Comment Re:A week? (Score 1) 1004
The govt used to mandate this. It was maybe 10-15 years ago they "unmandated" it. I think it was a maximum 2 minutes of continuous ads.
Comment Re:A week? (Score 5, Interesting) 1004
Obviously you don't realise how many ads Australia puts in their shows. There is absolutely no chance I'm watching TV in Australia. I really don't understand how Australians can put up with it.
Submission + - SpaceX launch To ISS Aborted (bbc.co.uk)
Comment Re:Best. Slashvertisement. Ever. (Score 3, Insightful) 128
I actually had a demo one of these type things and tcpdump'd the traffic. Found it used sopcast so easily made a version of the dongle in perl. All Korean content but streamed from China.
Comment Re:It's a big deal (Score 1, Insightful) 518
Kinda hard to experience any culture there when you're not allowed to speak to anyone. Everything must be filtered through your tour guide.
Comment Re:Shenanigans!! All your thought are belong to us (Score 1) 251
cobblers - the grass is fuckin' brown in Australia mate
mate, cobblers?
Comment Re:"Dumbing Up" (Score 1, Insightful) 539
When I went to see RMS at Sydney University giving a speech, I could only focus on the obese person leaning on the lectern drinking a 2L bottle of coke. Not exactly someone I'd look up to. Totally lost interest in him from then on.
Comment Firssst posss.... (Score 3, Funny) 478
sssssst
Submission + - 'Mars Mission' Crew to Spend 520 Days in Isolation (discovery.com) 1
nycheetah writes: Six men from Europe, Russia and China were Thursday locked away from the outside world for the next one-and-a-half years, in an unprecedented simulation of a manned mission to Mars.
Submission + - Is open source SNORT dead? (networkworld.com)
alphadogg writes: Is Snort, the 12-year-old open-source intrusion detection and prevention system, dead?
The Open Information Security Foundation (OISF), a nonprofit group funded by the U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security (DHS) to come up with next-generation open source IDS/IPS, thinks so. But Snort's creator, Martin Roesch, begs to differ, and in fact, calls the OISF's first open source IDS/IPS code, Suricata 1.0 released this week, a cheap knock-off of Snort paid for with taxpayer dollars.
The OISF was founded about a year and a half ago with $1 million in funding from a DHS cybersecurity research program, according to Matt Jonkman, president of OISF. He says OISF was founded to form an open source alternative and replacement to Snort, which he says is now considered dead since the research on what is supposed to be the next-generation version of Snort, Snort 3.0, has stalled.
"Snort is not conducive to IPv6 nor to multi-threading," Jonkman says, adding, "And Snort 3.0 has been scrapped."
According to Jonkman, OISF's first open source release Suricata 1.0 is superior to Snort in a number of ways, including how it can inspect network packets using a multi-threading technology to inspect more than one packet at a time, which he claims improves the chances of detecting attack traffic
The Open Information Security Foundation (OISF), a nonprofit group funded by the U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security (DHS) to come up with next-generation open source IDS/IPS, thinks so. But Snort's creator, Martin Roesch, begs to differ, and in fact, calls the OISF's first open source IDS/IPS code, Suricata 1.0 released this week, a cheap knock-off of Snort paid for with taxpayer dollars.
The OISF was founded about a year and a half ago with $1 million in funding from a DHS cybersecurity research program, according to Matt Jonkman, president of OISF. He says OISF was founded to form an open source alternative and replacement to Snort, which he says is now considered dead since the research on what is supposed to be the next-generation version of Snort, Snort 3.0, has stalled.
"Snort is not conducive to IPv6 nor to multi-threading," Jonkman says, adding, "And Snort 3.0 has been scrapped."
According to Jonkman, OISF's first open source release Suricata 1.0 is superior to Snort in a number of ways, including how it can inspect network packets using a multi-threading technology to inspect more than one packet at a time, which he claims improves the chances of detecting attack traffic
Submission + - Evidence for 200-Year-Old Comet Impact on Neptune (discovery.com)
astroengine writes: "Astronomers using ESA's Herschel space observatory have spotted evidence of a cometary impact in Neptune's upper atmosphere. Whereas impact craters on rocky planetary bodies can remain for billions of years, an impact in the dynamic atmospheres of gas giants aren't obvious, especially if long periods of time have elapsed. This ultimate 'cold case' tracked the unusual distribution of carbon monoxide in Neptune's stratosphere, a sure sign it was deposited there by an external source. Once they realized they were looking at a comet impact, researchers were able to deduce when the impact occurred: 200 years ago."
Comment Microwave oven (Score 1) 499
My WIFI dies when the microwave is switched on.
Comment Stray cosmic ray? (Score 1) 277
... as opposed to a cosmic ray on a leash?
Submission + - ADHD kids treated with instant gratification (bbc.co.uk)
davidwr writes: "The brains of children with attention-deficit disorders respond to on-the-spot rewards in the same way as they do to medication, say scientists."
Instead of pumping kids full of Ritalin, we can give them fast rewards for good behavior and pump them only half-full of Ritalin. This won't help them outside the classroom but it might help kids who don't tolerate medication very well.
On a related note, my teacher says if this gets posted to the main page in the next 60 seconds she'll give me a gold star.
Instead of pumping kids full of Ritalin, we can give them fast rewards for good behavior and pump them only half-full of Ritalin. This won't help them outside the classroom but it might help kids who don't tolerate medication very well.
On a related note, my teacher says if this gets posted to the main page in the next 60 seconds she'll give me a gold star.
Brain Surgery Linked To Sensation of Spirituality 380
the3stars writes "'Removing part of the brain can induce inner peace, according to researchers from Italy. Their study provides the strongest evidence to date that spiritual thinking arises in, or is limited by, specific brain areas. This raises a number of interesting issues about spirituality, among them whether or not people can be born with a strong propensity towards spirituality and also whether it can be acquired through head trauma."
One critic's quoted response: "It's important to recognize that the whole study is based on changes in one self-report measure, which is a coarse measure that includes some strange items."
