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Watch 200 Years of Global Growth In 4 Minutes 270

Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday December 14, 2010 @02:53PM from the statistics-are-fun dept.

kkleiner writes "A professor of international health in Sweden, Hans Rosling has a long history of exploring the facts and figures that surround our changing world. In the a segment of the BBC series, Rosling gives one of his most famous lectures with a new twist. Using 120,000+ bits of data and augmented reality, the exuberant professor takes us through the last 200 years of global history and its uneven growth of wealth and health." This is really worth watching. Seriously.

Stallman Worried About Chrome OS 393

Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday December 14, 2010 @01:30PM from the fear-the-cloud dept.

dkd903 noted that Stallman is speaking out about the risks of Chrome OS and giving up all your local data into the cloud, pushing people into "Careless Computing." Which is a much more urgent concern than something like calling it GNU/Chrome OS.

Michael Moore Posts Julian Assange's Bail 987

Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday December 14, 2010 @12:47PM from the right-is-right dept.

digitaldc quotes Michael Moore in a story running on the Huffington Post where he says "Yesterday, in the Westminster Magistrates Court in London, the lawyers for WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange presented to the judge a document from me stating that I have put up $20,000 of my own money to help bail Mr. Assange out of jail. Furthermore, I (Michael Moore) am publicly offering the assistance of my website, my servers, my domain names and anything else I can do to keep WikiLeaks alive and thriving as it continues its work to expose the crimes that were concocted in secret and carried out in our name and with our tax dollars."

Submission + - ChromeOS laptop-smashing ad equation solved

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 11, 2010 @06:36AM

An anonymous reader writes: Google's latest marketing video for Chrome OS is interesting to watch for the laptop-smashing amateurs or the slow motion fans, but the real fun may be at 2:24 in the video where a X=G/(CHROM-3) equation is displayed on a chalkboard. Only 20 hours later, it has already been cracked by Jamendo founder Sylvain Zimmer and his team. Check out the details on how they did it and won a Cr-48 netbook which probably won't be delivered because they are not in the U.S.

Researchers Develop Self-Healing Plastic 71

Posted by kdawson on Friday December 10, 2010 @04:14PM from the you're-terminated dept.

schliz writes "Arizona State researchers have been working on a 'self-healing' polymer that uses a fibre optic 'nervous system' to detect and fix cracks. The system recovers up to 96 percent of an object's original strength in laboratory tests. It could find use in 'large-scale composite structures for which human intervention would be difficult,' such as wind turbines, satellites, aircraft, or the Mars Rover."

Stuxnet Still Out of Control At Iran Nuclear Sites 361

Posted by timothy on Thursday December 09, 2010 @07:47PM from the wee-bit-of-a-disaster dept.

Velcroman1 writes "Iran's nuclear program is still in chaos despite its leaders' adamant claim that they have contained the computer worm that attacked their facilities, cybersecurity experts in the US and Europe say. Last week President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, after months of denials, admitted that the worm had penetrated Iran's nuclear sites, but he said it was detected and controlled. The second part of that claim, experts say, doesn't ring true. Owners of several security sites have discovered huge bumps in traffic from Iran, as the country tries to deal with Stuxnet. 'Our traffic from Iran has really spiked,' said a corporate officer who asked that neither he nor his company be named. 'Iran now represents 14.9 percent of total traffic, surpassing the United States with a total of 12.1 percent.'"

OpenLeaks — 'A New WikiLeaks' 538

Posted by timothy on Thursday December 09, 2010 @06:59PM from the one-way-valve dept.

Flixie writes "Swedish newspaper dagens Nyheter reports: '...[S]everal key figures behind the website that publishes anonymous submissions and leaks of sensitive governmental, corporate, organizational or religious documents have resigned in protest against the controversial leader Julian Assange only to launch a new service for the so-called whistleblowers. The goal: to leak sensitive information to the public."

EasyDNS Falsely Accused of Unplugging WikiLeaks 267

Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday December 09, 2010 @01:17PM from the caught-in-the-crossfire dept.

kdawson writes "EasyDNS, a DNS and hosting provider, was mistakenly identified in press accounts as the entity that knocked wikileaks.org off the Net. It wasn't them, it was EveryDNS, a completely separate outfit. EasyDNS suffered a series of online reprisals as the false attribution spread. When WikiLeaks approached them to add to the robustness of their DNS support, EasyDNS said yes." And just to be fair on the disclosure thing- I've been using EasyDNS for many many many years and have always had great service, so I just thought it was cool that they stand up for the cause.

Android Phones Get Virtualization 122

Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday December 07, 2010 @10:17AM from the do-both-run-doom dept.

bednarz writes "VMware is teaming with LG to sell Android smartphones that are virtualized, allowing a single phone to run two operating systems, one for business use and one for personal use. A user's personal email and applications would run natively on the Android phone, while a guest operating system contains the employee's work environment. The devices would also have two phone numbers."

A Third of World's Spam From One Russian Man 233

Posted by timothy on Friday December 03, 2010 @09:42AM from the hormel-should-be-so-proud dept.

DaveNJ1987 writes "The FBI believes that one third of the world's spam messages are being generated by one 23-year-old Russian man. Oleg Nikolaenko of Moscow is being blamed for operating the Mega D botnet that sent spam emails from over 500,000 infected computers."

Optical Camouflage Puts Kinect Into Stealth Mode 60

Posted by timothy on Friday December 03, 2010 @06:01AM from the where-are-you-anyhow dept.

UgLyPuNk writes "Takayuki Fukatsu, a Japanese coder who works under the name Art & Mobile, has done a bit of trickery with Kinect and openFrameworks. The peripheral will still track your movement and position, but turns your image nearly transparent. Take a look (it's particularly obvious at about 1:30):"

WikiLeaks Under Denial of Service Attack 870

Posted by samzenpus on Sunday November 28, 2010 @02:40PM from the good-timing dept.

wiredmikey writes "WikiLeaks has reported that its Web site is currently under a mass distributed denial of service attack. The attack comes around the time of an expected release of classified State Department documents, which the Obama administration says will put 'countless' lives at risk, threaten global counterterrorism operations and jeopardize US relations with its allies."

DHS Seizes 75+ Domain Names 529

Posted by Soulskill on Saturday November 27, 2010 @03:43PM from the going-for-the-gusto dept.

Many readers have sent in an update to yesterday's story about the Department of Homeland Security's seizure of torrent-finder.com, a domain they believe to be involved in online piracy. As it turns out, this was just one of dozens of websites that were targeted by Immigration and Customs Enforcement. "In announcing that operation, John T. Morton, the assistant secretary of ICE, and representatives of the Motion Picture Association of America called it a long-term effort against online piracy, and said that suspected criminals would be pursued anywhere in the world. 'American business is under assault from counterfeiters and pirates every day, seven days a week,' Mr. Morton said. 'Criminals are stealing American ideas and products and distributing them over the Internet.'" The TorrentFreak article we discussed yesterday has been updated with a list of the blocked sites.

Submission + - Kik Messenger Banned from Blackberry World

Submitted by theflea912 on Friday November 26, 2010 @10:55PM

theflea912 writes: It's not only the Apple store that has "submission problems". The KIK Messaging app has brought BBM functionality (knowing when somebody is responding, knowing if they even read your message, etc) to all of the major mobile platforms. It quickly was picked up, getting to 1 million registrations just 15 days after the release of the app, now currently at 2.5 million users. However, on November 24, RIM withdrew KIK Messenger from App World. But that wasn't enough — they revoked the push functionality and even went as far as disabling the SDK codes. This not only seems like a blatant attempt to stifle innovation, but just downright abusive, anti-competitive practices.
http://www.kik.com/blog/2010/11/rim-blackberry-kik/

Google, Microsoft Cheat On Slow-Start — Should You? 123

Posted by Soulskill on Friday November 26, 2010 @02:47PM from the reply-hazy-ask-again dept.

kdawson writes "Software developer and blogger Ben Strong did a little exploring to find out how Google achieves its admirably fast load times. What he discovered is that Google, and to a much greater extent Microsoft, are cheating on the 'slow-start' requirement of RFC-3390. His research indicates that discussion of this practice on the Net is at an early, and somewhat theoretical, stage. Strong concludes with this question: 'What should I do in my app (and what should you do in yours)? Join the arms race or sit on the sidelines and let Google have all the page-load glory?'"

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