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Particle Smasher Hints at Physics Breakthrough-> 0

Submitted by sciencehabit on Thursday November 17, @03:26PM

sciencehabit writes "The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) may have made its first crack in modern physics. Physicists there have detected a charge-parity (CP) violation at least eight times as high as the standard model (the accepted theory of elementary particles) allows. If this disparity turns out to be real, it might help explain an enduring mystery of the universe: why there's lots of normal matter, but hardly any of the opposite—antimatter. In other words, why there is still "stuff" in the universe."
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Windows 8 Secure Boot Defeated-> 1

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jhigh

on Thursday November 17, @11:41AM

jhigh writes "An Austrian security researcher will release the first "bootkit" for Windows 8 at MalCon in Mumbai. This exploit loads in the MBR and stays memory resident until Windows loads, resulting in root access to the system. This allegedly defeats the new secure boot features in Windows 8's bootloader."
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Court overturns Mass law banning recording of cops-> 1

Submitted by schwit1 on Friday August 26, @08:19PM

schwit1 writes "In its ruling, which lets Simon Glik continue his lawsuit, the US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit in Boston said the wiretapping statute under which Glik was arrested and the seizure of his phone violated his First and Fourth Amendment rights."
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IRS Nails CPA For Copying Steve Jobs, Google Execs 509

Posted by Soulskill on Sunday January 23 2011, @05:10AM
from the money-for-somethin' dept.

theodp writes "It seems $1 salaries are only for super-wealthy tech execs. The WSJ reports that CPA David Watson incurred the wrath of the IRS by only paying himself $24,000 a year and declaring the rest of his take profit. It's a common tax-cutting maneuver that most computer consultants working through an S Corporation have probably considered. Unlike profit distributions, all salary is subject to a 2.9% Medicare tax and the first $106,800 is subject to a 12.4% Social Security tax (FICA). By reducing his salary, Watson didn't save any income taxes on the $379k in profit distributions he received in 2002 and 2003, but he did save nearly $20,000 in payroll taxes for the two years, the IRS argued, pegging Watson's true pay at $91,044 for each year. Judge Robert W. Pratt agreed that Watson's salary was too low, ruling that the CPA owed the extra tax plus interest and penalties. So why, you ask, don't members of the much-ballyhooed $1 Executive club like Steve Jobs, Larry Ellison, Sergey Brin, Larry Page, and Eric Schmidt get in hot water for their low-ball salaries? After all, how inequitable would it be if billionaires working full-time didn't have to kick in more than 15 cents into the Medicare and Social Security kitty? Sorry kids, the rich are different, and the New Global Elite have much better tax advisors than you!"

Sony Files Lawsuit Against PS3 Hacker GeoHot 508

Posted by timothy on Wednesday January 12 2011, @07:59AM
from the poor-sportsmanship dept.

Kayot writes "George Hotz, or, as he is known on the internet, GeoHot, has been served court papers. Shorty after Team fail0verflow discovered faults in the PS3's TPMs, Geohot and others figured out how to extract the long sought after holy grail encryption keys. Apparently Sony is not pleased and is very keen on defending their poorly defended system with the US legal system. The basis is that GeoHot released programs that allow the signing of homebrew which can be used to make PSN-like games out of normal PS3 games. However GeoHot has never supported any form of piracy and in fact has taken a constant stance against it."

Comment: Seqillya Voting Systems has detected... (Score 1) 2

by go_jesse on Monday August 30 2010, @05:17PM (#33420674) Attached to: Election Observer Claims E-Voting Felony In AZ

A new voting system software version (9.9.9) is available for the "Sequoia Voting System." Would you like to download and install it now?

SVS will validate the software update with Sequoia.

[Yes] [No]

Election Observer Claims E-Voting Felony In AZ-> 2

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 25 2010, @02:57PM

An anonymous reader writes "Jim Marsh, while observing the process by which mail-in votes are counted in Maricopa County, Arizona, says that he spotted a clear felony, in that an employee from Sequoia Voting Systems, had hooked up his internet connected laptop directly to the central tabulator machine via an ethernet cord. As Marsh notes: "By law, the central tabulator system on what's supposed to be an isolated local network is completely unpatched — it's not allowed to be modified in any way since the day it shipped in 2006 or 2007. Even if the Sequoia tech didn't cross-connect the cellmodem to the Ethernet (and both appeared to be live), he could have easily "pwned" the "secure" systems with any number of ancient script-kiddy exploits.""
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iPhone Jailbreak Uses a PDF Display Vulnerability 289

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday August 03 2010, @05:11PM
from the get-out-of-jail-free dept.

adeelarshad82 writes "Latest reports indicate that the website that 'jailbreaks' iPhones, iPads, and iPod Touches does so by means of a PDF-based vulnerability in OS X. PDF parsing and rendering is a core feature of OS X, and there have been several other vulnerabilities in the past in iOS CoreGraphics PDF components." As Gruber points out, the proper term for this is not "jailbreak," but "remote code exploit in the wild."

Liberal Watchdog Questions White House Gmail Use 283

Posted by timothy on Wednesday June 30 2010, @01:32PM
from the it-cannot-be-it-must-not-be dept.

MexiCali59 writes "Liberal watchdog CREW has joined Republican Congressman Darrell Issa in calling for an investigation into whether White House staffers regularly use private email accounts to communicate with lobbyists. The allegations, first reported last week by the New York Times, would likely constitute a violation of federal law as well as an ethics pledge created by Obama upon taking office last year."

SketchUp 7.1 Architectural Visualization 62

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday June 23 2010, @12:00PM
from the read-all-about-it dept.

dango0 writes "SketchUp 7.1 for Architectural Visualization – Beginner's Guide is a detailed guide that will figuratively take you by the hand and teach you how to make stunning photorealistic and artistic visuals of your projects with free software and free resources that you can find all over the Internet." Read on for the rest of Dan's review.