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Comment Re:New Idea (Score 1) 508

by gammygator (#26345405) Attached to: Are My Ideas Being Stolen? If So, What Then?
Actually, I worked with a developer who actually did something along these lines... only he'd take the projects he was given at work and assign them as homework to his students... and submit them at work, as his own.

I remember, rather fondly I must admit, some team meetings where "his" stuff didn't work and he had absolutely no idea how to get "his" stuff working again... and it was clear to everyone what was going on.
Censorship

Aussies Hit the Streets Over Gov't Internet Filters 224

Posted by CmdrTaco from the thinking-of-the-children dept.
mask.of.sanity writes "Outraged aussies will hold simultaneous protests across Australia in opposition to the government's plans for mandatory ISP internet content filtering. The plan will introduce nation-wide filtered internet using blacklists operated by a government agency, away from public scrutiny. Politicians and ISPs will join protesters in the streets to voice their opposition to the government's plan, which has ploughed ahead, despite intense criticism that the technology will crippled internet speeds and infringe on free speech. Opponents said the most accurate filter chosen by the government will incorrectly block up to 10,000 Web pages out of 1 million."

Comment Sophos (Score 5, Interesting) 484

by gammygator (#25958689) Attached to: Apple Quietly Recommends Antivirus Software For Macs
I've been running Sophos on both my Macs for a year or so... Not so much because I felt I needed them... but because I come from the PC world and felt nekked without an AV program... and my work covers the license costs which made the decision a no brainer.

Interestingly enough... to date, they have only detected MS based viruses.
Privacy

NSA Whistleblowers Reveal Extent of Eavesdropping 222

Posted by timothy from the revealing-the-obvious dept.
ma11achy was one of several readers to write about claims made by two former military intercept operators who worked for the NSA that "Despite pledges by President George W. Bush and American intelligence officials to the contrary, hundreds of US citizens overseas have been eavesdropped on as they called friends and family back home." Ars Technica has a brief report as well, and reader net_shaman adds a link to Glenn Greenwald's opinion piece on the eavesdropping at Salon.
Space

Messenger Sends First Full Fly-By Image of Mercury 55

Posted by timothy from the most-strained-backformation-name-ever dept.
An anonymous reader writes with this snippet from Gizmodo: "NASA's Messenger (MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry and Ranging spacecraft) has flown by just 125 miles over the surface of Mercury, the closest planet to the Sun and the smallest in the Solar System. This is the first time in history that the whole planet is going to be photographed in its entirety by an Earthling probe, with amazing resolution and ultra-crisp detail." The picture at the top of the linked story is fantastic, too.
Security

Fixes Released (and More Promised) For "Clickjacking" Exploits 70

Posted by timothy from the no-death-penalty-for-online-jerks dept.
An anonymous reader writes "As discussed previously on Slashdot, concern has been raised over a class of 'clickjacking' vulnerabilities which affect all major Web browsers. These exploits allow an attacker to place invisible or seemingly legit objects on a Web page that perform undesired actions when a user clicks on them. In recent developments, 'Guya' posted a scary proof-of-concept that hijacks Adobe Flash Player to spy on users with a webcam and/or microphone. In response, Adobe released an advisory with a temporary workaround, and stated that a future Player update will address the exploit. This prompted the original disclosers of the vulnerabilities to post a summary of the exploits. Additionally, Giorgio Maone, creator of the popular NoScript extension for Firefox and other Gecko-based browsers, released version 1.8.2.1 of NoScript, which adds 'ClearClick,' a feature that intercepts clicks made on invisible or otherwise obscured elements on a page. Although issues remain, there seems to be progress in addressing these security problems."
Google

Google's GeoEye-1 Takes Its First Pictures 152

Posted by timothy from the seattle's-beauty-would-damage-the-sensors dept.
Kev92486 writes "I was scanning through my RSS feeds today and happened upon an article about Google's GeoEye-1 imaging satellite which launched on Sept 6. Intrigued as to what the quality of the image was like, I decided to check it out only to find that the first picture was actually of my college campus, Kutztown University (Pennsylvania).
I had to make sure I was reading the article correctly as Kutztown is not a very large or well known campus. I'm not sure as to why they chose Kutztown for their first pictures. I would be interested if anybody could provide some sort of insight as to what process was used to select the first test location. Was the satellite simply in a convenient orbit to snap pictures of Kutztown?" Update: 10/09 20:56 GMT by T : HotHardware has its own article up on GeoEye-1, if you'd like your words and pictures in the same place.

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