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Submission + - Scientists claim discovery of new species of ancient human (theguardian.com)

Submitted by chapman
chapman writes: The discovery of human-like bones in the Rising Star cave, 50km from Johannesburg, may belong to a new species of “long-legged”, “pinheaded” and “gangly” human relative. Apparently the chamber in the cave where the discovery was made is so inaccessible (only 8 inches wide) that the team brought in a group of lightly-built female researchers in order to excavate the bones.

Comment Hit the bailout button! (Score 1) 98

by chapman (#35065436) Attached to: London Stock Exchange Was 'Under Major Cyberattack' During Linux Switch

No worries. The LSE collapses due to fatal infosec problems and the UK taxpayer picks up the bill. We could probably pick up some bargain-basement deals on whichever companies were affected by the trading system collapse too. In the long term, allowing poorly secured systems to fail is a kind of digital natural selection.
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At Google, You're Old and Gray At 40 543

Posted by kdawson from the cult-of-youth dept.
theodp writes "Google faces an imminent California Supreme Court decision on whether an age discrimination suit against it can go forward. But that hasn't kept the company from patting itself on the back for how it supports 'Greyglers' — that's any Googler over 40. At a company of about 20,000 full-time employees, there were at last count fewer than 200 formally enrolled Greyglers working to 'make Google culture ... welcome to people of all ages.'"
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The Desktop Security Battle May Be Lost 389

Posted by kdawson from the deploy-the-tinfoil-hats dept.
Trailrunner7 writes in with a Threatpost.com article that begins: "For years, security experts, analysts and even users have been lamenting the state of desktop security. Viruses, spam, Trojans and rootkits have added up to create an ugly picture. But, the good news is that the desktop security battle may be over. The less-than-good news, however, is that we may have lost it. Jeremiah Grossman, CTO of WhiteHat Security, said Thursday that many organizations, particularly in the financial services industry, have gotten to the point of assuming that their customers' desktops are compromised. And moving forward from that assumption, things don't get much prettier." It goes on to speculate about home routers being targeted and infected.

Comment Re:Stephen Fry (Score 1) 216

by chapman (#29742889) Attached to: In the UK, a Few Tweets Restore Freedom of Speech

Complete nonsense. UK citizens enjoy personal freedoms and benefits that many others only dream about. I'm bemused by the fact that the better off we are, the more people complain about it.

So, apart from an independent judiciary, a police force that serves citizens rather than the state, a voluntary armed service, the personal freedom to learn, teach, travel, work, employ, practice any or no religion, support your favourite political cause, stand for political office and even vote for a different government every few years... what *has* the UK done for us?

The weather's not great, but hey, you can't have everything.

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