham Radio Still Growing In the iStuff Age

Let's not forget about how darn cool a ham transceiver on your belt will make you look... Anybody who would rather carry an iPhone instead of one of these obviously does not care about being cool.