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Submission + - Mystery air crash blackbox found sans memory part (networkworld.com)

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coondoggie
coondoggie writes: "Hopes that the ongoing undersea search of the Air France Flight 447 wreckage had yielded one of the key items investigators were looking for – the flight data recorder – were set back this week as the robot subs scouring the ocean floor found the box only to find its memory part missing."
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Submission + - Windows DLL Vulnerability Exploit In The Wild (computerworld.com)

Submitted by WrongSizeGlass
WrongSizeGlass writes: Exploit code for the DLL loading issue that reportedly affects hundreds of Windows applications made its appearance on Monday. HD Moore, the creator of the Metasploit open-source hacking toolkit, released the exploit code along with an auditing tool that records which applications are vulnerable. "Once it makes it into Metasploit, it doesn't take much more to execute an attack," said Andrew Storms, director of security operations for nCircle Security. "The hard part has already been done for [hackers]."
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China's Nine-Day Traffic Jam Tops 62 Miles 198

Posted by samzenpus from the living-on-the-road dept.
A traffic jam on the Beijing-Tibet expressway has now entered its ninth day and has grown to over 62 miles in length. This mother-of-all delays has even spawned its own micro-economy of local merchants selling water and food at inflated prices to stranded drivers. Can you imagine how infuriating it must be to see someone leave their blinker on for 9 days?
NASA

NASA Preparing For Largest Hurricane Study Ever 28

Posted by Soulskill from the assuming-they're-not-blowing-hot-air dept.
anonymous writes "Does lightning predict the intensity of a tropical storm? What role does dust from the Sahara play? Do hurricanes form from the large-scale environment around a tropical storm or from small-scale formations 100 kilometers from the center? A team from NASA, NOAA, and NSF plan to find out. Starting Saturday, the team will conduct the largest hurricane study every undertaken. Among other things, a better understanding of hurricanes has ramifications for weather prediction, building codes, insurance policies, and disaster planning." One recent study found that hurricane creation is affected by plankton in the ocean.
Biotech

Submission + - Patents on synthetic life "Exteremely Damaging" (bbc.co.uk)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Pioneer and veteran of genimocs, Professor John Sulston, is extremely concerned about the patent application on the first "Synthetic lifeform". The patents were filed by the Venter Institute following the announcement of the first life-form to have a synthetic genome (as reported here on slashdot http://science.slashdot.org/story/10/05/20/1839209/Synthetic-Genome-Drives-Bacterial-Cell?from=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Slashdot%2Fslashdot+(Slashdot) ). Sulston claims the patent is excessively broad and would stifle research and development in the field by creating an effective monopoly on synthetic life and related molecular techniques.
Prof. Sulston has previously locked horns with Dr Craig Venter (of the eponymous Venter institute) over intellectual property issues surrounding the human genome project ten years ago. Fortunately Sulston won the last round and the HGP is freely accessible — Venter had wanted to charge for access just as he now wishes to make "synthetic life" proprietary.
Linux

Submission + - Slackware 13.1 released (slackware.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: The Slackware 13.1 release is out. "Slackware 13.1 brings many updates and enhancements, among which you'll find two of the most advanced desktop environments available today: Xfce 4.6.1, a fast and lightweight but visually appealing and easy to use desktop environment, and KDE 4.4.3, a recent stable release of the new 4.4.x series of the award-winning KDE desktop environment."

Comment Re:free pizza (Score 1) 920

by dustymugs (#30438298) Attached to: The best pizza I have ever had, I found ...
You sir or ma'am or miss or "it" have...
- had waaaay too many free pizzas at "social" events
or
- had waaaay too few free pizzas at "social" events
Personally, free = bad... unless the pizza somehow came from Costco (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Costco) where it is edible most of the time. Somehow, as soon as a Costco appears within 10 miles (give or take) of a function, Costco pizza always makes an appearance...

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