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Comment Re:Crowing about advances ? (Score 1) 24

by gwbooth on Friday November 18, 2022 @10:08AM (#63060858) Attached to: Researchers Quietly Cracked Zeppelin Ransomware Keys

I could give a crap about a first post. Of course I read the second paragraph. There are other ransomware groups out there yes? I'm saying in general announcing companies that can crack ransomware seems like a bad idea.

Comment Crowing about advances ? (Score 0) 24

by gwbooth on Friday November 18, 2022 @09:37AM (#63060752) Attached to: Researchers Quietly Cracked Zeppelin Ransomware Keys

Do they think ransomware developers don't read Slashdot ? Feels like we just outed them . . .

Submission + - Spider Silk Finally Ready for Commercialization (bloomberg.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 04, 2015 @01:52PM

An anonymous reader writes: We've been hearing about little bits of progress for decades, but spider silk fibers are finally ready to be delivered at commercial scale, thanks to three scientist-founders and large investments ($40M) from SF and SV venture capitalists. Who'll be the first to build a web slinger?

Comment Re: Opt out if you're worried (Score 1) 175

by gwbooth on Tuesday August 12, 2008 @05:16PM (#24575149) Attached to: Google Using DoubleClick Tracking Cookies

I used to not care about ads either, until an ad on a site I trusted installed about 10 pieces of malware/adware that took me almost a week to finally get removed. No, it wasn't a pr0n site or warez site. After that I quit trusting ads and do everything in my power to block them.

Submission + - Communities of Mutants Form as DNA Testing Grows (nytimes.com) 1

Submitted by GeneRegulator on Friday December 28, 2007 @02:23PM

GeneRegulator writes: The NY Times is running a story on communities that are forming around kids with rare genetic mutations. New technology that can scan chromosomes for small errors is being applied first to children with autism and other "unexplained developmental delays." It turns out that many of them have small deletions or duplications of DNA, and doctors creating a whole new taxonomy of syndromes with names like 16p11.2 and 7q11.23 that refer to the affected region of the genome. Meanwhile, hundreds of little groups are forming around the banner of their children's shared mutations. As new research shows that many of us have small deletions and duplications of DNA that separate us from our parents, and that many of these "copy number variants" contribute to skills and senses the families described in the story may presage the formation of all sorts of "communities of the genetically rare" in the general population, not just amongst the developmentally delayed.

Submission + - CES Scorecard 2007: What Came True; What Didn't (itworld.com)

Submitted by

narramissic

on Friday December 28, 2007 @11:46AM

narramissic writes: "In the race for Consumer Electronics Show (CES) headlines, companies parade new, hot, and not-quite-ready-for-primetime products while keynote speakers rev things up with predictions for the year ahead. An ITworld article runs down the list of who stuck their necks out too far in 2007, starting with Sharp's monster 108-inch LCD."

Submission + - Recruit Hot Talent by...Not Leaving Contact Info? (craigslist.org) 3

Submitted by on Friday December 21, 2007 @10:47PM

An anonymous reader writes: Google has previously used coding competitions to locate top talent. In a new twist on the idea, an anonymous tech company is posting a help-wanted ad that challenges developers to find out who the company is. A little digging and text mashing reveals a website containing a Web 2.0 puzzle that makes notpron look like child's play. So, fellow developers, who is this company, and, well, what is the significance of the date "1-18-08 " ?

NetBSD 4.0 Has Been Released 121

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Wednesday December 19, 2007 @01:59PM from the so-long-and-thanks-for-all-the-stacks dept.

ci4 writes to tell us that NetBSD 4.0 has been released and has been dedicated to the memory of Jun-Ichiro "itojun" Hagino. "Itojun was a member of the KAME project, which provided IPv6 and IPsec support; he was also a member of the NetBSD core team (the technical management for the project), and one of the Security Officers. Due to Itojun's efforts, NetBSD was the first open source operating system with a production ready IPv6 networking stack, which was included in the base system before many people knew what IPv6 was. We are grateful to have known and worked with Itojun, and we know that he will be missed. This release is therefore dedicated, with thanks, to his memory."

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