Comment This is a Story? (Score 2, Informative) 149
A manager firing a person for not showing up to work is not a story.
Comment Theme park? (Score 1) 54
Not a good idea. I have seen this movie
Comment Just bought mine a few months ago (Score 1) 266
fishing lures, custom peg board tool holders, stands/mounts/cases for electronic projects, and a lot of miniature D&D models. When I was able to get a printer for sub $200 it became a hobby and I am not really concerned with the practical use any more even though I have found some use. It is more of an entertainment item than anything else.
Comment Zombie Appocolypse is finally over! (Score 1) 258
Could this be the begining of the end? See the young people emerge from the houses squinting at the daylight
Comment Stardust (Score 1) 314
Stardust@home - very easy to track progress and classroom materials avaiable.
USFIRST is always a great option
Submission + - Germany declare hacking tools illegal (arstechnica.com)
dubbelj writes: Germany have updated their computer crime law to declare "hacking tools" illegal.
This will make most of the network admin and computer security people in a gray area at work.
How will this affect Linux distribution in Germany as most of standard Linux distributions come with these kind of "hacking tools" installed by default?
How will the rest of EU member countries react on this law, will there be lobbying for the other countries to implement this kind of laws also?
Articles in ars technica and The Register.
Submission + - P2P Networks supplement Botnets
stuckinarut writes: Peer to peer file sharing network popularity is at an all time high, with hundreds of thousands of computers connected to a single P2P network at a given time. These networks are increasingly being used to trick PCs into attacking other machines, experts say. In fact, some reports indicate that peer-to-peer may actually exceed web traffic. Computer scientists have previously shown how P2P networks can be subverted so that several connected PCs gang up to attack a single machine, flooding it with enough traffic to make it crash. This can work even if the target is not part of the P2P network itself. Now, security experts are warning that P2P networks are increasingly being used to do just this. "Until January of this year we had never seen a peer-to-peer network subverted and used for an attack," says Darren Rennick of internet security company Prolexic in an advisory released recently. "We now see them constantly being subverted."
Submission + - First Nations want cellphone revenue
Peacenik45 writes: The CBC is reporting that First Nations in Manitoba want compensation for every cell phone signal that passes through their land because it violates their airspace. The Assembly of Maintoba Chiefs recently resolved to negotiate revenue sharing with Manitoba Telecom Services. Ovide Mercredi of the Grand Rapids First Nations says "When it comes to using airspace, it's like using our water and simply because there's no precedent doesn't mean that it's not the right thing to do." This move may inspire First Nations in other provinces to follow suit.
Comment New Topic Area (Score 1) 1259
What about allowing both to exist? Creat a new topic area similiar to the ones you have now (Games, Hardware, etc...) but call it something like "Regular Users" or something. Now, all of the articals by repeat users go into this topic area. On the main slashdot.org page where you show the new articals you supress the 'regular users' topic area so that casual visitors see new, fresh articals by different users. More serious slashdot users can direct themselfs to the 'regular users' area to see more articals. It would keep them seperate but yet allow them to coexist.
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