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Comment Perverts at the library now take their Pr0n home (Score 1) 98

by amartire on Friday August 19, 2011 @12:04PM (#37143536) Attached to: Canadian Library to Loan Out People

I can see it now.. PERVERT: Excuse me miss, can you please point me to the kamasutra section... LIBRARIAN: Down 12 isle to the left. That section is a bit busy today, the end of the line is at isle 4. PERVERT: Ok, how about lusty romance? LIBRARIAN:: Isle 6, end of the line is at isle 5. PERVERT: Thanks! Oh and can you recommend any good books to read while I wait?

Submission + - EPA to Buy Small Town in Kansas

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Ponca City, We love you

on Friday October 30, 2009 @12:11PM

Ponca City, We love you writes: "The Wichita Eagle reports that Congress has approved funds to relocate the population of the southeast Kansas town of Treece, which is plagued with lead, zinc and other chemical contamination left by a century of mining. Estimates say it will cost about $3 million to $3.5 million to buy out the town, which is surrounded by huge piles of mining waste called chat and dotted with uncapped shafts and cave-ins filled with brackish, polluted water. "It's been a long, dusty, chat-covered road, but for the citizens of Treece, finally, help will be on the way," said Senator Pat Roberts of Kansas who has been pushing for a buyout of Treece for two years. The population of Treece has dwindled to about 100 people, almost all of whom want to move but say they can't because the pollution and an ongoing EPA cleanup project makes it impossible to sell a house. The EPA has already bought out the neighboring town of Picher, Oklahoma, stripping Treece of quick access to jobs, shopping, recreation and services, including fire protection and cable TV. Both cities were once prosperous mining communities but the ore ran out and the mines were abandoned by the early 1970s. Of 16 children tested for lead levels in Treece, two had levels between 5 and 10 micrograms per deciliter of blood and one had a level of more than 10, the threshold for lead poisoning. "It is our hope that this will give them the opportunity to raise their children, run their businesses, and get on with their lives free of the burdens of pollution and environmental degradation," says EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson."

Comment All and all its still going to be $500 (Score 1) 618

by amartire on Tuesday April 28, 2009 @04:40PM (#27750571) Attached to: A $99 Graphics Card Might Be All You Need

Now its going to be only $99 for a graphics card and only $400 for the physics engine card..

DNS Flaw Hits More Than Just the Web 215

Posted by timothy on Thursday August 07, 2008 @12:59PM from the gee-dan-thanks-thanks-a-bunch dept.

gringer writes "Dan Kaminsky presented at the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas on Wednesday, and said that the DNS vulnerability he discovered is much more dangerous than most have appreciated. Besides hijacking web browsers, hackers might attack email services and spam filters, FTP, Rsync, BitTorrent, Telnet, SSH, as well as SSL services. Ultimately it's not a question of which systems can be attacked by exploiting the flaw, but rather which ones cannot. Then again, it could just be hype. For more information, see Kaminsky's power point presentation." Update: 08/07 19:48 GMT by T : There's also an animation of the progress of the patch.

Chipped Passport Cloned In Minutes 326

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday August 07, 2008 @07:57AM from the unsafe-at-any-customs-counter dept.

Death Metal Maniac writes "New microchip passports designed to be foolproof against identity theft failed the test when a researcher was able to manipulate one in minutes. The cloned passports were accepted as genuine by the computer software recommended for use at international airports. According to the article: 'A computer researcher cloned the chips on two British passports and implanted digital images of Osama bin Laden and a suicide bomber. The altered chips were then passed as genuine by passport reader software used by the UN agency that sets standards for e-passports.'"

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