Comment Hate to say it (Score 0) 279

by Armon on Monday February 28, 2011 @10:11PM (#35343930) Attached to: Infected Androids Run Up Big Texting Bills

I hate when that happens on my iPhone. Oh wait...

Comment Still on track for 2011 (Score 2, Funny) 438

by Armon on Wednesday March 11, 2009 @12:06AM (#27145655) Attached to: National Ignition Facility Fires 192-Beam Pulse

I guess we are still on track for global annihilation by 2011/2012, between this bad boy, ITER, and the Large Hadron Collider, it is practically guaranteed!

Comment Use rubbing alcohol (Score 4, Informative) 545

by Armon on Thursday July 03, 2008 @07:59PM (#24052911) Attached to: What Is the Best Way To Disinfect Your Laptop?

Get some cotton balls wet with rubbing alcohol, something with a high concentration (e.g. > 70%). Rub it all over your laptop. Wait about 2 minutes and all of it will evaporate, and your laptop will be clean. I use this on my keyboard/mice/macbook all the time.

Submission + - Lax TSA Website Exposes Traveller's Information (house.gov) 1

Submitted by sjbe on Saturday January 12, 2008 @08:38PM

sjbe writes: According to a January 2008 report from the US House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, from October 2006 through February 2007 traveller's who utilized the TSA website to attempt to remove their name from the No-Fly list risked having sensitive data, including social security numbers, exposed due to poor security practices. The contractor responsible, Desyne Web Services was awarded a no-bid contract to design the website. The TSA's technical lead on the project reportedly had a conflict of interest having been a former employee of Desyne. The security vulnerabilities were pointed out by Chris Soghoian, a Ph.D. student at the University of Indiana's School of Informatics. The TSA has since taken action to remedy the vulnerabilities but no action was taken to sanction the responsible parties for the vulnerabilities.

OLPC To Be Distributed To US Students 338

Posted by kdawson on Saturday January 12, 2008 @08:19PM from the seizing-the-initiative dept.

eldavojohn writes "The One Laptop Per Child Project plans to launch OLPC America in 2008 , to distribute the low-cost laptop computers originally intended for developing nations to needy students here in the United States. Nicholas Negroponte is quoted as saying, 'We are doing something patriotic, if you will, after all we are and there are poor children in America. The second thing we're doing is building a critical mass. The numbers are going to go up, people will make more software, it will steer a larger development community.'"

Feed Tom's Hardware: Bacteria Powered Microbial Fuel Cell Prove Viable Form Of Electricity Generation (pheedo.com)

From feed by thfeed on Thursday January 03, 2008 @09:12PM

Microbial Fuel Cell (MFC) technology is proving to be a viable alternative for electricity generation in remote areas. Powered basically by anything, these tiny power plants form colonies capable of delivering usable power to man.

500-fold Increase in Data Flow from SETI Telescope 346

Posted by Soulskill on Thursday January 03, 2008 @09:12PM from the et-in-crystal-clear-high-defintion dept.

coondoggie brings us an article from Networkworld about a flood of new data for the SETI@home project. We discussed something similar a few months ago when a new telescope array went live. The vast amount of processing power required to handle the new data is prompting the SETI@home team to make a plea for more volunteers. Quoting the press release: "What triggered the new flow of data was the addition of seven new receivers at Arecibo, which now let the telescope record radio signals from seven regions of the sky simultaneously instead of just one. With greater sensitivity and the ability to detect the polarization of the radio signals, plus 40 times more frequency coverage, Arecibo is set to survey the sky for new radio sources."