Comment: PuTTY (Score 4, Funny) 236
Is there ANYTHING a telnet/SSH client CAN'T do? :p
Comment: Re:Before the inevitable... (Score 1) 402
I was raised in a county in northern Sweden with just over 3000 inhabitants. The closest city with 50k+ people is 160km away. It's basically just forest, lakes, scattered villages and a small central town with about 1500 people. In town you can get cheap cable up to 30Mbit or fiber up to 100Mbit and in the villages ADSL up to 24Mbit. So no, it's not even about local population density.
Italian team successfully demonstrates Cold Fusion->
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Xemu writes "Today, an italian team of researchers from the University of Bologna has demonstrated Cold Fusion together with a peer-reviewed paper. The demonstration was made using a kilowatt cold fusion reactor using nickel and hydrogen that can produce up to 10 kilowatts. There's only one catch: They refuse to show how the blue box works, citing patent concerns. What does our esteemed slashdot readership say, has the dream come reality, or is this a scam? Hard facts welcome."
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Bank of America Cuts Off Wikileaks Transactions-> 1
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Chaonici writes "The first actual bank to do so, Bank of America has decided that it will follow in the footsteps of PayPal, MasterCard, and Visa, and halt all its transactions that it believes are intended for WikiLeaks, including donations in support of the organization. 'This decision,' says the bank, 'is based upon our reasonable belief that WikiLeaks may be engaged in activities that are, among other things, inconsistent with our internal policies for processing payments.' Coincidentally, in a 2009 interview with Forbes magazine, Julian Assange stated that he was in possession of the hard drive of a Bank of America executive, and that he planned to release information about a major bank early next year."
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Numerous HTTP polluted web sites exist out there->
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An anonymous reader writes "From a recent research it seems that numerous web applications are vulnerable to a new type of flaw called HTTP parameter pollution (HPP). The authors of the research designed an unique tool that permits to scan web sites for this class of problems. In fact, it seems that about 30% of 5,000 high-profile well-known web sites are bugged and an attacker can carry out different attacks that may vary from a simple annoyance to a complete corruption of the application’s behavior. Now the system is online and web developers should think to use it to verify that their code is safe."
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U.S. to Host World Press Freedom Day in 2011->
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rekrowyalp writes "The United States is pleased to announce that it will host UNESCO’s World Press Freedom Day event in 2011. The United States places technology and innovation at the forefront of its diplomatic and development efforts. New media has empowered citizens around the world to report on their circumstances, express opinions on world events, and exchange information in environments sometimes hostile to such exercises of individuals’ right to freedom of expression. At the same time, we are concerned about the determination of some governments to censor and silence individuals, and to restrict the free flow of information.
Oh the ironing."
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Oh the ironing."
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Comment: Re:Why do leftists call themselves mainstream? (Score 2) 385
Does it make you happy and delighted that your enemies feel they must speak anonymously?
What saddens ME is that some regard people of a different political persuation "enemies". Extreme political polarization, fed by talking-head whackos, makes people totally lose grip on reality and regard every single thought from the other side as wrong/facist/treasonous/whatever, even if they themselves held that position before.
Comment: Re:TMI (Score 1) 586
First of all, as I'm writing this 667 out of 251,287 cables, or 0.27% of the total, have been released thus far. So we have a LONG time to go before we can summarize the leak and see "if it was worth it". They're doing the slow release so each piece is noticed, which I think is rather smart.
Second, I can't speak for all of the 667 released cables as I haven't had the time or patience to go through them, but one revealed the fact that CIA were still ferrying subjects of their "extraordinary renditions" over Sweden in 2006 without telling the Swedish government about it. The flights were tagged as private instead of official and was only discovered when the swedish secret service, dressed as flight staff, got into the plane and exposed them. This, of course, caused a serious diplomatic spat between Sweden and the US. Crimes against us poor swedes: 1, your argument that nothing has been found: 0.
I could be really mean and say one instance (concerning Sweden - again, I haven't had time to go through all the news from other countries) in 0,27% of the documents would indicate around 376 crimes against my country in the full batch, but that would be seriously absusing statistics.
Hopefully the remaining 250,620 documents will be as interesting as this first little teaser.
Wikileaks site hit with a DDoS before doc release->
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kaptink writes "Wikileaks is reported to be in the midst of a DDoS by unknown purpotrators prior to its scheduled release of secret documents. “We are currently under a mass distributed denial of service attack,” the whistleblowing website tweeted to its 200,000-plus followers. The site did not say or hazard a guess as to who was responsible for orchestrating the reported attack."
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Wikileaks is under cyber attack....
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Brad1138 writes "The whistleblower website WikiLeaks is under cyber attack, but even if it goes down, a new cache of leaked U.S. diplomatic cables will still be published Sunday night, it said via Twitter Sunday.The announcements come shortly after the United States warned WikiLeaks editor-in-chief Julian Assange that publishing the papers would be illegal and endanger peoples' lives. Would the US Government openly sponsor an attack like this? Wikileaks is down as of this submission."