Comment who'd a thunk it (Score 1) 209
technology can be used for good or evil...
moving on...
Comment Re:Other representatives (Score 1) 186
when politics and the blame game are involved, more likely...
Comment Re:and russian pies get deported freely (Score 1) 340
restricted from hosting a webserver for a period of time
Which may be a bit difficult to enforce once he returns to britain -- unless they're planning on keeping him in the US for this period of time.
And seriously, extraditing someone for something that will probably end up with them getting fined is just nuts. Having said that, I must admit that I haven't really been keeping up with the sanctions given out for copyright stuff in the states.
Comment Re:Are you sure? (Score 1) 136
I like my system. I have a somewhat unique word that is about 8 characters long. I mix that with the domain name of the site I am visiting in the format of an email address (which we all seem to be able to remember).
The only problem with this is that it is still mostly useless if someone gets one of your passwords.
For example if newyorktimes.com gets hacked and the login info is published, then it's not a massive intellectual effort to figure out the scheme that you are using and applying it to any other sites that you may be on.
In passwords size matters
Only if you're just brute forcing.
Comment Re:I would be amazed . . . (Score 2) 105
they seem to have gotten 9th overall (out of 56 who started) , which is even more impressive... according to http://www.lemans.org/en/races/24h-du-mans/live-2011/live-timing.html here
Submission + - Coder preps 3DS browser homebrew game library (thinq.co.uk)
An anonymous reader writes: Nintendo's recent update for the 3DS brought some interesting new features, including something the company may not have intended: the capacity for homebrew coders to create their own software on the platform.
Submission + - Cloud-based, ray traced games on Intel tablets (intel.com)
An anonymous reader writes: After Intel showed a ray traced version of Wolfenstein last year running cloud-based streamed to a laptop the company that has just recently announced its shift to the mobile market shows now their research project also running on various x86-tablets with 5 to 10 inch screens. The heavy calculations are performed by a cloud consisting of a machine with a Knights Ferry card (32 cores) inside. The achieved frame rates are around 20-30 fps.
Submission + - Woman has 152 Facebook friend's pics tattoed (everythingnew.net)
hasanabbas1987 writes: "What is the height of frustration? – A boxer trying to scratch his butt with his boxing gloves onAnd what is the height of creepy but faithful friendship ? – Well you just get 152 Facebook friend’s profile pictures on your arm. And this height of friendship was achieved by a woman in Netherlands who got 152 friend’s display pictures of their Facebook profiles tattooed on her arm. Its a good thing that she only had 152 friends on her social network, imagine if she had like a 1,000 friends. Funny thing to notice here will be that what if she deletes one of her 152 friends. Maybe a big “X” will be tattooed on that particular person’s tattoo."
Submission + - Foxconn International removed from Hang Seng index (bbc.co.uk)
Tasha26 writes: After the suicides and fatal explosion, the Taiwanese company Foxconn now faces losing its blue-chip status. Falling prices for smartphones, laptops, tablets and other gadgets and rising wages (20%) in China have undermined Foxconn's financial performance. The company lost $220m (£135m) in 2010. Foxconn International will be removed from Hong Kong's benchmark Hang Seng index and be replaced by insurer AIA and nappy maker Hengan. The two new entrants use China both as a source of cheap labour and as a market for their product, a switch which Foxconn is now considering.
Submission + - Twitter Helps Astronomers Zero-In On M51 Supernova (discovery.com)
astroengine writes: "It's simple. You see news pop up on the web about a supernova and you tweet about it. But in the case of last week's M51 (the "Whirlpool Galaxy") 14-magnitude bright stellar explosion, one tweet was picked up by University of California, Berkeley, astronomers... who just so happened to be enjoying some observing time on one of Keck Observatory's monster telescopes. Although the weather wasn't perfect, the Berkeley team were able to quickly observe a spectrum from the M51 brightening to quickly confirm that it was a Type II supernova — the core collapse of a massive star, some 8-times the mass of the sun.
"This is the first time that we've been alerted via a tweet," Alex Filippenko, lead astronomer of the UC Berkeley team, told Discovery News. "We've been alerted many times via email, and in a sense, I was alerted via an email message, but it was from a colleague who was alerted through a tweet."
"To my knowledge, that is unprecedented.""
"This is the first time that we've been alerted via a tweet," Alex Filippenko, lead astronomer of the UC Berkeley team, told Discovery News. "We've been alerted many times via email, and in a sense, I was alerted via an email message, but it was from a colleague who was alerted through a tweet."
"To my knowledge, that is unprecedented.""
Submission + - China used prisoners in lucrative internet gaming (guardian.co.uk)
SoyQueSoy writes: "Prison bosses made more money forcing inmates to play games than they do forcing people to do manual labour," Liu told the Guardian. "There were 300 prisoners forced to play games. We worked 12-hour shifts in the camp. I heard them say they could earn 5,000-6,000rmb [£470-570] a day. We didn't see any of the money. The computers were never turned off."
Submission + - EFF co-founder faces copyright heavyweights at eG8 (arstechnica.com)
ndogg writes: "EFF co-founder, and Grateful Dead lyricist, John Perry Barlow faced down copyright heavyweights the likes of French President Nicolas Sarkozy, Jim Gianopulos of 20th Century Fox, and French Culture Minister Frédéric Mitterand. He was on a panel he described as "the Lions Den" discussing issues of intellectual property, and he was the lone dissenting voice on the panel. Mitterand had commented that copyright debates had grown so calm now that everyone agreed upon the ground rules. Barlow shook things up for once."
Comment Re:Duh? (Score 2) 119
If you want to prevent the bad guys from exploiting a vulnerability, then don't... um... tell them about the vulnerability? But do tell the affected parties about it.
I think nuclear power plants and the like warrant something a bit more than security through obscurity...
Comment Re:What is copied? (Score 1) 221
Are things different in other fields? Are there areas where classes are taught primarily from copied materials? If so, why is this done, instead of just picking a selection of books? Is it that there are no adequate books? If so, then why don't people write them?
Often, in my experience, lecturers will copy *small amounts* of text from a book, so that students don't have to buy a $70 textbook just for one subtopic that isn't covered in other books. And putting enough copies in the library that everyone taking the course can get adequate access to said book is not really feasible.
At my uni if they need larger amounts (i.e. several chapters) they pay publishers for the right to copy those and then sell them on to us. Which still ends up a lot cheaper for us (students).
Submission + - Congress Opens Records of Anti-Comic Book Shrink (loc.gov) 1
eldavojohn writes: Some light is being shone on comic book history today as Congress opens up the 222 boxes of a German psychiatrist's evidence and papers against comic books. Dr. Fredric Wertham is well known by comic book fans as the author of Seduction of the Innocent, a bestselling book linking comic books and juvenile delinquency — leading to a full blown congressional investigation (some say witch hunt) of the comic book industry. Wertham was long involved with criminal trials before campaigning against comic books and promoting industry and government censorship for children. Ars adds a little more context for the younger crowd and notes that he later tried to move against television violence but couldn't find the publisher backing he had against comic books.
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