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Submission + - First Look: Oracle NoSQL Database (infoworld.com)

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snydeq
snydeq writes: "InfoWorld's Peter Wayner takes a first look at Oracle NoSQL Database, the company's take on the distributed key-value data store for the enterprise. 'There are dozens of small ways in which the tool is more thorough and sophisticated than the simpler NoSQL projects. You get a number of different options for increasing the durability in the face of a node crash or trading that durability for speed,' Wayner writes. 'Oracle NoSQL might not offer the heady fun and "just build it" experimentation of many of the pure open source NoSQL projects, but that's not really its role. Oracle borrowed the best ideas from these groups and built something that will deliver good performance to the sweet spot of the enterprise market.'"
Chrome

Submission + - Microsoft Security Essentials Detects Chrome as ZB (google.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: I updated my definition files for Microsoft Security Essentials this morning and it detected PWS:Win32/ZBot. I told MSE to remove the malware and then found that Chrome no longer worked. MSE is detecting Chrome.exe as ZBot. I haven't seen confirmation yet on whether this is just a mistake, Chrome is truly infected, or if a conspiracy is afoot.

Submission + - MapReduce vs RDBMS for scalable data processing

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: I work for a small company that does vehicle tracking using rfid. All of the rfid data is sent to our servers where it is processed and we generate useful reports for our users. The company is growing and we are starting to get more and more data and as a result, our data processing engine is having trouble keeping up with the load. Currently all of the data is stored in a mysql database instance. I have identified some areas in the engine where we could make things more efficient but as we get more data, we will need to implement a solution that can scale. If you had to implement a scalable data processing solution, would you choose a MapReduce type solution, e.g. a Hadoop cluster or use an RDBMS, e.g. Oracle with parallel queries? Is there a point at which the dataset warrants a MapReduce approach vs a traditional RDBMS approach? If you chose an RDBMS approach what RDBMS would you use? What are the tradeoffs between the two approaches?

Submission + - How should Slashdot grow and mature? 8

Submitted by tloh
tloh writes: With the recent resignation of Rob "CmdrTaco" Malta from Slashdot, this community has reached a milestone of sorts. For those who've been paying attention, changes are indeed creeping through. For example, many more story submissions that make it to the front page are billed as by "first time submitters". Is what's to come and where we are headed going to be more cosmetic or more fundamental? Where do *you*, fellow Slashdoters want to go? This is your chance to tell those receiving the baton how to evolve this community to meet the needs of the future.
Games

Submission + - Linux 3D games run faster on PC-BSD (phoronix.com)

Submitted by koinu
koinu writes: Phoronix has published benchmarks comparing 3D games on Ubuntu Linux 11.04 and the FreeBSD Linux ABI emulation on the 8.2 release of PC-BSD, which is a desktop variant of FreeBSD. Most results show that the emulated Linux layer on FreeBSD performs better than Linux natively. It is pretty interesting, because most people would expect that an additional abstraction layer would generally slow down the execution of binaries.

Submission + - Cryptic codes in Oslo-terrorist manifest (no.net)

Submitted by repvik
repvik writes: The 1500 page manifest of terrorist that killed 77 people in Oslo and on Utøya two weeks ago, contains a series of seemingly encrypted URLs. There are 46 of them, and the initial part of the URLs appear to be GPS coordinates. An effort to analyze the codes have been launched.
Technology

Submission + - Scientist Creates 3D Scanner App for iPhone (physorg.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: A research scientist at Georgia Tech has created a 3D scanner app for the iPhone which uses the phone's screen as a light source to quickly capture digital 3D models of faces and other objects. The app, called Trimensional, can output directly to a 3D printer to make physical copies of objects, which a few people have already tried. An Android version is in the works.
GNOME

Submission + - ALS sufferer used legs to contribute last patch (gnome.org) 1

Submitted by
krkhan
krkhan writes: "This is a little old but seeing as it didn't make it to /. at the time I think it deserves a headline now. Adrian Hands was suffering from ALS and had lost motor skills when he used his legs to type in Morse code and fix a 9 year old bug in Gnome. The patch was submitted three days before he passed away."
Google

Submission + - Google ditches algorithm for human autocompleters (networkworld.com)

Submitted by
jbrodkin
jbrodkin writes: "Google is ditching its sophisticated autocompletion algorithms for a team of humans who can type 32,000 words per minute — and they're hiring more. Sitting in front of his computer, one Google autocompleter says "This is my console. Letters come in up here from users — anonymized of course — and I try to make a prediction as to what they're searching for and I type it as quickly as I can. This year Google is going to hire more people than ever before and people think you need to be some Ph.D, computer science, techno-mathmagician, but that's not always the case. Sometimes we just need people who can type really fast. And who are also psychic.""
Open Source

Submission + - Death of a Community

Submitted by storycrafter
storycrafter writes: Well, it's official. The OpenSolaris communities official governing body has adopted a resolution and collectively resigned, returning control of the community official back to Oracle. A follow up to an earlier Slashdot story, this officially puts the toe-tag on the corpse. It's now up to the spork of Illumos to rise from the soon to be cremated body's ashes.
Open Source

Submission + - Nmap Developers release a picture of the Web (nmap.org)

Submitted by iago-vL
iago-vL writes: The Nmap Project recently posted an awesome visualization of the top million site icons (favicons) on the Web, sized by relative popularity of sites. Once again proving that they're the kings of scanning, this project used the Nmap Scripting Engine, which is capable of performing discovery, vulnerability detection, and anything else you can imagine with lightning speed. We saw last month how an Nmap developer downloaded 170 million Facebook names, and this month it's a million favicons. I wonder what they're going to do next?

Submission + - Retrieving a stolen laptop by IP address alone? 1

Submitted by CorporalKlinger
CorporalKlinger writes: My vehicle was recently burglarized while parked in a university parking lot in a midwestern state. My new Dell laptop was stolen from the car, along with several other items. I have no idea who might have done this, and the police say that without any idea of a suspect, the best they can do is enter the serial number from my laptop in a national stolen goods database in case it is ever pawned or recovered in another investigation. I had Thunderbird set up on the laptop, configured to check my Gmail through IMAP. Luckily, Gmail logs and displays the last 6 or 7 IP addresses that have logged into your account. I immediately stopped using that email account, cleared it out, and left the password unchanged — creating my own honeypot in case the criminal loaded Thunderbird on my laptop. Last week, Gmail reported 4 accesses from the same IP address in a state just to the east of mine via IMAP. I know that this must be the criminal who took my property, since I've disabled IMAP access to the account on all of my own computers. The municipal police say they can't intervene in the case since university police have jurisdiction over crimes that take place on their land. The university police department — about 10 officers and 2 detectives — don't even know what an IP address is. I even contacted the local FBI office and they said they're "not interested" in the case despite it now crossing state lines. Am I chasing my own tail here? How can I get someone to pay attention to the fact that all the police need to do is file some RIAA-style paperwork to find the name associated with this IP address and knock on the right door to nab a criminal and recover my property? How can I get my laptop back — and more importantly — stop this criminal in his tracks?

Submission + - ICANN approves XXX top-level domain (networkworld.com)

Submitted by netbuzz
netbuzz writes: After years of wrangling on the proposal, ICANN today has officially decided that pornography will have its own top-level domain, .XXX. ICM Registry, the company that proposed the domain, welcomed the vote with a statement. "It's been a long time coming," deadpanned its chairman, adding that he is "excited" by the move. Uh, right.
It's funny. Laugh.

Submission + - How xmms.org got sold to a cyber squatter. (wordpress.com)

Submitted by trundstrom
trundstrom writes: In my blog I detailed what happened to xmms.org the last couple of weeks. It's a pretty funny story that also means that you shouldn't trust any binaries that comes from this site in the future.

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