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Submission + - SSDs cause crisis for digital forensics (techworld.com) 5

Submitted by rifles only on Tuesday March 01, 2011 @07:30AM

rifles only writes: Firmware built into many solid state drives (SSDs) to improve their storage efficiency could be making forensic analysis at a later date by police forces and intelligence agencies almost impossible to carry out to legally safe standards, Australian researchers have discovered.

They found that SSDs start wiping themselves within minutes after a quick format (or a file delete or full format) and can even do so when disconnected from a PC and rigged up to a hardware blocker.

Submission + - How cyborg tech could link the minds of the world (silicon.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 01, 2011 @02:14AM

An anonymous reader writes: Science writer Michael Chorost has written a book that suggests that mankind may one day be able to link individual minds to share thoughts, feelings and perceptions by genetically modifying individuals brains and implanting computers based on neural networks in the body. Here he talks about the implications for human relationships, our sense of self and phenomenon like telempathy and dream brainstorming that this so-called World Wide Mind would make possible.

Journal Journal: EU seizing all Playstation shipments. 2

Journal by tomhudson on Monday February 28, 2011 @07:17PM

The Guardian is reporting that tens of thousands of Playstation 3 consoles were seized last week by customs agents.

Under the EU order, Sony can no longer ship Playstations to the EU. LG Electronics won the injunction over Sony in the latest "tit-for-tat" in the mobile phone patent wars. A similar injunction is before the US International Trade Commission.

Submission + - The All-time Geekiest Oscar Triumphs (networkworld.com)

Submitted by

antdude

on Monday February 28, 2011 @07:05PM

antdude writes: "This nine (not ten) pages Network World's slideshow showing "the all-time geekiest Oscar triumphs. Recent history shows geek culture has gone mainstream. Movies that appeal to the geek in all of us have traditionally had a tough time winning respect at the Academy Awards...""

Submission + - BOA under DDOS attack?

Submitted by david.emery on Monday February 28, 2011 @07:02PM

david.emery writes: At 1800 Eastern, 28 Feb, response from www.bankofamerica.com ranged from 'very poor' to 'tcp timeout'

Submission + - Data Center Theft KOs Vodfone Network (datacenterknowledge.com)

Submitted by 1sockchuck on Monday February 28, 2011 @06:19PM

1sockchuck writes: Hundreds of thousands of UK customers of Vodafone lost service this morning after switch equipment was stolen from one of the provider's(TM) data centers. Data center thefts are unusual, but there have been several doozies in recent years, including incidents in which thieves cut through reinforced walls or disguised themselves as policemen, and even one in which thieves stole Peter Gabriel's servers.

Submission + - First Probe To Orbit Mercury Will Answer Big Quest

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 28, 2011 @05:56PM

An anonymous reader writes: Next month, the first space probe in nearly 40 years will approach the planet Mercury, with an array of instruments that could help answer fundamental questions about how planets form. The mission is called MESSENGER, for Mercury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry and Ranging. On March 17 it will pull into orbit around mercury, after more than six years of maneuvering between the Earth, Venus and Mercury itself.

Submission + - Light Painting to Show WiFi Network (ispyce.com)

Submitted by

autospa

on Monday February 28, 2011 @04:01PM

autospa writes: "Everone says i have a WiFi network, but does it existing really? To answer it Timo Arnall, Jørn Knutsen and Einar Sneve Martinussen use a rod of blinking lights to visualize signal strength in their college town."

Comment Spreadsheet html'ed (Score 1) 52

by jayemcee on Friday February 25, 2011 @11:28PM (#35320550) Attached to: Over 40,000 John Doe Copyright Troll Cases Dismissed

Here's an html-ized from from calc: spreadsheet-dismissed-110224.htm

Comment Here's the MS Fixit link from the original article (Score 4, Informative) 49

by jayemcee on Monday January 31, 2011 @10:55AM (#35056336) Attached to: Windows MHTML Vulnerability Warning From Microsoft

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2501696

Comment Avast also (Score 1) 205

by jayemcee on Friday December 03, 2010 @01:58PM (#34433740) Attached to: Antivirus Firms Short-Changing Customers

They sent a request to renew to my parents last month even though their yearly doesn't expire until March of next year, pathetic shakedown. They'll be using MSE once it expires.

Comment Re:To immediately Godwin the poll... (Score 1) 1270

by jayemcee on Tuesday October 19, 2010 @01:27PM (#33949016) Attached to: Given one free trip to the past in a time machine, I would..

Chuck Klosterman covered this poll topic quite well in Eating the Dinosaur http://www.amazon.com/Eating-Dinosaur-Chuck-Klosterman/dp/1416544208 Essentially, killing Hitler by using a time machine would eliminate the reason for you to do it to begin with, unless of course you chose to let him enact the Holocaust first and then killed him...

Comment The Guardian covered this last week (Score 4, Informative) 128

by jayemcee on Friday September 10, 2010 @11:26PM (#33542074) Attached to: Rogue Employees Sell World Cup Fans' Passport Data

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2010/sep/05/fifa-passports-claims The most interesting bit is that Sepp Blatter's nephew is involved with the company at fault.

Comment Re:How Does the Same Company Make iPods and iTunes (Score 1) 390

by jayemcee on Friday September 03, 2010 @12:54PM (#33466300) Attached to: Flawed iTunes Stands Out Among Apple's Products

Use Rockbox instead http://www.rockbox.org/ I record (and download) a lot of live music and prefer to keep it lossless, so I convert everything to flac and tag it all in foobar2000 http://www.foobar2000.org/ rather than going the MP3 route. Rockbox will remove your need for iTunes and the unwanted QT install and does a very nice job on most older iPods (I have a 5.5 video 80 gb as well as an older iRiver that it works sweetly on). Unfortunately, they stopped after the mini and 1g Nano so if you have anything newer you're out of luck, but this is easy to use and works a treat for me.

Comment But it doesn't work (Score 1) 1

by jayemcee on Tuesday June 15, 2010 @07:32PM (#32584976) Attached to: Digitally filtering out the drone of the World Cup

for Alan Shearer. unfortunately...

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