Journal Journal: l8tr.org is being shutdown.
Read all about it here:
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Journal Journal: More Math
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=x%5E2+sin%28x%29
Journal Journal: Math
http://www.newsobserver.com/news/health_science/story/1641012.html
Comment Over a week late. (Score -1) 1297
Aprils Fools is on the 1st.
Comment Arrrrrrrrrr. (Score -1) 137
Insert tar joke here.
Comment I find the use of the crown image offensive. (Score -1) 306
I expect better from
Comment lol @ Master Splynter (Score -1) 196
I would like to suggest "Visa Valentine" as that new alias.
Comment Best Advice is: Gay for Pay. (Score -1) 372
Journal Journal: Hans Reiser on 48 Hours!
0.) It is to bad that he killed her.
1.) I wish they talked more about computers, and facts.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/12/29/48hours/main4690543.shtml
http://www.tvbgone.com
Comment I had a hard time seeing the mayhem (Score -1) 66
but the Nerd was loud and clear!
I like http://www.hackaday.com/ better.
Journal Journal: Old boys club. 1
http://www.motionmodels.com/misc/blutz.html
The "war on terror" is realy a war over Oil, no matter what anyone says.
Researcher Warns of "Digital Dark Age" 367
alphadogg writes "A assistant professor from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is sounding a warning that companies, the government and researchers need to come up with a plan for preserving our increasingly digitized data in light of shifting document management and other software platforms (think WordPerfect and floppy disks). Jerome P. McDonough, who teaches at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, says there exists about 369 exabytes worth of data, and that includes some pretty hard to replace stuff, including tax files, email and photos. Open standards could play a key role in any preservation effort, he says. 'If we can't keep today's information alive for future generations, we will lose a lot of our culture,' McDonough said. Even over the course of 10 years, you can have a rapid enough evolution in the ways people store digital information and the programs they use to access it that file formats can fall out of date.'"
Attack Code Found For Recent Windows Bug 184
CWmike writes "Just a day after downplaying the vulnerability that caused it to issue an out-of-cycle patch last week, Microsoft warned customers late yesterday that exploit code had gone public and was being used in additional attacks. 'We've identified the public availability of exploit code that now shows code execution for the vulnerability addressed by MS08-067,' said Mike Reavey, operations manager of Microsoft's Security Response Center, in a post to the MSRC blog. 'This exploit code has been shown to result in remote code execution on Windows Server 2003, Windows XP, and Windows 2000.'"
The Personal Genome Project Hits the Web 87
Ian Lamont writes "The Personal Genome Project has released the data sets and descriptions of traits, ethnic background and other information of the first ten volunteers, which include the project director and nine other people with backgrounds in genetics, medicine, and biotechnology. While the human genome was first sequenced at the beginning of this decade, what's special about this project is these 10 participants are having their names, genome, and other personal data gleaned from questionnaires shared openly on the Web, where interested researchers can freely access them. One of the ultimate aims of the project is to create a public database of 100,000 volunteers that researchers and other parties can use to determine what traits, diseases or other characteristics are associated with specific genetic markers. When asked why volunteers are requested to attach their names to the Web records, the project director said the data could be used by researchers in other fields outside of genetics, including forensic science and historical research. While this project opens the door for some interesting and potentially life-saving research, there may also be difficulties or problems for people whose records are posted on the Web. Would you participate? Would you share your name, along with your genome, disease history, and traits? Why or why not?"
Judge Tells RIAA To Stop 'Bankrupting' Litigants 332
NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "The Boston judge who has consolidated all of the RIAA's Massachusetts cases into a single case over which she has been presiding for the past 5 years delivered something of a rebuke to the RIAA's lawyers, we have learned. At a conference this past June, the transcript of which (PDF) has just been released, Judge Nancy Gertner said to them that they 'have an ethical obligation to fully understand that they are fighting people without lawyers ... to understand that the formalities of this are basically bankrupting people, and it's terribly critical that you stop it ...' She also acknowledged that 'there is a huge imbalance in these cases. The record companies are represented by large law firms with substantial resources,' while it is futile for self-represented defendants to resist. The judge did not seem to acknowledge any responsibility on her part, however, for having created the 'imbalance,' and also stated that the law is 'overwhelmingly on the side of the record companies,' even though she seems to recognize that for the past 5 years she has been hearing only one side of the legal story."
