Comment Re:Will the file copy/move crash.... (Score 1) 456
I had to deal with this quite often when I worked in the Photo Lab at the local retail store.
XCOPY
Submission + - U.N. peace-keeping forces brought cholera to Haiti (sciencemag.org)
sciencehabit writes: A new study has yielded the most solid evidence yet that U.N. peace-keeping forces from Nepal inadvertently brought cholera to Haiti last year, setting off an epidemic that has killed more than 6000 people so far. The paper, published today in the online open access journal mBIO, is the first to compare the whole genomes of bacteria from Haitian cholera patients with those found in Nepal around the time in 2010 when the peacekeepers left their country. It found that the genomes from the two sets of bacteria are virtually identical.
Submission + - The sexual habits of the British (channel4.com)
An anonymous reader writes: It's off topic, but this might be a bit of fun for the quiet days of August. It's a data visualisation showing what the British get up to between the sheets: http://sexperienceuk.channel4.com/the-sexperience-1000
It is unique (or at the very least unusual) in that as well as showing aggregate data, you can click on each person to find out more about each individual who makes up the totals. So, for instance, you can see that of the 167 people who have had sex in their parents bed (http://bit.ly/plzK2p), 10 now drive a BMW (http://bit.ly/pBS0HZ)
It is unique (or at the very least unusual) in that as well as showing aggregate data, you can click on each person to find out more about each individual who makes up the totals. So, for instance, you can see that of the 167 people who have had sex in their parents bed (http://bit.ly/plzK2p), 10 now drive a BMW (http://bit.ly/pBS0HZ)
Submission + - Facebook Tweaks Site To Clarify Who Can See What (computerworld.com)
CWmike writes: "Facebook is making a series of design changes to the site to make it clearer to users who can see the content that they post, an issue Google has been criticizing Facebook about since it launched its own social network, Google+, in June. 'You have told us that 'who can see this?' could be clearer across Facebook, so we have made changes to make this more visual and straightforward," Facebook said in a blog post on Tuesday. The main change is that Facebook will now display the intended audience for a photo, a text post, a tag or any other piece of content right next to it, or 'inline.' Until now, those controls have been on a separate Settings section of the profile. 'Your profile should feel like your home on the web — you should never feel like stuff appears there that you don't want, and you should never wonder who sees what's there.' Another change Facebook is introducing is allowing users to modify the audience of a post after it's published, which they couldn't do before."
Comment Customize (Score 5, Funny) 107
Do I have the option of a custom phrase to wake me up?
I'm thinking something along the lines of Moan My IP.
Submission + - XSS Vulnerability in Bing.com (thehackernews.com)
artemisfowl2 writes: "BING.COM is prone to a XSS vulnerability because the application failsto properly perform adequate boundary checks on user-supplied data.An attacker can exploit this issue to execute arbitrary code in thevictim's browser." reports THN
Submission + - Smartphone Keystroke Logging Using the Motion Sens (schneier.com)
Submission + - Kubrik to provide prior art on the iPad design? (blogspot.com)
GNUman writes: Apparently part of Samsung's defense against Apple with regards to the design of their tablet is provided by Stanley Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey" film, as personal tablets used by the astronauts may prove to be prior art. From the article:
"The clip can be downloaded online at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQ8pQVDyaLo. As with the design claimed by the D’889 Patent, the tablet disclosed in the clip has an overall rectangular shape with a dominant display screen, narrow borders, a predominately flat front surface, a flat back surface (which is evident because the tablets are lying flat on the table's surface), and a thin form factor."
"The clip can be downloaded online at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQ8pQVDyaLo. As with the design claimed by the D’889 Patent, the tablet disclosed in the clip has an overall rectangular shape with a dominant display screen, narrow borders, a predominately flat front surface, a flat back surface (which is evident because the tablets are lying flat on the table's surface), and a thin form factor."
Submission + - Libyan Rebels Are Flying Their Own Mini-Drone (wired.com)
suasfan22 writes: The Libyan revolutionaries are more of a band of enthusiastic amateurs than experienced soldiers. But it turns out the rebels have the kind of weaponry usually possessed by advanced militaries: their very own drone.
Aeryon Labs, a Canadian defense firm, revealed on Tuesday that it had quietly provided the rebel forces with a teeny, tiny surveillance drone, called the Aeryon Scout. Small enough to fit into a backpack, the three-pound, four-rotor robot gave Libyan forces eyes in the sky independent of the Predators, Fire Scout surveillance copters and manned spy planes that NATO flew overhead. Don't worry, it's not armed.
Aeryon Labs, a Canadian defense firm, revealed on Tuesday that it had quietly provided the rebel forces with a teeny, tiny surveillance drone, called the Aeryon Scout. Small enough to fit into a backpack, the three-pound, four-rotor robot gave Libyan forces eyes in the sky independent of the Predators, Fire Scout surveillance copters and manned spy planes that NATO flew overhead. Don't worry, it's not armed.
Submission + - TalkO'Clock, The Social P2P Alarm Clock
bs0d3 writes: Instead of waking up to a regular alarm clock, the free service will let others help you get out of bed. TalkO’Clock allows you to choose whether you want to be called by a male or a female stranger, and it has a robot – CallO’Bot – lined up in case no one is available at the time you have to wake up. All completely anonymous of course which is another favorite feature of file-sharers.
Submission + - Rare Earth Restrictions To Raise Hard Drive Cost (hothardware.com)
MojoKid writes: "Multiple manufacturers in the IT industry have been keeping a wary eye on China's decision to cut back on rare earth exports and the impact it may have on component prices. There have been reports that suggest we'll see that decision hit the hard drive industry this year, with HDD prices trending upwards an estimated 5-10 percent depending on capacity. Although rare earth magnets are only a small part of a hard drive's total cost, China cut exports last year by 40 percent, which drove pricing for these particular components up an estimated 20-30x. China currently controls 97 percent of the rare earth elements market for popular metals like neodymium, cerium, yttrium and ytterbium."
Comment burst pipe (Score 2, Interesting) 47
Orange goo? I wonder if it makes you run faster...
Now you're thinking with fungals!
Submission + - One API to Link Them All (uberblic.com) 1
An anonymous reader writes: The explosion of APIs in recent years means that developers have all sorts of data at their disposal for use in their applications. Getting data from multiple APIs work to work together can be tricky, and that’s where Uberblic comes in.
The Berlin-based team at Uberblic Labs has created a product that links data across APIs so that developers can easily create powerful mashups.
The Berlin-based team at Uberblic Labs has created a product that links data across APIs so that developers can easily create powerful mashups.
Submission + - Microsoft disables 'supercookies' used on MSN.com (computerworld.com)
suraj.sun writes: Microsoft said it has disabled an online tracking technology that, according to a Stanford Uni researcher, allowed the company to sneakily track users on MSN.com — even after they deleted their browser cookies and other identifiers.
In an emailed comment Thursday, Mike Hintze, Microsoft's associate general counsel, said the company took "immediate action" when it learned about the presence of so-called "supercookies" on its networks from Stanford Uni researcher Jonathan Mayer. Mayer's research prompted Microsoft to move faster to disable the code, Hintze said.
Mayer's report follows one from researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, on the practice by many websites of using tracking mechanisms that can circumvent the privacy settings on a user's browser. The Berkeley researchers also found that many sites, including Hulu, employed supercookie techniques to track users for advertising purposes.
ComputerWorld: http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9219312/Microsoft_disables_supercookies_used_on_MSN.com_visitors
In an emailed comment Thursday, Mike Hintze, Microsoft's associate general counsel, said the company took "immediate action" when it learned about the presence of so-called "supercookies" on its networks from Stanford Uni researcher Jonathan Mayer. Mayer's research prompted Microsoft to move faster to disable the code, Hintze said.
Mayer's report follows one from researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, on the practice by many websites of using tracking mechanisms that can circumvent the privacy settings on a user's browser. The Berkeley researchers also found that many sites, including Hulu, employed supercookie techniques to track users for advertising purposes.
ComputerWorld: http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9219312/Microsoft_disables_supercookies_used_on_MSN.com_visitors
Submission + - Microsoft Disables 'Supercookies' On MSN.com (computerworld.com)
CWmike writes: "Microsoft says it has disabled an online tracking technology that is said to allow the company to sneakily track users on MSN.com — even after they deleted their browser cookies and other identifiers. Mike Hintze, Microsoft's associate general counsel, said the company took 'immediate action" when it learned about the presence of so-called 'supercookies' on its networks from Stanford University researcher Jonathan Mayer. After Mayer identified Microsoft as one of several companies using supercookies for targeted advertising, the company investigated. 'We determined that the cookie behavior he observed was occurring under certain circumstances as a result of older code that was used only on our own sites, and was already scheduled to be discontinued,' Hintze said. Mayer's research prompted Microsoft to move faster to disable the code, Hintze said. 'At no time, did this functionality cause Microsoft cookie identifiers or data associated with those identifiers to be shared outside of Microsoft.' Mayer's report follows one from researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, on the practice by many websites of using tracking mechanisms that can circumvent the privacy settings on a user's browser. The Berkeley researchers also found that many sites, including Hulu, employed supercookie techniques to track users for advertising purposes. A Hulu spokeswoman refused to comment on the UC Berkeley report. She pointed instead to a blog post from Hulu earlier this month which said the site acted "immediately" to address the issues identified by the researchers."
