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Analysis of 250,000 Hacker Conversations 111

Posted by Soulskill on Monday October 17, 2011 @06:32PM from the strange-predilection-for-pancakes dept.

Orome1 writes "Imperva released a report (PDF) analyzing the content and activities of an online hacker forum with nearly 220,000 registered members, although many are dormant. The forum is used by hackers for training, communications, collaboration, recruitment, commerce and even social interaction. Commercially, this forum serves as a marketplace for selling of stolen data and attack software. The chat rooms are filled with technical subjects ranging from advice on attack planning to solicitations for help with specific campaigns."

Flawed Evidence In EU Apple vs. Samsung Case 297

Posted by Soulskill on Monday August 15, 2011 @03:19PM from the blame-the-metric-system dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The Dutch site webwereld.nl has found incorrect evidence submitted by Apple (Google translation of Dutch original) in the EU design-right case against Samsung. In the ex-parte case, a German judge recently issued a temporary injunction against the sale of the Galaxy Tab 10.1 in the whole EU except the Netherlands. The faulty evidence is a side-by-side picture of an iPad 2 and the Galaxy Tab. The Tab is scaled to fit the iPad2, and the aspect ratio is changed from 1.46 to 1.36, which more closely matches the iPad 2 aspect ratio of 1.3, according to webwereld.nl."

SETI Finds Funds For the Allen Telescope Array (For Now) 137

Posted by timothy on Sunday August 07, 2011 @02:21AM from the for-all-time-is-a-little-loftier dept.

Ransak writes "It looks as if SETI has met its short term funding goal to restart the Allen Telescope Array. Is crowdsourcing the long term future of pure research projects?"

Anonymous Releases 90,000 Military E-Mail Accounts 319

Posted by Soulskill on Monday July 11, 2011 @06:13PM from the and-another-one-gone-and-another-one-gone dept.

jjp9999 writes "Anonymous Operations posted 90,000 military email addresses and passwords to the Pirate Bay on July 11, in what they're calling 'Military Meltdown Monday.' They obtained the emails while hacking government contracting and consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton. They hinted at other information obtained during the breach, which they describe as 'maps and keys for various other treasure chests buried on the islands of government agencies, federal contractors and shady whitehat companies.' The breach comes just days after Anonymous hacked government contractor IRC Federal. Both breaches are linked to the new AntiSec movement, which LulzSec joined forces with shortly before disbanding."

Linux Kernel 2.6.32 Released 195

Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday December 03, 2009 @11:04AM from the download-compile-reboot-repeat dept.

diegocg writes "Linus Torvalds has officially released the version 2.6.32 of the Linux kernel. New features include virtualization memory de-duplication, a rewrite of the writeback code faster and more scalable, many important Btrfs improvements and speedups, ATI R600/R700 3D and KMS support and other graphic improvements, a CFQ low latency mode, tracing improvements including a 'perf timechart' tool that tries to be a better bootchart, soft limits in the memory controller, support for the S+Core architecture, support for Intel Moorestown and its new firmware interface, run-time power management support, and many other improvements and new drivers. See the full changelog for more details."

Nintendo Upset Over Nokia Game Emulation Video 189

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday December 01, 2009 @02:45AM from the super-mario-takedown dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Nintendo is investigating potential copyright infringement by Nokia during some video demos of their N900 phone, which can be seen emulating Nintendo games. Nintendo spokesman Robert Saunders says: 'We take rigorous steps to protect our IP and our legal team will examine this to determine if any infringement has taken place.' In the video, Nokia says, 'Most publishers allow individual title usage, provided that the user is in possession of the original title.'"

Comment Re:Shows the value of wikipedia's model (Score 1) 218

by andreicretu on Saturday May 16, 2009 @07:47AM (#27977915) Attached to: Wolfram Alpha Launches Tonight, On Camera

if you understand the concept of verse, you know your query isn't quite understandable by humans either

Comment Re:So much for pirate ethics (Score 1) 613

by andreicretu on Saturday April 18, 2009 @08:06AM (#27625637) Attached to: How Piracy Affected the Launch of <em>Demigod</em>

I think you are completely missing the point. It's not about being able to sell or not, it's about how much you sell.

Comment Re:So much for pirate ethics (Score 1) 613

by andreicretu on Saturday April 18, 2009 @08:01AM (#27625625) Attached to: How Piracy Affected the Launch of <em>Demigod</em>

while I do agree with your reasoning, it is a little bit more complex due to the fact that by increasing the multiplayer population, the perceived "value" of the goods increases, therefore generating an increase in demand. I do not think this increase in demand can offset the decrease caused by the "free substitute" though, but there's no easy way to find out (I would guess statistical analysis would be the "easy" way, and testing the product on different and unconnected [but at the same time similar in every related aspect] markets the definitive way)

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