Comment Re:Dear activists (Score 1) 153
Use a VPN everywhere
Your Identity Is Worth Less Than $15 178
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)."
Alligator Blood May Be Source of New Antibiotics 265
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 Thinks Blu-ray Will Sell Like DVDs by Year End 434
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.'"
Submission + - EU recommends slashing search data retention (arstechnica.com)
Wayland writes: The European Union's Article 29 Working Group has completed its report (PDF) on data protection and search engines and recommends that search engines only be allowed to hold onto search data for six months, according to Ars Technica's coverage. 'To hang onto data for longer, search engine operators will need to show that such data is "strictly necessary" to offer the service. Google and others have long said that they need to retain data in order to refine search results, prevent click fraud, and launch new services like spell check (which, in Google's case, was built from user search data). In addition, the data that is kept will need to be guarded more closely. The working group concluded that IP addresses could be used to identify individuals; if not by the search engine itself, then by law enforcement or after a subpoena.'
Submission + - New "whisper campaign" against Fair Use (arstechnica.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Big Content is currently engaged in a worldwide 'whisper campaign' against Fair Use. 'The counter-reformation in question takes the form of a "whispering campaign" in which ministries in different countries are told that plans to expand fair use rights might well run afoul of the Berne Convention's "three-step test." The Convention, which goes back to the late 1800s, was one of the earliest international copyright treaties and is now administered by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).'
Comment Re:It's much worse than the article made it sound (Score 1) 334
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.
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.
Submission + - Power consumption and the future of computing (arstechnica.com)
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.
Submission + - Intel Releases Information on Penryn, Nehalem
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.""
Submission + - Scientists Break Speed of Light
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.
Comment Re:Dasher developer agrees (Score 2, Interesting) 198
I agree. From my experience with my old eMate, Newtons, and even my Audiovox XV6600, the 770 had the weakest handwriting recognition.
