Comment seriously? (Score 1) 156
So the US is basically just trusting that whoever puts the network in won't take advantage of the situation? That's frightening.
Should Apple Open Source the iPhone? 379
An anonymous reader writes "Given the OpeniBoot project is just a breath away from getting Android onto the iPhone, maybe Apple should consider opening up the platform. This post has five reasons, but I think there are far more. Without open source, Apple will find itself in the same position as today's Microsoft in seven years."
Submission + - Pluto Probe Makes Discoveries at Jupiter (jhuapl.edu)
Riding with Robots writes: No, it's not an accident due to a metric-to-English-units error. In February, the New Horizons probe passed through the Jupiter system on its way to Pluto, and we saw some spectacular pictures. Now, the science teams have published detailed scientific results, along with new images and movies. an overview is now online. The probe's instruments saw clouds form from ammonia welling up from Jupiter's lower atmosphere, and heat-induced lighting strikes in the polar regions, and fresh eruptions on the volcanic moon Io. New Horizons also captured the clearest images ever of the tenuous Jovian ring system, where scientists spotted clumps of debris that may indicate a recent impact inside the rings, or some more exotic phenomenon.
Comment worms (Score 1) 917
I work at a big company with a big, world-wide intranet. I installed WinXP on a machine at work from a pre-SP1 CD. The machine survived about 30 minutes on the intranet before a Sasser-like thing found it, which is not enough time to get through the Windows Update process. I eventually figured out that if I stick the machine behind a NAT, I could get the OS installed and patched before releasing it into the "wild" of our network.
