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Submission + - IPv6: Surviving without NAT (youtube.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: One of the killer features of IPv6 is the ability to assign all hosts globally routable addresses. But this feature makes IPv6 also very scary to a networking world that got used to hide behind NAT. This presentation is talking about how to use unique local addresses to separate a local network from the larger internet and only allow limited access via proxies

Submission + - Blood Powered Light Lamps (realitypod.com)

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FTiwana
FTiwana writes: "They say that the human blood stores a lot of biological energy. Ever thought of a lamp powered by human blood? So here it is, a blood powered lamp designed by Mike Thompson. The lamp utlilizes blood as a source of energy.
The lamp contains luminol; the same chemical forensic scientists use to check for traces of blood at a crime scence. Luminol reacts with the iron in red blood cells and creates a bright blue glow."
Privacy

Submission + - Sony Suffers Third Breach, PSN Still Down (net-security.org)

Submitted by Orome1
Orome1 writes: Sony's troubles seem to have no end as the company confirms a third breach of their network and fails to set a date for the restoration of services. This last breach resulted in a theft of names, partial addresses and three unconfirmed email addresses belonging to some 2,500 contestants that participated in a sweepstakes the company organized back in 2001. And to add insult to injury, the attackers published all that information on a Sony web server.
Facebook

Submission + - Apple Passes Google In Brand Value (ibtimes.com)

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gabbo529
gabbo529 writes: "Millward Brown Optimor released its annual "BrandZ: Top 100 Most Valuable Global Brands" study, which tabbed Apple as the most valuable brand in the world. The famous Cupertino, Calif. based company saw a brand value increase of 84 percent over the past year, going from a valuation of $83,153 million and a third place finish in 2010 to a value of $153,285 million and the top spot this year. The increase put Apple ahead of its smartphone operating system rival Google, which for the first time in four years is looking up at someone in terms of brand value."
IT

Submission + - I Like My IT Budget Tight and My Developers Stupid (softwarequalityconnection.com)

Submitted by
Esther Schindler
Esther Schindler writes: "Who has money to train these guys nowadays? They should be lucky they're still employed, right? Keep thinking that way, writes Lisa Vaas. The competition applauds your choice to glue your wallet shut. Or, to put this another way: This is why the boss won't pay for developer training. Vaas explains how those still training manage to get their training budgets funded."
Privacy

Submission + - Mandatory Emergency SMS Cellphone Chips in 2012 (foxbusiness.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Fox Business reports on the upcoming national Commercial Mobile Alert System (CMAS) that would 'alert the public via messages on their mobile devices when disaster was near. ... Interestingly, the new chip, "which will legally be required to be in all new phones made as of 2012, doesn't just receive messages, it also makes an ear-splitting emergency noise, which you can't mute.' The report goes on: 'even if you have a cell phone with a Kansas area code and you’re in Texas, you’ll receive disaster alerts for Texas.'
Security

Submission + - Companies Not Ready for DDoS Attacks & DNS Fai (securityweek.com)

Submitted by wiredmikey
wiredmikey writes: Most organizations aren’t prepared to prevent and respond to web infrastructure failures caused by distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks and Domain Name System (DNS) failures, according to the results of a study released today.

Some highlights from the study...

- DDoS attacks are widespread: Nearly two-thirds (63 percent) of respondents who reported experiencing a DDoS attack in the past year said they sustained more than one attack. Eleven percent were hit six or more times.

- Leaving web infrastructures unprotected is too risky: More than half (53 percent) of the respondents said they experienced downtime in the past year, with DDoS attacks accounting for one-third (33 percent) of all downtime incidents.

- DNS Availability Lower for Internally Managed Sites — a crucial requirement for the reliable operation of websites, network services, and online communications. The study found that in the first quarter of 2011, DNS availability was a problem for even the highest ranked e-commerce sites.

[More on the study]
Education

Submission + - Man captures entire univers in on image (skysurvey.org)

Submitted by katarn
katarn writes: Nick Risinger traveled the world, using a robotic camera mount and six air cooled cameras each fitted with their own lenses and filters, to capture the entire universe in one image; the largest full true-color sky survey. The project took a year of time and logged 60,000 miles. The final image is made up of 37,000 individual photos, has a resolution of 5000 megapixels, and took months to piece together. Risinger states: "Travel was necessary as capturing the full sphere of the night sky brought with it certain limitations. What might be seen in the northern hemisphere isn't always visible from the south and, likewise with the seasons, what may be overhead in the summer is below the horizon in the winter. Complicated by weather and moon cycles, this made for some narrow windows of opportunity which we chased through the remote areas of Arizona, Texas, Nevada, Colorado, California and Oregon."
Science

Submission + - $1,500 Atomic Clock is the Size of a Matchbox (gizmag.com)

Submitted by Zothecula
Zothecula writes: Atomic clocks are one of those things that most of us have probably always thought of as being big, ultra-expensive, and therefore only obtainable by well-funded research institutes. While that may have been the case at one time, a team of researchers have recently developed an atomic clock that they say is one one-hundredth the size – and that uses one one-hundredth the power – of previous commercially-available products. It's called the Chip Scale Atomic Clock (CSAC), and it can be yours for about US$1,500 ... a little more than what you might pay for a regular clock, but not bad for one that varies by less than a millionth of a second per day.
The Internet

Submission + - Drudge Generates More Traffic Than Social Media (pbs.org)

Submitted by tcd004
tcd004 writes: A report released today by the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism shows that the Drudge Report is a far more important driver of online news traffic than Facebook or Twitter. In fact, for the top 25 news websites, Twitter barely registers as a source of traffic. The report hits on several other interesting findings about news behavior.
Businesses

Submission + - Hewlett Packard's Cult Calculator Turns 30

Submitted by
Hugh Pickens writes
Hugh Pickens writes writes: "The Wall Street Journal reports that Hewlet Packard's HP-12C financial calculator has remained outwardly unchanged since its introduction in 1981. "Once you learned it on the 12C, there was no need to change," says David Carter, chief investment officer of New York wealth-management firm Lenox Advisors, who has owned his 12C for 22 years and still keeps it on his desk. "It's not like the math was changing." The 12C, which costs $70 on HP's website, is HP's best-selling calculator of all time, though the company won't reveal how many units it has sold over the years and the 12C still uses on an unconventional mathematical notation called "Reverse Polish Notation," which eschews parentheses and equal signs in an effort to run long calculations more efficiently which may be one reason users are reluctant to switch and tends to render the calculator mystifying to the novice user. New employees in financial services businesses quickly learn that ignorance of the 12C can flash more warning signs than a scuffed pair of shoes. "The guy with the totally beat-up HP-12C — you know he's actually done things in business," says James Granberry, a student at Vanderbilt University's Owen Graduate School of Management. "And then there's the young guy who looks like he may have put on his suit for the first time—with a graphing calculator." The HP-12C is one of only four calculators permissible in the Chartered Financial Analyst exams, the others being its sister, the HP-12C Platinum, and the Texas Instruments BA II Plus and BA II Plus Professional."
Education

Submission + - JavaScript gets visual (i-programmer.info)

Submitted by mikejuk
mikejuk writes: Waterbear, a new "Scratch- like" visual programming language made its debut at a JavaScript conference this week. Basically you can put together a JavaScript program by putting blocks together and entering some parameters. The output is JavaScript that you can use in other web pages. The Waterbear system runs in a browser, its HTML5 based, and needs no installation.
You can't help but think that this is the way all programmng will be done in the future.
The Courts

Submission + - Netflix Employee Stealing Data (computerworld.com)

Submitted by
StormDriver
StormDriver writes: "The worker "accessed over approximately the past two months, without authorization, the credit card information of some Netflix customers who spoke with the individual over the telephone," Netflix Senior Counsel Sharon Williamson wrote.

The employee obtained customer names and credit card numbers, she wrote. Netflix is investigating the incident and has notified police."

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