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Comment No account for reality.... (Score 5, Insightful) 487

by KiwiGod (#34759670) Attached to: Rushkoff Proposes We Fork the Internet
This might (slim chance, mind you) approach the realm of sane if we assumed that people actually wanted to learn how to do something, instead of the popular approach of "I just want it to work." There appears to be no concept of costs, the eventual degrade of such a system due to human nature, etc. No matter how you start a system like this, you're going to end up with a governing body at some point. People want order, they want to be told what to do, and there's always people that are willing... and on rare occasion capable of doing such.

Submission + - How Star Trek artists imagined the iPad... 23 year (arstechnica.com)

Submitted by MorderVonAllem
MorderVonAllem writes: There are a lot of similarities between Apple's iPad and the mobile computing devices—known as PADDs—used in the Star Trek universe. Ars spoke to designers Michael Okuda, Denise Okuda, and Doug Drexler to find out the thinking and inspiration behind the PADD and how closely the iPad represents a real-life incarnation of that dream.
Transportation

Submission + - 66% Misunderstand Gas Mileage. Here's Why (greencarreports.com)

Submitted by thecarchik
thecarchik writes: OK, so here's a little test: Which saves more gasoline, going from 10 to 20 mpg, or going from 33 to 50 mpg? If you're like most Americans, you picked the second one. But, in fact, that's exactly backwards. Over any given mileage, replacing a 10-mpg vehicle with one that gets 20 mpg saves five times the gasoline that replacing a 33-mpg vehicle with one that gets 50 does. Last summer, Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business released a study that shows how much damage comes from using MPG instead of consumption to measure how green a car is. Management professors Richard Larick and Jack Soll's experiments proved that consumers thought fuel consumption was cut at an even rate as mileage increased.
Security

Submission + - Lifelock Worries After Employee Data Leaked to Web (itworld.com) 2

Submitted by itwbennett
itwbennett writes: Last week, Phoenix New Times reporter Ray Stein revealed that LifeLock CEO Todd Davis (who famously published his Social Security number in LifeLock ads) had been the victim of identity theft, at least 13 times. This week, LifeLock made it clear that they're not so cavalier with their employees' personal data. The company asked the New Times to remove from its Web site a police report containing a redacted Social Security number, date of birth, address, and phone number of Lifelock employee Tamika Jones. In an interview, Stein said that the fact that LifeLock had to call and ask for the document to be removed reflected badly on Lifelock's service. 'I think this shows clearly that they know that it's got potential problems.'
Microsoft

Submission + - MS to Share Early Flaw Data With Gov't (threatpost.com)

Submitted by Trailrunner7
Trailrunner7 writes: Microsoft today announced plans to share pre-patch details on software vulnerabilities with governments around the world under a new program aimed at securing critical infrastructure and government assets from hacker attacks. The program, codenamed Omega, features a Defensive Information Sharing Program (DISP) will offer governments entities at the national level with technical information on vulnerabilities that are being updated in our products.
Movies

Submission + - Top 10 things Hollywood thinks computers can do (expertreviews.co.uk) 1

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: From blowing up your keyboards to developing a malignant sentience, Expert Reveiws rounds up the things that movie makers believe computers can do, even though they use the same technology every day to write scripts.
Iphone

Submission + - Steve Jobs publishes some 'thoughts on Flash' 1

Submitted by teh31337one
teh31337one writes: Steve Jobs just posted an open letter of sorts explaining Apple's position on Flash, going back to his company's long history of Adobe and expounding upon six main points of why he thinks Flash is wrong for mobile devices. HTML5 naturally comes up, along with a few reasons you might not expect. He concludes in saying that "Flash was created during the PC era – for PCs and mice." Basically, it's for the olds. And you don't want to be old, do you?
Security

Submission + - Phishing Education Test is blocked...for phishing (blogspot.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: From the Sunbelt Software Blog: It appears a website called ismycreditcardstolen.com, designed to "educate users about the dangers of phishing" has itself been flagged by Firefox as a reported web forgery. The site, which asks visitors to enter their credit card details to "see if they've been stolen" takes the hapless visitor to a page warning them about the perils of phishing, giving them advice on how to avoid similar scams and also provides a link to the Anti-Phishing Working Group's website. Or at least it did, until various browsers started blocking it. I've done a little bit of digging, and it looks like one of the creators is taking questions here. As the blog post notes, the project was likely doomed to failure both because of the domain name itself and also because it uses anonymous Whois data, which isn't exactly going to make security people look at it in a positive light. Does anyone out there think this was a good idea? Or will malicious individuals start playing copycat on a public now trained to think sites like this are just "harmless education"?
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4G iPhone Misplacer Invited To Germany For Beer 164

Posted by samzenpus from the beer-makes-things-better dept.
eldavojohn writes "You may recall the hapless engineer who left a fairly sensitive iPhone at a bar recently. Well, in a PR stunt, Lufthansa has invited him to visit Germany on their dime after citing his latest Facebook status, 'I underestimated how good German beer is' as well as his obvious passion for German beer and culture. It's not clear if Gray Powell has decided to 'pick up where he last left off' (as the letter puts it). I know what my decision would be."
Privacy

Submission + - Google Street View logs WiFi networks, Mac address (theregister.co.uk)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: There's a story over at The Register about how Google is collecting more than just images when they drive around for the Street View service. "Google's roving Street View spycam may blur your face, but it's got your number. The Street View service is under fire in Germany for scanning private WLAN networks, and recording users' unique Mac (Media Access Control) addresses, as the car trundles along."

There's a choice quote at the end, "Google CEO Eric Schmidt recently said internet users shouldn't worry about privacy unless they have something to hide. "
Networking

Submission + - SPAM: AlcaLu boosts broadband over copper to 300Mbps

Submitted by alphadogg
alphadogg writes: Alcatel-Lucent has found a way to move data at 300M bps over two copper lines. However, so far it is only in a lab environment — real products and services won't show up until next year.

Researchers at the company's Bell Labs demonstrated the 300M bps technology over a distance of 400 meters using VDSL2 (Very high bitrate Digital Subscriber Line), according to Stefaan Vanhastel, director of product marketing at Alcatel-Lucent Wireline Networks. The test showed that it can also do 100M bps over a distance of 1,000 meters, he said. Currently, copper is the most common broadband medium. About 65 percent of subscribers have a broadband connection that's based on DSL, compared to 20 percent for cable and 12 percent for fiber, according to market research company Point Topic. Today, the average advertised DSL speeds for residential users vary between 9.2 Mbps and 1.9Mbps in various parts of the world, Point Topic said.
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Iphone

Submission + - Gizmodo Blows Whistle on iPhone Loser (thinq.co.uk)

Submitted by Stoobalou
Stoobalou writes: Not content with its iPhone scoop, Gizmodo has probably ruined the career of a young engineer. The tech blog last night exposed the name of the hapless Apple employee who had one German beer too many and left a prototype iPhone G4 in a California bar some 20 miles from Apple's Infinite Loop campus. Was that really necessary?
Security

Submission + - Network Solutions Sites Hacked Again (computerworld.com) 1

Submitted by CWmike
CWmike writes: A week after Web hosting company Network Solutions dealt with a large-scale infection of WordPress-driven blogs, the company acknowledged that other sites it hosts have been compromised. 'We have received reports that Network Solutions customers are seeing malicious code added to their websites and we are really sorry for this experience,' said pokesman Shashi Bellamkonda in a blog post. 'At this time, since anything we say in public may help the perpetrators, we are unable to provide details.' Securi Security Labs said on Sunday that at least 50 sites hosted by Networks Solutions had been hacked, and that malicious JavaScript injected into those sites was redirecting unsuspecting users to a Ukrainian attack server. The same server was involved in the earlier attacks against Network Solutions-hosted blogs. According to the StopMalvertising blog, the attacks planted a rogue IFRAME on the hacked sites to shunt users to the attack server. That server then launches multiple exploits, including an attack kit of ActiveX exploits and three more leveraging Adobe Reader vulnerabilities, against visiting PCs. Several browsers, including IE8, Chrome and Firefox, display warnings when users are redirected to the attack site.

Comment Ugh, GUI. (Score 1) 1

by KiwiGod (#31897786) Attached to: What is the Future of Firewalls?
In my opinion, web interfaces on devices are insanely cumbersome for the benefit of non-hardcore network types... like my boss for instance. Listening to him talk about TCP/IP is downright painful. Granted, having GUIs around for basic configuration and a few other tasks is nice, but for scanning through and modifying mass amounts of config in detail, I've always leaned more towards command line. It's easier to look at everything at once instead of clicking back and forth on a website. Having said that, my current company is a sonicwall shop, so I've had no choice but to use a GUI... it's not horrible, but I'd be a lot happier if they had a full command line (or any at all). On the other note, there are tools out there for managing multiple firewalls, but having not used any of them... not much I can say.

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