Comment Re:Fake (Score 1) 190
After following the links through to the original source material, I came to the same conclusion as you. This is totally fake and
Comment Missing Option (Score 1) 396
The sky. It's the only platform that I use to access the cloud(s).
Comment Been There, Done That (Score 1) 6
I worked for a very short time last year in a small company's warehouse. The time clock for this warehouse could be operated by either a fingerprint or an employee number and code combination. We didn't have to provide a print for every single finger, just the one we wanted to use for clocking. It didn't seem like a big deal to me because my girlfriend works for a large consulting firm and the crazy amount of biometric data their clients use made a single fingerprint look like a joke.
Submission + - World's Tech Co's: Don't Blame Canada on Copyright (michaelgeist.ca)
An anonymous reader writes: The Computer & Communications Industry Association, which includes
a who's who of the tech world including Microsoft, Google, T-Mobile,
Fujitsu, AMD, eBay, Intuit, Oracle, and Yahoo, have issued a strong defense
of current Canadian copyright law, arguing that the U.S. is wrong to
place Canada on the annual Special 301 list. The submission
argues that the U.S. should not criticize Canada for not implementing
anti-circumvention rules and warns against using the Special 301
process to "remake the world in the image of the DMCA."
Comment Re:these are not pranks! (Score 2, Informative) 543
Lenin and Stalin was also enamored with Lysenko.
Lenin had nothing to do with Lysenko. Lysenko came around several years after Lenin died.
Comment Re:Stainless steel? (Score 1) 571
Seriously, how did they not have that as an option?
Journal SPAM: Ask You All: Joomla or Drupal Experience? 6
Anybody here do any major work with Joomla! or Drupal? Anyone work with both? Anyone have any experience or advice to share with someone considering using one of them - possibly to do a bunch of stuff like crm, social networking, etc.
Thanks in advance for any who can share.
Submission + - Archive Formats Kill Antivirus Products 2
nemiloc writes: From F-Secure website:
"The Secure Programming Group at Oulu University has created a collection of malformed archive files. These archive files break and crash products from at least 40 vendors — including several antivirus vendors...including us."
It is not new anymore that security producs have have security problems... What makes this special is that antivirus software is a perfect target. They are run on critical places with high privileges and autoupdates keeps versions coherent.
More information:
Test material by OUSPG and
Joint advisory by CERT-FI and CPNI
Submission + - SPAM: Frozen researchers set Antarctic ballooning record
coondoggie writes: "The National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) said today they had set a new record in the almost 20-year history of scientific ballooning in Antarctica, by launching and operating three long-duration sub-orbital flights simultaneously within a single southern-hemisphere summer. Scientists use data collected from such high-altitude balloons to study ultra-high-energy cosmic rays, search for anti-matter and look at other environmental or astrophysical experiments.
The NSF supports long-duration balloon flights in Antarctica to conduct astrophysical experiments. Circling the continent on unique stratospheric winds at altitudes of roughly 23 miles for periods of up to 31 days, experiments operate in an area that is almost free of atmospheric interference. For some experiments, this provides scientists with conditions equivalent to flight aboard a satellite or the space shuttle, at much lower cost.
[spam URL stripped]"
Link to Original Source
Link to Original Source
Submission + - Drug testing entire cities at once
Ellis D. Tripp writes: "Researchers have developed a technique for determining what illicit drugs people might be consuming in a given area, by testing a sample from the local sewage treatment plant. As little as a teaspoonful of untreated wastewater can reveal drug use patterns in a given community. From the article:
"one fairly affluent community scored low for illicit drugs except for cocaine. Cocaine and ecstasy tended to peak on weekends and drop on weekdays, she said, while methamphetamine and prescription drugs were steady throughout the week."
Obviously, any drugs found can't be tied to any specific user, but how much longer until the drug warriors want to deploy automatic sampling units farther upstream of the sewage treatment plant, sampling sewage output from selected neighborhoods, blocks, or even individual houses?
http://www.townhall.com/news/sci-tech/2007/08/21/s cientists_drug-test_whole_cities"
"one fairly affluent community scored low for illicit drugs except for cocaine. Cocaine and ecstasy tended to peak on weekends and drop on weekdays, she said, while methamphetamine and prescription drugs were steady throughout the week."
Obviously, any drugs found can't be tied to any specific user, but how much longer until the drug warriors want to deploy automatic sampling units farther upstream of the sewage treatment plant, sampling sewage output from selected neighborhoods, blocks, or even individual houses?
http://www.townhall.com/news/sci-tech/2007/08/21/
Journal Journal: Employee and customer problems come up, some of us are both?
I am an employee for one of the largest banks in the country, recently when calling as a customer I had a chance to butt heads with customer service. When I returned to work the next day my manager and unit manager had received details about the conversation, and a screen shot of my account details. Most of us support our companies by using the service we help to provide, but what do you all do when those situations come into conflict. I am moving my accounts away but what legal options are t
Submission + - Bad Movie Physics Hurt Scientific Understanding (physorg.com)
eldavojohn writes: "A paper published by UCF researchers claims that bad movie physics hurt students' understanding of real world physics. From the article, "Some people really do believe a bus traveling 70 mph can clear a 50-foot gap in a freeway, as depicted in the movie Speed." The professors published this paper out of fear that society will pay the price. One of the authors commented on advancements in the past years "All the luxuries we have today, the modern conveniences, are a result of the science research that went on in the '60s during the space race. It didn't just happen. It took people doing hard science to do it." I commented on the physics of the most recent Die Hard having problems detracting from my enjoyment of the movie but is it really the root of a growing problem of poor science & math among students?"
Submission + - Building a (fast) Wikipedia offline reader (softlab.ntua.gr)
ttsiod writes: "An internet connection is not always at hand... I wanted to install Wikipedia on my laptop
to be able to carry it along with me on business trips... After trying and rejecting the normal (MySQL-based) procedure, I quickly hacked a much better one over the weekend, using open source
tools. Highlights:
(1) Very fast searching (2) Keyword (actually, title words) based searching (3) Search produces multiple possible articles, sorted by probability (you choose amongst them) (4) LaTEX based rendering for Mathematical equations (5) Harddisk usage is minimal: space for the original .bz2 file plus the index built through Xapian (6) Orders of magnitude faster to install (a matter of hours) compared to loading the "dump" into MySQL — which, if you want to enable keyword searching, takes *days*.
Enjoy!"
Submission + - Open-source community's double standard on MySQL (com.com)
AlexGr writes: "Matt Asay raises a really good point in his CNET News Blog: Deja vu. Remember 2002? That's when Red Hat decided to split its code into Red Hat Advanced Server (now Red Hat Enterprise Linux) and Fedora. Howls of protest and endless hand-wringing ensued: How dare Red Hat not give everything away for free?
Enter 2007. MySQL decides to comply with the GNU General Public License and only give its tested, certified Enterprise code to those who pay for the service underlying that code (gasp!). Immediately cries of protest are raised, How dare MySQL not give everything away for free?
http://news.com.com/8301-10784_3-9758671-7.html?ta g=head"
Karl Rove Resigning Aug 31 739
tetrahedrassface writes "According to CNN current Bush Administration political advisor Karl Rove will be resigning his post as senior political advisor at the end of August to spend more time with his family. Few if any prior senior political advisors to presidents have been the lightning rods for controversy that Mr. Rove has. Accused of running smear campaigns and celebrated for pioneering district level up campaigns that rely heavily on databases and fake grassroots origins, Mr Rove is one of the chief architects of the Republican Revolution."
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