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Comment These Three Things (Score 0) 169

by OrangeCarrot on Thursday November 05, 2015 @11:28AM (#50870623) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Smart Electronics For a Marathoner?

The GPS Watch: The Garmin Forerunner 10. It's waterproof and fairly minimal in terms of features. It does exactly what a runner's GPS watch should do and nothing more. https://buy.garmin.com/en-US/U...

The iPod: The current generation of iPod Nano has built in Bluetooth. Sweat being a problem - don't wear it on the arm. Get a clip to stick it on the waistband. The HHiCase (or roocase) works pretty well. http://www.apple.com/ipod-nano... http://www.amazon.com/iPod-Nan...

The Headphones: YurBuds makes an excellent product (Liberty Wireless) that wraps over the ear, resists sweat and water, and allows ambient noise to reach the wearer for safety. http://www.yurbuds.com/en/wire...

I used all three of these in my first Marathon last year. Nothing failed.

Submission + - ussie Police probe virtual worlds for money trail (itnews.com.au)

Submitted by schliz on Sunday March 27, 2011 @10:55PM

schliz writes: Australian law enforcement has flagged virtual worlds as a "growing area of interest" in its fight against money laundering and cybercrime. Police are reportedly investigating unnamed virtual worlds, as well as online money transfer services such as e-gold and Hawala/Hundi.

Submission + - Iron-Eating Bug Is Gobbling Up the Titanic (aolnews.com)

Submitted by gambit3 on Wednesday December 08, 2010 @05:24PM

gambit3 writes: A newly discovered microbe dubbed Halomonas titanicae is chewing its way through the wreck of the famous ship and leaving little behind except a fine dust, researchers report in today's issue of the International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. "In 1995, I was predicting that Titanic had another 30 years," said Henrietta Mann, a civil engineering adjunct professor at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. "It's deteriorating much faster than that now."

Wordpress.org Warns of Active Worm Hacking Blogs 103

Posted by timothy on Saturday September 05, 2009 @06:53PM from the in-this-case-the-worms-are-actually-human-beings dept.

Erik writes "Wordpress, the popular open-source Content Management System (CMS) for many thousands of bloggers worldwide, is under attack from a 'clever' worm that automatically compromises unpatched versions of the Wordpress system. The particularly nasty bug crawls the web for vulnerable Wordpress installations, installing malware, deleting content, and generally wreaking havoc wherever it can. Today, Wordpress founder Matt Mullenweg eloquently implored Wordpress bloggers to update more frequently. Originally, updating the Wordpress system was a rather laborious process; however, newer versions offer fast and simple one-click upgrades. The two most recent versions of Wordpress (2.8.3 and 2.8.4) cannot be attacked by the worm discovered this week, and blogs hosted at Wordpress.com are also apparently immune."

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