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Your Identity Is Worth Less Than $15 178

Posted by kdawson from the less-than-your-fillings dept.
I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "One of the more interesting tidbits in Symantec's Global Internet Threat Report (PDF, 105 pages) is the price sheet, which suggests that someone's 'full identity' is worth in the range of $1-$15. Your email password goes for $4-$30 and your bank account might fetch $10-$1000. With those prices, I wonder how often they pay more for the bank account than is actually in it? There's also an executive summary (PDF, 36 pages)."
Medicine

Alligator Blood May Be Source of New Antibiotics 265

Posted by Zonk from the darn-tasty-eating-too dept.
esocid writes "Biochemists from McNeese State University have described how proteins in gator blood may provide a source of powerful new antibiotics to help fight infections associated with diabetic ulcers and severe burns. This new class of drug could also crack so-called 'superbugs' that are resistant to conventional medication. Previous studies have showed alligators have an unusually strong immune system; unlike humans, alligator immune systems can defend against microorganisms such as fungi, viruses, and bacteria without having prior exposure to them. Scientists believe that this is an evolutionary adaptation to promote quick wound healing, as alligators are often injured during fierce territorial battles."
Sony

Sony Thinks Blu-ray Will Sell Like DVDs by Year End 434

Posted by Zonk from the ambitious-planning dept.
An anonymous reader writes "Sony CEO Ryoji Chubachi knows something we don't. At a press conference, he announced Sony's plan to increase Blu-ray market share to 50% of all movie discs by the end of the year. 'DVD and BD currently account for about 80% and 20%, respectively, of global demand for movie discs, Chubachi indicated. The new BD devices to be offered by Sony include models integrating an HD LCD TV with BD recording functionality, Chubachi pointed out. Sony has relied mainly on the PlayStation 3 (PS3) to promote BD, and sales of the game console will increase along with the offering by top Hollywood studios of new BD movies, Chubachi noted. However, Sony will extend its BD promotion from the current focus on the PS3 and BD players/recorders to IT devices, Chubachi pointed out.'"

Comment Re:It's much worse than the article made it sound (Score 1) 334

by Hannibal_Ars (#20018837) Attached to: Deep Packet Inspection and Net Neutrality
This comment is way over the top. It's also wrong.

Whoever you are, you read the first page, skimmed the rest, then posted a rant at slashdot. How typical.

At any rate, Nate most certainly did go into the layer 7 stuff--opening up the payload and using that capability to reassemble individual email messages and so on. You just missed it because you were skimming in anticipation of composing that great smack-down post where you display your glorious knowledge of DPI for all of slashdot.

At any rate, instead of giving out reading suggestions, why don't you go back and actually RTFA, chief.
Intel

Submission + - Power consumption and the future of computing (arstechnica.com)

Submitted by mrdirkdiggler
mrdirkdiggler writes: ArsTechnica's Hannibal takes a look at how the power concerns that currently plague datacenters are shaping next-generation computing technologies at the levels of the microchip, the board-level interconnect, and the datacenter. In a nutshell, engineers are now willing to take on a lot more hardware overhead in their designs (thermal sensors, transistors that put components into sleep states, buffers and filters at the ends of links, etc.) in order to get maximum power efficiency. The article, which has lots of nice graphics to illustrate the main points, mostly focuses on the specific technologies that Intel has in the pipeline to address these issues.
Intel

Submission + - Intel Releases Information on Penryn, Nehalem

Submitted by
Justin Wheeler
Justin Wheeler writes: "Intel has been slowly trickling information on their new Penryn cores (the next release after Merom/Conroe), as well as their upcoming Nehalem cores. From the articles: "At a press meeting today, Intel's Pat Gelsinger also made a number of high-level disclosures about the successor to Penryn, the 45nm Nehalem core. Unlike Penryn, which is a shrink/derivative of Core 2 Duo (Merom), Nehalem is architected from the ground up for 45nm. This is a major new design, and Gelsinger revealed some truly tantalizing details about it. Nehalem has its roots in the four-issue Core 2 Duo architecture, but the direction that it will take Intel is apparent in Gelsinger's insistence that, "we view Nehalem as the first true dynamically scalable microarchitecture." What Gelsinger means by this is that Nehalem is not only designed to take Intel up to eight cores on a single die, but those cores are meant to be mixed and matched with varied amounts of cache and different features in order to produce processors that are tailored to specific market segments.""
Space

Submission + - Scientists Break Speed of Light

Submitted by PreacherTom
PreacherTom writes: Scientists at the NEC Research Institute in Princeton, NJ are reporting that they have broken the speed of light. For the experiment, the researchers manipulated a vapor of laser-irradiated atoms, causing a pulse that shoots about 300 times faster than it would take the pulse to go the same distance in a vacuum, to the point where the pulse seemed to exit the chamber before even entering it. Apparently, Uncle Albert is still resting comfortably: relativity only states that an object with mass cannot travel faster than light. Still, the results are sufficient to merit publication in the prestigious journal, Nature.

Notebook with Huge 20 Inch Screen Reviewed 307

Posted by ScuttleMonkey from the desktop-replacement-not-laptop dept.
An anonymous reader writes "Trusted reviews has a look at the Acer Aspire 9800. This massive machine has a 20.1" screen, two 120GB hard drives in a RAID 0 array, super-multi DVD burner, analogue and digital TV tuners and an Intel Core Duo dual core CPU. And at over 17lb you can even use it for weight training!"

Comment Re:Recent robotics fair in Japan (Score 1) 278

by ApolloCreed (#14352918) Attached to: Japanese Find Robots Less Intimidating Than People
Repliee Q1Expo

The following is from the entry on Fembot.

Bender: You're no femputer. You're a fembot.
Femputer: It's true. I disguised myself as a femputer so I could rule the
Amazonians.
Bender: But why?
Femputer: Why? Why? I came here from a faraway planet - a planet ruled by a
chauvinistic manputer that was really a manbot. Have you any idea
how it feels to be a fembot living in a manbot's manputer's world?
Bender: What?
User Journal

Journal Journal: Welcome to Political Troll Opt-Out

Journal by PoliticalTrollOptOut

Slashdot is full of political trolls. These are people who advocate political ideas dishonestly and disrespectfully, and abuse and insult users who question or threaten their (often dubious) worldview. We cannot help the deficiencies in America's educational system, nor can we force people to have morals or civility, nor can we stop them from abusing the moderation system, and (this being America) we would fight to the death to defend their right to speak their mind (no matter how depraved th

Comment Re:Why am I on your blacklist? (Score 1) 17

by Anti-Slash Blacklist (#8789191) Attached to: Updating the Blacklist
When this blacklist was created, the proof required to add an account to the list was lower than it is now. You were accused of reposting and by the standard then, you were added to the blacklist. Upon checking your history, it seems that it may indeed have been in error that you were added. You will be removed from the blacklist. I apologize for any inconvenience caused by this.

Also, to add a user to the blacklist now for reposting, one must provide a link to the original comment to prove that it is indeed a repost. If this cannot be provided, there is not enough evidence to add the user to the blacklist and the complaint will be ignored. That's the system for now.

A project that I am developing is to create my own database tool by which to check comments against that are supposed reposts. It would appear that the Anti-Slash trolls have a feature to hide a post in the search once it has been reposted. While the database tool will not be brought online publicly because of concerns of a possible DDoS attack, posts will be verified and if there is doubt, I will be able to provide a link to the original comment and the reposted comment.

Hopefully that clears everything up, and once again, I apologize for you being falsely added to the blacklist.
User Journal

Journal Journal: Updating the Blacklist 17

Journal by Anti-Slash Blacklist

I've been out of town for the previous week and didn't have an opportunity to update the blacklist. My apologies to all who were looking for updates.

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