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Comment Praise science (Score 1) 155

by schrodingersGato (#39487227) Attached to: Dysfunction In Modern Science?
Dishonesty has become a real problem in science. Some recent cases (Judy Mikovits, Luk Van Parijs, and Dipak K. Das (aka the red-wine researcher)) reveal some serious misconduct from high profile researchers. Certainly, part of this is due to the increased pressure on scientific researchers. The other part of this is generational. Cheating and misconduct are certainly more prevalent .in younger generations (or perhaps its always been this way and they are just not quite as clever).
Botnet

Submission + - Political Party's Leadership Election Attacked by DDoS (www.cbc.ca)

Submitted by lyran74
lyran74 writes: Saturday's electronic leadership vote for Canada's New Democratic Party was plagued by delays caused by a botnet DDoS attack, coming from over 10,000 machines. Details are still scarce, but Scytl, who provided electronic voting services, will have to build more robust systems in the future in anticipation of such attacks. Party and company officials say an audit proved the systems and integrity of the vote were not compromised.
China

Submission + - Apple To Replace Google With Baidu For The Chinese Market (itproportal.com)

Submitted by hypnosec
hypnosec writes: Apple is planning to integrate the search function from Chinese web services giant Baidu into iOS. "Knowledgeable sources," suggest that Apple will release the new feature sometime next month. The sources say that, so far, an agreement has been signed and everything is going according to plan. Confirming these rumors, cloud and mobile chief Li Mingyuan pointed out last week at the launch of WangPan, Baidu's cloud storage services, that the Chinese company and Apple have a healthy cooperation agreement.

Comment Re:Beware what you share. (Score 0) 195

by schrodingersGato (#39479375) Attached to: Your Privacy Is a Sci-Fi Fantasy
I'd have to agree with you. People need to take some (most) of the blame for this. No one forced your to join Facebook, twitter, flickr, etc. and you had to know that these were not services being sold with the guise of anonymity. Yes companies are using tracking cookies and algorithmic hocus-pocus to profile your habits, but these can be circumvented with little effort. If you want to share everything, fine. But your info is now essentially public.

Submission + - High School Student Expelled For Tweeting Profanity; Principal Admits School Tra (techdirt.com)

Submitted by
amiller2571
amiller2571 writes: "Tinker v. Des Moines is considered a key lawsuit in defining the free speech rights of students. While there have been a few cases that limited the ruling, it's still seen as the key case in establishing that students have First Amendment rights and that schools can't just arbitrarily shut them down."
Censorship

Submission + - Microsoft censors The Pirate Bay in Messenger (torrentfreak.com)

Submitted by
Fluffeh
Fluffeh writes: "As originally picked up by Torrentfreak, Microsoft Live Messenger now blocks a TPB link via its Live Messenger instant messaging tool. This is somewhat similar to when Facebook started blocking TPB "due to the controversy". This time round, Microsoft is claiming that someone told them TPB was "reported as unsafe." This is troubling on a number of fronts. First of all, a link by itself should never be considered infringing. Second, of course, is the fact that not all TPB content is infringing. Yes, an awful lot of it is almost certainly infringing. But automatically deciding that all of it is and not letting people share such links is extreme and dangerous. Finally, the really scary part is the realization that Microsoft appears to be monitoring content being shared in private communication between two individuals in an instant messenger conversation."
Science

Submission + - Photos: Edison's lightbulb removed from 100 year time capsule....it works (gereports.com)

Submitted by
topshot
topshot writes: "Photos of Thomas Edison original lightbulbs working after 100 years of being buried in a time capsule.

“It’s a remarkable testament to the craftsmanship and quality that one of the tungsten filament lamps buried for 100 years showed signs of life,” said Maryrose Sylvester, president and CEO of GE Lighting.

Think Edison was...please excuse the pun....brilliant?"

Submission + - Congress Capitulates to TSA; refuses to let Bruce Schneier testify (schneier.com)

Submitted by McGruber
McGruber writes: Following up on the earlier Slashdot story "Congress Wants Your TSA Stories" (http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/03/23/2312228/congress-wants-your-tsa-stories), earlier today, the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Government Reform and the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure held a hearing titled 'TSA Oversight Part III: Effective Security or Security Theater?' that was streamed line by CSPAN (http://www.c-span.org/Events/House-Hearing-Examines-TSA-Security-Initiatives/10737429331-1/).

In a blog update (http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2012/03/congressional_t.html), Bruce Schneider says that "at the request of the TSA" he was removed from the witness list.

Bruce also said "it's pretty clear that the TSA is afraid of public testimony on the topic, and especially of being challenged in front of Congress. They want to control the story, and it's easier for them to do that if I'm not sitting next to them pointing out all the holes in their position. Unfortunately, the committee went along with them."
Anime

Submission + - Why You Should Not Bring Your Laptop To Canada (vice.com)

Submitted by
pigrabbitbear
pigrabbitbear writes: "I didn’t know the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund existed until I read about a 27-year-old software engineer named Ryan Matheson. He was traveling to Canada for the first time, a couple years ago, when he was randomly stopped by Customs officials at the border.

“Since both my friend and I are geeks and programmers, I brought some of my electronics, including my laptop computer. There was nothing bad or illegal on my computer. Through the customs and immigration process, I was immediately picked out and searched by a pair of customs officers. I knew I didn’t have anything to hide, so I willingly gave them my password to log in to my computer. Through an unusual search that lasted over four hours, they found anime illustrations from art books and other fully-clothed drawings of fictional anime and manga characters on my computer. Unfortunately, Canadian customs officers consider any comic or anime-style drawing suspicious.”"
Patents

Submission + - Supreme Court throws out human gene patents (yahoo.com)

Submitted by thomst
thomst writes: The Associated Press reports The Supreme Court on Monday threw out a lower court ruling allowing human genes to be patented, a topic of enormous interest to cancer researchers, patients and drug makers. The court overturned patents belonging to Myriad Genetics Inc. of Salt Lake City on two genes linked to increased risk of breast and ovarian cancer. The justices' decision sends the case back down to the federal appeals court in Washington that handles patent cases. The high court said it sent the case back for rehearing because of its decision in another case last week saying that the laws of nature are unpatentable. In that case, the court unanimously threw out patents on a Prometheus Laboratories, Inc., test that could help doctors set drug doses for autoimmune diseases like Crohn's disease.

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