Comment Re:SLOW FUCKING JAVASCRIPT (Score 1) 230
It's the comment control box(the one with "X Full, Y Abbreviated, Z hidden")
Click on the little arrow on the right, it sticks itself up somewhere, and the pages scroll fast again.
Comment Re:raise your hand... (Score 1) 210
two hands for "life's self-assembly".
OP: not all people at slashdot are biologists, you know that right?
Comment Re:front page? really? or any page? it's 2009! (Score 1) 481
Obviously, Captain Obvious contracted some people, he says the job is slow nowadays.
Comment Re:How is this news? (Score 5, Insightful) 525
Vista's security chain works as designed and intended, preventing from you to inject an untrusted bootloader into the bootstrap. Isn't that what we -want- from our security systems? This isnt' a case of "Microsoft" holding our data hostage, this is a case of our own security policies WORKING.
If I were to be running Linux, with equivalent protection, I'd be right pissed if it could be trivially rootkitted/bypassed by swapping in a malicious bootloader.
If the attacker can install a bootloader, that means you were rooted and your precious data can be grabbed from the memory of the program that happens to be using it.
If the bootloader is installed while the OS is not running, that means you do not have adequate physical security.
Submission + - Boeing, USAF launch supersonic bomb firing tech. (networkworld.com)
coondoggie writes: "Boeing and the US Air Force today said they have tested new technology that for the first time will let military aircraft launch bombs from aircraft moving at supersonic speeds. Researchers from Boeing Phantom Works and the Air Force Research Laboratory used a rocket sled in combination with what researchers called "active flow control" to successfully release a smart bomb known as MK-82 Joint Direct Attack Munition Standard Test Vehicle (JDAM) at a speed of about Mach 2 from a weapons bay with a size approximating that of the U.S. Air Force B-1 bomber, Boeing said. Active flow control is a tandem array of microjets upstream of the weapons bay that, when fired reduces the unsteady pressures inside the bay and modifies the flow outside to ensure the JDAM munition travels out of the bay correctly.
http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/22363"
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