Comment Re:Space Porn (Score 0) 201
Followed by a similar study of astronauts developing furry palms.
Comment what year is this? (Score 0) 201
ummm... what took so long?
Comment Re:Google dodged the point (Score 0) 150
Windows XP called, they want their security model back.
In Vista and Windows 7, all users are normally regular users, but can run programs as administrators much like sudo.
See http://bit.ly/10KkWr (PDF) for more info.
In Vista and Windows 7, all users are normally regular users, but can run programs as administrators much like sudo.
See http://bit.ly/10KkWr (PDF) for more info.
Comment By this logic... (Score 0) 95
AT&T, every time someone accesses my website using you as an ISP, you must pay me 5$. If you don't, you're clearly against net neutrality.
Comment Re:Good thing... (Score 1) 157
Well, all I can say is to make your intentions clearer next time.
Comment Re:Good thing... (Score 0, Redundant) 157
*whoosh*
Comment Re:This being Slashdot... (Score 0) 419
In the article: "Movie mad and immunized from international copyright laws, Iranians are normally treated to one or two Hollywood or European movie nights a week."
So no, but they don't really care anyways.
Comment Re:Yes, it's suspicious (Score 0) 171
http://build.chromium.org/buildbot/snapshots/chromium-rel-xp/
Choose your revision, and run mini_installer.exe
Or, extract chrome-win32.zip for a portable version. (it still leaves behind its settings in your AppData directories, though)
Wikileaks Publishes $1B of Public Domain Research Reports 231
laird writes "Wikileaks has released
nearly a billion dollars worth of quasi-secret reports commissioned by the United States Congress. The 6,780 reports, current as of this month, comprise over 127,000 pages of material on some of the most contentious issues in the nation, from the U.S. relationship with Israel to abortion legislation. Nearly 2,300 of the reports were updated in the last 12 months, while the oldest report goes back to 1990. The release represents the total output of the Congressional Research Service (CRS) electronically available to Congressional offices. The CRS is Congress's analytical agency and has a budget in excess of $100M per year. Although all CRS reports are legally in the public domain, they are quasi-secret because the CRS, as a matter of policy, makes the reports available only to members of Congress, Congressional committees and select sister agencies such as the GAO. Members of Congress are free to selectively release CRS reports to the public but are only motivated to do so when they feel the results would assist them politically. Universally embarrassing reports are kept quiet."
Comment Re:Why the need for a USB stick at all? (Score 0) 258
There wasn't a massive amount of data stored on that USB stick. It was just an authentication medium for the online government system, which actually stores the data.
It's like the difference between putting your key or your house in your pocket. They shut down the service so they could go over their logs and change the passwords, much like I would get my locks changed if I lost my key.
Also, to have an encrypted net connection, you have to have some way to authenticate anyways, and then you go right back to problems with storing that stuff on a physical medium.
Comment Re:Everyone? (Score 0) 485
I've known a lot of evangelical Christians and NONE of them think the world was created 6000 years ago.
Yeah, that would be absurd. Any evangelical Christian knows the world is only 4000 years old.
Submission + - Galaxy Blasts Neighbor with Deadly Jet (space.com)
butterwise writes: "Space.com is reporting that "for the first time astronomers have witnessed a supermassive black hole blasting its galactic neighbor with a deadly beam of energy."
"The 'death star galaxy,' as NASA astronomers called it, could obliterate the atmospheres of planets but also trigger the birth of stars in the wake of its destructive beam. Fortunately, the cosmic violence is a safe distance from our own neck of the cosmos.""
"The 'death star galaxy,' as NASA astronomers called it, could obliterate the atmospheres of planets but also trigger the birth of stars in the wake of its destructive beam. Fortunately, the cosmic violence is a safe distance from our own neck of the cosmos.""
Submission + - AOL cutting 2000 additional jobs (bloomberg.com) 1
butterwise writes: "AOL plans to cut 2,000 jobs, or 20 percent of its worldwide workforce, as the Internet division focuses on advertising sales to make up for subscriber losses."
Dangerous Java Flaw Threatens 'Virtually Everything' 323
Marc Nathoni writes with a ZDet article about a critically dangerous hole in the Java Runtime Environment. Due to the ubiquitousness of Java, this could prove a serious security problem. "Australia's Computer Emergency Response Team (AusCERT) analyst, Robert Lowe, warned that anyone using the Java Runtime Environment or Java Development Kit is at risk. 'Delivery of exploits in this manner is attractive to attackers because even though the browser may be fully patched, some people neglect to also patch programs invoked by browsers to render specific types of content,' said Lowe."
