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Submission + - Mozilla Fights In Court To Get Info About Potential Firefox Flaw

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Mozilla has asked a Washington State District Court to compel FBI investigators to provide details about a vulnerability in the Tor Browser with them before they share it with the defendant in a lawsuit, so that they could fix it before the knowledge becomes public. The lawsuit in question is against Jay Michaud, a Vancouver (Wa.) teacher that stands accused of accessing and downloading child pornography from a website on the Dark Web.

Submission + - Astronomers Identify Asteroids That Can Easily Be Captured

Submitted by Hugh Pickens DOT Com
Hugh Pickens DOT Com writes: Long overlooked as mere rocky chunks leftover from the formation of the solar system, asteroids have recently gotten a lot more scrutiny as NASA moves forward with plans to capture, tow, and place a small asteroid somewhere near our planet and two different private space companies, Planetary Resources and Deep Space Industries, plan to seek out and mine precious metals and water from near-Earth asteroids. Now Adam Mann reports that astronomers have identified 12 candidate Easily Retrievable Objects (EROs) ranging in size from approximately 2 meters to 60 meters in diameter that already come (cosmically) close enough to our planet, that it would take a relatively small push to put into orbits around Lagrange points near Earth using existing rocket technology. For example, 2006 RH120, could be sent into orbit around L2 by changing its velocity by just 58 meters per second with a single burn on 1 February 2021. Moving one of these EROs would be a “logical stepping stone towards more ambitious scenarios of asteroid exploration and exploitation, and possibly the easiest feasible attempt for humans to modify the Solar System environment outside of Earth (PDF),” write the authors in Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy. None of the 12 ERO asteroids are new to astronomers; in fact one of them became briefly famous when it was found to be temporarily orbiting the Earth until 2007. But until now nobody had realized just how easily these bodies could be captured.

Comment A mix of all of them I guess. (Score 1) 309

by KDEnut (#39966611) Attached to: What do you usually do with old hardware?
Depends on the hardware.

Anything still decent I tend to turn over and donate to Goodwill or a school, usually with a linux distro running.
Obsolete mainboards, gpu's, cpus, psu's, etc I tend to put in the recycling center's electronics part.
All hard drives get fuzzed, and horded.
All Cables get horded. Period.
Science

Submission + - Anti Wi-Fi Wallpaper To Go On Sale In 2013, Costs A Tad More Than Normal Ones (itproportal.com)

Submitted by hypnosec
hypnosec writes: A new type of wallpaper, which has been developed by scientists from the "institut polytechnique Grenoble INP" and the "Centre Technique du Papier", will go on sale in 2013 after a Finnish firm, Ahlstrom acquired the license. What looks like a bog standard wallpaper roll actually contains silver particles that allows it to filter out up to three different frequencies simultaneously. It is not the first time that such a technology has surfaced. Back in 2004, BAE Systems was tasked by Ofcom to come up with a similar solution based on what was then called a stealth wallpaper. It used copper instead of silver and blocked Wi-Fi signals while letting GSM, 4G and emergency calls through. Back then though, a square meter cost £500 whereas the Wi-Fi wallpaper devised by the French researchers should be priced reasonably, with costs matching those of a "classic", mid-range wallpaper according to M. Lemaître-Auger, from Grenoble INP.
Australia

Submission + - Optus loses second battle in Aussie TV-timeshifting battle (abc.net.au)

Submitted by beaverdownunder
beaverdownunder writes: After winning an initial legal battle to continue its mobile TV Now terrestrial-television re-broadcasting service, Optus has lost a second battle in Australian Federal court. The Optus system 'time-shifted' broadcast signals by two minutes, and then streamed them to customers' mobile phones.

In the previous ruling, the judge sided with Optus' argument that since the customer requested the service, they were the ones recording the signal, and thus was fair-use under Australian copyright law. However, the new ruling had declared Optus to be the true entity recording and re-distributing the broadcasts, and thus is in violation of the law.

There has been no word yet on whether Optus will appeal the decision, but as they could be retroactively liable for a great deal of damages, it is almost certain that they will.
Displays

Submission + - MIT Researchers Invent 'Super Glass' (ibtimes.com) 1

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redletterdave
redletterdave writes: "On Thursday, researchers at MIT announced a breakthrough in glass-making technology, which basically involves a new way to create surface textures on glass to eliminate all of the drawbacks of glass, including unwanted reflections and glare. The research team wanted to build glass that could be adaptable to any environment: Their "multifunctional" glass is not only crystal clear, but it also causes water droplets to bounce right off its surface, "like tiny rubber balls." The glass is self-cleaning, anti-reflective, and superhydrophobic. The invention has countless applications, including TV screens, as well as smartphone and tablet displays that benefit from the self-cleaning ability of the glass by resisting moisture and contamination by sweat."

Comment Re:WTF? (Score 1) 1127

by KDEnut (#39108569) Attached to: Hunters Shoot Down Drone of Animal Rights Group
The opposite of a live pigeon shoot is a clay pigeon shoot.

Having been on a few, They were probably a bunch of father/son teams out tromping around, and as usual making too much noise to flush anything in range. Especially if they were running around on quads like the article hinted at. Pigeons are remarkably stupid birds though.

Comment Re:HBO "Superheroes" documentary on these guys (Score 1) 590

by KDEnut (#37699320) Attached to: Real Life Super Hero Arrested
Oh so very, very wrong. Your troll-fu is weak.

Use whatever label you will, but dressing up (in costumes or in your favorite dungaree's), arming yourself (Be it with rope & Pistol, or a can of pepper spray), and then roaming the streets looking for trouble: It's still vigilanteism. From Merriam: a member of a volunteer committee organized to suppress and punish crime summarily. Notice the word "Suppress". From Dictionary.com: 1. a member of a vigilance committee. (vigilance: Watchfulness).

I'll give you that it does strongly *Conotate* revenge and lawlessness as a salve though.

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