Submission + - Network Solutions Under Large Scale DDoS Attack (circleid.com)

Submitted by netizen on Friday January 23, 2009 @06:48PM

netizen writes: CircleID is reporting a large scale DDoS attack affecting all of Network Solutions name servers for the past 48 hours potentially affecting millions of websites and emails around the world hosting their domain names on the company's servers. NANOG mailing list indicates that it is due to a very large-scale UDP/53 DDoS which Network Solutions has also confirmed: "[t]here is a spike in DNS query volumes that is causing latency for the delay in web sites resolving. This is a result of a DDOS attack. We are taking measures to mitigate the attack and speed up queries."

Submission + - Scientists Teleport Matter More Than Three Feet (foxnews.com)

Submitted by

erickhill

on Friday January 23, 2009 @06:04PM

erickhill writes: "While it feels odd to be promoting a scientific report coming from Fox News, the fact is Gene Roddenberry even sat up (in his grave) and took notice of this:
"Scientists have come a bit closer to achieving the "Star Trek" feat of teleportation. No one is galaxy-hopping, or even beaming people around, but for the first time, information has been teleported between two separate atoms across a distance of a meter — about a yard."
"

Submission + - SPAM: Hacker wins court review

Submitted by JobsEnding on Friday January 23, 2009 @03:36PM

JobsEnding writes: A British court ruled on Friday that a man who hacked into US military computers will be giving permission for a judicial review against his extradition to the United States. Hacker Gary McKinnon, 42, who had been diagnosed recently with Asperger's syndrome, a form of autism, has admitted hacking into the military computers. His lawyers had said McKinnon was at risk of suicide if he were extradited.

Comment Re:cynicism (Score 1) 431

by Klootzak on Friday January 23, 2009 @12:52AM (#26570641) Attached to: Trojan Hides In Pirated Copies of Apple iWork '09

Is that cynical?

Actually, it's called Critical or Analytical thinking...

Cynicism is a negative perception of something that doesn't neccessairily involve evaluation of the topic in the larger context, something like:
"There is no good left in the world, people will never change, and I might as well become evil too!".
^^^^That's some pretty bad cynicism (or pessimism) though, hopefully most people don't ever get that cynical ;).

Submission + - Linux's role in Microsoft's decline (linuxdevices.com) 1

Submitted by nerdyH on Thursday January 22, 2009 @10:16PM

nerdyH writes: As early as last quarter, Microsoft admitted that Linux and netbooks were eating into its fat profits. Today, it came home, with the software giant announcing its first-ever layoffs. LinuxDevices interviewed Linux Foundation Director Jim Zemlin on Linux's role in Microsoft's misfortunes. Zemlin sums it up pretty well: "Companies can offer their own branded software platform based on Linux. If Microsoft is getting 75 percent margins, you would like some of that high-margin business, too."

Submission + - Russia develops National Operating System

Submitted by

Elektroschock

on Thursday January 22, 2009 @09:30PM

Elektroschock writes: "According to Russian media the Government is going to develop a National Operating System to lower its dependencies on foreign software technology licensing. The Russian plan will base its efforts on Linux and expects a worldwide impact. Microsoft is also involved in the round table process that led to the recommendation. The Chinese government successfully lowered its Microsoft licensing costs through an early investment in a national Linux distribution. I wonder if other large markets as the European Union will also develop their own Linux distributions or join the Russian initiative."

Submission + - RIAA Threatens Harvard Law Prof with Sanctions (blogspot.com)

Submitted by

NewYorkCountryLawyer

on Thursday January 22, 2009 @07:50PM

NewYorkCountryLawyer writes: "Unhappy with Harvard Law Professor Charles Nesson's motion to compel the deposition of the RIAA's head 'Enforcer', Matthew J. Oppenheim, in SONY BMG Music v. Tenenbaum, the RIAA threatened the good professor with sanctions (PDF) if he declined to withdraw his motion. Then the next day they filed papers opposing the motion, and indeed asked the Court to award monetary sanctions under Rule 37 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure."

Comment Re:+1 Brilliant!!! (Score 1) 154

by Klootzak on Thursday January 22, 2009 @07:57AM (#26558235) Attached to: The State of Video Game Regulation

Oops, thanks!! +1 for you too! ;)

Comment +1 Brilliant!!! (Score 1) 154

by Klootzak on Thursday January 22, 2009 @07:19AM (#26558095) Attached to: The State of Video Game Regulation

Bringing accountability to Government means actually saying what you think, not just accepting that you have no voice...
Incidentally - the Internet & Web is the most effective tool for "having a voice" that the Human Race has ever had, why do you think China comes down so hard on it?

Don't just let Governments (or other people in power) pull the wool over your eyes with crap because it makes their jobs easier... Speak out!! (within legal boundaries)

Remember people, we live in Democracies (well, alot of us do!), you don't just have to bend over and take it unless EVERYONE AGREES you should, and most of the time people JUST AREN'T AWARE/INFORMED of what's happening.

Submission + - ISPs charge child abuse investigators for data (itpro.co.uk)

Submitted by

nk497

on Thursday January 22, 2009 @07:16AM

nk497 writes: "In the UK, ISPs are charging a child protection agency for access to IP user details they need for their investigations into online-related abuse. The Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre has paid out over £170,000 since 2006 on IP data requests related to child abuse cases, and expects to pay another £100,000 this year — enough to fund another two investigators.

The CEOP's CEO said that any ISP which can't afford to give the police such help "simply can't afford to do business.""

Submission + - gov.au tells parents they too st00pid for intarweb

Submitted by downundarob on Wednesday January 21, 2009 @09:53PM

downundarob writes: Senator Nick Minchin , the Australian Shadow Minister for broadband, communications and the digital economy, has written (or more likely a staffer has written) this interesting article on the Australian Federal Governments continued zeal to enforce ISP level filtering in Australia. In the article he posits "Underlying the Rudd Government's plan to screen the internet is an offensive message: that parents cannot be trusted to mind their children online.". Meanwhile, we wait for filtering trials to start, trials that have been delayed and which have next-to-no support among the industry. Telstra BigPond — Australia's largest ISP — has refused to take part, comparing internet filtering to "like trying to boil the ocean". The third largest, iiNet, is prepared to participate to highlight flaws.

Comment Sounds like many jobs I've had... (Score 2, Insightful) 196

by Klootzak on Wednesday January 21, 2009 @07:10PM (#26553637) Attached to: An FBI Agent's 3 Years Undercover With Identity Thieves

So Agent Mularski got a taste of what it's like to be a SysAdmin? I think it's a good thing, now he would understand what it's like to work in IT, he'll (hopefully) be more sympathetic to IT staff that he works with... We should get more Law-Enforcement officers into undercover IT "busts"!!!

Now, if he had a pager that would buzz him in the 6 hours he got "off" from the computer, that would be JUST like being a SysAdmin ;)

Comment Note to Editors.... (Score 1) 1

by Klootzak on Monday January 19, 2009 @09:35PM (#26523641) Attached to: T-Cells may help prevent Organ rejection.

I couldn't fit what I wanted in the submission title... should've been "Discoveries relating to T-Cell regulation may help prevent Organ rejection"...

Not sure what your word limit for article titles are... perhaps "Organ Transplant patients may be helped by new Discovery?".

Submission + - Belkin's President Apologizes for Faked Reviews 1

Submitted by

remove office

on Monday January 19, 2009 @03:26PM

remove office writes: "After I wrote about how Belkin's Amazon.com sales rep Mike Bayard had been paying for fake reviews of his company's products using Mechanical Turk (Slashdot story here), hundreds of readers across the web expressed their umbrage. As a result of the online outcry, Belkin's president Mark Reynoso has issued a statement apologizing and saying that "this is an isolated incident" and that "Belkin does not participate in, nor does it endorse, unethical practices like this." Amazon moved swiftly to remove several reviews on Belkin products it believed were fraudulent, although now fresh evidence of astroturfing has surfaced. Now I'm curious: what steps do Slashdotters think that online retailers can do to protect themselves and their customers from fake reviews?"

Submission + - Energy Star or Black Hole? (deviceguru.com)

Submitted by

Martin Hellman

on Monday January 19, 2009 @02:39PM

Martin Hellman writes: "Energy Star or Black Hole?

Yesterday's DeviceGuru.com feature raises questions about the EPA's Energy Star program. For example, an Energy Star compliant TV that claims to draw 0.1 watts in sleep mode appears to do that — but only seems to sleep about 25% of the time that it is "off." The other 75% of the time it draws about 20 watts, for an effective sleep power draw of 15 watts from the user's perspective.

Based on the observations described, it is also questionable how many PC's really are sleeping when their screens are blank, even if the user has turned sleep mode on. Given the billions of dollars and tons of CO2 that are at stake, this situation demands more attention."

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