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Comment com, net & org where a mistake (Score 1) 177

by df5ea (#35168230) Attached to: Can World Governments Veto Your Domain Name?

Why do we have generic domain names at all? Wouldn't it be simpler to only have ccTLD's. We could then be spared all this so called "internet governance".

You could say that countries don't belong in the virtual world. But countries are mostly sociological stuctures created by humans. So they should have a place in the virtual world just as in the material world.
Transportation

Quantum Setback For Warp Drives 627

Posted by kdawson from the warp-zero-mister-sulu dept.
KentuckyFC writes "Warp drives were generally considered impossible by mainstream scientists until 1994 when the physicist Michael Alcubierre worked out how to build a faster-than-light drive using the principles of general relativity. His thinking was that while relativity prevents faster-than-light travel relative to the fabric of spacetime, it places no restriction on the speed at which regions of spacetime may move relative to each other. So a small bubble of spacetime containing a spacecraft could travel faster than the speed of light, at least in principle. But one unanswered question was what happens to the bubble when quantum mechanics is taken into account. Now, a team of physicists have worked it out, and it's bad news: the bubble becomes unstable at superluminal speeds, making warp drives impossible (probably)."
Security

Vast Electronic Spying Operation Discovered 303

Posted by kdawson from the whaling-for-political-advantage dept.
homesalad writes "Researchers in Toronto have discovered a huge international electronic spying operation that they are calling 'GhostNet.' So far it has infiltrated government and corporate offices in 103 countries, including the office of the Dalai Lama (who originally went to the researchers for help analyzing a suspected infiltration). The operation appears to be based in China, and the information gained has been used to interfere with the actions of the Dalai Lama and to thwart individuals seeking to help Tibetan exiles. The researchers found no evidence of infiltration of US government computers, although machines at the Indian embassy were compromised. Here is the researchers' summary; a full report, 'Tracking "GhostNet": Investigating a Cyber Espionage Network' will be issued this weekend." A separate academic group in the UK that helped with the research is issuing its own report, expected to be available on March 29. Here is the abstract. They seem to be putting more stress on the "social malware" nature of the attack and ways to mitigate such techniques.

Comment The real nameservers don't match whois (Score 1) 291

by df5ea (#15556736) Attached to: New Caldera Promised
The whois info for openlinux.com is posted enough times, here is the output of dig which i did not see:

hecabe:~ jp$ dig openlinux.com NS

; > DiG 9.2.2 > openlinux.com NS ;; global options: printcmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 29870 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 2, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;openlinux.com. IN NS ;; ANSWER SECTION:
openlinux.com. 6403 IN NS NS98.WORLDNIC.com.
openlinux.com. 6403 IN NS NS97.WORLDNIC.com. ;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
NS97.WORLDNIC.com. 172185 IN A 205.178.190.49 ;; Query time: 37 msec ;; SERVER: 192.168.1.1#53(192.168.1.1) ;; WHEN: Sun Jun 18 03:15:00 2006 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 94

As you see those nameservers don't match the whois record. Another piece of evidence that this is a hoax.

OpenSPARC and Power.org, Who has it Right? 125

Posted by ScuttleMonkey from the fight-to-the-death dept.
Andy Updegrove writes "Last summer, IBM set up Power.org, to promote its PowerPC chip as what it called 'open hardware.' This year, Sun launched the OpenSPARC.net open source project around the source code for its Niagara microprocessor. But what does 'open' mean in the context of hardware? In the case of Power.org, Juan-Antonio Carballo said, 'It includes but is not limited to open source, where specifications or source code are freely available and can be modified by a community of users. It could also mean that the hardware details can be viewed, but not modified. And it does not necessarily mean that open hardware, or designs that contain it, are free of charge.' True to that statement, you have to pay to participate meaningfully in Power.org, as well as pay royalties to implement - it's built on a traditional RAND consortium model. To use the Sun code, though, its just download the code under an open source license, and you're good to go to use anything except the SPARC name. All of which leads to the questions: What does 'open' mean in hardware, and which approach will work?"

Microsoft investing $1Billion in TCI

Posted by mojoski from the one-more-step-towards-ruling-the-world dept.
ZD-Net News is reporting that Micrsoft is about to announce a $1 Billion investment in Tele-Communications Inc. Looks like they might have control over the whole set-top box industry after all.. What do you think?

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