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Comment Re:WTF??? (Score 0) 168

by flabbergasted (#26537131) Attached to: Largest Data Breach Disclosed During Inauguration
Your comments have nothing to do with reality. I read this story on line this morning before I left the house. That would have been about 9am EST--three hours before the inauguration. Since I scan the headlines for three news services before leaving, I can't say for certain which it was. Probably either the AP or NYT.
Software

ESA Embraces Open Source With New SAR Toolbox 62

Posted by ScuttleMonkey from the other-applications dept.
phyr writes "The European Space Agency (ESA) has released its Next ESA SAR Toolbox (NEST) freely as GPL for Linux and Windows. It provides an integrated viewer for reading, calibrating, post-processing and analysis of ESA (ERS 1&2, ENVISAT) and 3rd party (Radarsat2, TerraSarX, Alos Palsar, JERS) SAR level 1 data and higher. ESA has chosen to distribute the software as fully open source to allow the remote sensing community to easily develop new readers/writers and post-processors for SAR data with their NEST Java API. The software provides both a command line interface and GUI for all features including data conversion, graph processing, coregistration, multilooking, filtering, and band arithmetic."

Comment Re:Age difference? (Score 2, Informative) 423

by flabbergasted (#26083957) Attached to: My top-level book organization is based on ...

What, only 356 books in your LibraryThing collection? Please, I've got 1128 cataloged so far at LibraryThing, and I still have a couple of boxes to go.

Seriously though, LibraryThing was a god send. I couldn't keep track of what I owned. I have multiple copies of a couple of books because of that. Now I have an up-to-date list that I can access from anywhere. Plus it's a great resource for finding new and interesting books.

Another good tool is the MacOS X shareware application Bookpedia. It gives you more information about your own library, but it doesn't allow you to troll other libraries for new book suggestions and reviews. Their iPhone app Pocketpedia is also worth having. It's great for keeping a wish list as you walk around a book store.
Businesses

Submission + - Wikileaks, JP Morgan and the Insider-Trading Howto (wikileaks.org) 1

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Wikileaks hits the locusts again! In an internal JPM document published today, Wikileaks exposes JP Morgan's efforts to circumvent insider trading regulations, enabling the really wealthy clients to profit even when others are losing. The document reads like a how-to and explains such maneuvers under the hood of SEC Rule 10b5-1, which had been considered subject to abuse for some time already. Now this abuse is publically documented and shall not pass unnoticed!
Intel

Submission + - First Menlow board -- oooh, tiny

Submitted by nerdyH
nerdyH writes: German board vendor Lippert has unveiled what it claims to be the first motherboard based on Intel's "Menlow" chipset for ultra-mobile PCs. The CoreExpress-Menlow is smaller than a credit card, yet clocks to 1.5GHz, has 1GB of RAM soldered onboard, has multiple PCI Express lanes, USB 2.0, HD audio, an IDE interface, and a digital LVDS video interface. The board is the first in a proposed "CoreExpress" standard motherboard form-factor measuring 2.6 by 2.3 inches (65 x 58 mm).
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Journal Journal: The things we do for Science 4

Journal by peacefinder

"Professor Gert Holstege and colleagues asked 13 heterosexual couples aged 19-49 to take part in an experiment. One half of the couple was asked to lie down, with their head inside a scanner, while their partner stimulated them manually to achieve orgasm. To aid the mood, the room lighting was dimmed and all noise distractions shut out. The couples then switched positions and the experiment was repeated. [...] The women were also asked to fake an orgasm so that these scan results could be com
Security

Submission + - Antivirus Inventor: Security pros are wasting time (darkreading.com) 1

Submitted by
talkinsecurity
talkinsecurity writes: "Peter Tippett, chief scientist at the ICSA and the inventor of the progam that became Norton Antivirus, had some interesting things to say Monday about the state of the security industry. In a nutshell, Tippett warned that about a third of the work that security departments do today is a waste of time. Tippett goes on to systematically blow holes in a lot of security's current best practices, including vulnerability research/patching, strong passwords, and the product evaluation process. Some of his arguments are definitely debatable, but there is a lot of truth to what he's saying as well. It definitely makes you think. http://www.darkreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=145224&WT.svl=news1_1"
AMD

Submission + - Teen takes on donor's immune system

Submitted by Leibel
Leibel writes: The Australian ABC News is reporting that a 15-year-old Australian liver transplant patient has defied modern medicine by taking on her donor's immune system. Demi-Lee Brennan had a liver transplant. Nine months later, doctors at Sydney's Westmead Children's Hospital were amazed to find the teenager's blood group had changed to the donor's blood type. They were even more surprised when they found the girl's immune system had almost totally been replaced by that of the donor, meaning she no longer had to take anti-rejection drugs.

PS Editors. I can't find a suitable topic for this in the list. Sorry!
Editorial

Submission + - Using Google Earth to find ancient lost cities (cosmosmagazine.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: A story in the online site of the Aussie science mag Cosmos discusses how archaeologists are using sophisticated sateliite images to find previously undiscovered cities. What 's really cool is how some are simply using Google Earth — and discovering all sorts of previously unknown sites!
Biotech

Submission + - Role of endogenous retroviruses in human evolution

Submitted by mhackarbie
mhackarbie writes: The current edition of the New Yorker magazine has a fascinating story about endogenous retroviruses in the genomes of humans and other species. Although researchers have known about such non-functional retroviral 'fossils' in the human genome for some time, the large amount of recent genomic data underscores just how pervasive they are, in a compelling tale that involves humans, their primate cousins, and a variety of viral invaders. Some researchers are even bringing back non-functional viral remnants from the dead by fixing their broken genes.
Security

Submission + - Cryptography experts sounding alarms

Submitted by
netbuzz
netbuzz writes: "First we learn from Bruce Schneier that the NSA may have left itself a secret back door in an officially sanctioned cryptographic random-number generator that would allow the good guys to easily decipher encrypted messages sent between bad guys (not to mention anyone else). Now Adi Shamir is warning that a math error unknown to a chip maker but discovered by a bad guy could lead to serious consequences, too. Remember the Intel blunder of 1996?

http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/22026"
Graphics

Submission + - The first image taken with an ultra low field MRI (arxivblog.com)

Submitted by
KentuckyFC
KentuckyFC writes: "MRI machines are about to get smaller, much smaller. Most of their bulk is taken up by the huge superconducting magnets required to generate fields of about a Tesla. Now a team at the Los Alamos National Lab in New Mexico has built a machine that can produce images using a field of only a few microTesla. So giant superconducting magnets aren't necessary, a development that has the potential to make MRI machines much smaller, perhaps even suitcase sized. Today, the team has posted sections of the first 3D brain image taken with the device (abstract, pdf)."
The Military

Submission + - The real Mother Of All Bombs - 46 years ago today (wikipedia.org)

Submitted by
vaporland
vaporland writes: "Tsar Bomba is the Western name for the RDS-220, the largest, most powerful weapon ever detonated.

The bomb was tested on October 30, 1961, in an archipelago in the Arctic Sea. Developed by the Soviet Union, the bomb had a yield of about 50 megatons. Its detonation released energy equivalent to approximately 1% of the power output of the Sun. The device was scaled down from its original design of 100 megatons to reduce the resulting nuclear fallout.

The detonation of Tsar Bomba qualifies as being the single most powerful device ever utilized throughout the history of humanity."
Portables

Submission + - Asus' Linux-based Eee PC 701 reviewed 3

Submitted by Bongo Bob
Bongo Bob writes: CNET.co.uk has a review up of the Asus Eee PC 701 that runs Linux and according to the reviewer "It's hard to fault the Eee PC, mainly because of its price. It can be difficult to use because of the cramped keyboard, but it's better than similar-sized laptops like the Toshiba Libretto. If you're in the market for a second PC, or looking for something you can take with you almost anywhere, the Eee PC is definitely worth buying."
User Journal

Journal Journal: GNU/Linux Compiling Toolset references ? 1

Journal by xtracto

I am a developer with several years of experience in programming, mostly Java an Windows (Visual Studio, DevC++, PHP MySql, etc) environments. Although I know how to program in C, C++ I have never had interaction with any of the GNU tool chains for maintaining used code in many Open Source software (such as Makefiles, autotools, cmake). I know the basic usage of those (what are they for and how to create one) from some online tutorials I have looked.

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