Comment TL; (Score 0) 145
DR
Comment Most people are getting it wrong... (Score 1) 34
...it' s just a rather convoluted way to promote voyeurtools.
Comment Re:I am a curmudgeon (Score 2) 119
Oh noes you mentioned the hosts file... countdown running...
Comment Re:I am a curmudgeon (Score 2) 119
NoScript should do.
Comment Re:Welp (Score 3, Informative) 306
I'm afraid stupidity is not a "suitable" (sorry...) offense. Maybe based on criminal negligence...
Comment Re:Interesting timing... (Score 1) 575
Well, whoever is behind the PSN facts, it looks like they weren't dumb enough to leave their names around, so technically they are anonymous :P
We have to admit this trend of giving things general labels is really relaxing. Somebody blows something up, it's Al Qaeda. Somebody "hacks" something, it's Anon. If it wasn't like this, imagine the amount of time journalists (or professional investigators!) should spend doing, OMG, research and even investigation to find the actual causes of things. The stress. The fatigue. (The chance of being laid off if your work doesn't bring results.) So much easier like that: something happens, you have somebody to blame in a matter of minutes.
And this way, it is much easier to hide your own responsibility as well, at least to the general public... only a few will know (or care) about the "hack" being bad password policies and/or overconfidence (I'm looking at you HBGary), poor security, and you know, the usual reasons for "Anonymous's" "hacks".
Side Note: not talking about terrorist attacks here... but the Al Qaeda reference is really appropriate.
We have to admit this trend of giving things general labels is really relaxing. Somebody blows something up, it's Al Qaeda. Somebody "hacks" something, it's Anon. If it wasn't like this, imagine the amount of time journalists (or professional investigators!) should spend doing, OMG, research and even investigation to find the actual causes of things. The stress. The fatigue. (The chance of being laid off if your work doesn't bring results.) So much easier like that: something happens, you have somebody to blame in a matter of minutes.
And this way, it is much easier to hide your own responsibility as well, at least to the general public... only a few will know (or care) about the "hack" being bad password policies and/or overconfidence (I'm looking at you HBGary), poor security, and you know, the usual reasons for "Anonymous's" "hacks".
Side Note: not talking about terrorist attacks here... but the Al Qaeda reference is really appropriate.
Comment Re:Typical Slashdot editor incompetence (Score 1) 56
Taking courses.
Submission + - CERN, LHC sets new luminosity world record (web.cern.ch)
An anonymous reader writes: Since last night, the Large Hadron Collider is officially the most powerful accelerator in the world. While the record energy level has been reached last year, the new luminosity level, surpassing Fermilabs achievements, happened recently. “Higher intensity means more data, and more data means greater discovery potential.”, as CERN Director General Rolf Heuer says.
Submission + - Selling Pixels - History Of Virtual Economies (stormdriver.com)
StormDriver writes: "Today, virtual economies are much larger than those of many countries. In 2010 people worldwide spent $7 billion real dollars buying pixels of various shapes and sizes. That’s more than GDP of Mongolia, Malta or Haiti. And some of those pixels are really expensive. The highest amount paid for a virtual item is currently $635,000 dollars – that’s how much an anonymous person paid for the virtual night club on a virtual planet in massively multiplayer Entropia Universe game. I wonder if he got some virtual booze and virtual strippers to sweeten the deal?"
Comment In related news... (Score 1) 96
...90% of Sophos "news" feed from the last months consists in highlights of Facebook scams, warnings about "specially engineered" posts, and the likes. Maybe they are just trying to con FB into hiring them as their "Security Provider"?
Submission + - Wireless audio distribution leverages DECT technol (elektor.in)
Elektor_India writes: "Cambridge Consultants have developed a new wireless audio distribution system for hearing assistance or simultaneous translation in auditoria and conference centres. Dubbed Salix, the system uses a Digital Enhanced Cordless Telecommunication (DECT) platform to eliminate the high installation and configuration costs of current infrared systems, delivering high quality stereo audio at a fraction of the installed cost of an infrared system."
Submission + - Update: Wind power firm sees no evidence of hack (networkworld.com)
alphadogg writes: One day after a hacker posted screen shots and data to a hacking mailing list, saying he had broken into a New Mexico wind turbine facility, the company that runs the turbines says it has seen no evidence of a computer intrusion. The hacker, who calls himself Bigr R, made the claims Saturday, posting screenshots of the facility's management interface, screenshots of an FTP server and project management system, as well as Web server info and configuration data from a Cisco router.
Submission + - Final Report: Pan-European Cyber Security Exercise (net-security.org)
Orome1 writes: The EU's cyber security agency, ENISA, has issued its final report on the first Pan-European cyber security exercise for public bodies, Cyber Europe 2010. The exercise was conducted on the 4th of November, 2010. Its objective was to trigger communication and collaboration between countries in the event of large-scale cyber-attacks. Over 70 experts from the participating public bodies worked together to counter over 300 simulated hacking attacks aimed at paralyzing the Internet and critical online services across Europe. During the exercise, a simulated loss of Internet connectivity between the countries took place, requiring cross-border cooperation to avoid a (simulated) total network crash.
Submission + - Difficulties buying a computer without Windows 1
doperative writes: My choice is Debian GNU/Linux, explains FFII Vice president René Mages. Why have I been compelled to pay and erase Windows 7 at purchase time?
The European Commission admits it was aware of the difficulties encountered by consumers who want to purchase a PC with a non-Microsoft operating system or without any operating system at all. But they also say they lack evidence suggesting that this is the result of practices in violation of EU competition rules.
We want to crowd source the collection of evidence, says AFUL's President Laurent Séguin. If the EU finds anticompetitive agreements that foreclose competition or abuse a dominant position on the relevant market, that would be a magic bullet.
The European Commission admits it was aware of the difficulties encountered by consumers who want to purchase a PC with a non-Microsoft operating system or without any operating system at all. But they also say they lack evidence suggesting that this is the result of practices in violation of EU competition rules.
We want to crowd source the collection of evidence, says AFUL's President Laurent Séguin. If the EU finds anticompetitive agreements that foreclose competition or abuse a dominant position on the relevant market, that would be a magic bullet.
Submission + - The 70 kg US$39,000 FlyNano Electric Microlight (gizmag.com)
cylonlover writes: Finnish aeronautical engineer Aki Suokas launched a remarkable new single-seat aircraft this week at Aero Friedrichshafen. The FlyNano is made entirely of carbon fiber composite, lands and takes off on water, and weighs just 70 kilograms ready to fly. Three variants are available: a 20kW electric-only version, and petrol-engined 24 bhp and 35 bhp models, the latter proposed as a racing version. The Flynano tops out at over 140 km/h, with a service ceiling of 3 km. If you think that's remarkable, the most expensive of the three variants ex-factory and ex-VAT is just EUR 27,000 (US$39,000) and deliveries begin three months from now.
