Submission + - NATO Set to Equate 'Cyberattacks' with Global Warfare (nytimes.com)
A former NATO ambassador describes NATO's technological capability as "pretty basic" and suggests any counter-cyberattacks would likely be lodged by member states (meaning the US and maybe Britain). He opines, "It's a measure of how far we've come on this issue that there's now a consensus that a cyberattack could be as devastating as any other kind of attack, maybe even more so."
Helpfully, the agreement avoids defining what sort of 'cyberattack' would warrant an armed response. The Times describes the agreement as "deliberately unclear."
Comment Re:fear (Score 2) 152
Public skepticism about GMO's has been growing in China and the government there is extremely concerned with anything that can enrage popular discontent.
Just because it's no longer legal to grow genetically modified foods in China doesn't mean that Chinese corporations won't use them. Making GM seeds illegal cuts out a lot of red tape for both the government and the companies, gives China plausible deniability if things go badly in the future, and also gives the government a way to research China's own GMO crops that will somehow be different from the dangerous Western-created GMO products.
Submission + - NASA's Hansen Calls Out Obama on Climate Change
Comment You know there's something wrong with society when (Score 0) 188
Failed Games That Damaged Or Killed Their Companies 397
Financial Issues May Force Changes On Games Industry 246
Comment Re:What they bring (Score 4, Insightful) 835
What you want is not so much an employee that is necessarily older but an employee with predictable skills, attitude, and way of thinking (or at least tolerable) in your eyes. As a bonus, you end up with the most compatible person for the role, regardless of age.
Comment Science for the sake of science... Re:lawsuits... (Score 1) 353
Even if they did, tin snips still aren't very effective at getting open blister packs safely unless you're wearing heavy work gloves, in my experience. You'll still end up with a sharp edge whipping around, even if you're not ripping it open with your hands (which is undoubtably unsafe).
The fact that we have to have this discussion at all just goes to show the level of insanity that went into blister packs.
Assuming the creators of these packages never had the consumer in mind, what if we reverse the thinking and ignore their product... What's the most effective way to open these blister packs?
I was thinking creating a commercial acid-dropper (burn your skin acid, not burn your brain acid)! Something that looks like a coffeemaker that lets you put a package underneath, it'll drop a few drops of concentrated acid around the perimeter of the package and then after a second or two, drop a neutralizing base on the package. No fuss, no mess, no edges because they've essentially been melted into rounded edges... So what if the product might be turned into slag??
Yes, I'm bored at work.
Submission + - ICANN loses control of its own Domain Names (www.cbc.ca)
"As has been widely reported, a number of domain names, including icann.com and iana.com were recently redirected to different DNS servers, allowing a group to provide visitors to those domains with their own website. The domains in question are used only as mirrors for ICANN and IANA's main websites. The organizations' actual websites at icann.org and iana.org were unaffected...
Submission + - OLPC developing dual-boot Windows, Linux OS (computerworld.com) 1
Submission + - Journalist Test Drives The Pain Ray Gun (dailymail.co.uk)
Submission + - Star Wars fan puts himself in Carbonite (thesneeze.com)
"It is made from fiberglass, and the short story is that a friend who is a special effects guy owned the piece, which was a direct casting off the original prop. He was moving, (aka getting married and yelled at) and asked me if I wanted it. I screamed a huge lispy "Yes!", and picked it up, but knew I wanted to do something cool with it. So I called my other nerdy special effects pals, and they offered to replace Harrison Ford's face with mine. I was so tired of hearing this offer in my daily life, but decided to finally consider it, so off it went.
KNB Effects in the valley took an algae mold of my entire head, then cut off Han Solo's, and replaced it with mine. They even added the frozen saliva that rushed out when Han got frozen."
Submission + - New Hack Exploits Common Programming Error (techtarget.com)