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Journal Journal: Highly Secret Open Source Projects 7

Journal by jd
Nothing in this world will ever be more confusing than projects that are:
  1. Released as Open Source on public web sites
  2. Bragged about extensively on those websites - especially their Open Sourceness
  3. Never to be mentioned or referenced in any way, shape or form by anyone else
Slashdot.org

Submission + - Santa tracking only for IE users

Submitted by gearloos
gearloos writes: Well, after trying to connect in vain to http://www.noradsanta.org/ for 1 hour I tried a windows box with IE7 and it came right up. I guess this means little penguins don't count? Or has Santa perhaps made a deal with Redmond?
User Journal

Journal Journal: CIA Instructions to Media Assets : Assassination of Kennedy

Journal by Philip K Dickhead
105984, CIA Instructions to Media Assets re: Assassination of President Kennedy
Posted by Octafish on Mon Aug-07-06 08:12 PM

For those who wonder why things are the way they are in America,



an original CIA memo, thanks to Webcom.com:

CIA Instructions to Media Assets
Security

Submission + - More Vista flaws reported

Submitted by
pdclarry
pdclarry writes: "The NY Times reports that researchers have identified a number of vulnerabilities in Vista. The Times article states, "Microsoft is facing an early crisis of confidence in the quality of its Windows Vista operating system as computer security researchers and hackers have begun to find potentially serious flaws in the system...On Dec. 15, a Russian programmer [as reported by Slashdot] posted a description of a flaw that makes it possible to increase a user's privileges on all of the company's recent operating systems, including Vista. And over the weekend a Silicon Valley computer security firm said it had notified Microsoft that it had also found that flaw, as well as five other vulnerabilities, including one serious error in the software code underlying the company's new Internet Explorer 7 browser."
Programming

Submission + - Stratagey for dealing with multithreading?

Submitted by Watson Ladd
Watson Ladd writes: With all major microprocessor manufactures choosing to go multicore rather then cranking up clock speeds getting performance gains will be a software problem. If applications aren't using multiple threads, they don't get a performance boost. But multithreading is a pain to deal with. So what is your strategy for writing multithreaded code? Is it join calculus, software transactional memory,non-interacting threads,rendezvouses,actors, or the Real Programmers choice of mutex and condition variables? Which do think will be the dominant technique over the next 30+ years?
Security

Submission + - Trojan pre-installed on Point&Shoot Video Camc

Submitted by Bill Wood
Bill Wood writes: We got the new Pure Digital product ' Point&Shoot Video Camcorder PSV-351' from Amazon around December 14th for Christmas. When we loaded it up to our PC to download the videos via USB, AntiVir Personal detected one of the files as a trojan. Symantec AV detected it as well on my laptop. Symantec identifies it as W32.Looked.P. I tried to email the infected file as RAR archive to puredigital support, and Google Mail prevented it from going out as it was detected as a virus laden file. The offending file is called 'View Your Files.exe' on the root directory of the device. AntiVir calls it TR/Philis.A
User Journal

Journal Journal: USA: Military Draft System To Be Tested 6

Journal by Philip K Dickhead

WASHINGTON, Dec. 22, 2006(CBS/AP) The Selective Service System is making plans to test its draft machinery in case Congress and President Bush need it, even though the White House says it doesn't want to bring back the draft.

The agency is planning a comprehensive test -- not run since 1998 -- of its military draft systems, a Selective Service official said. The test itself would not likely occur until 2009.
Portables (Games)

Submission + - 3.02 OE-B will run your own Playstation games!

Submitted by
jamie
jamie writes: "How do you sum up something like this little bit of news? By putting it as plainly as possible. Dark_Alex is working on 3.02 OE-B, the successor to OE-A, and by all accounts, 3.02 OE-B will be able to play PlayStation 1 games. Not just any old games though, but pretty much any PS1 game you already have."
Patents

Submission + - Patent reform may limit world generic drug supply

Submitted by 2think
2think writes: Agence-France Presse is reporting Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders) is urging Novartis to drop appeal in India's High Court. According to a MSF executive, over 80 percent of generic AIDS drugs come from India and the Novartis position can endanger not only the generic AIDS supply but generic manufacture overall. Here's a link to the story: http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20061220/hl_afp/indiap harmacompany
Christmas Cheer

Submission + - Alcohol craving blocker developed

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: A team from Melbourne's Howard Florey Institute discovered blocking the action of the brain's orexin system can also prevent someone relapsing of alcohol cravings. This chemical is involved in the "high" felt after drinking alcohol or taking illicit drugs. Orexin-producing cells are also thought to play a part in regulating feeding, so the researchers believe they could also help treat eating disorders. Alcohol-related deaths rose to 8,386 in 2005 compared to 4,144 in 2001 in the UK, according to figures from the Office for National Statistics. Hospital admissions for alcoholic liver disease have more than doubled in a decade, reaching 35,400 in 2004/5. In rat studies, a team led by Dr Andrew Lawrence created a compound which was seen to block the "euphoric" effects of orexin. In one experiment, rats that had alcohol freely available to them stopped drinking it after receiving the orexin blocker.

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