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Comment Pictures of the disruption (Score 1) 80

by Brighten on Monday August 30, 2010 @04:53PM (#33420426) Attached to: Duke Research Experiment Disrupts Internet Traffic

Here are some pictures showing the effects of the disruption, including a 6x or more increase in messaging over the "background chatter" on the Internet, and a description of what went wrong.

Apple Patches Massive Holes In OS X 246

Posted by timothy on Wednesday January 20, 2010 @04:23PM from the well-it-wouldn't-be-polite-to-patch-windows dept.

Trailrunner7 writes with this snippet from ThreatPost: "Apple's first Mac OS X security update for 2010 is out, providing cover for at least 12 serious vulnerabilities. The update, rated critical, plugs security holes that could lead to code execution vulnerabilities if a Mac user is tricked into opening audio files or surfing to a rigged Web site." Hit the link for a list of the highlights among these fixes.

Comment More pictures (Score 1) 131

by Tom7 on Friday September 08, 2006 @08:38AM (#16065686) Attached to: Enigma-Cracking Bombe Recreated

Here are some high-res pictures of a non-working Bombe rebuild from Bletchley last year:

http://gallery.spacebar.org/f/a/photo/viewpic/1/52 2/1/
http://gallery.spacebar.org/f/a/photo/viewpic/1/52 3/1/
http://pictures.spacebar.org/f/a/photo/viewpic/2/4 91/1/

Comment Re:I'd hate to be a paper referee after this. (Score 3, Informative) 658

by Brighten on Wednesday April 13, 2005 @05:40PM (#12228436) Attached to: Randomly Generated Paper Accepted to Conference

The randomly generated paper did not get into a CS conference... or even a "real" conference for that matter. WMSCI is, as far as I can tell, a money-making operation. Everyone in my department gets spammed from them (and the situation is the same elsewhere, hence Mazieres and Kohler's work).

Actually, if you read WMSCI's mission, it looks randomly generated too:

The purpose of WMSCI 2005 is to promote discussion and interaction between researchers and practitioners focused on disciplines as well as different areas.

So CS might have problems, but you cannot argue that based on WMSCI.

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