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+ - Engine data reveals that Flight 370 flew on for hours after it "disappeared".->

Submitted by Advocatus Diaboli
Advocatus Diaboli writes ""Aviation investigators and national security officials believe the plane flew for a total of five hours based on data automatically downloaded and sent to the ground from the Boeing Co. 777's engines as part of a routine maintenance and monitoring program."

"As part of its maintenance agreements, Malaysia Airlines transmits its engine data live to Rolls-Royce for analysis. The system compiles data from inside the 777's two Trent 800 engines and transmits snapshots of performance, as well as the altitude and speed of the jet. Those snippets are compiled and transmitted in 30-minute increments, said one person familiar with the system.""
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+ - Office 365 "On Demand" gone?-> 2

Submitted by jbarr
jbarr writes "Back in December, I paid for an Office 365 Home Premium subscription. One of the selling features (which is still being advertised as a feature) is the Office On Demand feature. You open a Web browser, login to your Office 365 account, and click on an "On Demand application (like Word, Excel, Access, outlook, etc.) and it launches a "streamed" instance of the application. It's like a Remote Desktop or Citrix session that provides access to a full version of each Office application from any Internet-connected Windows 7 and Windows 8.x box.

On Demand is not to be confused with their "Office Online" feature which are Web Apps of most Office applications (except Access and Publisher.) These versions are limited in function, whereas the On Demand versions were full, streamed instances of the application.

About a week or so ago, I signed in, and the ability to launch the On Demand applications was gone, effectively locking me out of an important feature that I paid for. I did a Google Search, and found several threads discussing this, yet no one seems to know what's going on. There is one kind soul who presented a workaround to launch Word and Excel On Demand which is great (thank you!) but to no fault of his, it doesn't address launching other On Demand applications.

I paid-for a feature that is still advertised, and it is now not available without notice. And there is no explanation. If servers are down, fine. Post a message stating it. If you are adding or changing features, then post a page stating it. But as it stands, all On Demand functionality has simply been stripped out with no explanation rendering my Access databases useless. Yes, I can locally install Access 2013 from my Office 365 Home Premium subscription, but that misses the point that a paid-for feature has been removed without explanation or compensation."
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+ - Facebook In Talks To Acquire Drone Maker Titan Aerospace-> 1

Submitted by garymortimer
garymortimer writes "Facebook, one of the primary backers of the Internet.org initiative, which aims to bring affordable Internet access to the 5 billion people in the world who still lack connectivity, is in talks with a company that could help further that agenda. TechCrunch is hearing that Facebook is buying Titan Aerospace, makers of near-orbital, solar-powered drones which can fly for five years without needing to land. According to a source with access to information about the deal, the price for this acquisition is $60 million"
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Comment: Re:OTR (Score 4, Insightful) 109

by stoborrobots (#46364275) Attached to: Tor Is Building an Anonymous Instant Messenger

That hides the content of your communication, but it still shows that you're communicating, and with whom. So the "metadata" that the NSA and/or FB are interested in is still available...

Ostensibly using TOR hides the fact that you're the one communicating, and who you're communicating with... (Whether that's still true in practice is another question...)

+ - Home Routers Pose Biggest Consumer Cybersecurity Threat->

Submitted by Nerval's Lobster
Nerval's Lobster writes "The remote-access management flaw that allowed TheMoon worm to thrive on Linksys routers is far from the only vulnerability in that particular brand of hardware, though it might be simpler to call all home-based wireless routers gaping holes of insecurity than to list all the flaws in those of just one vendor. An even longer list of Linksys (and Cisco and Netgear) routers were identified in January as having a backdoor built into the original versions of their firmware in 2005 and never taken out. Serious as those flaws are, they don’t compare to the list of vulnerabilities resulting from an impossibly complex mesh of sophisticated network services that make nearly every router aimed at homes or small offices an easy target for attack, according to network-security penetration- and testing services. For example, wireless routers (especially home routers owned by technically challenged consumers) are riddled with security holes stemming from design goals that emphasize usability over security, which often puts consumers at risk from malware or attacks on devices they don’t know how to monitor, but through which flow all their personal and financial information via links to online banking, entertainment, credit cards and even direct connections to their work networks, according to a condemnation of the Home Network Administration Protocol (HNAP) from Tenable Network Security. Meanwhile, a January 2013 study from Rapid7 found 40 million to 50 million network-enabled devices, including nearly all home routers, were vulnerable to exploits using UPnP. Is there any way to fix this target-rich environment?"
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Comment: UDP multitasking? (Score 1) 2

by stoborrobots (#46283233) Attached to: Company plans to beam free Wi-fi to every person on Earth

I think the author of that article is a bit confused... They mention "User Datagram Protocol (UDP) multitasking", and flicking through websites like you flick through TV channels.

I think they're planning to offer a multicast broadcast network with a limited selection of web and/or video channels, over unidirectional 802.11(abgn?) links.

I'm not sure how they plan to have the devices talk to the cubesats, though, the low-power transmitters in my phone and laptop certainly aren't reaching low-earth orbit any time soon...

Sounds like a pie-in-the-sky idea - and the majority of information appears to have come from a reddit discussion...

+ - Android vulnerability exploitable in the majority of devices->

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes "The EZ2Use attack code has been released which exploits a vulnerability that exists in Android versions prior to 4.2. Vulnerable versions are installed on the majority of Android devices and most do not have a path to a patched version. The malicious code is a drive-by malware attack which gives the attacker remote shell access to the phone's filesystem and camera.
This vulnerability and Google's inability to patch many of the vulnerable systems in use is more justification for Google's move to include new functionality in its proprietary GMS application platform where they can simply push out a patched binary that will run atop any Android version. Deprecating functionality in AOSP and re-implementing it in GMS will at least give Google a simple path to patch vulnerabilities like this."
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Comment: Re:From TFA (Score 1) 237

by stoborrobots (#46282457) Attached to: A New Car UI

... the desired control moves in place to always be at your fingertips

What I don't understand is, if it knows which control I desire, then why do I need to touch it?.

Also, HOW does it know which control I desire?

(For the record - I'm not a fan of voice-operated interfaces, I've seen too many distracting oddities to believe that people will continue to use them long-term.)

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