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Submission + - Slashdot Alum Samzenpus's Fractured Veil Hits Kickstarter

Submitted by CmdrTaco
CmdrTaco writes: Long time Slashdot readers remember Samzenpus,who posted over 17,000 stories here, sadly crushing my record in the process! What you might NOT know is that he was frequently the Dungeon Master for D&D campaigns played by the original Slashdot crew, and for the last few years he has been applying these skills with fellow Slashdot editorial alum Chris DiBona to a Survival game called Fractured Veil. It's set in a post apocalyptic Hawaii with a huge world based on real map data to explore, as well as careful balance between PVP & PVE. I figured a lot of our old friends would love to help them meet their kickstarter goal and then help us build bases and murder monsters! The game is turning into something pretty great and I'm excited to see it in the wild!

Submission + - Germany: We Think NSA May Have Tapped Chancellor Merkel's Cell Phone (miamiherald.com) 1

Submitted by cold fjord
cold fjord writes: The Miami Herald reports, "The German government says Chancellor Angela Merkel has called President Barack Obama after receiving information that U.S. intelligence may have targeted her mobile phone. Merkel spokesman Steffen Seibert said Merkel made clear in Wednesday's call that "she views such practices, if the indications are confirmed ... as completely unacceptable" and called for U.S. authorities to clarify the extent of surveillance in Germany." — (Info on Germany's "PRISM" project) — Reuters reports, "President Barack Obama on Wednesday sought to assure German Chancellor Angela Merkel that the United States is not monitoring her communications after Merkel raised the issue with Obama." — This revelation follows allegations of US surveillance of the Presidents of Mexico, and France. Yesterday the LA Times noted, "French authorities are shocked — shocked — to learn that the American government is spying on French citizens. The Foreign Ministry summoned the U.S. ambassador to the Quai D'Orsay to inform him that what's going on is "unacceptable," and President Francois Hollande claimed to have issued a stern rebuke to President Obama in a phone conversation. ... it was revealed in 2010 that France conducts its own espionage activities here on U.S. soil. ... France's intelligence agencies have established an electronic surveillance system of their own that monitors their citizens' phone conversations, emails, texts and ... Twitter posts. This is the way things work in the shadowy world we've been learning about from Snowden's leaks ... "

Comment Re:Whitelists mean nothing (Score 3, Insightful) 55

by kylus (#44894363) Attached to: Java Update Implements Whitelists To Combat 0-Day Hacks
As I said at the end of the summary, this really isn't a complete solution and you're right about a whitelisted applet/RIA being vulnerable. However this is a good piece of 'defense in depth' to prevent random Java crap from executing without authorization if (when) another bug crops and is somehow exploited. If the stuff you're whitelisting has problems, you need to revisit your coding quality checks, or talk to whatever vendor is supplying it to you.

Submission + - Java Update Provides Whitelist Capability to Help Prevent 0-Day Hacks

Submitted by kylus
kylus writes: The Register is reporting that Oracle's new Java 7 update 40 release comes complete with a new 'Deployment Rule Set' capability which allows administrators to define which particular applets and Java Web Start applications ("Rich Internet Applications") are permitted to run on a given machine. Not a complete solution for the recent trend of Java hacks that have cropped up, but good news for enterprises that have to run this in their environment.
Space

Meteorite Crashes Through Cottage In Oslo 122

Posted by samzenpus from the knock-knock dept.
First time submitter Mastiff in Norway writes "Famous (in Norway) Norwegian astrophycisist Knut Jørgen Røed Ødegaard is ecstatic after a meteorite was found in an urban cottage in Oslo this weekend. This is the 14th meteorite that's been found in Norway, and only the second that crashed through a roof. It is not certain when the crash happened, since the cottage hasn't been used all winter, but on the 1st of March a big ball of fire was observed over the southern parts of Norway, and it is thought that this may be one of the pieces from that entry into the atmosphere. Maybe it's time to replace those tin foil hats with helmets?"

Submission + - Newfound Exoplanet is best yet candidate for supporting life (scientificamerican.com)

Submitted by uigrad_2000
uigrad_2000 writes: With all the new exoplanets discovered recently with Kepler, it seemed a sure thing that the first exoplanet in the habitable zone of a star would be found soon. It's been found now, but the irony is that Kepler was not involved!

GJ 667Cc, is at least 4.5 times as massive as Earth, and lies in the habitable region of its host star, reports Scientific American. It was discovered by comparing public data from the ESO to recent observations from Hawaii and Chile. As opposed to the stars Kepler is watching, this is only 22 light years away, making it even more interesting.
Patents

Submission + - Apple Loses German Court Bid to Ban Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1N, Nexus Phone

Submitted by chrb
chrb writes: Apple has failed to get a patent ban on Samsung's Galaxy Tab 10.1N and the Nexus phone in Germany. Presiding Judge Andreas Mueller stated "Samsung has shown that it is more likely than not that the patent will be revoked because of a technology that was already on the market before the intellectual property had been filed for protection". The patent in question covered list scrolling and document translation, scaling, and rotation on a touch-screen display. This news follows the recent Appeals court ruling that upheld the original Galaxy Tab 10.1 ban.
EU

Submission + - EU Privacy Rules Enforce Net Neutrality (itworld.com)

Submitted by
jfruh
jfruh writes: "In a scene familiar to those following the net neutrality debate in the US, a representative of the broadband industry — Cisco, in this case — declared that government intervention in favor of net neutrality removes incentives to invest in high-speed networks. The twist, though, is that the Cisco exec was talking about EU privacy rules. These rules don't explicitly enforce net neutrality, but make it illegal to do the sort of packet inspection that "traffic shaping" requires."

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